Women

Black Women's Lives Matter

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Desiree Hellegers talks with Cecelia Towner of Black Lives Matter Clark County about #MeToo, racism, and the need for greater resources for women of color in Vancouver fleeing intimate partner violence. Read more

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Cecil and Celeste welcome literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr to KBOO. Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 20, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts, and we hear Joshua Holland on how to get to Universal Health Care in the US Cecelia Towner of BLM on responding to race & gender violence in Clark County Movie Moles on Family, Gender, & Capitalism in Miracle on 34th St (1947) Musical excerpts... Read more

Indian Women Biker Rebels

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Ruban Lawrence interviews Leena Biswas in India. She is part of a growing movement of women in India who are taking to two wheels in order to take their fair share of space. from the Times of India: "Leena Biswas, a doctor and also a resident of Delhi came for the bi... Read more

The Broken Country

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

The Broken Country is a book-length essay on cultural trauma and the inter-generational legacies of war. In 2012, a young Vietnamese man named Kiet Thanh Ly walked into a downtown Salt Lake City megastore, purchased a knife, and began stabbing white male passersby in ... Read more

Happy Women in Apprenticeship Day!

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

This week is National Apprenticeship Week, established by President Obama in 2015. Today, November 16, is Women in Apprenticeship Day in Oregon as declared by Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. In Portland, one of the primary organizations working ... Read more

The Case of Michelle Wright

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Emma Lugo interviews Kelly Simon from the ACLU concerning the case of Michele Wright. Michelle Wright is a transgender female prisoner incarcerated in a men’s prison in the state of Oregon who recently won a lawsuit regarding adequate medical care and requesting a bi-mon... Read more

Natural Remedies for Menopause with Dana LaVoie

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Healthwatch

Uncontrollable weight gain and boiling hot flashes, crying one minute and angry the next... Menopause (or peri-menopause) is here - it's taking over your life - and you're seriously ready to get some relief and feel like yourself again. Did you know that in a recent ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 13, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Mole, and we hear-- 1. Christian Appy explains what's missing from the Ken Burns Vietnam documentary. 2. Preview of an upcoming panel about the fight for reproductive justice in Oregon. 3. Marge Piercy's poem "I Am Wrestling... Read more

Book Review: "Manhattan Beach"

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Larry Bowlden reviews a new work by Jennifer Egan, who is usually edgy and anything but a traditional novelist. But her new book is a very straight-forward and well researched historical novel, Manhattan Beach. Starting in the ‘30s and taking the reader to the ‘60s of th... Read more