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

Trump's religious freedom order and the Queer Doc Festival

Airs at: Tue, 05/09/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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    We'll be sitting down with ACLU of Oregon staff attorney Kelly Simon to talk about Prexy Trump's 'religious freedom' order, issued last week. Is it as bad as expected? More nuanced? How might it play out? We're going to explore these questions, and more, with Kelly.  ... Read more

Conflict is Not Abuse, on Preference Radio, March 14th

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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.   In 2016, author Sarah Schulman released her book 'Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair,' in which she attempts to re-work understandings of the difference between conflict and abuse, and how communities should be ca... Read more

Sex worker rights, bodily autonomy, and criminalization.

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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    Red, Portland sex worker activist and organizer, will be joining us in the studio again to talk about sex worker safety, bodily autonomy, and criminalization. This is in front of two events: a City Club forum on February 28th on human trafficking (an ever-present conc... Read more

Preference: queer experience, survival, and passion.

Airs at: Tue, 01/10/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Photojournalist Kristin Lyseggen profiles nine current and former inmates in “The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons.”  She and Daniella Tavake, one of those profiled in the book, share intimate parts of their stories with host Eric Janse... Read more

Queer Politics and Survival: present, past, and....?

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Snapshots of queer struggles for dignity and safety, in America: We'll hear a series of audio pieces by Jason T. Ingram, a Portland area artist and musician who stared down religious conservatism in the harshest possible way - by attending gay conversion therapy, in the Sou... Read more

Grappling with VP-elect Mike Pence's religious-based bigotry; and an interview with John Waters!

Airs at: Tue, 11/29/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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We'll be talking with Indiana queer activist JJ Gufreda about Mike Pence, Vice-President-elect, and his history of anti-LGBTQ legislation and actions as Indiana governor, and in the years prior to his taking office. There's a lengthy list of ways that Pence has found, to ma... Read more

Preference on 11/08/16

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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This election: what's at stake for queer and trans people?

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Join us for a conversation about this fall's elections - ballot measures, statewide races, and more. We'll be joined by Shannon Michael, executive director of Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, and Amy Herzfeld-Copple, co-executive director of Basic Rights Oregon.   And we'll be... Read more

North West Intersex Action League; and the housing needs of trans people.

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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We'll chat this week with Carrie Cantrell, one of the founders and moderators of the North West Intersex Action League, who works as an activist-at-large through speaking, writing, and community organizing. NWIAL exists to find, support, enrich, and empower people who have ... Read more

Preference: queer arts and history

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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.   From September 10 through September 18, Theater Diaspora will be presenting staged readings of A Language of Their Own, at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. We'll be joined in the studio by the cast and director of the play, written by Chay Yew (pictured here, to ... Read more