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F Word: Iowa is not the Twitterverse

Iowa is not the Twitterverse   It was a balmy 70 degrees in New York City last Saturday, and the excited green croci began tipping through the earth. Now, that same ground is icy, and those...

Appropriate Be Damned

About Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Staceyann Chin has just published her first anthology of poems. She has been featured on Broadway, HBO, and Russell Simmons’ "Def Poetry Jam" and her latest one woman...

Touretteshero Does Becket

Touretteshero Does Beckett About This Episode Laura interviews British comedian and activist Jess Thom about her performance of Samuel Beckett’s play “Not I.” Thom’s work reveals how neurodiversity makes theater, society—everything!—richer.  From Public Theater listing: "Jess Thom has Tourettes,...

Iowa Media Back To The Future – F Word

In the first week of February, every four years, coastal correspondents decamp to Iowa to cover the first-in-the nation nominating contest. Face-to-face, caucus by caucus, what the state lacks in demographics, it makes up...

Raising Vibrations Against Gender-Based Violence

Prefer to Listen? In this episode, Laura interviews world-renowned playwright Eve Ensler and singer/songwriter Taína Asili about One Billion Rising 2020, a global movement to stop gender-based violence against women and girls by organizing public...

Okwui Okpokwasili: Body Power

Okwui Okpokwasili: Body Power About This Episode Can dance and song offer insight into a performer's experience, even across race and gender? In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her...

Revolution in Lebanon: The Creative Frontlines

Revolution in Lebanon: From the Creative Frontlines Since October 2019, demonstrators have flooded the streets of Lebanon as part of a grassroots movement against corruption, climate denial, big finance, and government failure. Civil society organizations...

Forward Thinking on Covid-19: Lebanon

Forward Thinking on Covid-19: Lebanon         SUPPORT US and help us keep creating content like this. Become a member of our Patreon community   How does a revolution mobilize against the threat of Covid-19? In Lebanon, activists are...

The Hidden Sheroes of Film Editing

To download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player below. What are you watching? There’s a good chance it was edited by a woman. This time on the Laura...

The Future is Up For Grabs – F Word

The Future is Up for Grabs: F Word   To download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player above.     A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this...

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