Cover to Cover – September 6, 2022
A celebration of the art of poetry and prose with Jack Foley, Nina Serrano, Jovelyn Richards and Jennifer Stone
Featured Episode
Join Renée Camila and her guest Camille Freeman of Bloom & Grow in conversation about herbs to support fertility. Camille has been in practice as an herbalist/licensed nutritionist since 2003 with a focus on fertility and menstrual health. The third Tuesday of each month during 2022 we will air an episode of The Herbal … Continued
What happens when meditation and yoga are taught behind bars? Are the imprisoned student-practitioners prodded to view their suffering as generated solely by their thoughts and actions, or do the classes foster an awareness of the structural and systemic factors that contributed to their incarceration? Farah Godrej taught yoga and meditation in prison and interviewed … Continued
Talkies – September 6, 2022
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Guest: M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, and educator who is blind. She is the author of the book There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; Playboy; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Catapult, where she writes the column “A Blind Writer’s Notebook.” She was a … Continued
Democracy Now – September 6, 2022
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Repurposing closed prisons and jails
From the 70s or 80s into the earlier 2000s, we saw the numbers of people locked up in prisons and jails increase, around the country. But since the first decade of the 2000s, the numbers of people being locked up have actually decreased nationally and also locally. One of the results is that prisons themselves … Continued
0:08 – Steven Thrasher (@thrasherxy) discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. Thrasher is the inaugural holder of Northwestern University’s Medill School’s Daniel Renberg Chair, the first of its kind professorship created to focus on LGBTQ research.
Democracy Now – September 6, 2022
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Letters & Politics – September 6, 2022
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.