History

25sd_1678_x_281.png

queer_joy_fest_banner_0.png

OFK #49 - 90's Lo-fi Rage - Slap A Ham / Pessimiser Records deep dive

Airs at: Sat, 06/07/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Oil For Kisses
Back in a time when records were cheap and easy to produce, and underground extreme hardcore and sludge were the furthest thing from commercially viable, Slap A Ham Records and Pessimiser Records started in California as places for wide-ranging, raw, filth-ridden rage. T... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 9, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The backlash against trans people, which has swept both the United States and the world in recent years, is not as new as it seems, according to historian  Jules Gill-Peterson. She traces the emergence of trans misogynistic violence over the last two centuries, which ... Read more

Radical Musicology: Black Power & Soul (archive)

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In this archive segment, Clayton Morgareidge talks with musicologist Brad Duncan about soul music and the Black Power movement.   Image: "Stax Museum of American Soul Music" by tpholland  licensed under CC BY 2.0. Read more

Craig Thompson - Ginseng Roots

Airs at: Thu, 05/22/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Craig Thompson burst onto the comics scene in 2003 with his graphic memoir Blankets, which won multiple Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz awards.  Blankets was followed up by the travelogue Carnet de Voyage, and the graphic novels Habibi and Space Dumplins. Now, Craig is ba... Read more

Karen A. Frenkel | Family Treasures Lost and Found

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2025 at 11:00pm - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Open Air
All Holocaust survivor stories are precious because of the unlikely odds of escaping the Nazi’s comprehensive onslaught, but many have never been investigated, told, or understood. In the new book, FAMILY TREASURES LOST & FOUND, journalist Karen A. Frenkel (a co-author ... Read more

BLM History

Produced for:  Radiozine
First, Elizaha talks about Martin Luther King JR and his life's work. We discuss the impact of MLK's death on America.  Next, Gabby talks about the celebration of Black History Month. Gabby emphasizes the need to come together and lift each other up rather than bring ea... Read more

Terry LaBan

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Terry LaBan is a comics writer and artist whose titles have included Unsupervised Existence, Cud Comics, and The Dreaming.  He’s collaborated with some of the top names in the alternative and mainstream comics industries, and he teamed up with his wife Patty to create... Read more

Arctic Passages

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries at the top of the world.  On this episode of Lo... Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 05/09/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
Casey Lowe, also known by some as their artist name kc lo, is a Portland, Oregon based artist whose mediums include mixed media drawing, painting, and poetry. Their visual subjects include expressive figure, self-portraiture, minimal line work, and a queer aesthetic and ... Read more

Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine Girl

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine Girl from Heliotrope Books. Nancy’s work has appeared in Newsweek, Hippocampus, The Big Smoke, Nailed magazine, the Timberline Review, Elephant Journal, and several anthologies. Sunshine Girl is... Read more