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Jessica Alva. Khadija Rose Britton. Hanna Harris. Anthonette Christine Cayedito. If you haven't heard of these women, it’s no surprise. They’re fou...
- Added: May 06, 2024
- Length: 28:30
They say love means never having to say you’re sorry. But what if that popular aphorism from the 1960’s is wrong and that love precisely means havi...
- Added: Nov 22, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Vicky Krieps shines in her latest role, as a wife and mother who abandons her family for mysterious reasons.
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 03:26
Internist Ashley McMullen decides to let her hair go natural for the first time in over a decade — a process which serves as a metaphor for self-ac...
- Added: Jan 21, 2022
- Length: 41:05
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy Awards-nominated blues singer-songwriter Janiva Magness.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Radio Bristol, WVTF, KEDT, WETS and more
- Added: Jan 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 47
In our annual Fallen Heroes episode, we share words of inspiration from, and about some lesser-known grassroots activists who passed away in 2021.
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WXDU
- Added: Dec 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 04:27
An Interview with Deborah Campbell about her Investigative Non-Fiction Book "A Disappearance in Damascus"
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 30:01
Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, was born in 1830. She lived a quiet, non-public life until she was approximately 47 years old and then, for almost...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Stephanie Land discusses her memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive." She also reads a few short passages.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Elaine Kahn meditates on care, loss, and the uncertainty of the future.
Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KHSU, and KENW
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Mary Cisper mediates on loss and grief after the death of her former husband.
- Added: May 21, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Prageeta Sharma reflects on the last night of intimacy with her terminally ill partner.
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Diana Arterian describes the wedding ceremony of Agrippina the Younger, Empress of Rome and mother to the infamous Emperor Nero.
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Molly Caro May discusses her latest book, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood.
Bought by KMUD, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KWMR
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Joanna Klink meditates on personal loss.
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Giménez Smith reads a poem in response to a photograph by the 1970s East Los Angeles art collective Asco.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
francine j. harris revisits her childhood home in Detroit and imagines the ways destruction can be an empowering act.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
Hoa Nguyen considers the objects of jokes and humor.
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Barbara Jane Reyes remembers and praises the life of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina domestic worker who was swindled into becoming a drug mule.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Ana Božičević explores the feelings and emotions of spring.
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Neltje discusses her development as an artist, her love of landscape, and the hardships she faced growing up. She also reads from her memoir.
Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR
- Added: Aug 07, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri made news, but Sabaah Folayan knew there was more to the story--so she moved across the country...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 53:03
- Purchases: 3
Sara Deniz Akant considers the virtues and meaning of one’s name.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Nikki Wallschlaeger meditates on issues of accountability.
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3