Women

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Gospel of Trees: A Memoir

Airs at: Thu, 03/26/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Today on Between the Covers, Suzanne LaGrande interviews award-winning writer, teacher, and community activist Apricot Irving. She is the author of Gospel of Trees: A Memoir, a lyrical meditation on ecology, loss and the tangled history of missions in Haiti, which won the 2... Read more

Transforming your relationship to food through myths, metaphors and storytelling

Produced for:  Radiozine
  This week on Radiozine, Suzanne LaGrande interviews clinical psychologist Dr. Anita Johnston specializes in eating disorders and women's issues and is the author of Eating in the Light of the Moon:How Women Can Transform their relationships with Food Through Myths, Metap... Read more

Celebrating Women's History: a Look Back, 3/05/2020

Airs at: Thu, 03/05/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Black Book Talk revisits interviews by and about iconic women.  Some are well-known, others not so much.  The voices of Dr Maya Angelou (speaking and singing), Ilyasah Shabazz (Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz' middle daughter) and Rosemary Reed Miller (biograher of African-Am... Read more

Washington County Commissioner candidate Nafisa Fai has expertise in public health and a plan to advocate for low income Oregonians

Airs at: Wed, 03/04/2020 at 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Washington County Commission Seat One has a challenger this year, Nafisa Fai. Fai is an expert in the field of public health, and she helped to found the Pan African Festival in Oregon. She's also a small business owner on the Portland Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list... Read more

Girl Be Brave: 100 Days to Chart Your Course

Airs at: Wed, 02/26/2020 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Open Air
When Cheryl Hale discovered a note from her grandmother, written in a family Bible and ending with the phrase "girl be brave", she found the inspiration she needed to push through her fear and chart a course for her life. In 2016 Hale launched the Girl Be Brave movement, on... Read more

Buscando America on 03/03/20

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta emisión hablamos con Ivonne Ramírez autora de Ellas tienen Nombre,  un proyecto de monitoreo y mapeo que muestra los feminicidios en Ciudad Juárez de 1993 a la fecha. La performancera Rocío Boliver habla sobre su proyecto Entre la Vejez y la Menopausia. En la 2da ... Read more

Weather

Airs at: Thu, 03/19/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Novelists don’t need to dream the end of the world anymore—they need to wake up to it. Jenny Offill is one of today’s few essential voices, because she writes about essential things, in sentences so clipped and glittering it’s as if they are all cut from one diamond.”–J... Read more

Dropping the Egg: Ovulation and Fertility

Airs at: Tue, 02/25/2020 at 3:30pm - 3:45pm
Miriam the Midwife discusses how ovulation works, and how ovulation and other factors can affect your fertility. She answers listener questions about getting pregnant (and avoiding pregnancy), how to tell if you're ovulating, ways to tell if you're fertile, how you can maxi... Read more

African Film Festival

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie talks to Tracy Francis, director of the Cascade Festival of African Films, which winds up this week with films devoted to women filmmakers.   Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 24th 2020

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes: Fossil Fuel Resistance: Desiree Hellegers interviews Dr. Melanie Plaut, MD, Co-lead of the Fossil Fuel Resistance Team at 350 PDX about recent developments in the fight to stop the Jordan Cove LNG export t... Read more