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 #122: Racism in Queer Spaces
Performing as DJ Syimone, Victoria Syimone Taylor spends a lot of time in gay and gay-friendly bars. She joins us this week to talk about racism in queer spaces - including a recent incident in a loc…
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Sat 06 Jun 2015
Strange Fruit #121: Juicy Fruit News Roundup!
It's a full serving of Juicy Fruit! Dr. Story is in Florence, presenting at the Black Portraiture{s} II Conference, so actor Billy Flood, and Kendra Elise Anderson from the Flyy Sexuality talk show j…
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Fri 29 May 2015
Strange Fruit #120: Portland Poetry Series to Feature LGBTQ Poets in June
The Portland Poetry Series will focus on LGBTQ poets at their June event, in honor of Pride Month. Co-producer Eli Keel joins us this week, along with poet and writer Adriena Dame, who will read at t…
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Fri 22 May 2015
SF #119: LMPD Gets Body Cams; "Sidewinders" Play Deconstructs Gender; Syphilis on Rise Among Gay Men
Once nearly eradicated in the United States, syphilis is back on the rise - mostly among gay and bisexual men. Rates reached an all-time low in 2000, and of the roughly 6,000 cases, only around 7% we…
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Sat 16 May 2015
SF #118: Funding Feminist Art in Kentucky; @HonestToddler's Mom on the Messiness of Motherhood
It's Mother's Day, and we're celebrating by talking with Bunmi Laditan, mother of three, and creator of the @HonestToddler twitter account. Laditan has a new book out called Toddlers are A-Holes: It'…
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Fri 08 May 2015
Strange Fruit #117: Baltimore Rising, Black Jockeys in the Derby, and Unlearning Childhood Racism
On Friday, state’s attorney for Baltimore, Marilyn J. Mosby, announced that six officers would be charged in the death of Freddie Gray. Mosby made the announcement soon after the medical examiner's r…
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Fri 01 May 2015
Strange Fruit #116: Juicy Fruit News Round-Up
There's a lot going on out there, Fruitcakes, so this week, we give you a whole episode of Juicy Fruit, with special guest co-host, actress, Alexandria Sweatt. The death of Freddie Gray in police cus…
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Fri 24 Apr 2015
Strange Fruit #116 Promo
A sneak peek at what's coming up on this week's episode of Strange Fruit!
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Fri 24 Apr 2015
Strange Fruit #115: Family Guy's Kirker Butler says "Nothing is Off Limits"
Comedy writer Kirker Butler has written for Family Guy and the Cleveland Show, but his most recent work is a satirical novel called “Pretty Ugly,” about a Southern family whose child is involved in b…
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Fri 17 Apr 2015
Strange Fruit #114: Death Row Exoneree Sabrina Butler Porter
Sabrina Butler Porter was 17 when she found her baby Walter unresponsive, not breathing. Her attempts at CPR to save his life resulted in bruising that lead police to accuse her of child abuse. She w…
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Fri 10 Apr 2015
Best of Strange Fruit: David Sedaris on Unwelcome Duck Tongues & Accidental Activism
David Sedaris never liked Chinese food. Then he went to China, and he really didn’t like Chinese food. His essay about it, Chicken Toenails, Anyone? was published in the Guardian and was criticized a…
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Fri 03 Apr 2015
Strange Fruit #112: Kentucky's Marriage Case Goes to SCOTUS; Juneteenth in Louisville
This week we introduce you to a new member of the WFPL newsroom, political reporter Ashley Lopez. Ashley joins us to talk about Indiana's controversial "religious freedom" act, Louisville's attempt t…
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Sun 29 Mar 2015
Strange Fruit #111: "Louisville Diners" is a Master Class in Greasy Spoons
Food writer Ashlee Clark Thompson's new book is all about Louisville Diners (the places, not the people). She joins us this week to dish about some of Louisville's most iconic eateries - trendy brunc…
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Fri 20 Mar 2015
Strange Fruit #110: Fairness Updates from Frankfort and Bardstown
The Kentucky General Assembly just wrapped up its 2015 session, and some LGBTQ-related bills were under consideration. Chris Hartman from the Fairness Campaign joins us this week to talk about the pr…
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Fri 13 Mar 2015
Strange Fruit #109: Bisexual Visibility in a Non-Binary World
Earlier this year, Kate Brown made history by becoming the first openly bisexual governor ever to serve in the U.S. The Oregon governor was also the country’s first bisexual statewide officeholder. B…
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Sat 07 Mar 2015
Strange Fruit #108: "Emigrados" Brings the Universality of Immigrant Experiences to the Stage
This week we meet Haydee Canovas, the director of a Spanish-language play called "Emigrados," running March 12-21 in Louisville. Part of the theater of the absurd tradition, the play observes two imm…
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Fri 27 Feb 2015
Strange Fruit: Marion Dries interviews Lesbian Fiction & Fantasy Authors KL Rhavensfyre
Marion Dries joins #teamstrangefruit to talk with KL Rhavensfyre, authors of lesbian fantasy, romance, and erotica.
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Fri 27 Feb 2015
Bonus Black History Month Fruit: Dr. Pauli Murray
Get hip to Dr. Pauli Murray! Friend to the show Dr. Brittney Cooper calls her "the most important legal scholar you've never heard of." Check out Dr. Cooper's work here: http://www.salon.com/2015/02/…
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Wed 18 Feb 2015
Strange Fruit #106: Author Frederick Smith on the Right Side of Storytelling
Author Frederick Smith knew he wanted to be a writer since he was a little boy, watching soap operas in Detroit. But folks around him didn't necessarily see him as the writer type. "I had friends say…
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Fri 13 Feb 2015
PROMO: Coming up on Strange Fruit #106
Coming up this weekend on Strange Fruit, Frederick Smith, author of "Play It Forward," talks about the importance of three-dimensional black and brown characters in literature, and his own path to be…
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Fri 13 Feb 2015
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