Breakthroughs in Cancer, Viagra for Women, 5 Classic Songs
1. Genetic Testing Offers New Hope for Cancer Treatment | 2. 'Campus Cover-Up' Goes Inside Sexual Assault Hearings | 3. FDA to Consider ‘Viagra for Women’ | 4. The Surprising Origins of 5 Classic Songs
View ArticleIs 'Female Viagra' What Women Want?
Yesterday an FDA advisory panel approved what would be the first drug ever to address low sexual desire in women. But Dr. Leonore Tiefer, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at New York...
View ArticleSmoking or Non?
Host Brian Balogh chats with legal historian Sarah Milov, about how both Big Tobacco and the anti-smoking lobby have breathed the language of civil rights. This segment comes from our show "Balancing...
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A Sex-Positive Magazine For Women Has Arrived
Click on the audio player above to hear this story.“Sex So Hot You’ll Need to Crank the A.C.!”“Oh My Goddess! The Sex Move He Will Worship You For.”These are just a couple of the racy headlines that...
View ArticleDress Doctors
Historian Linda Przybyszewski talks with Ed Ayers about professors of home economics in the first half of the 20th century, who taught their students to use principles of art and design in their...
View ArticleHolland Taylor Steps Off Her Island
Actress Holland Taylor has played roles like Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice, an ad executive in Bosom Buddies, and the emotionally distant mother Evelyn Harper on Two and a Half Men. She's...
View ArticleWait, You're Into [Insert Kink] Too?!
We know, you use your phones everywhere. At work. When you're with your kids. Underneath the table. In the bathroom (admit it – and special thanks to listener Andrew Conkling for the warning on that...
View ArticleKatie Couric Takes Congress' Temperature; Sexuality and Teenage Girls Today;...
Coming up on today's show:Yahoo News global anchor Katie Couric talks about her roundtable discussion with congressional Republicans about the Trump candidacy and where their party is headed.In the...
View ArticleGood-Bye Gidget: Sex and Teen Girls Today
Peggy Orenstein, contributing writer to New York Times Magazine, author of Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape (Harper, 2016), goes beyond the moral panic and hype through...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Jane Sanders on the Campaign, Shirley Chisholm’s...
A few of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Jane Sanders on the Campaign (First) | Shirley Chisholm’s Presidential Dreams (Starts at 44:03) | Talking to Teen Girls About...
View ArticleAfter Orlando, LQBTQ Muslims Offer Solidarity, Seek Acceptance
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.Regulars at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida have reported that Omar Mateen, the shooter who killed 49 people at the venue on June 5th, was a...
View ArticleUganda Pride celebrations are marred by arrests, violence and threats
“So many people are living in fear. The community right now is in panic.”
View ArticleOne of London's oldest gay bars is pouring its last pint
The bar is over a century old, and has been part of London's gay community since about the 1920s.
View ArticleGay marriage is legal in Mexico, but Mexicans are still fighting over whether...
Legally speaking, the argument is pretty much settled: Gay marriage is allowed in Mexico. But the politics surrounding the issue are still in turmoil.
View ArticleComing out as bisexual when you're Muslim and married
“I’m bisexual,” I said into the microphone, “and I’m married to a man. That’s not an erasure....”
View ArticleHow Sexual Coercion and Rape Culture Surfaced in the 2016 Election
Author and contributing writer to The New York Times MagazinePeggy Orenstein talks about the feminist response to Donald Trump and the sexual assault allegations, as well as rape culture and her recent...
View ArticleBarry Jenkins and Naomie Harris on 'Moonlight'
Director Barry Jenkins and actress Naomie Harris join us to discuss their film, “Moonlight” about a young man dealing with a dysfunctional home life and a drug-addicted mother (Harris) as he’s coming...
View ArticleFor some Colombian guerrilla fighters, the rebels offered an escape
Unlike other wars, as many as 40 percent of the Colombian guerrilla forces are women. Many join the ranks to seek protection.
View ArticleColombian war victims struggle to find justice. For a while, this girl only...
Research shows that in post-conflict countries where women are recognized as victims and awarded justice, peace is more likely to last. But as Colombia tentatively moves towards peace, how much justice...
View ArticleAmericans don safety pins in solidarity with minorities after election
There should be an embedded item here. Please visit the original post to view it.In the wave of reactions to Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president of the U.S., safety pins have taken on a new...
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