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Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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" If you got rid of all of the genes that cause autism, you’d be rid of Carl Sagan, you’d be rid of Mozart. Einstein, today, would be labeled autis...

Bought by KZYX, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZYX, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 11:46
  • Purchases: 4
Maternal Matters: Indigenous Women in the Yucatan Challenge Violence and Indifference
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Emiliano rests in Neyi's kitchen., Credit: Jasmin Lopez
In Mexico an indigenous woman is three times more likely to die during childbirth or postpartum than a non indigenous woman. Both culture and gover...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZYX


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 2
Not Throw Away Women: How Serial Killers Stalked Black Women in South Los Angeles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Margaret Prescod, Credit: Laura Flynn
In the 1980s in South Los Angeles more than a dozen black women were murdered. Many of these women’s bodies were found in parks, alleyways, and dum...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:31
Normalizing Violence Puts Black Women’s Lives at Risk
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact’s fellow Rochelle Robinson brings us this story exploring how violence against women, especially women of color, is so pervasive tha...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1
Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today’s show we’re exploring how some women have been dehumanized to the point of indifference. We’ll learn how one community is undoing the sil...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Terri Falsani's Resurrection
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Terri Falsani reading her poems "Resurrection" and "Soon Enough."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Gender and Identity (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Understanding gender and identity--what do we mean by these terms and how do they affect the ways in which we see ourselves and others?

  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 23:17
This Is Crohn's Disease
From: Jack Rodolico
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A patient with a nasty case of Crohn’s disease visits the best doctor in the world. That patient is this radio producer's wife.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Here and Now, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 18:15
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 3: Joan and Shirley's Story
From: Mother
Series: MOTHER: A PODCAST
Caption: MOTHER: A PODCAST, Credit: Logo created by Justin Schnarr (justinschnarr.com/).
"I didn't really want to have children. It's just that I got pregnant." -Shirley, 57, Nebraska

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
I Stayed Even Though He Beat Me - Nailah Stevenson's Story
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:04
From Fear to Love: A Judaic Perspective
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Penny Rosenwasser, author of “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears,” a book that explores ...

  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
Interview with Heather Robertson
From: Giovanna Rossi
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Owner of Wide Awake by Design, Heather Robertson talks to host Giovanna Rossi about helping women entrepreneurs achieve their personal and professi...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 22:42
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Maxine Kumin: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin the celebration of Women's History Month with a tribute to Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. A former Consultan...

Bought by KRZA, KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KQED


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Author, Lillian Faderman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depres...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
In Between
From: Vanessa Barchfield
Caption: Performers wave to their audience at the close of the Fantasia Follies., Credit: Vanessa Barchfield
Every October for the past 39 years, Provincetown, Massachusetts has hosted the Fantasia Fair – the oldest transgender conference in the world. Van...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 09:22
  • Purchases: 1
Hell at Tehelka
From: KALW
Caption: Tarun Tejpal, Credit: ndtv.com
The founder of Tehelka, an indian magazine known for investigative stories on violence against women is involved in it's own rape controversy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Shake the Dust
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Theresa Novak Chabot challenges a centuries-old tradition in the Catholic Church.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Shake the Dust
From: Megan United States
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Theresa Novak Chabot challenges a centuries-old tradition in the Catholic church.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 06:16
“Whenever I’ve had a challenge, or people say ‘no, you can’t,’ I say ‘why not?’”
From: Distillations
Caption: Marinda Wu
Marinda Wu chose her particular graduate program because she wanted to work for a famous professor. But when she arrived, she was told the professo...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Almost Jailed for Voting
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Sally Roesch Wagner, a historian and chautauqua scholar who portrays suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage lived from 182...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Voice of a Young Voter: "They Won't Get Out of My Birth Control"
From: KQED
Series: From the West Coast: Voices of Young Voters
Caption: Kyndall Goss
Kyndall Goss of Tacoma, Wash. talked with KPLU about healthcare.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: :17
Real Good Words: Cheryl Strayed - "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 26:27
  • Purchases: 1
All Love Begins with Seeing: Poetry and Justice for All
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Shailja Patel
Shailja Patel’s unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres.

Bought by WCPN and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
My Name is Lydia Foy
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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Lydia Foy was born in 1947 and registered as a baby boy. When she realised her true identity, as a woman, she discovered something missing - a birt...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 36:53
  • Purchases: 2