Recent Audio

  This week on Prison Pipeline, co-host Emma Lugo brings listeners a roundup of important stories shaping the prison pipeline in Oregon and beyond. Tune in Monday, March 9 at 6:30 pm on KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM in Portland, or streaming online at kboo.fm. This week... Read more

Fortunato returns with more music, and humor. Lots of great artists featured to day. Teddy Wilson, Herbie Mann, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Burrell, Booker T Jones, Ray Bryant, Vince Guaraldi, Carl Perkins, Duke Ellington, Nan Wynn, Eddie Andrews, The Beatles, Dan Hicks and m... Read more

We often think of the Willamette River as a scenic backdrop for recreation, but for many, it is a site of "slow violence". On this episode of Locus Focus, Dr. Vivek Shandas of Portland State University explores how the harbor’s industrial legacy—a "toxic graveyard" of W... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts this International Women’s Day show which features a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. Whether it’s basketball, billiards, or table tennis, sports in the U.S are segregated by sex. And most of the time those divisions are taken to be natural, ... Read more

Sea shanties and sea songs have been getting a lot of attention recently, partly because they are sturdy songs that can be sung with gusto. Any number of people can sing them together, and spontaneous harmonies just add to the richness of the singing experience. This epi... Read more

In honor of International Women's Day, relax and enjoy this curated show of amazing queer music created by transgender women! "cis" is short for cisgender, describing a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth. Transgender describes a person... Read more

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This is a rebroadcast for International Women's Day, which originally aired in 2005. Jean Shinoda Bolen talks about her book Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World. Jean is a Jungian analyst, psychiatrist and clinical professor at the University of ... Read more

  Host Ras Danny Fallon shares 3 hours of Women’s Voices in Reggae  (covering releases from the period mid March 2025 to mid March 2026).  Sisters singing songs of Resistance, Praise, Love, Justice, Resilience and more!  Read more

To celebrate International Women's Day weekend, tune in to the Motif for a conversation with three extraordinary women about their respective work. Ms Meera Norris 4:30 pm (shares work as curator, producer of art show, gallery exhibits, aesthetics as change agent) Mad... Read more