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Seeing Red by Lina Meruane

Airs at: Thu, 06/30/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red, fiction and autobiography intertwine.  An intense, visceral novel about the relation between the body, illness, and human relationship by one of Chile’s brightest young authors.  “Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges fro... Read more

A Shared Sentence: Children of Prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Karen James interviews Laura Speer, associate director for Policy Reform Advocacy at the Annie E Casey Foundation, the nation’s leading organization for the overall well-being of children. Over 5 million children nationwide have had an incarcerated parent. The loss of a par... Read more

Cat Winters on "The Steep and Thorny Way"

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Cat Winters, author of the new book The Steep and Thorny Way. This historical fiction, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, follows protagonist Hanalee as she navigates rural Oregon in the 1920’s as a biracial teen coming to terms with he... Read more

Wendy Doniger, Redeeming the Kamasutra

Airs at: Sat, 05/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
The Kamasutra brings to mind (and to Google searches) erotic and exotic sexual positions.   OK, it is that.  But it is much more.  It is about the art of living.   Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of ... Read more

Lemonade, Black Womanhood, & Self-Love (A digital roundtable)

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Hosts Pamela Santos and Tessara Dudley invited fierce Black artists & writers from diverse gender identities to talk about Beyonce's film and visual album Lemonade and the "thinkpiece" explosion that surrounded the release. Tune in at 6pm to hear this discussion of Lemonade... Read more

A Different Nature explores the music of MAJA RATJKE

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
Tonight on A Different Nature, host Danielle Parks continues her long-running series (and some would say long-overdue) focusing on the very wide world of under-appreciated, amazingly talented and intensely brilliant women composers and performers in experimental music--from... Read more

The Letting Go Trilogies by Dmae Roberts

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Dmae Roberts, author of the new book The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family. The book takes the form of a series of personal essays, in which Dmae writes about her biracial identity as the child of a Taiwanese mother and white Ok... Read more

Let's Do Something Different!

Airs at: Fri, 05/06/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses collective members Cheryl, Julie and Delphine engage in a conversation about collaborations, collectives and cooperatives as we explore ways that we can do something different to reach our goal of a fair, and equitable world for all beings! They will share p... Read more

Conversations With Coach RJ: The 'ME' in Mommy

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Mother’s Day is May 8th. Mom: a loving, rewarding, gratifying assignment. It’s also challenging, selfless work with years of noble, dedicated sacrifice. What a joy having and being a mom, or “like a mom”! A celebration of mothers is well-deserved, giving thanks and expressi... Read more

Mother's Day Special

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Incarceration separates families. Holidays like Mother's Day can bring this separation into sharp relief for mothers whose children are in prison and for mothers who are in prison without their children. This separation from social life is one of the aims of incarceration. ... Read more