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 #105: TV That Shatters Stereotypes (and Porn that Reinforces Them)
After spending January looking back at some of our favorite conversations, we're back this week with a brand new episode — and we have a lot of hot topics to catch up on! So this week, we're doing an…
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Fri 06 Feb 2015
Strange Fruit #104: Why Would Straight Men Sleep With Men?
Everyone knows that gay men sleep with men, and straight men sleep with women. Right? On this week's show, we learn it’s not always that simple. Today we’re listening back to a conversation we had wi…
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Fri 06 Feb 2015
Strange Fruit #103: Janet Mock on What It Means to be a Real Model — Not a Role Model
When you think about the current state of trans activism, the name Janet Mock is probably at the top of your mind. But there was a time when Mock was living a relatively low-profile life, working as …
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Fri 09 Jan 2015
Strange Fruit 102: Darnell Moore Says, in Advocacy, the "Work Finds You"
Throughout the month of January, we’re revisiting some of our favorite conversations from the first 100 episodes of our show. Here's one of our favorites, a conversation with writer and activist Darn…
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Fri 09 Jan 2015
Strange Fruit #101: "The Brother Size" Examines Freedom & Tradition at Actors Theatre
Earlier this week, Actors Theatre began its run of a show called “The Brothers Size,” by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney. “The Brothers Size” is part of McCraney’s trilogy, “The Brother/Sister Plays…
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Thu 08 Jan 2015
Strange Fruit #100: Celebrating Our 100th Show!
It's our 100th episode! We're celebrating this week by looking back at our humble beginnings, and ahead to the future. This week you'll learn about some of the show titles we considered instead of St…
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Fri 02 Jan 2015
Strange Fruit #99: How Cabbage Patch Settlement House Helps Louisville's At-Risk Kids
The Cabbage Patch Settlement House provides all kinds of programming for at-risk kids in Louisville—tutoring, clubs, sports, music, college preps and scholarships, and even emotional counseling. And …
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Sun 28 Dec 2014
Strange Fruit #98: Going Home Gay for the Holidays
Even under the best of circumstances, the holidays can be stressful. For some queer folks, they also mean deciding whether to go home to a family who doesn’t fully embrace them. This time of year, we…
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Fri 19 Dec 2014
Bonus Fruit: Why are we called Strange Fruit?
Last week, a PR firm in Austin, Texas came under fire for their use of the name Strange Fruit. This company was focused on promoting food & drink companies, did not have a social justice mission, and…
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Fri 19 Dec 2014
Strange Fruit #97: Yasssss! 2014 Words of the Year on Fleek
The end of 2014 is upon us, and that means every outlet is publishing Best-of lists. We weren't too impressed with the Wall Street Journal's Best Pop Culture Moments last week, but one list we can ge…
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Fri 12 Dec 2014
Strange Fruit #96: Human Rights Campaign Study Finds Louisville above Average on LGBT Equality
Louisville is looking pretty good this week! We recently got a 66% on the Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index—higher than the national average of 59%, and the highest rating of any city …
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Mon 08 Dec 2014
Bonus Fruit: The Wall Street Journal's 15 Best Pop Culture Moments of 2014
The Wall Street Journal's arts & entertainment blog, The Speakeasy, released its list of The 15 Best Pop Culture Moments of 2014. Some we totally got (the Oscar selfie, "Adele Dazeem," Pharrell's hat…
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Mon 08 Dec 2014
Strange Fruit Holiday Music Special!
Thanksgiving is over, so now even the Scroogiest Fruitcakes have to admit it's not too early to put on some Christmas tunes! This week we talk about our favorite holiday music and movies, listen to s…
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Wed 26 Nov 2014
Strange Fruit: Ferguson Special
Councilwoman Attica Scott and attorney Lucie Brooks join us for a conversation about the Grand Jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown. We also talk about m…
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Tue 25 Nov 2014
Strange Fruit 94: Making Dance Accessible to Louisville's Low Income Kids
"In the East End, there's dance everywhere. In the West End, you don't see that." John O. Keen, artistic director of Keen Dance Theater, is taking on the 9th Street Divide (and the race divide, and t…
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Sat 22 Nov 2014
Strange Fruit #93: “If It’s Funny, It’s Funny.” Wanda Sykes on Humor and Giving Back
You know you've skirted a line when the White House officially distances itself from a joke you made at the Correspondents' Dinner. Wanda Sykes had that experience after suggesting that Rush Limbaugh…
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Sat 15 Nov 2014
PROMO: Strange Fruit #93
Coming up on Saturday's show: Comedy legend Wanda Sykes! Plus, hip-hop scholar Mickey Hess, who co-authored a new biography of Ol' Dirty Bastard with Dirty's best friend, Buddha Monk.
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Thu 13 Nov 2014
Strange Fruit #92: Advocating for the Rights of Deaf Prisoners
"We call it a prison within a prison." That's how advocates describe the lives of incarcerated Deaf and hard of hearing people. The vast majority of correctional facilities have no ASL interpreters, …
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Fri 07 Nov 2014
Strange Fruit #91: LMPD's Racial Profiling Study; Civil Rights Educator Professor john a. powelll
Civil Rights educator john a. powell will be in Louisville on November 11th to deliver the 8th annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture, and he joins us this week to talk about his concept of a "culture o…
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Sat 01 Nov 2014
SF #90: African-American Poetry from 19th Century America, and Racialized Fear in Ebola Coverage
This week in Juicy Fruit, we of course talk about Annie Lennox, who released a cover of the iconic Billie Holiday song "Strange Fruit" in the same week she weighed in on Beyoncé's right to claim femi…
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Fri 24 Oct 2014
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