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Caption: Stephanie Powell Watts
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Diane Tells His Name (L) and Bonnie Buchanan (R)
Diane Tells His Name talks to her daughter Bonnie Buchanan about discovering she was adopted.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Queer identity, sex dolls, performance art, love.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:55
Caption: Sgt. Marilyn Gonzalez (L) and her daughter Spc. Jessica Pedraza (R).
Sergeant Marilyn Gonzalez and her daughter Specialist Jessica Pedraza remember deploying together to Iraq in 2010.

Bought by WEZU and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna remembers the DIY feminist punk scene she catalyzed in 1992 with Bikini Kill. (The band's first EP was re-releas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WORT, KVNF, KFAI Minneapolis, WABE and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 8
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Mystery writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe and his classic short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher"...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Not my neighbor's hamster.
A woman and her hamster.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and KUT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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I ask students around a college campus if men and women can be just friends.

  • Added: May 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
Caption: NORML Women's Alliance
Interview with Sabrina Fendrick at NORML about the role of women in ending marijuana prohibition; interview with author Anne Dryuan on her role in ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 29:30
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Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:24
Caption: Orville, Katharine and Wilbur Wright, Credit: Library of Congress
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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Hong Kong commemorated the Tiannanman Square massacre in Beijing.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 22:08
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Former state Supreme Court Justice Faith Ireland started lifting weights to help with chronic back pain. She was drawn to the power-lifters at he...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 09:07
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You're locked in your bathroom. Who will save you?

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT, KUOW, and WILL


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 5
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A woman discovers she's narcoleptic at Christmastime.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
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One woman is running a very unusual court of justice in a small Indian village where she uses folk tales, religious stories and her own common sens...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WJAB, WBEZ, and KWCW


  • Added: Oct 26, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 5
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Two young women tell their stories of drug addiction.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2004
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1