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The Feminist Birth of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Margaret Crane, inventor of America's first home pregnancy test, in 1965. , Credit: Anna Kaufman
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young graphic designer with an idea: Why couldn't women do their own pregnancy tests at home? This is the story of how...

Bought by WUWM, KISU, KETR-FM, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Post-Roe Abortion Access from The Response Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our friends from the podcast The Response bring us their piece Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Landscape, plus a quick updat...

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why a centrist Democrat is ditching Congress
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) pioneered the playbook that helped Democrats flip the House in 2018. Less than four years later, she announced her r...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 35:10
70 Million – Forget Reform, They Want Abolition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mike Milton at the Freedom Community Center in St. Louis, MO., Credit: Joe Martinez
This week on Making Contact we're taking you to St. Louis, Missouri with the Podcast 70 Million to learn about the city's ongoing efforts to re-ima...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Best of Making Contact, 2021
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this special year-end episode, Making Contact producers and staff turn the spotlight on some the best shows they aired in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy Part Two
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Voting Rights Advocates Carolina Miranda, Andrea Miller and Pam Wilmot, Credit: Carolina Miranda photo - Carolina Miranda Andrea Miller photo - The Tennessee Tribune Pam Wilmot photo - The Boston Globe
Women Rising Radio re-visits the 2020 election year, to assess the outcomes and talk with those who made those outcomes happen, the grassroots elec...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
How Women in the '50s Had More Political Influence
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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This election cycle is being billed as another “Year of the Woman” … with a record number of female candidates running for office. Despite increasi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Cynthia and the City: Will Cynthia Nixon’s Celebrity Past Get Her to The Governor’s Mansion?
From: Augusta Anthony
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Cynthia Nixon is running for Governor. You probably know this and you probably know her from her days as sassy corporate lawyer Miranda Hobbes in ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:21
Families and Prison: Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week’s episode is the second installment of our Families and Prison series. We speak with April, a formerly-incarcerated mother who works with...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:39
When Women Run, Women Win...Except When They Don't
From: Women Run the West
Caption: Utah-based Real Women Run holds trainings for potential female candidates on how to manage a campaign, how to fundraise, how to work with the media, even hands-on stuff like how to actually file for candidacy., Credit: Jennifer Pemberton
There aren’t many women serving in Utah’s legislature, but a new law this election year gives hopeful political candidates a new way to get on the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 3
Sri Lanka's War Widows and the Road to Reconciliation
From: Adam Bemma
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Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:38
New admissions policy at Mills allows students with diverse gender identities to apply
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Sonj Basha stands in front of Mills Hal, Credit: Angela Johnston
Skylar Crownover is walking me through the lush tree lined streets of Mills College, and through buildings with red clay roofs. Students constantly...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 06:48
Strong-armed
From: Neena Pathak
Caption: Danni Jesudowich and Paul McClanahan instruct Keely Ahlstrom on how to shoot a full vent ribbed 20 gauge Benelli semi-automatic shotgun with adjustable chokes.
The National Rifle Association started its Women on Target program in 2000. According to their website, they’ve trained over eighty thousand women...

Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 2
Ten Years Later: Counting the Costs of War in Iraq
From: Making Contact
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We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Population Control or Population Justice?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bangledeshi woman and child, Credit: Flickr user: nomanson
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Justice in the Home: Domestic Workers Re-define the Labor Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Domestic workers in Texas., Credit: Flickr user: Nuevo Anden
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies? (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rally in support of the Ohio Prevention First Act, Credit: creative commons Flickr user ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WCSU-FM and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Go Vote, Sister Suffragette
From: Lauren Peterson
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Less than one hundred years ago, women voted for the first time in a national election. Two months ago, Lauren Peterson headed to the polls for a s...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Cokie Roberts interview
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
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Montana Public Radio News Director Sally Mauk interviews NPR Senior News Analyst Cokie Roberts

  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 12:23
Game on for The Employee Free Choice Act
From: The Affiliated Media Foundation Movement
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Congress is discussing a bill that would change the future of union organizing and protect worker's rights. Listen to learn more about Employee Fre...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2009
  • Length: 06:08