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Today’s episode highlights the campaign to close Rikers jail in New York and continues our conversation with Anne Gray Fischer about the intertwined stories of policing, the surveillance of women’s bodies, and the creation of the racialized American ghetto.  Both Sy, an organizer against Rikers, and Gray Fischer, extend the histories of control and racial domination back to the middle …

In today’s segment we brought you news that State Representative Mara Candelaria Reardon testified Monday she told a lobbyist that Indiana’s attorney general Curtis Hill was a “creeper”. Bloomington Transit is seeking public input on potential changes to the bus service in Bloomington. The City of Bloomington has hired Nebraska based consultants RDG Planning and Design to conduct a housing …

This week, we cover some sensitive topics on the show. We speak with Fable, who tells her story of incarceration when she was barely 18 years old. Fable shares her complicated experiences with mental health, sexuality and gender, consent, and violence in prison. In a prison system where many young people spend formative periods of time on the inside, Fable’s …

In the late 60s, one man imagined creating a place that would radically undermine the societal values of his time—an alternative space that subverted color lines, gender norms, and war. That man was Fred Rogers and that place was Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Our opening song is, of course, “Won’t you be my neighbor?” Composed by Fred Rogers and performed by …

Our guest tonight is Brian Rosenberg, Founder of Gays With Kids along with his husband Fred. They launched Gays With Kids in March 2017 with a focused mission: To help gay men become dads and to help new gay dads navigate fatherhood. Along the way, Gays With Kids has grown to become the world’s leading digital media company and social …

What 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 ideas have been disproved thanks in large part to the Feminist Movement. Yet, …

BloomingOUT hosts lead a conversation with guests about problems concerning gender identity in the school systems. They also welcome a new co-host, Grant Rollins, a local youtube content maker and social-media guru; to discuss Queer pop-culture. ​​They are joined in the studio by Greg Chaffin, a guidance counselor from Bloomington High School North. Greg was the 2014 Indiana Counselor of the …

Amy Rose Spiegel joins us to talk about talking about sex, Helen Gurley Brown, and her favorite episode of The Golden Girls. Marvin Gaye writes in the liner notes to his 1973 classic Let’s Get It On: I can’t see anything wrong with sex between consenting anybodies. I think we make far too much of it. After all, one’s genitals …