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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastBrenda's Resistance Playlist (w/ Brenda Shaughnessy)We're talking resistance, joy, and queer communities with Brenda Shaughnessy!Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTES:Click here for Brenda’s Queer Resistance Playlist 2025 (Spotify).Check out Brenda's poem "Panopticon" from Interior with Sudden Joy.Visit Brenda Shaughnessy’s website . And hear her read from her newest book, Tanya here. Read more about UC Santa...2025-03-2453 min
The BabbleryRiding the waves of feminism: A conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker“We need to get away from the violence in our speech and try to develop one filled with loving kindness, filled with compassion, filled with a vision of justice that’s not vengeful.” These are the words of Bettina Aptheker, noted feminist scholar who is often described as a “radical” feminist. In conversation about her life, […]2024-03-2500 min
KPFA - Against the GrainHansberry and HayTo be queer and communist at a time when the Communist Party in the U.S. banned LGBT people was tricky and often perilous. In her new book Bettina Aptheker profiles Lorraine Hansberry (who famously penned the play “A Raisin in the Sun”), Harry Hay (best known for founding the Mattachine Society), and other figures with radical sensibilities and closeted sexualities. (Encore presentation.)
Bettina Aptheker, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s Routledge, 2023
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2023-09-1159 min
KPFA - Against the GrainQueer CommunistsTo be queer and communist at a time when the Communist Party in the U.S. banned LGBT people was tricky and often perilous. In her new book Bettina Aptheker profiles Lorraine Hansberry (who famously penned the play “A Raisin in the Sun”), Harry Hay (best known for founding the Mattachine Society), and other figures with radical sensibilities and closeted sexualities.
Bettina Aptheker, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s Routledge, 2023
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2023-06-0659 min
Why Now? A Political Junkie PodcastEpisode 25: Lavender and RedBorn in Kansas City, Leslie Feinberg was raised in a working-class, Jewish home and realized early on that ze was what we would now call gender fluid. Feinberg identified as lesbian and trans, experiencing decades of violence and rejection from peers, family, the police, and even some feminists because of a physical appearance and self that confounded gender norms. But Feinberg also found a home in blue-collar communities, where ze developed a worldview based on radical resistance to all injustice everywhere. Hir journey is fictionalized in a classic 1993 novel, Stone Butch Blues.But Feinberg also represents a v...2023-06-0240 min
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s by Bettina ApthekerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668826to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s
Author: Bettina Aptheker
Narrator: Ann Sprinkle
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Release date: May 9, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as 'degenerates.' It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this sixty-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in...2023-05-091h 33
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s by Bettina ApthekerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s Author: Bettina Aptheker Narrator: Ann Sprinkle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as 'degenerates.' It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this sixty-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as...2023-05-0930 minListen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s by Bettina ApthekerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668826to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s
Author: Bettina Aptheker
Narrator: Ann Sprinkle
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Release date: May 9, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as 'degenerates.' It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this sixty-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in...2023-05-091h 33
Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s by Bettina ApthekerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s Author: Bettina Aptheker Narrator: Ann Sprinkle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as 'degenerates.' It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this sixty-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as...2023-05-0930 min
Unlock the Power of Words With Our Captivating Full AudiobookCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s1990s Audiobook by Bettina ApthekerListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 668826
Title: Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s1990s
Author: Bettina Aptheker
Narrator: Ann Sprinkle
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:33:08
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-23
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Non-Fiction, Global Politics, Social Science
Summary:
The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as 'degenerates.' It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this sixty-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives...2023-05-091h 33
noliesradioAgainst the Grain 2023-0408A women’s history-themed program featuring Bettina Aptheker on her efforts to assist Angela Davis and her turn toward feminism; Jennifer Guglielmo on Italian American women anarchists in New York City; and Manijeh Moradian on an Iranian women’s uprising amidst the revolutionary ferment of 1979.2023-04-0852 min
KPFA - Against the GrainInspired WomenA women’s history-themed program featuring Bettina Aptheker on her efforts to assist Angela Davis and her turn toward feminism; Jennifer Guglielmo on Italian American women anarchists in New York City; and Manijeh Moradian on an Iranian women’s uprising amidst the revolutionary ferment of 1979.
Bettina Aptheker, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel Seal Press, 2006
Jennifer Guglielmo, Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Manijeh Moradian, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the...2023-03-2859 min
KPFA - Womens MagazineBettina Aptheker on Communists in ClosetsThis Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we talk to feminist activist and scholar Bettina Aptheker and we have a special limited number of gift premiums available as an ebook of the new book by scholar and activist Bettina Aptheker which is called “Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s” “Communist in Closets”explores the overlooked and forgotten history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. This history is largely hidden because The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off...2022-12-1259 min
The Moon & Your MindEp 7: Values Based Business, the Power of Pain, and Being a Badass with Alex MufsonHosted by Chelsea Winter & Alyssa Rae we are focused on staying curious & building a community of empowered individuals. Today we are so excited to share our conversation with Alyssa’s boss, Alex Mufson! Alex is a CEO, founder, values based entrepreneur, licensed clinical social worker, and all around badass. Her passion is values based entrepreneurship and the intersection between values, mental health, and business. Alex is going to share about the power of pain, being gaslit in the medical industrial complex, getting ghosted by her husband of 12 years, being a fierce force in the mental health field, and...2022-12-061h 22
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceIf They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. DavisPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498432to listen full audiobooks.
Title: If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance
Author: Angela Y. Davis
Narrator: David Sadzin, Janina Edwards
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Release date: March 30, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power. One of America's most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and...2021-03-3010h 13
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceIf They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. DavisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance Author: Angela Y. Davis Narrator: David Sadzin, Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power. One of America's most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis...2021-03-3030 min
Access Must-Have Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsIf They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. DavisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance Author: Angela Y. Davis Narrator: David Sadzin, Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power. One of America's most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin...2021-03-3030 minAccess Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsIf They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. DavisPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498432to listen full audiobooks.
Title: If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance
Author: Angela Y. Davis
Narrator: David Sadzin, Janina Edwards
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Release date: March 30, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power. One of America's most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to...2021-03-3010h 13
Get Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsRadicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion by David HorowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion Author: David Horowitz Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 25, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Radical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian social engineering leads, ironically, to greater human suffering. From Karl Marx to Barack Obama, Horowitz shows how the idealistic impulse to make the world a better place gives birth to the twin cultural pathologies of cynicism and nihilism and is the chief source of human suffering. A former...2012-09-2503 min
UC Santa Cruz (Video)Intimate Politics: A RoundtableA distinguished panel of scholar-activists gather to reflect on Bettina Aptheker’s memoir - Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel - the historical movement she recounts and the broader political issues raises by this intimate history of left activism. Panelists include Johnetta Cole, Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins and Blanche Wiesen Cook. Series: "The Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz presents" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13166]2007-10-011h 22UC Santa Cruz (Audio)Intimate Politics: A RoundtableA distinguished panel of scholar-activists gather to reflect on Bettina Aptheker’s memoir - Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel - the historical movement she recounts and the broader political issues raises by this intimate history of left activism. Panelists include Johnetta Cole, Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins and Blanche Wiesen Cook. Series: "The Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz presents" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13166]2007-10-011h 22