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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.
The recent coming out of Chelsea Manning and look at the how transpeople especially transgender women of color are criminalized and brutalized by the prison industrial complex. We talk to Sasha Buchert from the Transgender Law Center about the high rate of sexual assault and incarceration of trans people of color and the laws governing … Continued
It’s long been said that there were no women invited to speak at the March on Washington. One woman was invited, however: Myrlie Evers, widow of Medger Evers. When Ms. Evers could not attend, Daisy Bates, a leader in the Arkansas NAACP and of the Little Rock school desegregation, was asked to speak instead. Ms. … Continued
Cecile Pineda, author of Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step-by-Step and Love Queen of the Amazon, talks about Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, and what we must do to combat the nuclear threat. Then comics Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Shazia Mirza put a hilarious spin on Indian and Pakistani Independence Day, doing comedy for their … Continued
Harvesting Human Eggs & International Surrogacy: Risks to Health & Human Rights Discussing California AB 926 (on Governor Brown’s desk as of August 5th): A bill that would repeal the current limits on compensation for women who ‘donate’ their eggs to research, and elevate it to $5-10K. Framed as a ‘women’s equity’ bill, it neglects … Continued
In the first half hour, we discuss the uses and usefulness of prisoner hunger strikes, from Palestine to California, with Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, Palestinian Human Rights Association. In the second half, Erica Bridgeman talks with Ian Waynsler and Stella Lawson, organizers of the first ever queer astrology conference, coming up next weekend … Continued
Blogger and organizer Shimaa Helmy, who was involved in the January 25 revolution in Egypt from Day One, shares her concerns about the military overthrow of Mohammed Morsi and the epidemic of sexual violence against women protesters. Then we sit down with long-time lesbian and social justice activist Patricia Jackson to discuss her new memoir, … Continued
