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: A Conversation With 'Pose' Co-Creator Steven Canals
The groundbreaking show is set in the ballroom scene of 1987 New York City.
00:28:35 |
Fri 20 Jul 2018
Strange Fruit #251: Greeting Cards That Look Like Us
Otis Richardson was tired of going to the greeting card aisle and seeing row after row of smiling white couples. So he started making his own.
00:40:12 |
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Strange Fruit #250: Ricky Jones on James Baldwin (and Tucker Carlson)
Dr. Ricky Jones, from the University of Louisville, reflected on a James Baldwin quote in a recent column for the Courier-Journal. That got the attention of Fox News, and Jones appeared on Tucker Car…
00:39:27 |
Fri 06 Jul 2018
Strange Fruit #249: How Watermelons Became A Racist Trope
Historian Bill Black explains how watermelons became a racist trope. Plus a Carnegie Center exhibit tells the life story of Lucy Higgs Nichols, a formerly-enslaved woman who became a Civil War nurse.
00:31:15 |
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Strange Fruit #248: Darnell Moore's Memoir Tells The Story Of A Gay Black Survivor
The title comes from one of several life-threatening experiences retold in the book, and on this week's show.
00:37:46 |
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Strange Fruit #247: Matthew Charles, Rehabilitated Then Re-Incarcerated
Matthew Charles was convicted of seven charges related to the possession and sale of crack cocaine. This was in 1996, when the crack-to-cocaine ratio was still 100 to 1, meaning that selling one gram…
00:33:47 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Strange Fruit #246: Whose Job Is It To Make Sure Louisville Seniors Don't Live With Bedbugs?
Our colleague Jacob Ryan from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting was working on a story at Dosker Manor, a high-rise public housing complex in downtown Louisville.
As he interviewed res…
00:25:59 |
Sun 10 Jun 2018
Strange Fruit #245: Homegirl Box Delivers Women's History
Kaila just had a rough semester. Her students wouldn't do their reading and didn't seem to be paying much attention. She was feeling low.
Then she got a box in the mail packed with Audre-Lorde-them…
00:38:44 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
Strange Fruit #244: Reading Books, Living With Your Parents, Doing Your Civic Duty
We've all been busy this week, doing our civic duty. Not only was Tuesday Election Day, but Doc has been on jury duty all week! Her stories about the people she's met there bring up some questions ab…
00:45:58 |
Fri 25 May 2018
Strange Fruit 243: ‘Flying While Fat & Black’
Amber Phillips flies a lot, and she knows what can happen to people whose bodies don't fit perfectly in small airplane seats.
So when she sat down for a short flight from Raleigh-Durham to Washingto…
00:38:39 |
Wed 16 May 2018
Strange Fruit #242: White Guys Teaching White Guys To Be Less Racist
When we talk about racism and sexism, we often talk about women and people of color. But what does it mean to be an informed, empathetic, white man?
That's the question posed by a series of workshop…
00:39:15 |
Sat 12 May 2018
Strange Fruit 241: In Search Of Big Freedia
She's featured on Beyoncé's "Formation" and in Drake's song "Nice for What." You've heard her voice and most definitely heard her influence. But there's a good chance you don't know what Big Freedia …
00:39:39 |
Fri 04 May 2018
Strange Fruit #240: Juicy Fruit News Round-Up
It's almost Derby Week, and there's already a lot going on in Louisville! So this week, we're doing an all-Juicy-Fruit news round-up.
We cover Shania Twain putting her cowgirl boot in her mouth with…
00:46:48 |
Sat 28 Apr 2018
Strange Fruit #235: Mistress Velvet, The Dominatrix With A Syllabus
Chicago dominatrix Mistress Velvet did not intentionally build her practice around dominating white men. But she was living in a predominantly white part of North Carolina at the time, and most of th…
00:43:33 |
Fri 09 Mar 2018
Strange Fruit #234: Is The Black Barbershop A Safe Space For Queer Men?
It isn't unusual to see homoeroticism in hypermasculine spaces - like the locker room, the wrestling ring, or the military barracks. But what about the barbershop? It's a social and community hub and…
00:37:27 |
Fri 02 Mar 2018
Strange Fruit #233: DO NOT LISTEN UNTIL YOU'VE SEEN 'BLACK PANTHER'
Louisville photographer Sowande Malone joins us this week, because he doesn't just take pictures - he's also a huge comic book fan. Together we unpack all things "Black Panther," including how gender…
00:36:20 |
Fri 23 Feb 2018
Strange Fruit #232: A Conversation With Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's Mom
The 45th Dr. Joseph H. McMillan National Black Family Conference is happening in Louisville later this month, and this year's theme is "Elevating the Health and Safety of the Black Family and Communi…
00:33:51 |
Fri 16 Feb 2018
Strange Fruit #231: Art Show Imagines The Future As Female
What is after Earth for women? That's the question science fiction author Author Olivia A. Cole has in mind for her latest project, "Kindred: Making Space in Space." And unlike much of her previous w…
00:47:38 |
Sat 10 Feb 2018
Strange Fruit #230: Is There A "One-Drop Rule" Of Sexual Fluidity?
This week we talk to author and poet Kyla Jenee Lacey, whose essay, "Why I'm Open to Dating Bisexual Men," was published last month on The Root. At first glance, it might seen biphobic that we even n…
00:46:16 |
Sun 04 Feb 2018
Strange Fruit #229: Racial Trauma And Mental Health
It happens, to some extent, every single day. People of color are exposed to racism in many ways -- from watching footage of police shootings, to experiencing racism in our own communities. Psycholog…
00:45:58 |
Fri 26 Jan 2018
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