Ashland author Robin Herskowitz Heald teamed up with artist Peggy Collins for a picture book about a young boy welcoming a new sister into the family.

Sphinx Virtuosi brings together top-flight Black and Latinx musicians in the performance of pieces by composers of many colors and genders. And the group plays Ashland on Friday (October 7th), in a concert through the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University.

Southern Oregon Pride celebrates LGBTQ+ people being out of the closet and proud in a series of events through the coming weekend. Gina DuQuenne, SOPride Founder and President and Ashland City Councilor, returns to talk up the plans.

Diane Rosenfeld, a lawyer and expert on gender violence at Harvard University, explores the example in the book "The Bonobo Sisterhood: Revolution Through Female Alliance."

Josh Gross, music player and creator, is our guide, compiling the list of musical events, with an eye to variety.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Protection Information Center, and Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center filed a lawsuit against the federal government for wider protections for the mustelid fisher. Noah Greenwald at CBD, George Sexton from KS Wild, and Thom Wheeler from EPIC

Rogue Valley scientist Dominick DellaSala of Wild Heritage and Brendan Rogers of the Woodwell Climate Research Institute talk about researchers make a map of all old-growth forest in Lower 48.

Only 6% of American women said their male partners do more work, in a poll from last year. Gender expert Kate Mangino shows the way to balance the numbers, in her book "Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home." Hear the author's thoughts on aiming for a true equal partnership.

Donald Yacovone's book "Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity." Instead, the author points to the North--no slavery but plenty of bigots--as the major source of a general indoctrination into white supremacy.

Jackson County Medical Director Dr. Leona O'Keefe, joins for a health-and-COVID Q&A.