Strange Fruit
Jaison Gardner and Dr. Kaila Story talk race, gender, and LGBTQ issues, from politics to pop culture. A new episode every week, from Louisville Public Media.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 350
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2020
Strange Fruit #175: What The Brock Turner Case Says About Race & Justice
New information continues to surface about the Stanford rape case. The latest news is that Brock Turner, who was caught raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, will serve only 3 months of his …
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Sat 11 Jun 2016
Strange Fruit #174: Race & Racism In The Gorilla Pit Conversation
It's an all-Juicy-Fruit episode of Strange Fruit, where we tackle some topics that have been in the news, on the timelines, and on everyone's minds. Joining us in the studio are attorney Joe Dunman a…
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Sat 04 Jun 2016
Strange Fruit #173: What If You Use A Wheelchair & You Need An STD Test?
“I just tested positive for syphilis.” That's the text message Andrew Gurza received from a recent partner, and like any responsible queer man, he knew what to do — if not exactly how to do it. Andre…
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Fri 27 May 2016
Strange Fruit: "Laocoon" Sculpture Unites Fat Albert, Police Shootings, and Greek Mythology
You could be forgiven if your first reaction to "Laocoon" is laughter. Even Dr. Chris Reitz, gallery director of the University of Louisville's Hite Art Institute, admits to laughing when he first sa…
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Sat 21 May 2016
Strange Fruit #171: Louisville's Food Access Divide
You've heard of white privilege, male privilege, and any number of other unearned advantages some of us are born with. But what about food privilege? University of Louisville graduate student Tyler S…
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Fri 13 May 2016
Strange Fruit #170: The Consequences Of Anti-Transgender Bathroom Laws
You've heard about them on the news, and probably read poorly-informed opinions about them on Facebook: laws designed to tell transgender people which public restrooms they can and can't use. What wi…
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Thu 05 May 2016
Strange Fruit #169: Unpacking the Symbolism in Beyoncé's "Lemonade"
This week, the music world bows down to its Queen, while saying a sad goodbye to its Prince. In this special hour-long episode of Strange Fruit, we talk about these two groundbreaking black artists —…
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Fri 29 Apr 2016
Strange Fruit #168: Harriet Tubman on the Twenty?
Hours before we went into the studio this week, rumors started swirling on the internet: Harriet Tubman would be on the twenty dollar bill. It's something we'd heard before, as part of a wider effort…
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Fri 22 Apr 2016
Doc Sums Up Our Reaction to the Harriet Tubman Twenties
We want you to listen to the whole show. But if you don't have time, this is a pretty accurate summary.
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Fri 22 Apr 2016
Strange Fruit #167: What Gender Does Facebook Think You Are?
In 2014, Facebook introduced new gender options users could ascribe to themselves. Where before, you had to select male or female, now you could suddenly be agender, gender non-conforming, genderquee…
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Sat 16 Apr 2016
Strange Fruit #166: Inside the Minds Of Angry White Men
It's music festival season in Louisville, and this year, there's a new event on the calendar. This week we talk with Tay G, one of the organizers of Louievolve, a two-day festival celebrating Louisvi…
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Fri 08 Apr 2016
Privilege Check: A Conversation About Invisible Advantages
In lieu of our regular show this week, here's a special project #TeamStrangeFruit did with our station, WFPL. This special is part of WFPL's year-long project, The Next Louisville: Race, Ethnicity an…
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Mon 04 Apr 2016
Strange Fruit #165: "Lipstick Wars" Brings Women to the Slam Poetry Stage
If you think of poetry slams as sedate affairs where people sip wine and read monotonously from notebooks, you might want to go visit one. Louisville's vibrant poetry slam scene is made up of a diver…
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Sat 26 Mar 2016
Strange Fruit #164: Marley Dias and the Search for #1000BlackGirlBooks
Sixth grader Marley Dias loves to read. But the books she was assigned in school never seemed to have protagonists who looked like her. So she started a nationwide book drive to collect 1,000 books f…
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Sun 20 Mar 2016
Strange Fruit #163: The Case Against the West Louisville FoodPort
A few weeks ago we introduced you to oSha Shireman and Charles Booker, two of the people who are working on the West Louisville Food Port. The proposed project would bring together farmers, distribut…
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Fri 11 Mar 2016
Strange Fruit #162: Three More Trump Protesters Tell Their Stories
Earlier this week, we spoke with Shiya Nwanguma about her experience protesting at the Donald Trump rally and being pushed by Trump supporters — an incident that was captured on a video which quickly…
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Fri 04 Mar 2016
BONUS FRUIT: Shiya Nwanguma, Louisville Protester At Center Of Trump Rally Video, Speaks Out
Multiple protesters at the rally on Tuesday in Louisville for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump allege they were pushed by other rally attendees, and some have begun filing police com…
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Thu 03 Mar 2016
Strange Fruit #161: Garth Greenwell Finds Dignity in "Despised" Queer Spaces
Garth Greenwell got out of Louisville as soon as he could, at age 16. "I really felt like this place was killing me," he says. His family didn't accept his gay identity, and few other adults took too…
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Fri 26 Feb 2016
Strange Fruit #160: What's a Food Port? And What Will It Do for West Louisville?
The neighborhood spoke loud and clear in opposition to the proposed biodigester project in West Louisville. Now, a food port is proposed for 30th and Market Streets. This week, we talk to two of the …
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Fri 19 Feb 2016
Strange Fruit #159: Love and Criticism for Beyoncé's "Formation"
At first glance, Dr. Yaba Blay saw a lot to love about the song Formation and accompanying video. Then she got to the part that says, "You mix that negro with that Creole, make a Texas bama." Dr. Bla…
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Fri 12 Feb 2016
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