Political, Fashion Statements at Oscars 2025

  • March 3, 2025
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RadioACTive Pop talks with Utah fashion designer Jessica Wiarda about last night's 'red carpet.' Plus, Pachanga Sin Fronteras, an Ogden teacher using TikTok to pay off school lunch tabs, and the debut of our month-long project, Voices Amplified: Women's Sports in Utah.

Tonight's edition of RadioACTive features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community:

Cesia Dominguez Lopez of the deportation defense collective La Red de Solidaridad talks about the upcoming event Pachanga Sin Fronteras happening Saturday. The event will provide resources for undocumented community members, wellness workshops, dancing and more. 

  • Mar. 8: Pachanga Sin Fronteras, 12:00-4:00 p.m. at City Home Collective, 645 E. South Temple St., SLC. "Our people don't know borders and neither do our medicines, care networks, and resistance movements. Let’s dance into loving new worlds. Join us on international women’s day to celebrate Abya Yala | Turtle Island resistance. Spread Power, Not Panic. Abolish Pol.I.C.E⁣. No Borders."

Voices Amplified, a month-long project with student journalists from the University of Utah. They've been looking into women's sports in Utah, from amateur to pro to post-sport life. Tonight, Prof. Marcie Young Cancio and student journalist Sean Stetson join us to kick things off.

Kati Christensen, an Ogden teacher using TikTok to pay off school lunch tabs. Follow her at @MrsCactusVibes on TikTok. 

RadioACTive Pop! talks political and fashion statements at the Oscars with local fashion designer Jessica Wiarda. A Hopi/Tewa graphic designer, muralist, and illustrator based in Salt Lake City, you can find her scarf, print and apparel designs at @honovidesign.

  • Apr. 1-5: Utah Indigenous Fashion Week at the Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, SLC. "We are excited to announce UIFW 2025 'Clothed in Mother' at @nhmu in Salt Lake City, UT. Our theme will cover Indigenous only views on climate change and our calls for change and love of the earth. Mother Earth provides the resources we need to sustain our lives, such as healing herbs, pigments used for dyeing fabrics, and sustains the lives of our non-human relatives as well as our own in a reciprocal circle of life." 

How'd you like the show? Share your thoughts, suggestions and observations by calling the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889. Or, send a voicememo to radioactive@krcl.org. Please tell us your name and neighborhood and leave a short message that may air on the show. So, keep it clean!

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

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