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policing the boundaries of gender

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
for the Old Mole Variety Hour 31 August 2009 Earlier this month, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced that they will be verifying the gender of South African runner Caster Semenya, who won the women's 800-meter event at the Berlin Game... Read more

6th Annual Green Sprouts Organic Baby & Family Festival

Normal 0 KBOO is a proud media partner for the 6th Annual Green Sprouts Organic Baby & Family Festival What: Green Sprouts Organic Baby and Family Festival When: Sunday, Sept 25th, 10AM - 5PM Where: Peninsula Park - 700 N Rosa Parks Way Cost: Free Web site: www.GreenSprou... Read more

Portland Bands on WFMU's Beware of the Blog

More Portland bands than you could shake a stick at over at East Orange, New Jersey's WFMU blog:It's time for another heaping offering of mp3s from WFMU's Free Music Archive!  This time, we're going to Portland, OR. A few things I've learned about the city: Portlanders h... Read more

Was the Square Dance just a week ago?

Yes.  What a fun time it was; finishing up a successful membership drive made it all the sweeter. But the week went by quickly.  As much as I like hearing people talk about why KBOO is important to them and seeing that listeners care enough to donate money, it's been nic... Read more

Retiring

Last month, Shusli and I retired our program "Tillicum Wawa: Voices of the People." We did so to reduce stress and to manage our lives better. Our work, new home, and other things are not so easy to manage with worrying and stressing and doing our best to create the best... Read more

Tix left for Grey Gardens and Jennifer Higdon

Here's the latest Stage and Studio, a special one-hour features "Grey Gardens" at Portland Center Stage and Jennifer Higdon, the most performed composer in America, who's performing with Third Angle New  Music Ensemble.  Become a member online or add to your membership a... Read more

Press**Watch: Occupy!

Earlier this week I was watching the live stream of the Occupy Wall Street protest, and a fellow worker asked what it was all about, and I realized I needed to start at the beginning with him.  So I explained how the Occupy Wall Street protests had come about as a result... Read more

Juggling for voters waiting in line at the Multnomah County Elections Office


Audio Uploads Temporarily Disabled

Hold on to your audio for the time being until we resolve the errors people are receiving when trying to upload.  Update: audio uploads are working again. Read more

Digital Divide: Wade Davis, Juliane Assange Update, Ram Dass

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said his work "will not be cowed," as he promised the whistle-blowing site would release a million more documents.               In a speech from a balcony at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, he said the files to be published in 2013 wou... Read more