Preference

Hosted by: 
Alan Silver
Produced by: 
KBOO
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Every second, fourth, and fifth Tuesday from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

LGBTQA public affairs

Preference: a queer experiment in radio is KBOO's new program focusing on the LGBTQA community of Portland, Oregon and surrounding areas.

We aim to provide space on the radio for members of our community, especially the traditionall least-voiced, to air their preferences about how our social world can better meet their (our) needs.

Find us on facebook at www.facebook.com/preferenceradio
 

Topic tags: 
Sexuality, LGBTQ
Related program(s): 
QTPOC Talk
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

World AIDS Day 2017 - HIV/AIDS in our community; Sarah Schulman visits Portland.

Airs at: Tue, 11/28/2017 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
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To mark World AIDS Day, we'll sit with Portland's own Maurice Evans. Maurice has worked to reduce barriers to treatment, and provide community & health support to HIV-positive Portlanders, with Cascade AIDS Project and with the Multnomah County Health Department. We are loo... Read more

Re-visiting Conflict is Not Abuse, by Sarah Schulman.

Airs at: Tue, 11/14/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
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Later this year, PICA and PNCA will host events involving writer Sarah Schuman. Information on the events is below. To warm up for what promises to be some very interesting conversation around Schulman's work and trhought, we are re-airing our conversation earlier this year... Read more

ACLU wins a fight for transgender care in prison; and talking LGBTQ History Month with GLAPN

Airs at: Tue, 10/31/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We welcome Kelly Simon of ACLU-Oregon to discuss the case of Michalle Wright. As the Associated Press reported last week, "The state prison system in Oregon will provide a transgender inmate with hormone therapy, bras and women's underwear and will consider transferring her... Read more

New Queer & Trans writing: talking with Tobi Hill-Meyer and Gabby Rivera

Airs at: Tue, 10/10/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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We'll spend time with educator, activist, and writer Tobi Hill-Meyer. She's a founder of the Gender Justicve League, a transgender civil & human rights organization in Washington, as well as an author of two children's books... and her work includes sex worker rights, AIDS ... Read more

Talking with Portlander contributors to "Meanwhile, Elsewhere: SciFi & Fantasy from Transgender Writers"

Airs at: Tue, 09/12/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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We'll be talking with two authors, Janey Lovebomb and Cooper Lee Bombardier, who are contributors to the just-published anthology, 'Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Authors.' Janey is a Portlander, and Cooper just moved away from Portland e... Read more

Talking with Alyssa Pariah on Interrupting Pride: what to do when Pride becomes a corporate-driven, police-friendly nightmare?

Airs at: Tue, 08/29/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Turning Pride on its head: what happens when people reclaim Pride for liberatory politics?  In city after city, Pride organizers have folded corporate advertising, sponsorship and participation into Pride (corporate pinkwashing), with Pittsburgh's organizers infamously sel... Read more

Sex, Sex Work, and the City; and the Prexy lashes out at trans people.

Airs at: Tue, 08/08/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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    This week, I'll be talking with local sex worker activist and frequent Preference guest Red. We'll discuss how sex, sex work, sociality, and safety play out in urban environments. The starting points for our conversation: our own experiences, and Samuel Delany's essay... Read more

Preference on 07/11/17

Airs at: Tue, 07/11/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Pinkwashing and Palestinian Rights; and Saturday's Portland Trans Pride March

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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From jewschool.com: "The Celebrate Israel parade has long been a contentious display of Israel’s grip on NYC politicians, its militarization of the NYPD, and its driving role in perpetuating Islamophobia  – and last weekend New Yorkers took our objections to the streets. ... Read more

30 Years of ACT UP; and Art by Tarts: a sex worker art show.

Airs at: Tue, 05/30/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Solidarity: global and local; past and present. How do we organize to confront a crisis? We'll be talking with folks who have answered the call for community-and-activism on issues of sexuality, safety, health, and well-being.    In the first half of the hour, we'll be ta... Read more