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Political analysts discuss the week in politics, including bills concerning gender at the statehouse, the debt ceiling and more.
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The names we are given, the names we choose and the names others choose to call us can carry a great deal of power. Experts discuss what names mean culturally, and Iowans share their name-changing stories.
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2022 recipient of the Iowa Author Award for Fiction Heather Gudenkauf discusses her writing. And an ISU graduate student from Iran discusses protests against the Iranian government and its treatment of women.
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After the murder of a Memphis woman while out for a run, we return to a 2018 episode, following the death of Mollie Tibbetts.
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The final episode of this eight part series features remarks from Iowa politician Minnette Doderer on two seperate occasions: once in 1970 and the other in 1982. In both instances she is forthright with reporters about how women, particularly political candidates, don’t receive the same news coverage as men.
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A conversation on beekeeping and an excerpt from the latest episode of IPR's From the Archives.
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In the 1970s, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Debates about the merits of the amendment raged across the country, including one in Iowa City in 1979. Phyllis Schlafly, the leader of the Stop ERA movement, debated the issue with Karen DeCrow, the former president of the National Organization for Women.
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An increasing number of young adults report not wanting children. Host Charity Nebbe speaks with filmmaker Therese Shechter, whose most recent documentary "examines what it means to say no to motherhood in a society that assumes all women want children, and an Iowa doctor witnessing a recent spike in the number of men seeking vasectomies. Also this hour, 9-year-old Matthew Lamb from Iowa City discusses his recent role on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building.
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The organization is focused on music education and performance for girls, transgender and nonbinary youth in Iowa.