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'Sissy' as in Sister
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: A meeting at A Woman's Coffee House, Credit: Janet Dahlem
In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 46:02
2023-09-29 Jane Fonda: A Lifetime of Activism
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
230929: Jane Fonda: A Lifetime of Activism, 9/29/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
EE 23-39: Jessica Wilson talks about what we get wrong when we focus on weight, 9/22/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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“Our bodies aren’t the problem,” rethinking the stories we tell about weight and health with dietician Jessica Wilson.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
US Moms Need More Than Flowers
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The U.S. is far behind other developed countries when it comes to support for motherhood. Most mothers are in the paid workforce, and we need new ...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
Poet Ellen Bass: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue National Poetry Month with part two of a conversation with poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO. She discusses how, aft...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
The Friendship Series (From the Open Nesters)
From: Tessa Krone
Series: The Friendship Series
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The Open Nesters launches a new initiative that will dominate the winter of 2023. As you may have heard in our end-of-year podcast we are turning o...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 30:08
The Write Question - Terry Tempest Williams, Part One
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which w...

Bought by KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
EE 22-43: Gloria Lucas offers a harm reduction approach to eating disorders, 10/21/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Treatment for eating disorders is often inaccessible and ineffective, especially in communities of color. The founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride h...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
The Family Roe: An American Story
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joshua Prager
One of the more consequential issues of the last 50-years has been a woman’s right of choice. Should women have the right to bodily autonomy, or sh...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Corrections in Ink
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Keri Blakinger
Oftentimes we can look at someone who is seemingly good at anything they do, and admire their talents. Perhaps envy them. Or, maybe even feel a twi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Almost Forgotten but Enduring Impact of Meridel LeSueur
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: A portrait of Meridel LeSueur, Credit: Courtesy of the archives of Becka B. Tilsen
Meridel LeSueur was a herald for a populist vision of America in the first half of the 20th century, especially in the Twin Cities. Despite being s...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 17:01
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrea Press
The #MeToo movement burst into the headlines in the fall of 2017. What kept people gravitating to the stories was the list of celebrity sexual pred...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
625: What Afghan Women Want You To Know / 626: More Than Just A Game, 10/2/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'What Afghan Women Want You to Know' - Teachers. Actors. Ancient rug weavers. Whisperers of forbidden poetry. The women of Afghanistan wa...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
2021-07-16 A Feminist Climate Renaissance
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time o...

Bought by WSHU, Maine Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
210716: A Feminist Climate Renaissance, 7/16/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time o...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
07-17: Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice, 6/30/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Kimberle Crenshaw (foreground) with Eve Ensler
When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increa...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Period: End of Sentence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Anita Diamant
When the book, Period: End of Sentence was brought to my attention, my first response was that this is a discussion between women. I have no busine...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
13-09: They Don’t Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World, 3/10/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Alice Walker
Transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships not only among people, but between peopl...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
The Turnaway Study
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Diana Green Foster
After all of the debates there is finally a comprehensive study on the impact abortion has on a woman. Devoid of knowledge based information in the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Monique W. Morris
In grade school and high school, back girls make up about 16% of the female student population. Yet, of all girls referred to law enforcement in ou...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Other's Milk: The Potential for Exceptional Breastfeeding
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Kristin J. Wilson
Just two generations ago, breastfeeding was considered second best to infant formula. Today, however, it’s regarded as a newborn’s birthright.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ensuring Poverty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Felicia Kornbluh
A central idea of feminism is “Looking at the world as if women matter.” Yet, during the most important public policy debate about women and povert...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Decolonizing Wealth Through Indigenous Leadership
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week Laura speaks to Edgar Villanueva, about being one of the very few indigenous people working in grant-making, and ask what he thinks Nativ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Misogony - Then to Now
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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An in depth discussion of the historical social implications of misogony

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2018
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 1