Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode features Bill Resnick talking with Don McIntosh about Trimet and with Ellen Brown about Public Banking, as well as Denise Morris talking with Catherine Sameh about the Scholar and Feminist Online. Music by Django Reinhardt.
Denise Morris talks with founding mole Catherine Sameh, co-founder of In Other Words and currently Associate Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and managing editor of The Scholar & Feminist Online. They discuss social justice feminism, the history and mission of the BCRW, and its collaborations with Queers for Economic Justice.
Bill Resnick talks with attorney, author, and president of the Public Banking Institute Ellen Brown about alternative public and community banking, radical banks devoted to investing in worker cooperatives, all to replace the predatory too big to fail financial system. Here's a recent essay by Ellen Brown: Cooperative Banking: The Exciting Wave of the Future.
For tonight's show, we'll hear from Billy, who wrote an iPhone app called TranSquat. In a nutshell, it is a gender neutral bathroom finder that locates bathrooms that are gender free relative to your current location. You can search, add and share safe discreet locations. It was written by and for the trans community. It is powered by data from safe2pee. You can help build the app by downloading and adding locations in your own communities.
On this exciting edition of Out Loud Radio we are joined by David,Trans Justice Organizer from Basic Rights Oregon (www.basicrights.org) to talk about the state of Trans Healthcare and a special event at PSU tomorrow. More infornation can be found on the BRO website.
Next we are joined by James Hemphill (Terika St. James, Miss Gay Oregon XXXV) and Cherylyn Michaels (Miss Gay Houston 2005) to give us more insight into the sights, sounds, and tucks of the world of Drag.
Finally, Joni Renee, an artist with The Mystery Box (www.mysterboxshow.com), which is an eroitc storytelling event, comes to our show to talk about how we can come in and get our Aural freak on!