LGBTQ

Questions about the Orlando Shooter

Airs at: Wed, 06/15/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
  Today on Flashpoints: Why is the Orlando shooter branded as a Muslim instead of a homophobe? Also, Professor Vijay Prashad talks about the confused declarations of support by the shooter: which group did he really support: Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or the Islamic State: could... Read more

Bread and Roses

Airs at: Fri, 06/17/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Bomb Ass Pussy joins the Bread and Roses conversation; they are transplants from Los Angeles, transplants from drag, transplants from another planet of fierce queer creatures- the trioBomb Ass Pussy tells stories of queer identity and celebration through hip hop. Their musi... Read more

Talking Pride: Portland Trans Unity, Black Pride, & Two Spirit Society

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Talking Pride! in the face of hate, violence, and terror, we'll be talking with folks who are celebrating community, resistance, visibility, and love.  We'll hear first from sometimes-Portlander amira caluya, who is program co-director at stonewall youth, in olympia washing... Read more

Evening News on 06/13/16

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2016 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Tonight's newscast features students from the Portland State University Student Union reacting to this weekend's massacre in a Florida nightclub. Read more

Only in America: Violence from Stanford to Orlando

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel comments on America's culture of violence, and in particular how it led to the Stanford Rape case of Brock Turner and the recent mass shooting in an Orlando Florida gay nightclub:   I had been planning to talk about the Stanford rape case—you know, the one i... Read more

Prince Vs. Bowie Memorial Bike Ride

KBOO Community Radio is a proud Co-Sponsor of the Prince & David Bowie Memorial Bike Ride on Sat. June 11th @ 7pm   Come celebrate the lives & music of these INCREDIBLE icons as we pedal and dance the night away! "We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they hel... Read more

Naomi Ceder on Trans*Code and PyCon

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2016 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
What's with the continued sexism in the tech industry? How is the Python community working to be inclusive, transpositive and challenging sexism and transphobia? Naomi Ceder of Trans*Code stopped by the KBOO studios during last week's PyCon in Portland to share her thoughts... Read more

Cat Winters on "The Steep and Thorny Way"

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Cat Winters, author of the new book The Steep and Thorny Way. This historical fiction, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, follows protagonist Hanalee as she navigates rural Oregon in the 1920’s as a biracial teen coming to terms with he... Read more

Wendy Doniger, Redeeming the Kamasutra

Airs at: Sat, 05/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
The Kamasutra brings to mind (and to Google searches) erotic and exotic sexual positions.   OK, it is that.  But it is much more.  It is about the art of living.   Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of ... Read more

Lemonade, Black Womanhood, & Self-Love (A digital roundtable)

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Hosts Pamela Santos and Tessara Dudley invited fierce Black artists & writers from diverse gender identities to talk about Beyonce's film and visual album Lemonade and the "thinkpiece" explosion that surrounded the release. Tune in at 6pm to hear this discussion of Lemonade... Read more