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 #273: Are You A Transgender Ally Even When It's Not Easy?
It's easy to be woke inside a progressive bubble. What about the real world?
00:34:16 |
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Strange Fruit #272: 'Why Is My Wheelchair A Negative?'
In the 5th grade, Ola Ojewumi was diagnosed with a heart condition that made it difficult for her heart to properly pump blood throughout her body. By 11 years old, Ola was a double transplant recipi…
00:32:55 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Strange Fruit #271: Looking Forward On World AIDS Day
How to keep fighting both the stigma and the epidemic.
00:55:20 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Strange Fruit #270: Flamin' Hot Cheetos And Menthol Smokes
We’re keeping it light this week with a full episode of Juicy Fruit, featuring a hodgepodge of hot topics.
00:36:43 |
Sun 25 Nov 2018
Strange Fruit #269: When Your Moms Are White (And You're Not)
Morgan Rumple is a black woman who was adopted as an infant by a white lesbian couple who lived in a nearly all-white community in Indiana. She joins us to discuss her experiences as a transracial a…
00:43:47 |
Sat 17 Nov 2018
Strange Fruit #268: Yes, We're Still Talking About Who Can Say The N-Word
Writer Olga Maria Segura challenges other Latinx folks to think more critically about using the word.
00:27:00 |
Sat 10 Nov 2018
Strange Fruit #267: Getting Away With Murder?
Did the jury give him the benefit of the doubt because he's wealthy and white?
00:28:05 |
Fri 09 Nov 2018
Strange Fruit #266: Strange Fruit: A Bloodcurdling Conversation With 'Dracula' Actors
"Every moment you remain here brings you closer to destruction..."
00:33:29 |
Sat 27 Oct 2018
Strange Fruit #265: A Conversation With LGBTQ Historian David Williams
David Williams shares secrets from Old Louisville's history, just in time for Halloween. Juicy Fruit: Remy Ma says it's okay for non-black people of color to say the n-word. Really, though?
00:38:05 |
Mon 22 Oct 2018
Strange Fruit #264: 'Hey Fren!' Internet Sensation Zoie Fenty
A conversation with the viral video creator behind the @iamzoie Instagram.
00:36:54 |
Mon 15 Oct 2018
Strange Fruit #263: How Where You Live In Louisville Affects Your Grocery Bill
Why does the cost of basics at Kroger vary depending where you are in Louisville? It's an issue of supply and demand, but it's one that ends up affecting low-income people across the city.
In this w…
00:46:06 |
Mon 08 Oct 2018
Strange Fruit #263: 'Rape Jokes' Comic Cameron Esposito
How good comics skirt the line between funny and too far.
00:39:42 |
Sun 30 Sep 2018
Strange Fruit: On Queen Sugar, Pie Is More Than Just Pie
A story line about pie sparks deeper political conversations about capitalism and appropriation.
00:35:26 |
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Strange Fruit #260: Sam Sanders Gives Us A Minute
Sam Sanders from NPR's It's Been A Minute, on authentic black & queer voices in public radio.
00:47:57 |
Sat 15 Sep 2018
Strange Fruit #259: With Allies Like These...
Nobody's perfect, but when you mess up, don't make it all about you.
00:39:21 |
Fri 07 Sep 2018
Strange Fruit #258: What's It Like To Answer Racist 911 Calls?
It seems like every week we hear about white people calling the police on black people for racist reasons. A 911 operator tells us what it's like to be on the other end of the line.
00:36:09 |
Fri 31 Aug 2018
Strange Fruit #256: Toxic Black Fatherhood On TV
Was your dad an Uncle Phil, or a Dr. Huxtable? Writer Kieran Scarlett says cruel and impatient TV dads reflect reality for many black sons.
00:41:54 |
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Strange Fruit #255: It's Funny Because It's True (A Conversation With Dylan Marron)
Dylan Marron's "Every Single Word" series uses humor to point out an absurd lack of representation of non-white people in Hollywood.
00:38:04 |
Fri 17 Aug 2018
Strange Fruit #254: Expanding The Definition Of 'American Boys'
Soraya Zaman's "American Boys Project" is a photography collection (and upcoming book) featuring portraits of transmasculine people throughout the country. Through it, Soraya hopes to expand our idea…
00:42:00 |
Fri 03 Aug 2018
Strange Fruit #253: Honestly We'd Be Eating Chocolate Anyway
Chocolate is even sweeter when it's for an important cause.
00:30:47 |
Fri 27 Jul 2018
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