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S08 Ep29: Looking East, Part 4, 3/16/2024
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, music from women whose roots lie in the east - China, Japan, India and Korea.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
Women in Herpetology: A Book Brings Them Together
From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles
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Three women herpetologists decide that their stories need to be told.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 06/23/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: New beginnings? - In South Korea, anti-feminism is on the rise as many young men feel they are losing out in society. And...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Women fought trafficking and created a refuge in this Chinatown building
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Episode 91: Meeting A King
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Shermin de Silva was an elephant researcher looking for a sign. Then she met a king.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 18:52
  • Purchases: 2
History, Resilience and Seeds
From: Diana Opong
Caption: Sherry Manning, Founder Global Seed Savers
An American citizen creates a Filipino based nonprofit to help fight injustice in a simple, yet powerful way: through seeds.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Tan
From: StoryCorps
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Grandma Crescenciana was no stranger to sacrificing for family. Her grandchildren called her Lola. They grew up hearing stories about her life in t...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:39
Call Your Elders: We’re Going to Be Okay
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Rosalind calls her Tita Margaret, a Filipina immigrant who lived through 9/11 in New York City.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
Indra Nooyi, a powerful business executivw
From: WHYY
Series: Women100
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Indra Nooyi, (nu-eee) a business executive named as one of the world’s most powerful women by Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and others...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WITF, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 4
Not Succeeding Isn't an Option
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I grew up learning to survive and kind of scrapping it out, and I think that’s probably why I’m such a good businessperson.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
Yong Ok Lee - Production Designer - Pandemic, We Go On, They, Grace, Dead Women Walking, The Farewell
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: The Farewell
Yong Ok Lee - Production Designer - Pandemic, We Go On, They, Grace, Dead Women Walking, The Farewell

  • Added: Sep 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
World in Progress 04/07/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Crushed hopes - How young Pakistani brides are ending up in the clutches of sex trafficking rings in China, the activist...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
117: The End of Human Trafficking May Begin With Radical Empathy -Julia Flynn Siler
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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In 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown only 1 in 10 people were women, and most of them were forced into prostitution, trafficked by criminal to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
LOVE AND BANANAS -- Lek Chailert, Ashley Bell, and John Michael McCarthy Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Ashley Belle, John Michael McCarthy. and Lek Chailer, San Francisco, CA 5/25/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lek Chailert, Ashley Bell, and John Michael McCarthy talk choices, chirping, and how an elephant can be like a Prius.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:48
Funny Asian Women Kollective Smashes Stereotypes
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Asian-American women are expected to be submissive and quiet. The Funny Asian Women Kollective — also known as FAWK — is out to change that and get...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Underground Trade Part 5: Taken into China
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Caption: Two girls rescued from sex traffickers, Credit: Phillip Martin
Vietnam is losing its children. For years, girls and young women have been taken — kidnapped and trafficked across the border into Cambodia and so...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 5
Qiu Jin
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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At nearly thirty years of age, she heard the call to leave her family behind and take her adventurous spirit on the road to Japan, where she joined...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
A Conversation with Clothing Designer, Yeohlee Teng
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Yeohlee Teng talks about her design philosophy and her work with Making Midtown, an initiative to reinvigorate creative production in NYC’s garment...

Bought by WNJR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Queen's Trek
From: Outer Voices
Caption: the Queen with Meerak, Credit: Jack Chance
Bhutan is a land of prayer flags and happiness. But people are people, and human suffering, including domestic violence, is as prevalent here as i...

Bought by KUER, KZYX, KQED, KFOK-LPFM, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 24:36
  • Purchases: 5
Sakhi Speaks Out Against Domestic Violence
From: Mahi Palanisami
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Features the work of a South Asian Women domestic violence shelter in New York

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 05:03