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265: Midwifing a Movement: Community Birth Centers and the Care Economy, 11/15/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Indra Lusero
In this episode, we visit with Leseliey Welch and Indra Lusero, parents and birth justice advocates who are helping lead a movement to create commu...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Let's Hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown reads and discusses his work, his creative process, and Black queer poetry’s capacity to expand concepts of love

Bought by WMPG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Theater director Saheem Ali talks about centering communities of color in Shakespeare
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Saheem Ali, Credit: Courtesy of The Public Theater
Associate Artistic Director of The Public Theater as well as the director of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham,” Saheem Ali talks about wo...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4
Just in time for the Tony Awards--Revisiting Michael R. Jackson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Michael R. Jackson, Credit: Zack DeZon
Michael R. Jackson--the creator of A Strange Loop—talks about the origins and evolution of the prize-winning musical.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Desmond Tutu and the continuing importance of youth activism
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
February 1, 2022 – A young straight ally considers his own place in activism

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
'Funeral Diva' poet Pamela Sneed: "We can heal"
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Meet 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown talks about writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection The Tradition

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:38
  • Purchases: 1
Michael R. Jackson talks about creating Black queer musical theater
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Michael R. Jackson, Credit: Zack DeZon
Michael R. Jackson takes us through the making of A Strange Loop his prize-winning musical about a Black queer musical theater writer.

Bought by KALW, KZUM, WMPG, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
April 2021 – Bullied gay seventh grader
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Justin
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Fallen of 2020
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
How To Go Clubbing (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Bars, nightclubs, dance, and music have long held a special place in LGBTQ culture. But even as shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pose bring that c...

Bought by KXCV, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNYO, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
How To Go Clubbing (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Bars, nightclubs, dance, and music have long held a special place in LGBTQ culture. But even as shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pose bring that c...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, WFHB, KMUN, WJCU and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
How To Go Clubbing (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Bars, nightclubs, dance, and music have long held a special place in LGBTQ culture. But even as shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pose bring that c...

Bought by KXCV, WNED Buffalo, WCNY, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
August 2020 – Black Lives Matter protest
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: Woman holding a rainbow flag with BLM, Credit: OutCaster Justin
Gay teenager attends a Black Lives Matter protest in a suburb of NYC.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 08:15
Trans in the Eyes of God: Toni Newman
From: Interfaith Voices
Series: Trans in the Eyes of God
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In our new special series, we hear the personal stories of transgender people of faith and where they are finding spiritual homes among America's r...

Bought by WPSU


  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Ada Decades
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paula Martinac
It’s not often I interview the author of a novel on this program. Sometimes, though, a work of fiction can give us insights and perspectives a non-...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Art in the Time of Trump -- The Filmmaker Perspective
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Fawzia Mirza, San Francisco, CA 6/23/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Frameline 41 filmmakers speak on the importance of art in the time of Trump.

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 31:01
  • Purchases: 1
Snap 704: Perfect Match, 2/11/2016
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
Caption: Snap Judgment
On the next all-NEW Snap, "Perfect Match." You've seen them around, holding hands, stars in their eyes...and you wonder how they do it. Do they kno...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
Coming Out Meatless (Gravy Ep. 21)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Choya Webb and his father, Choya Webb Sr.
What does *not* eating meat say about you? In one young biracial man’s family, his dietary change was construed as white, elite, even feminine. In ...

Bought by KVLU, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 24:40
  • Purchases: 3
JASON AND SHIRLEY -- Stephen Winter Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Stephen Winter
Stephen Winter on freedom, responsibility, and art by any means necessary.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 18:27
  • Purchases: 1
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
PARIAH -- Writer/director Dee Rees
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dee Rees, San Francisco, CA 10/11/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Writer/director Dee Rees talks breakthrough poetry, gender fluidity, and the healing power of ice cream.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 15:04
Mandy Carter
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Series: Passionate Citizens
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Social justice activists Mandy Carter organizes to connect struggles

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 19, 2007
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 1
AIDS in Rural Georgia
From: Philip Graitcer
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The character of the AIDS epidemic is changing in rural Georgia

  • Added: Jul 23, 2006
  • Length: 03:34