Women

African Film Festival

Airs at: Sun, 01/27/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The African Film Festival is going on all this month. Jan Haaken and PC Peri of the Flying Focus Video Collective discuss the films that will be shown and their importance in bringing greater awareness of African diversity to Portland. You can learn all about the films a... Read more

Asian Pacific American women speak of feminism and racism

Airs at: Thu, 01/31/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: APA Compass

This month the topic is APA women and activism. Hear an interview with author, lifelong anti-racist activist and feminist Grace Lee Boggs and a live discussion with representatives from the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and Korean American author Hellie Lee.... Read more

W.A.G.E.S. Women housecleaners in San Francisco

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2008 at 4:00pm

Host Bruce Silverman produced this series of programs to inform us about what needs changing in our community, our nation and our world. Today he looks at W.A.G.E.S. Women housecleaners in San Francisco have created their own cooperatively-owned cleaning companies. Read more

"Consequences"

Airs at: Sun, 01/20/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Penelope Lively's latest novel is called Consequences, and it's a meditation on the consequences of the choices and the accidents in life. Larry Bowlden reviews it for us. Read more

Lipstick & Dipstick make me laugh Out Loud!

It was a joy to interview Lipstick & Dipstick in the KBOO studios last week. We laughed alot. This duo has chemistry that cannot be denied! Their new book is hilarious!To hear their stories, enjoy their humor, and learn from their advice, catch them at these Portland area e... Read more

Lipstick & Dipstick, relationship advice from the butch & femme perspectives

Airs at: Mon, 01/14/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Out Loud

Enjoy lesbian relationship advice from the butch & femme perspectives from this hilarious duo. Lipstick & Dipstick write an advise column for Curve magazine. In this interview, they discuss their backgrounds, their writing styles, common challenges in relationships, sex, an... Read more

"Zapatista"

Airs at: Sun, 01/13/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier and Luz María Gordillo review Zapatista, the play by Dañel Malán about Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista insurgency in the Mexican state of Chiapas, discussing, among other things, whether the Zapatistas are post-modernists. Zapatista plays in a bi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 7, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 01/06/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Today's show is hosted by Tom Becker. It begins with a Bill Resnick interview with Anita Weiss about what's going on in Pakistan and why the US should not engage in military action there. Larry Bowlden reviews Alice McDermott's novel At Weddings and Wakes--a "quiet novel... Read more

Carolyn Jessop's Escape

Airs at: Sun, 01/06/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Part Two of an interview with Carolyn Jessop who escaped from a fundamentalist Mormon polygamous community, talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about her liberation. Part One of the interview was aired on last week's Old Mole Variety Hour. Jessop wrote the book Escape. Read more