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 #65: KY's Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; Essay Explores James Baldwin's Paris
As we were going into the studio to record this week's episode, news came down that [a court ruling had been announced](http://wfpl.org/post/kentucky-must-recognize-out-state-same-sex-marriages-feder…
00:39:35 |
Tue 18 Feb 2014
Strange Fruit #64: African-American Voices in Classical Music
We're celebrating Black History Month on Strange Fruit, and so is our sister station, Classical 90.5. Their series, [African-American Voices](http://wuol.org/voices), runs throughout the month and hi…
00:47:05 |
Mon 10 Feb 2014
Strange Fruit #63: Reclaiming the Story of African Americans in Appalachia; Black History Month!
The seldom-told story of African Americans in Appalachia has been on our minds since a few weeks ago when [we spoke to Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker](http://wfpl.org/post/strange-fruit-poet-l…
00:37:37 |
Mon 03 Feb 2014
Strange Fruit #62: Trans* Students in Louisville; Historical Context for the "Black Woman Chair"
This week, we're joined by WFPL's [Devin Katayama](http://wfpl.org/people/devin-katayama). Devin covers the education beat for the station, and he sat down with us to talk about his newest project, l…
00:43:23 |
Mon 27 Jan 2014
Strange Fruit # 61: Poet Laureate Frank X Walker on Social Justice Through Poetry
[Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evars](http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/turn_me_loose) has garnered Kentucky's Poet Laureate, Frank X Walker, a nomination for an [NAACP Image Award](h…
00:26:23 |
Tue 21 Jan 2014
Strange Fruit #60: Keith McGill Directs Comedy on Sex in Middle Age; Trans Leaders on Katie Couric
Louisville comedian Keith McGill has been one of our favorite people since he was first on the show last year to talk about his work in a local production of TopDog/Underdog. That play explored theme…
00:29:00 |
Mon 13 Jan 2014
Strange Fruit #59: Going Home Gay for the Holidays
Even under the best of circumstances, the holidays can be stressful. For some LGBTQ people, Christmas also means deciding whether to go home to a family who doesn't fully embrace them.
This week, …
00:14:46 |
Mon 23 Dec 2013
Strange Fruit #58: Filmmaker Michael Wolfe on Muslims in America
Documentary filmmaker [Michael Wolfe](http://www.upf.tv/index.php) is probably not the image that comes to mind when most people think "Muslim." In fact, he's a middle-aged white guy from Ohio. But h…
00:36:22 |
Mon 16 Dec 2013
Strange Fruit #57: LGBTQ People of Color in the Workplace
The idea that working hard leads to success is a popular narrative in the United States, but a new report shows it's not that simple - especially for LGBTQ people of color. [A Broken Bargain for LGBT…
00:29:36 |
Mon 09 Dec 2013
Strange Fruit #56: 'Furious Cool' Co-Author David Henry on the Life of Richard Pryor
This week we spoke with David Henry, co-author of [Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him](http://www.amazon.com/Furious-Cool-Richard-Pryor-World-ebook/dp/B00CL08LNK), about Pryor's …
00:37:34 |
Sat 30 Nov 2013
Strange Fruit #55: Legendary Ballroom Photographer Gerard H. Gaskin
_"My images try to show a more personal and intimate beauty, pride, dignity, courage, and grace that have been painfully challenged by mainstream society."_Photographer [Gerard H. Gaskin](http://gera…
00:28:31 |
Sat 23 Nov 2013
Strange Fruit #54: 'Eenie Meanie' Examines Baby Boomer Racism & Louisville Busing Riots
"These buses came back from the West End with these little kids on them, and they were crying, there were windows knocked out. They had been beaten with baseball bats, they had been called every horr…
00:36:44 |
Sat 16 Nov 2013
Strange Fruit #53: Remaking 'Roots,' UofL's LGBTQ Center, and What's in a 'Black' Name?
Around this time last year, we spoke with Dr. Stephanie Budge about the challenges faced by [LGTBQ folks during the holidays](http://wfpl.org/post/strange-fruit-going-home-gay-holidays) - specificall…
00:34:32 |
Sat 09 Nov 2013
Strange Fruit #52: 'Tracking Fire' Documentary Tells Story of Deadly Anti-LGBTQ Attack in 1973
It's one of the deadliest attacks on LGBTQ people in U.S. history - and even if you're an activist or scholar, there's a good chance you've never heard of it. Louisville filmmaker Sheri L. Wright is …
00:29:24 |
Mon 04 Nov 2013
Strange Fruit #51: Racist Halloween Costumes & Butch Queens Up in Pumps
If you've never been to a ball, you don't know what you're missing - but Dr. Marlon Bailey's book, [Butch Queens Up in Pumps](http://www.amazon.com/Butch-Queens-Pumps-Performance-Triangulations/dp/04…
00:29:33 |
Sat 26 Oct 2013
Strange Fruit #49: "The Book of Matt" author Stephen Jimenez
Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie, Wyoming in 2000, to write a screenplay about the murder of Matthew Shepard. He expected to be researching fairly open-and-shut case which had almost immediately becom…
00:58:47 |
Sat 12 Oct 2013
Strange Fruit #48: A Conversation with Trans Activist Janet Mock
Writer and activist [Janet Mock](http://janetmock.com) was living a successful life, working as a journalist, outside the spotlight, until a friend recommended her for a [profile in Marie Claire maga…
00:25:58 |
Sat 28 Sep 2013
Strange Fruit #47: Meet Gert McMullen, Original Seamstress of the AIDS Memorial Quilt
To speak to Gert McMullen about the origins of [the AIDS Memorial Quilt](http://www.aidsquilt.org/) is to go back to a scary, sad time in LGBTQ history: San Francisco in the early 1980s. "People were…
00:25:15 |
Sat 21 Sep 2013
Strange Fruit #46: Locs of Love from Dr. Yaba Blay
Earlier this month, 7-year-old Tiana Parker was told that her locs were [considered an unacceptable hairstyle](http://youtu.be/EiNK4rOdhWc) in her African-American charter school. Word quickly spread…
00:32:36 |
Sat 14 Sep 2013
Strange Fruit #45: Why Would Straight Men Sleep With Men? Plus, Fairness in Frankfort!
This week, Frankfort became the fifth Kentucky city to [pass a fairness ordinance](http://wfpl.org/post/frankfort-becomes-fifth-kentucky-city-pass-fairness-ordinance), protecting LGBTQ folks from dis…
00:35:35 |
Sat 07 Sep 2013
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