Taboo
The producer of today’s show was Pierre Tchetgen. Our executive producer was Ben Manilla. The assistant producer was Lisa Pickoff-White. The engineer was Rina Palta. The webmaster is Ian Sherr. The anchors were Vianna Davila and Ian Sherr.
Songs from today’s show include:
Berlin – Sex
DMX – Dog Love
Sade – Sweetest Taboo
Sophie Cooper – Fly Like Eagle
The ‘Guessing Game’ – Black Fox and Sativa
The Taboo Topics
Pierre Tchetgen interviews organizer Shawn McDougal about the Taboo Topics roundtable discussions at UC Berkeley.
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for more information, visit Word Sound Life, which Pierre helped to co-found this year.
Bestiality
Sierre Filucci talks about a taboo that’s taboo.
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For more information, visit:
Zoo: a film that tells the true story about a Seattle man who died as a result of a sexual encounter with a horse.
Wikipedia’s entry on ZooSexuality.
and the San Francisco Sex Information hotline: 415-989-7374 or SFSI.org
Jewel of Medina
A new historical fiction novel by first-time author, Sherry Jones, has gotten a lot of attention. The book focuses on the prophet Mohammad’s relationship with his wife, Aisha. When publican was first announced in the UK, the publisher’s office was firebombed. And it was unclear whether the Jewel of Medina would ever be published in the United States. Adithya Samamurthy has the story.
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Some recent news stories about the controversy can be found:
On the Wall Street Journal, here, and the Chronicle, here.
Additionally, visit AltMuslim.com for the popular Alt Muslim e-zine.
Panhandlers
For some of us, interacting–or ignoring–panhandlers is a daily part of our lives. But we rarely talk abotu how we feel about them, and what we think should be done. Will your money go to drugs and alcohol, or to food and shelter? Ian Sherr went to Union Square to find out.
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Folsom Street Fair
In many places, the mere mention of sex conjures images of things that are taboo. In San Francisco, where sexual freedom has been a long-standing tradition, even the most sexually-free have taboos. Lisa Pickoff-White visited the Folsom Street Fair to learn where the liberated draw their lines.
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very interesting piece. Liked the feed into participatory democracy. Open discussions of sensitive subjects at a local/community level hopefully allow people to be more informed and make political decisions from a less emotional perspective.
i thought the excerpt on Taboo topics was quite thought provoking and I congratulate the producer
Pierre Tchetgen for this very exciting new beginning… Hope to hear the wave sounds of his new project on the East coast../