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This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
We talk with Professor Nadine Naber, author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics and Activism, about the case against Chicago feminist community leader Rasmea Odeh. A torture survivor, Odeh now faces ten years in U.S. prison and loss of her citizenship because of her conviction by an Israeli military court 40 years ago. Then, author … Continued
As the nation has been shocked by the images of overwhelming police violence in Ferguson, Missouri and the epidemic of murders by police of Black men around the country we have also been inspired by the organic uprisings in response. KPFA radio’s Women’s Magazine will look at how police violence is not only racialized but … Continued
Author and historian Paula Giddings talks about the life and work of Ida B. Wells. Wells, a feminist and journalist, started the nation’s largest anti-lynching campaign in 1893. Filmmaker Dyanna Taylor discusses her new film about her grandmother, photographer Dorothea Lange. Grab a Hunk of Lightning documents Lange’s preparation for a one-woman show at the … Continued
Kate Raphael in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club. Also Jazmin Morelos, coordinator of the Urban Lactation Project. Fowler also cofounded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for science fiction or fantasy which challenges our concepts of gender. We also speak with Jazmin … Continued
We speak with filmmakers Judith Montell and Emmy Scharlatt about their film, “In The Image,” which features footage shot by half a dozen young Palestinian women working with the Israeli human rights group, “Btselem” to document daily life under occupation. And Breanne Fahs, professor of women’s and gender studies at Arizona State University, discusses the … Continued
Val Ibarra speaks with Mimi Lok and Audrey Petty of the Mission-based Voice of Witness. Voice of Witness uses oral history to illuminate human rights crisis. In High-Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing, they tell the stories of the people displaced by the demolition of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, which reflects both gentrification and … Continued
Pennie Opal Plant and Paula Szloboda of Idle No More and Sunflower Alliance talk about the Connect the Dots Refinery Healing Walks, which are bringing attention to the environmental racism and climate damage of by the oil and gas industry in the East Bay. Then playwright Terry Baum’s one-woman show, “Hick: A Love Story,” explores … Continued
We listen to part of a herstory event organized by Old Lesbians Organizing for Change honoring lesbian she-roes of the past. Everyone knows about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, but how many of us knew Lorraine Hansberry was a member of the club? And many people may not even know the name Frances Perkins … Continued
