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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 11

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 11

We called it the Sonic Memorial Project.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 11

We opened a phone line on NPR for listeners to call in with their stories and audio artifacts relating to the September 11 attacks and the history of the World Trade Center. Hundreds of people called with testimonies and remembrances, music and small shards of sounds.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 11

After the events of 9/11, we came together with other radio producers, artists, archivists and listeners to chronicle and commemorate the life and history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood...

The Sonic Memorial—Remembering 9/11 with host Paul Auster | The Kitchen Sisters

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 2

This episode was produced by Brandi Howell with host Alexandra Lange for New Angle: Voice, the podcast about Pioneering Women in American Architecture brought to you by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.

The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 2

As with many collaborative enterprises with shoestring budgets, WSPA eventually dissipated, but not before giving a generation of women architects the tools (sometimes literally) to imagine a more communitarian world.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 2

For many of the participants, it was their first experience of being the majority gender in a design classroom or architecture office. Even decades later, they remembered the experience with happy tears.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 2

WSPA was the brainchild of a group of women who wanted to create was an educational curriculum, by women and for women, that freed architecture from the hierarchies of existing schools and practice.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 2

You could learn woodworking in the morning and feminist theory in the afternoon, and then let loose and make candy houses in the evening. Childcare was free, tuition was minimal, and the locations were scattered throughout the country, making it easy for interested parties to attend

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 2

Popularly known as WSPA, the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture, ran for four summers from 1974 to 1979.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Kitchen Sisters Present… The Women’s School of Planning and Architecture.

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The Women's School of Planning and Architecture: Not Only Survive but Flourish

Podcast Episode · The Kitchen Sisters Present · 09/02/2025 · 28m

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Simon Thibault @simonathibault.bsky.social · Aug 19

Community as ethics, as assistance, as ressource, and the sharing of those things.

Loved this episode.

The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Aug 5

Throughout the islands of Scotland, you'll find eggs, fresh baked bread, homemade jam, cabbage, scones, cakes, knitted hats, you name it. If someone can make it, bake it, grow it, sew it, it may turn up for sale in an Honesty Box.

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Simon Thibault @simonathibault.bsky.social · Aug 7

As someone who was raised in a community with honesty boxes (and still uses them!) this piece by @kitchensisters.bsky.social speaks to me on so many levels.

It’s not a rural thing: it’s about community, and what is valued by them.

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The Honesty Boxes of Scotland

Podcast Episode · The Kitchen Sisters Present · 2025-08-05 · 26m

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Aug 25

Listen to The Honesty Boxes of Scotland on @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/08/23/n...

How do Scottish honesty boxes work and who uses them?

The Kitchen Sisters production team takes a look into the long held Scottish tradition of honesty boxes - where you leave the money in the box and take what you need.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Aug 5

Throughout the islands of Scotland, you'll find eggs, fresh baked bread, homemade jam, cabbage, scones, cakes, knitted hats, you name it. If someone can make it, bake it, grow it, sew it, it may turn up for sale in an Honesty Box.

kitchensisters.org/podcast/the-...

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Jun 17

“From the very beginning the intent was that the American people needed to be able to access the records so that we would be able to hold the government accountable for its actions.”
- David Ferriero, the 10th Archivist of the United States

The National Archives – The What and the Why

Podcast Episode · The Kitchen Sisters Present · 06/17/2025 · 29m

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · May 16

It is with great sadness and deep admiration that we share the sad news of the passing of Duncan Campbell, one of journalism’s greatest.
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Duncan Campbell obituary

Guardian crime correspondent admired for his determined and scrupulously fair reporting of wrongdoing, including miscarriages of justice

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · May 16

Today would have been the 106th birthday of Liberace. In his honor and to highlight his little-known civil rights efforts, we share this story from our @npr.org Lost & Found Sound series, Liberace and The Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · May 12

Our NEA Grant Was Terminated, But Not Our Commitment

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · May 6

The Kitchen Sisters Present... Plessy AND Ferguson—Activism and the Fight for Justice and Equal Rights
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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Apr 22

On #EarthDay The Kitchen Sisters Present... Cry Me a River, a portrait of pioneering river activists — Ken Sleight, Katie Lee, and Mark Dubois — and their dramatic efforts to save wild rivers and the rise of the environmental movement.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Apr 15

The Kitchen Sisters Present... Pie Down Here: Robin D. G. Kelley’s oral histories, a special episode from @signalhillfm.bsky.social

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Pie Down Here: Listening Back—Alabama Sharecroppers and Communist Organizers,1930s

Podcast Episode · The Kitchen Sisters Present · 04/15/2025 · 38m

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Apr 1

The great George Foreman passed away on Mar 21. In 2004 we opened a phoneline on @npr.org for people to tell us about their Hidden Kitchens. One caller told us about homeless people who didn't have kitchens using the George Foreman Grill to make meals and a home.

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The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters.bsky.social · Mar 25

Tomorrow the heads of NPR and PBS will appear before a DOGE subcommittee chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, in a hearing called “Anti-American Airwaves.”

It's time to write your representatives and tell them how much public media matters to your community. protectmypublicmedia.org

Protect My Public Media

Take a stand for the local stations and programs you love.

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