Cleve Jones: “When We Rise”

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_180609F.mp3 Show #205 | A rebroadcast of our December 17, 2016 show | From longtime activist Cleve Jones comes a sweeping, beautifully written memoir about a full and remarkable American life. Jones brings to life the magnetic spell cast by 1970’s San Francisco, the drama and heartbreak of the AIDS crisis and the vibrant generation of gay men lost to it, and his activist work on labor, immigration, and gay rights, which continues today.     Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. As did thousands of young gay people, Jones moved to San Francisco in the early ’70s, nearly penniless, finding a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual liberation. Jones met lovers, developed intense friendships, and found his calling in “the movement.” Jones dove into politics and activism, taking an internship in the office of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who became...
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Jewelle Gomez: “The Gilda Stories”

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_180602F.mp3 Show #204 | A rebroadcast of our November 19, 2016 show | Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler’s Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez’s sexy vampire novel. This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who “shares the blood” by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story. The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) THE GILDA STORIES is a very American odyssey. The 2016 anniversary edition has a new forward by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, one of UTNE Reader’s 50 Visionaries Transforming the World,...
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Robert Sapolsky “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Worst and Best”

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_180519F.mp3 Show #203 | May 19, 2018 | Robert Sapolsky – a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford. He’s the author of several books including Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst and Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers....
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Brian Dear: The Friendly Orange Glow

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_171216W_dear.mp3 Show #202 | December 16, 2017 | Before Facebook, before Apple - before even the Web itself - a small group of researchers and students created a digital community that's all but forgotten. Created as an educational tool, the PLATO system - like the internet decades later - broke out of its prescribed limits and took on its own life. Messaging communities, computer games, even online social protest have their roots in this handful of monitors casting their "friendly orange glow" on the faces of this select few. Brian Dear interviewed dozens of them to get this special chapter of modern history in writing before it blinked out of memory. ...
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Sally Kohn: The Opposite of Hate

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_180505W_kohn.mp3 Show # 201 | Admit it: in this new world of bilious political warfare, you've said at least one thing you regret. Incivility is catching.     Long-time political commentator Sally Kohn found herself doing the same thing. She stopped to wonder: where does civic ugliness come from - and what does it cost? When we're all emotionally invested in our points of view, can it be stemmed?     She took on a worldwide trek to find out. She's talked to scientists and researches, terrorists, trolls, and hate groups. She has success stories of people who walked away from hate. From all those avenues, she derives workable steps to getting ahead of the damage incivility can wreak.     Sally Kohn is a familiar face from Fox and CNN. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, New York Magazine, USA Today, and Time. She also works as a communications consultant and was previously a campaign strategist for the Center for Community Change, a fellow...
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April 11, 2018, Morgan Jerkins: This Will Be My Undoing

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_180421W_jerkins.mp3 Blogger and essayist Morgan Jerkins takes on the stew of racism, misogyny, and white-dominated feminism that sidelines American black women. Her book This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America details her own coming of age in a series of sharp and fearless essays. With Angie, she discusses the exciting but treacherous world of writing; the gift of having a mom who encouraged her sexual autonomy; and the bizarre tale of Rachel Dolezal. Morgan Jerkins is a writer and contributing editor at Catapult.co, where she write the essay series To Be Seen and Unseen. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Elle, Rolling Stone, and BuzzFeed. This Will Be My Undoing is her first book. Use the code snippet below to embed this podcast on your site...
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Deborah Rhode: Does Honesty Still Matter?

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_180414W_ethics.mp3 When you strip away the extremes, what is America's relationship with honesty? We're past believing that anyone is purely honest. And a quick vacation from reading the news can allay the despair that everyone is lying all the time. So what's the reality?     Ethics and justice icon Deborah Rhode of Stanford University tackled this huge topic in her book Cheating: Ethics in Everyday Life. We've expanded on that to create an hour's conversation from multiple perspectives: Deborah's deep knowledge plus: the view from the education world, with counselor and therapist Nina Keebler; and from the business world, with noted scholar and ethics consultant Michael Santoro. Deborah Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, the director of the Center on the Legal Profession, and the director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. Among her dozens of accolades for her legal work, scholarship, and books is the White House’s Champion of Change Award, for her life's work...
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Jennifer Berger, Executive Director, About Face

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_180331W_berger.mp3 Naomi Wolff's The Beauty Myth made waves in 1990. Since then the push for realistic depictions of girls and women - and the work to help them disengage from media messaging - has been nonstop. How far have we come? About-Face in San Francisco has bolstered the knowledge and confidence of young women for over twenty years. Listen to Angie's discussion with About-Face Executive Director Jennifer Berger, and learn the incisive, insightful workings of this critical campaign. Use the code snippet below to embed this podcast on your site...
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March 23, 2018, Clayton Nall

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_180407W_nall.mp3 The 1956 National Interstate and Defense Highways Act inaugurated the greatest public works project in American history. It's for the most part highly acclaimed, creating unprecedented mobility for the average American. Clayton Nall, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford, has a different take. He's pored over databases and archives to discover the deeper effects of the modern highway system - its creation, he says, increased the urban-suburban political divide and aggravated uneven access to basic services and resources. The effects are still surfacing today partisan battles over transportation and infrastructure. How do we fix - or at least compensate for - a system that's literally cemented in? Use the code snippet below to embed this podcast on your site<audio src="http://indeepradio.com/urls/17" type="audio/mp3" controls="controls"></audio>...
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