Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:27 — 40.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we show our support for women as we ask you to show your support for Interchange. We’ll hear clips that highlight the fight for women’s rights in the country where 77% percent of women polled will not identify as feminist but believe men and women should …
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March 23, 2018: Carceral Repression Vs. Community Resilience
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:02 — 25.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we are airing selections from a panel discussion that took place earlier this month here in Bloomington. Andrea Ritchie and Victoria Law, both of whom were featured on Kite Line earlier this month, sit alongside Andrea Sterling at a panel called “Building Community Resilience”. In …
Read More »Interchange – Sex Politics: Meghan Murphy and the Feminist Current
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:54 — 43.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhat is identity and why is it political? In the wake of gender identity politics what has happened to the political category of Woman? **Gender says that men are inherently violent, aggressive, independent, assertive, and rational. Whereas women are inherently passive, delicate, nurturing, irrational and emotional. These …
Read More »Daily Local News – January 2, 2018
We’ll continue our best of 2017 with stories from around your community— In today’s Daily Local News, we hear how an organization encourages local women to run for public office, and hear from public officials about their experience as women in public office; we’ll also hear about increasing financial constraints on child support services as the opioid epidemic continues to …
Read More »December 15, 2017: PREA, Part Two
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:13 — 26.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week features our second segment on PREA- the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Last week, we heard from Irene, who is being held in the Indiana Women’s Prison. She described her run-ins with PREA, leading to a broader analysis of the failure of prison bureaucracies to meaningfully …
Read More »December 1, 2017: Feminist Organizing in Prison
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:42 — 27.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share part of a talk from two women organizing with prisoners. They speak candidly about the basics of supporting prisoners, and include some of the dynamics they noticed while working with those on the inside. We have more to share from these women committed …
Read More »Interchange – Censorship and Sensibility: Story and First Person Provocation
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:13 — 39.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | More“Censorship and Sensibility” features local author and film scholar Joan Hawkins in conversation with writer Laurie Stone. Stone was in town to read from her latest book as part of the Player’s Pub Spoken Word series organized by the Writers Guild at Bloomington. A longtime writer for …
Read More »Interchange – Censorship and Sensibility: Extended Version
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:17:07 — 52.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEXTENDED VERSION: “Censorship and Sensibility” features local author and film scholar Joan Hawkins in conversation with writer Laurie Stone. Stone was in town to read from her latest book as part of the Player’s Pub Spoken Word series organized by the Writers Guild at Bloomington. A longtime writer …
Read More »Interchange – Women and Children First: The Dialectic of Sex
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:01 — 40.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur topic today is Shulamith Firestone’s radical feminist book The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, published in 1970. But first a brief note on the death of Kate Millett, last Wednesday, September 6th. Listeners of Interchange will know we discussed Millett’s own radical feminist …
Read More »Interchange – The Strange Life of Work: Kathi Weeks
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:01 — 43.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur program today is about the problem of work. In “Life Without Principle” Henry David Thoreau, our great American guide to “getting a life,” wrote of Those slight labors which afford me a livelihood…are as yet commonly a pleasure to me, and I am not often reminded …
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