March: Her Story ♀
Private Investigator
—Erica Heilman
1 A private investigator and radio producer share skills: you ask questions, try to figure what happened, then make a report. (11:10)
Cancer Monologs
—Dmae Roberts
2 Three women, a Chicana, African American and Romanian immigrant, describe their different approaches to surviving breast cancer. (8:43)
Paintmixers
—damali ayo
3 A performance artist heads to hardware stores looking for paint in shades of dark brown… her own: face, inner thigh, left breast. (5:09)
Story of Stuff
—Chase Sbicca
4 Annie Leonard spent a decade researching where consumer stuff comes from, how it’s manufactured, who that effects, and where it ends up. (7:01)
Surrounded by Lights
—Erin Mishkin
5 A very busy day with Amy Jo, a single mother of two toddlers. Everyday she strives to fulfill the promise for a better life she made to her daughter. (6:46)
Jan and Jack Kerouac
—Marjorie Van Halteren
6 A father-daughter dialog: Jack Kerouac’s daughter Jan, reads her an ode to her rarely seen dad; intertwined with Kerouac’s speeches and prose. (6:04)
Kiss and Dying
—Ceil Muller
7 An etiquette list if hospital behavior, and misbehavior, for those who are dying, and for the soon-to-be survivors. (7:45)
Miracle on the Streets
—Dmae Roberts
8 Miracle Draven was a homeless girl on the streets of Portland, Oregon. She recounts a day in her life as a crystal meth addict. (2:25)
Off the Bus
—Carmen Delzell
9 Let off the bus form Mexico at 5 a.m., with $5 in her pocket, at the 24-hour supermarket in Texas. The producer wonders "What’s next?" (4:30)
Office Yoga
—Rebecca Flowers
10 A more realistic approach to spiritual awareness: yogo for oppressed office corporate clones (2:10)
Memory Box Project
—Sandra Rattley
11 African AIDS workers share the insides of "memory boxes," keepsakes for orphaned children to remember their parents. (4:10)
PNG Women
—Skye Rohde
12 Tradition and culture collide in Papua New Guinea, as women try to balance gender roles and having choices. (4:04)
Credits
- 1 "Private Investigator": Erica Heilman works with the Vermont Folklife Center.
- 2 "Cancer Monologs": Dmae Roberts produced this for MediaRites Productions.
- 3 "Paintmixers": Dmae Roberts produced this piece with damali ayo, an author and performance artist.
- 4 "Story of Stuff": Chase Sbicca works at Sports Management Worldwide; Annie Leonard runs The Story of Stuff Project.
- 5 "Surrounded by Lights": Erin Mishkin is Membership Director of The Association Of Independents In Radio.
- 6 "Jan and Jack Kerouac": Marjorie Van Halteren is at MarjorieVanHalteren.com.
- 7 "Kiss and Dying ": Ceil Muller is a KQED Technical Producer.
- 8 "Miracle on the Streets": Dmae Robert’s site is DmaeRoberts.com.
- 9 "Off the Bus": Carmen Delzell’s piece debuted at Transom.
- 10 "Office Yoga": Rebecca Flowers wrote the novel Nice To Come Home To.
- 11 "Memory Box Project": Sandra Rattley produced this with interviews from Bushradio of South Africa.
- 12 "PNG Women": Skye Rohde is a freelance reporter and producer living in Los Angeles.