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Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Trying not to do damage: The Student Free Speech Movement with Bettina Aptheker
From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles
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In this short episode, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker talks about the reasons for her iconic speech atop a police car and the impact of the Stud...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
767: Against Capitalism / 768: Rewriting The Romance Script, 2/11/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
OutCasting 0035x – LGBTQ history – Christopher Z. Hobson
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Christopher Z. Hobson
February 2023 — The gap that LGBTQ youth experience when their people’s history is suppressed. Originally presented in 2017.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KECG


  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Michael McConnell and Jack Baker
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Michael McConnell (left) and Jack Baker (right) with their wedding cake, featuring a two-groom topper, in Minneapolis, Minn. on September 3, 1971., Credit: Paul Hagen
Jack Baker and Michael McConnell got married in 1971, decades before same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States. They came to StoryCorps ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Their name was Pauli Murray
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pauli Murray circa 1931, age 21, Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios
Pauli Murray was a 20th century Black Queer civil rights trailblazer and legal scholar you’ve probably never heard of. On this edition of Out in th...

Bought by KALW, KVSC, KUT, and WORT


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
UPDATED AUDIO: Freedom for Women Requires Abolition Feminism: Suzanne Pharr & Beth Richie
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
National Writers Series: Joshua Prager
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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April Baer of Michigan Radio's "Stateside" talks with Joshua Prager about his book "The Family Roe."

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist and Retired California Supreme Court Lawyer Michael Nava
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pride Month begins with former California Supreme Court attorney, Michael Nava. The author of now ten novels in the Henry Rios mystery series, seve...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Susan Quinn on Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Susan Quinn talks about her acclaimed book, Eleanor and Hick. It’s about the romance between Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Leonora Hick.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting 0075 - The Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics - Part 4 of 4
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jay Blotcher and OutCaster Lucas, Credit: Jay Blotcher photo by Bill Bytsura
The Covid-19 and AIDS epidemics - similarities and notable differences

Bought by RADIOLEX, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, Radio Catskill, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
OutCasting 0074 - The Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics - Part 3 of 4
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jay Blotcher and OutCaster Lucas, Credit: Jay Blotcher photo by Bill Bytsura
The Covid-19 and AIDS epidemics - similarities and notable differences

Bought by WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, Radio Catskill, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
OutCasting 0072 - The Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics - Part 1
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jay Blotcher and OutCaster Lucas, Credit: Jay Blotcher photo by Bill Bytsura
The Covid-19 and AIDS epidemics - similarities and notable differences

Bought by RADIOLEX, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Causes and Costs of Sex Offense Laws
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In this episode, we hear from Timothy Stewart-Winter, an Associate Professor at Rutgers University with a background studying sexuality and incarce...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:38
The Big Pond #46: Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 34:12
  • Purchases: 2
Outbeat Extra Celebrates The 50th Anniversary of Stonewall with Making Gay History - Part 1
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Outbeat News In Depth
Caption: LGBTQ News From The North Bay And Beyond, Credit: Greg Miraglia, Host and Producer
Features interview by Eric Marcus with Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:39
StoryCorps OutLoud: Alexei Romanoff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: David Farah (L) and Alexei Romanoff (R) at their StoryCorps interview in Los Angeles, California in June 2015. By Jill Glaser for StoryCorps.
Alexei Romanoff tells his husband, David Farah, about a mentor who taught him to be proud of who he was.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 03:12
Nonfiction Writer Justin Martin Discusses Walt Whitman
From: New Letters on the Air
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With Walt Whitman's 200th birthday on May 31st, we're revisiting the time just before the Civil War with Justin Martin's book, REBEL SOULS: WALT WH...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Casey Charles - 361
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Casey Charles discusses his book, The Monkey Cages, a novel inspired by the 1955 Bosie, ID homosexuality scandal. He also reads a poem from his boo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Jim Williams - 357
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Wildlife biologist and author, Jim Williams, discusses his book, "Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion." He also reads ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
OutCasting 52 - LGBTQ women in AIDS activism - part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Journalist and activist Ann Northrop, Credit: Bill Bahlman
This week on OutCasting, public radio’s LGBTQ youth program, we continue our conversation with Ann Northrop, a longtime journalist and activist, ab...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 93: Lavender Scare
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Helen James grew up in a military family – her great great grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 24:39
Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought For Racial, Political, And Sexual Freedom
From: KZYX
Series: Talking About California-Hispanic Heritage
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In this episode we learn about the bracero program, the largest migrant worker program in the United States which lasted from 1942-1964. Dr Mireya ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 47:50