Women

Voices from the Edge: What's behind Oregon's domestic violence murders-suicides?

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Fourteen Oregonians died last month in five murder-suicides and one attempted murder suicide. Why this sudden outbreak now of men using guns to murder their spouses, ex-spouses and themselves when domestic violence homicides in Oregon have been on the decline? In 1997, 22 d... Read more

Collective of Genuises and Crys Matthews on Out Loud

Airs at: Tue, 11/24/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Out Loud

Collective of Genuises and Crys Matthews on Out Loud On tonight's queer hour, we hear from the Collective of Geniuses. CoG’s mission is to create art that challenges the notions on which class, gender, privilege and other social demographics are based. CoG empowers minority... Read more

November 23 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Do higher taxes make for fewer jobs -- or more? Is Congress debating real healthcare reform -- or just another corporate bailout? Is PTSD a good way to think about how people are affected by violence? This show takes on these questions, with host Tom Becker, Old Mole r... Read more

The Politics of PTSD

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Is PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) a useful concept for thinking about how people deal with a society saturated in violence? What is gained by using it to treat soldiers suffering from the results of battle mayhem? Can it be extended to understand women in abusi... Read more

The Curse of the Good Girl - Interview with Rachel Simmons

Airs at: Fri, 11/20/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Bread and Roses

Host Ashley Thirstrup interviews author Rachel Simmons about her latest book: The Curse of the Good Girl - Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. Read more

Transgender Awareness Month and Day of Remembrance

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Gender Blender

Every year dozens of individuals are brutally murdered because they are transgender or simply perceived as gender variant. Rather than decreasing, the number of these deaths has increased in the last few years, possibly as a backlash against gay-marriage legislation. In or... Read more

Out Loud focuses on our talent, our health, and our stories.

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Out Loud

Out Loud focuses on our talent, our health, and our stories. Max Voltage, from Pants-Off Productions, talks about Homomentum: a monthly queer cabaret. Homomentum takes over the Egyptian Room Saturday Nov 14th. This month's Timewarp Talent Show will showcase queer dance & pe... Read more

November 9 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

This Old Mole episode is hosted by Denise Morris (pictured here), and features discussions of how the system limits the actions of Presidents; two movies about mothers and sons; whether "Hell is other people" (as a line in Sartre's play No Exit has it); and whether the ri... Read more

Antichrist & Wild Things

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Our Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken give their psychoanalytic take on two current films dealing with the theme of mothers and sons: Antichrist, by the Danish director Lars von Trier; and Where the Wild Things Are, directed by Spike Jonze. Find out here which on... Read more

More Talk Radio on 10/26/09

Airs at: Mon, 10/26/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Eleanor Hinton Hoytt, who is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Black Women's Health Imperative. With five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; Hoytt's first appearance was a 1991 Senate Committee as a President for th... Read more