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Episode 84: Pregnancy in Prison
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Quality of healthcare for women in jail varies widely, but it is the only place in the U.S. where they have a legal right to it. Professor Carolyn ...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 25:18
RDD: The Fabric of Downtown
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Erin Claussen a local archaeologist and historic preservationist.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
Amelia Bonow: How a Facebook Post and Tweet Started a Movement
From: The Art of Risk
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It definitely can feel like a risk when you’re honest and open but it doesn’t usually result in threats to your personal security. But this is exa...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 45:46
Trudy James: Ahead of Her Time
From: The Art of Risk
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Spiritual, emotional, professional, financial—how many risks can you take in one lifetime? In seventy-eight years Trudy James has taken all of thes...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 36:36
Award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario and the images of war
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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With her memoir, It’s What I Do, Lynsey Addario explains how and why she covers war.

Bought by KUNM, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
Feminism Today
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Let's take a look at what it means to be a feminist. Students from Winona State University along with Dr. Mary Jo Klinker fill us in on how feminis...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KVSC, and KZYX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 42:59
  • Purchases: 3
53: Joan Blades, founder of MoveOn.org & Kate Schatz author of "Rad Women Worldwide"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Joan Blades
Liberal activist Joan Blades co-founded MoveOn.org, Moms Rising and Living Room Conversations. Now she has teamed up with Republican John Gable on ...

Bought by KWMR, KSJD, WRIR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
A fundamentalist Christian transforms his views on abortion
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Chris Ladd was raised as a fundamentalist Christian in East Texas, believing he possessed the secret to how everything in the universe worked. A br...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 34:45
No One Here But Us Creeps: On Nonconsensual Sex, Sleeping Beauty, and Hunting Girls
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Henry Meynell Rheam, "Sleeping Beauty" - December 1898
Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games, Bella Swan of Twilight, Tris Prior of Divergent, and other strong and resourceful characters subvert the fair...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:55:58
Michael Bronski -- A Queer History of the United States.
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: We All Live Here For What It's Worth
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Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
27: Alison Levine, Polar Explorer & Felicia Marcus, Chair of the CA Water Resources Board
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Alison Levine
Meet Alison Levine, the only American to follow the route of Reinhold Messner to the South Pole, and one of the few to complete the Adventure Grand...

Bought by WRIR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KSJD


  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Wrapping up 2015 for Women
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Well we did it. Made it through another year. Women have had some good news, and some bad news. What with wars, floods, police shootings, terroris...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
15: Judge Noel Wise & Ilana Lipsett, Building Safe Communities
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Noel Wise, Judge
What is 'creative place-making'? We talk with the founder of FreeSpace in San Francisco, CA about how the use of vacant real estate can actually br...

Bought by KSJD, KWMR, KMUD, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 4
(Un) Happy Anniversary for Medicare?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
July 30 marks a very important anniversary in our modern political history. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • 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
Life of the Law #52: Birth Rights
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Pregnant with options. There’s the stroller, the crib and the adorable baby clothes. And, for more than 50,000 women each year birthing plans also ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 14:17
  • Purchases: 1
Linda Siegal
From: The Summit
Series: Recovery Minutes
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Linda was lost in the darkness of addiction until her arrest led to intervention and a new life.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
Mothering Decisions
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Some critics of popular culture say there aren’t enough accurate portrayals of abortion decisions. But one scholar says, in some recent mother-daug...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 3
Still Lagging After All These Years
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
March 8 is International Women’s Day, so it’s time to check in on where the good old U S of A stands in relation to the rest of the world when it c...

Bought by WLPR and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #49: Life After Doxing
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The internet is anonymous. Except for when it isn't. When someone wants to hurt you, they can find your address and other personal information and ...

Bought by KISU, XRAY.fm, and KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 17:03
  • Purchases: 3
My Body, My Message
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Femen North America, Credit: Femen North America
How can a woman determine how she is perceived by the world, and even by herself? On this edition, we hear stories of women who are using their bo...

Bought by WCPN, WRIR, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Neurosexism
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Our ideas about how the anatomical differences in male and female brains explain the behaviors of men and women may be based on bias rather than sc...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
We are the 51%: Women's Perspectives on Leadership
From: Giovanna Rossi
Series: Well Woman Radio
Caption: Gloria Steinem
Why is leadership important for women and girls, and how does women's and men's leadership differ? What does leadership look like in everyday life?

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:12