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New Hampshire May See Decriminalization of Sex Work

March 2, 2016 / Early Morning News

New Hampshire HB 1614 would legalize consensual sex between consenting adults and makes any solicitation of sexual contact involving a person under 18 years of age or through the use of force or intimidation a felony. The bill was co-sponsored […]

Advocating for Workers in the Commercial Sex Industry and Survivors of Human Trafficking

February 9, 2016 / Early Morning News

“We have work to do in Colorado surrounding education about the commercial sex industry and human trafficking. We’re not just coming from a front of ‘All sex work is bad’ or ‘It’s all human trafficking.’ It’s not. There are […]

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Marked in Denver

December 21, 2015 / Early Morning News

The following story contains disturbing descriptions of violence so please be prepared. In Portland Oregon last year, 24 year old Ashley Benson was found dead. She had been strangled. Twenty-year old Goddess Edwards was found shot in Louisville, […]

The April selection for the Radio Bookclub is Go As A River by Colorado author Shelley Read.

This novel introduces readers to Victoria Nash who is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Colorado.

She is the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men.

Her life changes forever when she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter, displaced from his tribal land in the Four Corners region.

Victoria must navigate love and loss while her home town drowns under the rising waters of the Gunnison River.

The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore and is broadcast on the 4th Thursday of every month at 9am. The entire series, including Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub, is available as a podcast.

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