Getting Out Alive: a harrowing account of one woman navigating for her life after being shot by her ex-partner The Book They Can’t Erase: the ‘jeli’ are keepers of stories in the African Mende tradition. Listen to this perspective of people who volunteered into slavery. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A series of multiple perspectives
The Dark Eyed Junko, the bird that marks the winter to some, sounds like a sewing machine.
Environmental Scientist and Climate Activist, Sarra Tekola says climate change can’t be addressed without addressing colonialism. Listen in on this breakdown of the structures that have led to our climate crisis. Producer: Jesse Callahan and Yuko Kodama Photo: Yuko Kodama Part One Host 0:00 KBCS music and ideas listener supported radio from Bellevue College.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Organization or WTO ministerial conference in Seattle. The WTO is an international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. Decisions made by unelected trade delegates at this conference impact the worldwide economy, working conditions and the environment. Leading up to the WTO ministerial, hundreds
Writer, Rasheena Fountain discusses what shapes our view and relationship with the environment with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama. Producer: Yuko Kodama Photo: Yuko Kodama
Tiffany Midge, of the Standing Rock Sioux nation, is a humorist and writer. Her latest book, Bury My Heart at Chuck E Cheese’s cuts into and wryly grins at our world and its microaggressions, through the indigenous lens. Producer – Yuko Kodama and Jesse Callahan Photo – Tiffany Midge
Join KBCS, the Bellevue College Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and literary magazine, the Belletrist, Thursday, November 7th, at 1pm in the Gallery Space on the campus of Bellevue College for an afternoon reading by author Tiffany Midge. For event details, directions, and to register to attend, click (here).
In observance of Halloween, Ed Dominguez, Lead Naturalist at the Seward Park Audubon Center, and KBCS’s Yuko Kodama talk vampire bats (not local to our region) on the shores of Andrews Bay in Seattle’s Seward Park. If you have any questions about our local natural flora and fauna, please contact Ed Dominguez and KBCS at
Japanese American, Singer and Songwriter, Kishi Bashi’s (Kaoru Ishibashi) latest album, Omoiyari highlights the experiences of incarceration. The Japanese word, Omoiyari, means holding empathy and compassion. The album is the result of two years of Ishibashi’s numerous interviews with with those affected by, and visits to former WWII internment camps, where around 120,000 Japanese descendants
The Makah Ozette Potato settled its roots in Northwest Washington’s Neah Bay more than 200 years ago, and lives a story of cultural connection and tradition. The vegetable is one of just a few foods in the United States that is listed as a Presidia, a designation by the Slow Food Foundation of Italy, which
