Bread and Roses
Bread & Roses is a collective of women offering quality feminist public affairs programming. Like KBOO, Bread & Roses places an emphasis on providing a forum for unpopular, controversial and neglected issues.
The Bread and Roses Collective is open to all women.
We strive for programming excellence and collaborative efforts, providing access and training to women.
We also strive to have fun.
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Desiree Helleger: No Room on her own
Desiree Hellegers is Co-Director of the Center for Social and Environmental Justice, Associate Chair and Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver. She is an active member of various advocacy organizations and her writing has appeared in such publications as Counterpunch.
Her book "No Room of Her Own- Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance" is an oral history collection and brings together interviews with fifteen women who share the common experience of homelessness. All the interviews were conducted in Seattle, Washington between 1991 and 2008, but the women's stories zigzag across the country. The narrators recount stories of growing up in the south at the tail end of Jim Crow, of growing up gay and Black in the Pacific Northwest in the 1960s, and of surviving childhood molestation in Harlan, Kentucky in the 1970s. The stories illuminate the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness. They speak to the physical stresses of homelessness, and the toll it takes on bodies already weakened by high blood pressure, strokes, sickle cell anemia, and epilepsy and the routine threats of physical violence that homeless women in particular encounter on the street. At the same time, however, the stories challenge liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular, as vulnerable and dependent people worthy perhaps of sympathy but judged to be socially disorganized, disaffiliated and disempowered.
- Title: No Room of her own, an interview with Desiree Hellegers
- Year: 2012
- Producer: Bread and Roses - Gabi Ross
- Length: 53:50 minutes (73.94 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
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Toxic Beauty
The popularity of nail salons and beauty spas is very high. But how much of the beauty we buy is toxic? And what are the work conditions like behind the aroma-therapeutic fog?
A conversation with Lisa Fu, Program Director for the Californian Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative. She introduces us to the mostly immigrant women who work in the salons, to their work conditions and to the toxic substances both they and their customers are exposed to. We explore what can be done to improve that reality.
We also discuss the conditions in the local Aveda-branded Dosha salons and spas. Madelyn Elder, President of Communications Workers of America Local 7901, talks about violations of federal labor law and the response by the owner and management when workers decided to unionize. We also visit Aveda Beauty Schools.
- Title: Toxic Beauty
- Year: 2012
- Producer: Bread and Roses - Gabi Ross
- Length: 56:04 minutes (77 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
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Portland Lesbian Choir, 25 years of community activism!
Portland Lesbian Choir members Sparky, Kai and Cindy remember the early years of the choir and its accomplishments over the years. They describe their exciting upcoming 25th anniversary concert celebration and after-party: Don't Stop Believing! Finally they discuss Oregon's fights around LGBTQ rights and recent national victories.
For more information about the choir and their celebration concert visit www.plchoir.org
Hosted by Delphine Criscenzo
- Year: 2012-06-16T23:07:42-07:00
- Length: 51:18 minutes (117.44 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 320Kbps (CBR)
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Koreen Brown on culturally responsive and relevant instructional practices.
Koreen Brown discusses the importance of providing cultural and racial equity to Portland Public School's students experiencing significant mental health concerns as well as the findings of her academic research on Mexican American males counter stories of educational success.
Koreen is a vice principal for Portland Public School's Dart Program or Day and Residential Treatment Program where she is a strong advocate and leader for racial equity. She is also a doctoral student at Lewis and Clark College in the Educational Leadership for Social Justice Program. Her research is on the Mexican American adolescent males counter stories.
Hosted by Delphine Criscenzo.
Contact Koreen Brown with questions or comments at kbrown2@pps.net
- Year: 2012-06-08T20:49:33-07:00
- Length: 55:16 minutes (126.5 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 320Kbps (CBR)
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Atkinson School Undergoing Budget Cuts! Hear from Community Activits
Atkinson School, one of many Portland Public Schools is suffering from fund cuts for 2 and half position for next year. Listen to community organizers Kim Heron, Diana Cameron, Savannah Paz, Carissa Harrison and Constance San Juan about the actions parents, teachers and community memebers are taking to save their children's education.
Back in February the city of Philadelphia's school system announced the closing of 40 public school to be replaced by privately owned private and charter schools by 2017. This announcement received very little to no coverage by the local or national media. It appears that this pattern is not new and is repeating itself all over the nation. Here in Portland, Atkinson elementary school and its students and families are protesting Portland Public School's budget cuts.
More info about how to get involved at http://www.atkinsonelementarypta.org/
- Year: 2012-05-26T15:55:11-07:00
- Length: 51:04 minutes (116.88 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 320Kbps (CBR)
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Portland Home birth Families & She Inspires 365
In honor of International Midwife Day on 5/5/12, Bread and Roses hosts PDX Homebirth Families to talk about Out of hospital birth options. We also spoke with photographer Andrea Leoncavallo about her photo project She Inspires 365.
- Title: Portland Home birth Families & She Inspires 365
- Date: 2005
- Year: 2012
- Length: 45:11 minutes (62.06 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
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Dr. Laila Amine on Arab immigration and Race relations in France
Dr. Laila Amine on Arab immigration and race relations in France. Bread and Roses' host Del Criscenzo asks Laila, her compatriot, about the history of French Imperialism and Arab immigration to France. They discuss racism and race relations in their country as well as Maghrebi literature and its contributions to denouncing historical silencing. Laila Amine specializes in twentieth-century African American and African Diaspora literature with particular interest in comparative race and ethnic studies. Her current project, Algerian Paris: Belonging beyond Diaspora uncovers how the Algerian war (1954-1962) and its legacies shaped representations of a transnational Paris in African American, French, and Maghrebi cultural texts. Laila Amine was born in Brest, France in 1977. Her parents emigrated from Morocco in the mid 1960s. Her father worked in the building industry. After studying English at the Université Victor Segalen, she lived in Luton, England and Santa Barbara California, before starting her graduate studies at Indiana University. She is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Hosted and Produced by Delphine Criscenzo
- Title: Laila Amine
- Year: 2012-04-15T16:32:02-07:00
- Length: 54:16 minutes (124.19 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 320Kbps (CBR)
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Walidah Imarisha on the history of Blacks in Oregon and race relations in the United States
Walidah Imarisha on the history of Blacks in Oregon and race relations in the United States. Samantha Taylor and Del Criscenzo ask Walidah about the peculiar history of African Americans in Oregon and Portland and openly talk about the "isms" that continue to impact our society. Walidah is a historian, a reporter, a poet, a spoken word artist, a documentary film maker, a writer and a community organizer. She teaches for the Black Studies department at Portland State University and in the Women’s Studies Department at Oregon State University. This Spring term you can take her class on the History of the Black Panther Party at PSU, and a class on race, gender and empire in Disney films at OSU. Walidah has written a multitude of essays on the issue of race and race relations, on Hip Hop as well on relevant topics impacting the Black community. She is also a performer and part of the poetry duo called Good Sista, Bad Sista. Lastly she is a member of Decolonize PDX, which is a Portland based collective of radical people of color.
Hosted by Delphine Criscenzo and Samantha Taylor
Produced by Delphine Criscenzo
- Title: Walidah Amarisha
- Year: 2012-04-06T21:10:07-07:00
- Length: 65:07 minutes (149.03 MB)
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Erika Wurth, Native poet and professor, on "Indian Trains"
Native Poet Erika Wurth discusses her first collection of poems Indian Trains. Bread and Roses' host Del Criscenzo interviewed Erika a year ago after one of her poetry readings in Bloomington, IN. Erika T. Wurth is Apache, Chickasaw and Cherokee. She was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Colorado between Idaho Springs and Evergreen, although she has lived different places off and on. Her work, both poetry and fiction, has appeared in Raven Chronicles, Fiction, Cedar Hill Review, AMCRJ, and SAIL. She teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. She talks with Del about her art, her identiy as an artist, and reads some poems from Indian Trains and her new collection not yet published.
- Year: 2012-03-16T20:17:53-07:00
- Length: 40:04 minutes (91.71 MB)
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Natasha Kmeto, Female electro- Hip Hop Singer/Producer
Natasha Kmeto is an electro hip-hop, singer-producer based in Portland, OR. With a rich musical background in jazz, r&b, electronic and hip-hop she likes to describe her music as “futuristic soul.” She sat with Bread and Roses' host Del Criscenzo and talked about her music and her new album released a few weeks ago, "The Ache". A female artist in the predominantly male world of electronic music, Natasha epresses her thoughts about bringing new perspectives to the genre. For more info about Natasha Kmeto or access to her music visit http://www.natashakmeto.com/
- Year: 2012-03-07T19:56:49-08:00
- Length: 31:24 minutes (71.87 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 48kHz 320Kbps (CBR)
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