Womens Magazine
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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.
Women’s Magazine – November 11, 2013
Eating disorders are not only a teenage problem. Up to 4% of women over 50 struggle with anorexia, binge eating, bulimia or another type of eating disorder, and only 1 in 10 of those who suffer from these conditions seek treatment for them. Though people with eating disorders feel shame, they are medical conditions with … Continued
Womens Magazine – November 4, 2013
We hear from Indian feminist activist Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, a group that organizes poor women workers against feudal violence and state repression against women. We hear the talk she gave at UC Berkeley this September called Women Want Freedom — Shifting the Terms of the Debate which is … Continued
Women’s Magazine – October 28, 2013
Author Eileen Pollack, one of the first women to get a BS in Physics from Yale, looks at why thirty-five years later, there are still so few US women in science. Iranian American playwright Torange Yeghezarian discusses her play “444 Days”, in which a former American hostage and one of his captors meet again twenty-five … Continued
Women’s Magazine – September 16, 2013
Ramah Kudaimi on Do’s & Don’ts for Progressives on Syria; Gabriella Heinsheimer, medical director of Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic; and a tribute to disabled poet, performer and cultural activist Cheryl Marie Wade.
Womens Magazine – September 9, 2013
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