Click on the tags below to explore CKUT’s Spoken Word department.
CKUT’s Homelessness Marathon is a consciousness-raising radio marathon that offers a platform to speak truth to power on the realities of homelessness, housing, and poverty.
CKUT has covered issues from street level emphasizing the voices of those not heard in mainstream media, namely those affected by the policies, regulations and political decisions.
Eve Parker Finley Celebrates International Women’s Day by profiling women such as Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, activists in the time of Stonewall and co-founders of STAR.
Clips from the very first broadcast and discussions about their shared fascination with RADIO.
Interviews with Queercorps host Puelo Dier and photographer Linda Dawn Hammond about the infamous event known as Sex Garage that galvanized the queer community in July 1990.
Many years after being released, Proctor began her investigation on the experiments that were done to her and countless other prisoners in the 1960s and 70s.
Rachel Wotton, Sex Worker and focus of the film “Scarlet Road” speaks with the members of Avalanche (CKUT’s radio show airing Wed. 5 – 6pm) about the documentary project.
Former sex worker Valerie Scott discusses the obsession the public has with sex while still being reluctant to speak about the need to educate on safe sex practices.
Pat Dillon aka Sistah P speaks with Reverend Gray, discussing the student strike, Trayvon Martin, and being ticketed for being black in Montreal.
The 2012 Homelessness Marathon served 14 hours of national broadcasted discussions on homelessness, for the tenth consecutive year!
Will Nicholls, host of the former CKUT show Indian Times, speaks at a service in remembrance of the 1990 Oka Crisis.
Mumia’s sister Lydia Barashango and a member of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abul-Jamal group were interviewed on CKUT airwaves in 2005.