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FM88 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide 6 pm Mountain Time Download Michael Jacks on was one of the world’s best known entertainers, who reached nearly unp recedented heights of influence, fame, acclaim and wealth. His success earned him many enemies, including media foes and prosecutors. Jackson faced the courts over charges of sex ual abuse of children, for which he was legally acquitted, but to which some members of the media and the public continued to cling, regardless of the absence of evidence against him, and the criminality of at least one of his accusers, and his accusers' motives for extortion. Jackson was a complex figure, often mocked, but one whose struggle with his identity, especially his race, indicated the depths of his personal suffering. For decades, he paid surgeons to mutilate him. The result was a face that seemed less human than anime. Revelations about his life suggest he’d had n o peace in his life since his abusive father put him to work round-the-clock to achi...

CJSR FM88.5 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time Shawn Taylor is a complicated man with a remarkable capacity for telling his story and investing it with social and philosophical considerations. Currently living in the San Francisco Bay area, he’s a performance poet, a martial artist, a spiritual seeker, a philosophy grad student, an artist-provocateur, and the author of the memoir Big Black Penis: Misadventures in Race and Masculinity. As the subtitle suggests, Taylor ’s book explores African-American and gendered experience, but in directions not commonly seen as intertwining. In addition to insightful and often hilarious reflections on dating, sexual awakening and marriage, Taylor explores his own complex intellectual and emotional life during the ending of relationships, the origins of his own homophobia and how he’s confronted it, his bizarre foray into the Euro-American men’s movement, his confrontations with violence and death, and even his experiences as a science-fiction an...