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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.
As President Obama announces a new task force to combat the epidemic of rape on college campuses, we’ll talk with historian Estelle Freedman about the history of how rape has been defined in the United States. And Jackie Cabasso of Western States Legal Foundation discusses a groundbreaking conference in Israel, the only nuclear power in … Continued
Sarah Holmes discusses herbal approaches to working with PMS and menstrual discomfort.
From Sprouts and Joy of Resistance at WBAI comes the fascinating and little known history of how women’s exclusion from the March on Washington led to the founding of the National Organization for Women. And Freedom Rider Jean Denton-Thompson recounts her experience of one of the defining moments of the freedom struggle to Women’s Magazine’s … Continued
Mickey Eliason discusses Doing It For Ourselves, a health & wellness program for lesbian & bisexual women over 40. How grassroots health educators turned the federal craze for stamping out obesity into an opportunity to promote community, self-love, fun and health at any weight, shape and size. And Tara Dorabji talks about Dear Sister: Letters … Continued
Kate Raphael talks with Egyptian filmmaker Jehane Noujaim about her award-winning film THE SQUARE and the role of women in the Egyptian uprising. Noujaim’s previous films include THE CONTROL ROOM and EGYPT, WE ARE WATCHING. Then Tara Dorabji talks with midwife Treesa McLean about how new California laws governing licensing of midwives affect access to … Continued
2013 was the year feminism went big in the mainstream, with Cheryl Sandberg and Beyonce claiming the mantle of feminism. Is this a positive, a negative, or a mixed blessing? Women’s Magazine producers weigh in on the highs, lows, promises and problems of 2013 from the perspective of gender, sexuality and liberation. In the second … Continued
What makes a writer feminist, and what makes feminists writers? Gayle Greene, author of The Poetics of Change: The Fiction of Doris Lessing discusses one of the iconic women writers of the twentieth century, who sometimes rejected the label of feminist, but inspired a generation of feminist readers and writers. And authors Dorothy Allison and … Continued
We speak with science fiction author and blogger Kameron Hurley, author of God’s War, Rapture and Infidel; and playwright Mona Mansour, whose play “Urge For Going,” the second in a trilogy, tells the story of Palestinian refugees in a Lebanese camp. And in honor of Thanksgiving, we hear excerpts of speeches by Arundathi Roy and … Continued
