05/08/2005       [ Listen to the whole show]

Show Introduction - Ben Adair
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Goose
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Raised by "two moms," Goose discovered that being masculine or feminine has nothing to do with whether you are a man or a woman. Queena goes back to Legend's Barbershop to talk to Goose about the auntie who raised him.

Heathen
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"Heathen" is the nom de plume of a Bay Area blogger who commenced "The Man Project" when she injected herself with one high dose of the male hormone testosterone. The result? Not exactly "man for a day," but definitely not the usual Heathen, either.

Exene Cervenka
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Not many rock-n-roll bands have the kind of male/female creative partnership that Exene Cervenka and John Doe have achieved in the band X. Exene talks about that relationship and poses this question: after all these years, why are we still stuck on the subject of "Women in Rock."

The Woman's Building Remembered
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In the 1970s, there was little room for women in rock, women in literature and women in art. Here in Los Angeles, artist Judy Chicago, art historian Arlene Raven, and graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville set out to change that by creating the woman's building Part educational program, part cultural institution, the Woman's Building was instrumental in creating a new concept of art. That is, art as means for political change.

Suicide Girls
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Back in the 1970s, feminist railed against nudie magazines as forms of male oppression. These days such pics are a source of women's empowerment Web sites like Suicide Girls, which feature Punk Rock and Goth pin-up girls. "Missy Suicide" says that much more has changed. She says her site is a place where women can forge their own identities. Ben visits with "Missy Suicide" and Katie and Pearl.

Music Break: Word Up
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by Willis from compilation Rewind Number Four

Sam Stern
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Writer and pornographer Sam Stern closes the show by offering an unsettling but oddly thought-provoking answer to the question: just how far have we come in changing perceptions of feminine sexuality? Ben talks to Sam about his time in the heterosexual porn industry.

Song Break: Jayne's Blue Wish
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by Tom Waits from the Soundtrack to the movie Big Bad Love

Closing
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Closing thoughts and credits