Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the 2009 documentary Orgasm, Inc, on
attempts to medicalize women's sexuality. The film is available at the
Multnomah County Library. More information here.
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For the Old Mole Variety Hour 3 March 2014; reviewed with Denise Morris
Orgasm, Inc. movie
A New View Campaign (Leonore Tiefer; Challenging the Medicalization of Sex)
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm (1970 classic by Anne Koedt)
The Vibrator Museum
Our Bodies...
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Betsy Close is a Republican running for re-election in the Oregon Senate.
She talked with Don Merrill about equal pay for Oregon's women, funding for
Oregon's schools and Cover Oregon among many topics. *These interviews are
part of a project to invite all Oregon candidat...
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Larry Bowlden surveys the many great works of English novelist, Anita
Brookner (available at your public library). Most of her main characters are
intellectual middle-class women who are isolated on account of failed love,
but she eschews being called a feminist. He praises...
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Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear a double report from Portland
Public School teachers and student activists, a review of the fiction of
Anita Brookner, as well as a discussion about the politics of Pete Seeger and
his music.
Bill Resnick talks with Elizabe...
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The boycott of a Spokane bar has gone national, after the owner, Jamie
Pendleton, refused to rename a drink named "Date Grape Koolaid." KBOO's Erin
J. Bernard spoke to Taylor Malone, a Spokane resident who organized the
boycott.
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Denise Morris and Frann Michel review Spike Jonze new (quasi science
fiction) romantic comedy "Her". Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, an
introverted man who goes through a divorce with his child-hood sweetheart,
only to fall curiously in love with his new, hyperintelligent...
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The first Old Mole Variety Hour of 2014 looks back at histories of struggle
and forward to the end of alienation. Joe Clement hosts, and we hear segments
on class struggle in labor and party politics, anti-capitalist activism in
Mexico and globally, the revolutionary reform...
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Well-Read Red Frann Michel considers the twenty years of NAFTA and of
Zapatista resistance to NAFTA and neoliberalism. You can read a longer
version of this piece, with links to sources, here on her blog.
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Wanda Sykes is a comedian, but so much more. As an actor, she has had two
shows on Fox. She's also been in the hits, "Curb your Enthusiasm" and "The
New Adventures of Old Christine". And her voice has been in several
animated hits such as "Ice Age: Continental Drift" and...
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