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Retro seems to be all the rage these days. From fashion to food to music, everything is coming back around again. So this week we are looking into ...

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  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we pay tribute to the women of the world with a show themed in their honor. We start out with Managing Editor Noel Clark, who takes a loo...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 31:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Feminist Porn Awards logo, Credit: Goodforher.com
Three adventurous filmmakers break the moulds of sexual representation and expand possibilities in porn production. Tristan Taormino, Shine Louise...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 14:58
Caption: Me
Public health nurse balances awareness and fear when making home visits in Brooklyn, NY.

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
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They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
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After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:11
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
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Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
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Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:33
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Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
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We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
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Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
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After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
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What got Lewis all the recognition, accolades, awards, articles, honors, and even financial rewards, were the many times she climbed in a lifeboat ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
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By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
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For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
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Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
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Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
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Scott -- called "The Tomboy of the Air" -- was part of Curtiss' exhibition team, flying upside down and plummeting to the earth in "death dives," ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:21
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Whether you like to laugh, shout, sit quietly with your feelings, or just plain get physical, Culture Queue has something for everyone this week. F...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux discusses the deconstruction of the alphabet as part of her creative process. "What the Body can Say," is read as the poem of the we...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
Caption: Adele Park, Credit: http://www.jittersaudiobook.com/
What happens when a female shock jock from Hackensack, New Jersey finds herself working at a radio station near a polygamist enclave in Utah?

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 14:22
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This week on Culture Queue, we dive into the world of the obscene. First Producer Marcheta Fornoff learns about a little “dirty dancing” for the sa...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 30:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Queer identity, sex dolls, performance art, love.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:55
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Excerpts from the anonymous blog "What to Expect When You Are Aborting."

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 07:51