| Rose City zombies – join us today for Thrill the World, either in-person or online! We’ll be at Irving Park, NE 7th and Fremont in Portland (the park’s covered basketball court). You can also watch and dance along as we stream Thriller at facebook.com/thrilltheworldpdx — we’ll go live a bit after two pm. If you’re dancing at home, please leave a comment on our page or send us a message, so that we can include you in our official count! Our fb event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1680655222097707 Highlights: DJ Prashant hosts a world music dance party beginning at 2 pmBollywood Thrillers perform at 2:45 We’ll dance at 3 pm, followed by at least one reprise Donations are welcome; all proceeds go to KBOO Radio We’ll coördinate social distancing for the dance; please wear a mask. Spectators, help everyone out by staying six feet apart. Shamon, Thrillers – thanks for making this happen every year! Thanks to Sarah, Paul, Prashant, and everyone who helps us Thrill. |
Preference, tonight!
Tonight, we’ll be listening to the syndicated program Making Contact. Today’s program is on intersex issues, both medical and personal, and gender identity concerns.
We’ll hear a poetry clip from Candy Royalle, Australian queer poet and artist who died earlier this year. You can read a fuller bio here, at her site.
Next, we’ll hear a song performed by the Portland Lesbian Choir. The choir performs at The Grotto this Thursday, a performance that has some Catholics uneasy. We hope you’ll travel out to The Grotto and hear these wonderful singers in person. Choir director Mary McCarty will be on hand to talk with us.
We’ll listen to “Santa Bear” by Fake Zappa, aka local artist Jason T. Ingram. Jason has sat in with us on Preference in the past, to talk about his experience in conversion therapy in the South, some years ago, and his recovery from the trauma it caused him.
De l’Amour, a new track performed by dozens of French artists, has just been released. The haunting and beautiful melody translates into English as ‘Of Love’ and tells the story of gay refugee Azamat; who was the first refugee the charity helped escape persecution in his home country. All proceeds from its sales will go to French charity Urgence Homophobie (Emergency Homophobia).
Finally, we’ll listen to This Way Out, a syndicated program covering national and international LGBTQ issues..
We stream live at kboo.fm ~ and we’re live on the air in the Portland area, at 90.7 fm.
Intro music on today’s show is ‘Spacer,’ by Sheila & B Devotion.
Israeli pinkwashing propaganda returns to Portland; and LGBTQ perspectives on Uhuru solidarity with African liberation.
Preference, on KBOO Community Radio, Tuesday October 9th:
To ‘celebrate’ National Coming Out Day, A Wider Bridge and the Oregon Jewish Museum are bringing trans former Israeli Defense Force soldier Ofer Erez to Portland for a conversation. According to the Oregon Jewish Museum: “At a time when some of our own decision makers are calling trans military service into question, Ofer provides a much-needed voice for our LGBTQ advocacy here at home.” Eva Aaronson will join me to discuss what it means when local organizations line up with Israel to promote pinkwashing (the Israeli campaign to use queer and trans people to distract from its anti-Palestinian atrocities), as well as the implicit pro-military rhetoric attached to this event.
In the second half of the hour, we’ll be joined by Mads Ambrose and Jackson Hollingsworth, to discuss LGBTQ perspectives on Uhuru Solidarity with the liberation principles of the African People’s Socialist Party.
Mads Ambrose is the chair of Uhuru Solidarity Movement Portland chapter and The Reparations Challenge under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party. Jackson Hollingsworth is the membership coordinator of St. Petersburg, Florida’s Uhuru Solidarity Movement chapter and the international project director for Days of Reparations to African People. Both Mads and Jackson have presented on why the white queer and trans people owe reparations and should be in solidarity with African liberation.
Uhuru Solidarity Movement hosts the film Concerning Violence on October 23rd, and the Day of Reparations to African People on November 13th.
Here’s video from a 2017 talk by Hollingsworth, ‘White LGBT Solidarity with Black Power: No Pride in Genocide.’
Music on this program:
Sheila & B. Devotion – Spacer (Extended Rework Stevo’s Spaced Out DUB Edit)
Join us! 6 pm Pacific, streaming at kboo.fm
Tomorrow’s Preference: LGBT Books to Prisoners, and author Robert Glück
We’ll be spending time today with Cabell Gathman (PhD, Sociology), an organizer of LGBT Books to Prisoners. LGBT Books to Prisoners is “a donation-funded, volunteer-run organization based in Madison, WI that sends books and other educational materials, free of charge, to incarcerated LGBTQ people across the United States. We have been doing this for over 10 years and have sent books to over 8,000 people in that time.”
Later in the hour, author Robert Glück will be joining us by telephone. Glück will be in town for a reading with other authors this Saturday at Ford Food & Drink, organized by The Switch Reading Series.
Poetry Magazine summarizes his work thus:
Narrative movement in San Francisco in the early 1980s. Glück’s experimental work—typically prose—infuses L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E theory with queer, feminist, and class-based discourse while exploring issues of autobiography and self. In his essay “Long Note on New Narrative,” which appeared in Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (2004), Glück stated, “We were thinking about autobiography; by autobiography we meant daydreams, nightdreams, the act of writing, the relationship to the reader, the meeting of flesh and culture, the self as collaboration, the self as disintegration, the gaps, inconsistencies and distortions, the enjambments of power, family, history and language.”
Glück’s poetry includes the collection Reader (1989) and, with Bruce Boone, the collaboration La Fontaine (1981). His fiction includes the story collection Denny Smith (2003) and the novels Jack the Modernist (1995) and Margery Kempe (1994).
He’s also published a collection of essays called Communal Nude; the essays deliver short takes on the intricacies of working with the topics mentioned above.
Music on this program:
Sheila & B. Devotion – Spacer (Extended Rework Stevo’s Spaced Out DUB Edit)
and possibly:
Alison Moyet – Other
Talking with Charlene Carruthers, author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Today, 6 pm – Alyssa Pariah and I will be talking with Charlene Carruthers, author of the new book Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Also, it’s pledge drive time – a fab opportunity to become a KBOO member, and help make community radio possible!
Also, we’ll check in with frequent guest Sasha Buchert, who works with Lambda Legal in DC. Join us live at kboo.fm, 6 pm Pacific.
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