Music Noir + America250 Book Club x Queer History Corner = RadioACTive Workshop

  • June 18, 2026
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Thursday, June 18: RadioACTive Workshop launches the America250 Book Club with Threadwork Collective and 1974 Bookstore SLC. Queer History Corner. But we start it all off with more Music Noir from Roo Nostalgia and Dawn.

Get More Local, More Vocal with Tonight's Guests

Rallies & Resources Spotlight (full list here):

Homegrown Music Noir, featuring Roo Nostalgia and Dawn.

All week long, RadioACTive is collaborating with Alexander Galore of @blackonmarslc + @the.msngr, @mars.roots, @blackmenaces, @musicadeapp, @itsdariusray, @thekashmagazine and @kitokash.art to curate a lineup of 5 local Salt Lake City Black artists with 5 distinctive sounds and styles to build out a special edition broadcast in celebration of Juneteenth & the history, legacy and bloodline of Black American music.

Queer History Corner: Indigenous 'Tüvasa' Two-Spirit Utah History  

For Pride Month, KRCL and the Mildred Berryman Institute are collaborating to bring you Utah Queer History each Monday and Thursday throughout June. Long before colonialism, Indigenous tribes of what is now called Utah had tribal members who, today, we would call gender diverse. The term tüvasa (now generically referred to in English as a Two-Spirit person) was used by most tribes. Mildred Berryman Institute Board Chair Connell O’Donovan shares the little-known history of these people and their importance in Indigenous tribes.

RadioACTive Workshop: America250 Book Club

Tonight, we launch a new collaboration for America's Semiquincentennial. It's the RadioActive and TWC Series: American Origins: The 250 Book Club — A 6-Episode Arc June 18 – July 23, 2026. Co-hosts for this special collaboration include Lianna Manibog of The ThreadWork Collective and Annie Padgett of 1974 Book Store SLC. 

Episode 1: The Architecture of the Myth

  • From Lianna Manibog: "Before America existed, the legal and philosophical infrastructure of colonization was already built. This episode goes to the root. Not the Declaration — what came before it. The papal bulls that declared Indigenous land legally empty. Locke's property theory that gave the founders their philosophical permission structure. The myth didn't begin in Philadelphia in 1787. It began in Rome in 1455 and in London in 1689. By the time Jefferson picked up his pen, the architecture was already load-bearing."

  • Primary documents: 

    • Romanus Pontifex (1455) and Inter Caetera (1493) — the Doctrine of Discovery at its source

    • John Locke, Second Treatise, Chapter V: On Property (1689) 

    • The Declaration of Independence — the soaring language AND the 27 grievances, read together 

    • Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542) — the eyewitness account of what the architecture produced

  • Consider: What had to be true — legally, philosophically, spiritually — before any of this could happen?

  • Annie's Book Pick: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, Kellie Carter Jackson

  • Lianna's Song Pick: This is America, Childish Gambino

  • QUESTION: What are you reading or listening to as America turns 250? Sound Off to RadioACTive via the KRCL Public Radio App — free wherever you get your apps. Click the menu > Talk to KRCL > Sound Off to RadioACTive. You can send us audio, video and pictures! Or send a voicememo to radioactive@krcl.org.

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  • Feedback: Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9FM. Send feedback to radioactive@krcl.org. 

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