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 #142: How Marriage Equality is Changing the Wedding Industry
It's almost wedding season, and engaged folks everywhere are in the thick of trying to get their ceremonies and receptions planned for spring. And this year, the festivities will include same-sex cou…
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Sun 18 Oct 2015
Strange Fruit #141: Comedian Paula Poundstone on Comedy, Raising a Black Son, and her LGBT Fans
Comedian Paula Poundstone will be in Louisville on October 17th, bringing her stand-up comedy to the Kentucky Center for the Arts. We spoke with her this week about, among other things, her enduring …
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Sat 10 Oct 2015
Strange Fruit #140: Silence Is Our Enemy, Sound Is Our Weapon: Janelle Monáe on Resistance
Fall is in the air, and that means IdeaFestival, and jokes about pumpkins and white people. Luckily, we cover both on this week's show. One of our favorite people, Janelle Monáe, came back to Louisvi…
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Fri 02 Oct 2015
Strange Fruit #139: Naveen Jain Wants to Develop an HIV Vaccine... and Give It Away
Naveen Jain is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of Immunity Project, a non-profit dedicated to developing an HIV vaccine and giving it away for free to anyone who needs it. Jain said it was…
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Fri 25 Sep 2015
Strange Fruit #138: Reading, 'Riting and Race? Raising Confident Kids of Color
The suspension of Ahmed Mohamed had just hit the headlines when we recorded this week's show. The gifted ninth-grader from Irving, Texas, built a digital clock at home, and brought it to school to sh…
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Fri 18 Sep 2015
Strange Fruit #137: Does Plea Bargaining Hurt People of Color?
“When the Negroes were freed and the whole South was convinced of the impossibility of free Negro labor, the first and almost universal device was to use the courts as a means of reenslaving the blac…
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Sat 12 Sep 2015
Strange Fruit #135: Violence Against Black Americans, from Lynching to Police Shootings
Poet and activist Lance Newman joins us for Juicy Fruit this week, where some stories from this week lead to a broader discussion of violence against black Americans. We talk about the through line o…
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Sat 05 Sep 2015
Strange Fruit #134: Fairness Leaders Arrested at Ham Breakfast; Fashion Designer Frances Lewis
Three Fairness leaders were arrested Thursday morning at the Kentucky Farm Bureau's Ham Breakfast & Auction. Fairness and ACLU folks were at the event in silent protest of anti-LGBT Kentucky Farm Bur…
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Fri 28 Aug 2015
Strange Fruit #133: What's it Like to be LGBT in a Rural Community?
We've always been proud of how cutting-edge Louisville is on LGBT rights issues (and can often be overheard bragging that our Fairness law included transgender protections even before New York's did)…
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Fri 21 Aug 2015
Strange Fruit #132: What's Next for County Clerks Who Refuse to Issues Marriage Licenses?
It's back to school time in our part of the country, and this week we're full of nostalgia about our favorite parts of going back to school (cute Trapper Keepers and lunchboxes, of course!). We also …
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Fri 14 Aug 2015
Strange Fruit #131: Sharpe Suiting Designer Leon Wu
Suit designer Leon Wu sees a person's first suit as a milestone. "Historically, a father will bring in his son," Wu says. "It's like a coming of age sort of thing." But what about a person who didn't…
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Wed 05 Aug 2015
Strange Fruit #130: Dr. Britney Cooper on the Movement for Black Lives Convening and Police Violence
Last week in Cleveland, activists from across the country came together for the Movement for Black Lives Convening. Panels and breakout groups talked about police violence, LGBTQ inclusivity, self-ca…
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Fri 31 Jul 2015
BONUS FRUIT: Nicki vs. Taylor?
Doc, Jai, and guest Joe Dunman weigh in on the Nicki/Taylor twitter beef surrounding the VMA nominations... and the perpetual narrative of white woman victimhood. And Geena Davis. (Our full episode w…
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Fri 31 Jul 2015
Strange Fruit #129: News Round-Up with Marriage Equality Attorney Joe Dunman
Remember that whole Supreme Court marriage equality thing a couple weeks ago? It was kind of a big deal? Well one of the attorneys, Joe Dunman, joins us this week for a news roundup, and to give us t…
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Fri 24 Jul 2015
Strange Fruit #127: "Buster" Musical Tells Story of Activist Louis Coleman
Many of Louisville's activist leaders got their start marching behind the same man: Reverend Louis Coleman. Now his life's work is being portrayed in a brand-new musical called "Buster," written by L…
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Tue 14 Jul 2015
Strange Fruit #126: Professor Burt Ashe on the History & Cultural Significance of Dreadlocks
Dr. Burt Ashe always saw himself as a sort of a renegade. Edgy. Bohemian. But no one else seemed to agree. "The way that I presented to the world was completely, just amazingly, conventional," he say…
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Fri 03 Jul 2015
Strange Fruit 125: Marriage Equality At Last!
Friday was a historic day for the USA, and we spent it experiencing and documenting some of the sights and sounds of all the Decision Day activities here in Louisville! On this week's show, we share …
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Sat 27 Jun 2015
Strange Fruit #124: Rachel Dolezal Didn't Come Out; She Got Caught
As we celebrate Juneteenth this weekend, it's with the impossible-to-ignore knowledge of how much work the United States still has to do to achieve safety and true equality for all its citizens. We r…
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Fri 19 Jun 2015
Strange Fruit #123: Mother Tongue Techniques Takes Queer Southern Culture to California
Happy Pride Month, Fruitcakes! This week we speak with mixed media artists Rahel and SCZ, who are part of a collective called Mother Tongue Techniques. Their group is in San Francisco this weekend pr…
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Fri 12 Jun 2015
Bonus Fruit: The Return of Janet Jackson?
A battle of the generations broke out when, on a recent episode, we talked about Janet Jackson's upcoming album and tour! Flyy Sexuality TV's Kendra Elise Anderson called the singer all washed up, sc…
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Wed 10 Jun 2015
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