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 #44: Some of My Best Friends...: Interracial Friendship in America
How multi-racial is your circle of friends? Are any of your close friends of a different race than yours? Not the lady who works down the hall from your office or the dad you chat with while waiting …
00:41:16 |
Sun 01 Sep 2013
Strange Fruit #43: Linguistic Reclamation, Weaves in Church, and Louisville Humorist Tracy Clayton
Lately, many mainstream (read: white) media outlets have taken notice of [Black Twitter](http://www.theroot.com/the-chatterati). Often their approach seems almost anthropological. "How did this amazi…
00:40:54 |
Sat 24 Aug 2013
Strange Fruit #42: Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney
Playwright [Tarell Alvin McCraney](http://www.steppenwolf.org/ensemble/members/details.aspx?id=54) has been called the next August Wilson. Maybe that can be partially attributed to the fact that ther…
00:49:57 |
Sat 17 Aug 2013
Strange Fruit #41: Film Examines Guatemala's Breakdancing Culture; Orange is the New Juicy
This week we meet Coury Deeb, founder and director of [Nadus Films](http://nadusfilms.com/). The Louisville filmmaker's latest film, [Bboy for Life](http://nadusfilms.com/#bboy-for-life), takes us in…
00:38:12 |
Sat 10 Aug 2013
Strange Fruit #40: Don Lemon Says Don't Litter!
While we spent the week celebrating Jai's birthday and recovering from [EOY](http://www.eoy.net/), CNN's Don Lemon was busy making people mad and [agreeing with Bill O'Reilly](http://www.cnn.com/vide…
00:31:30 |
Sat 03 Aug 2013
Strange Fruit #39: New Basketball Camp Welcomes LGBTQ Kids; Chris Crass on Intersectional Activism
Miserable summer camp experiences are a staple in sitcoms and movies, where letters to home complain of mosquitos, inedible food, and obnoxious roommates. But for LGBTQ kids, the reality is often a l…
00:43:16 |
Sat 27 Jul 2013
Strange Fruit #38: The Zimmerman Verdict
It's been a week since George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. Most of us have spent this week reflecting, arguing, thinking, protesting, writing, organizing, praying, and unfriendi…
00:37:19 |
Sat 20 Jul 2013
Strange Fruit #37: Alvaro Vargas Llosa on Immigration
Judging by political rhetoric alone, you might think immigration is a bigger issue now than ever before. But in his book, [Global Crossings: Immigration, Civilization and America](http://www.independ…
00:31:42 |
Sat 13 Jul 2013
Strange Fruit #36: Yolo Akili's Love Letter to the Universe Affirms the Good in All of Us
A few months ago we had [an eye-opening conversation](http://wfpl.org/post/strange-fruit-yolo-akili-darnell-moore-gay-men-and-sexism) with author Yolo Akili about his article, [Gay Men's Sexism and W…
00:36:40 |
Sat 06 Jul 2013
Strange Fruit #31: Urmi Basu of New Light India; Kaitlyn Hunt, Statutory Rape & Queer Relationships
Activism runs in Urmi Basu's family; her grandfather was a doctor who set up a school for _dalit_ children (India's untouchable caste) in his own home. Urmi says her family "always challenged everyth…
00:42:34 |
Sat 01 Jun 2013
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