Women

Old Mole Variety Hour February 6th 2017

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Host Denise Morris and with a preview of the 27th annual African Film Festival. She talks with committee member PC Peri. PC Peri is also a member of Flying Focus Video Collective. The Festival opened this... Read more

Literary Lesbians + On The Edge

Airs at: Tue, 02/07/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae features three authors Lori L Lake, Louisa Kelley and Sandra de Helen featured in the upcoming event Literary Lesbian Love: A somewhat romantic book fair! We'll hear about their work, their literary event on Feb. 11th and what it takes to succeed in the Lesbian book m... Read more

Sin Bravely

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

This is the funniest book about the fear of hell you will ever read. Actress and comedian, Maggie Rowe, producer and performer of Comedy Central's stage show sitnspin writes about her three month experience in an evangelical psychiatric institution. Diagnosed with a for... Read more

Age and Gender Equity in the Arts

Airs at: Fri, 02/03/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Bread and Roses

Portland non-profit Age & Gender Equity in the Arts is hosting Unconscious Bias: Achieving Gender Equity symposium March 3rd and 4th at Portland State University. The symposium features over 40 presenters and performers including Dael Orlandersmith, Michaela Watkins, An... Read more

Healing Spiritual Wounds

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Carol Howard Merritt is an author, speaker, and minister who grew up in a white evangelical church and with an unpredictable and sometimes violent father. These experiences shaped her view of a punitive, judgmental God. She writes from personal experience and as professio... Read more

Anti-Oppressions Study & Action Group Resources

Collating resources here from past and future Anti-Oppressions Study & Action Groups for easy reference by community members and KBOO Volunteers and Staff This is a work in Progress More recent resources will be listed near the top Take action to Resist If you... Read more

Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 02/16/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers wh... Read more

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker

Airs at: Thu, 03/30/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave bet... Read more

Abandon Me by Melissa Febos

Airs at: Thu, 03/16/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

“Abandon Me is, in many ways, a story about how a woman’s body and the body of literature hold memory. In other ways, Abandon Me is a story about stories. Febos weaves familial stories, feminist stories, communal stories, literary stories and love stories all at once reveal... Read more