1:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Paola Bacchetta talks to three Queers of color about radical Lesbians and Queers of color organizing in Europe. We talk to UC San Diego professor Fatima El-Tayeb who is the author of European Others. Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, writer, activist and scholar Jin Haritaworn who co-founded SUSPECT, a trans and queer of color anti-violence … Continued
Lisa Dettmer talks with Sarah Schulman about the cooptation of international queer institutions to “pinkwash” Israeli apartheid; Kate Raphael sits down with Mickey Eliason, Ph.Dyk, to discuss the groundbreaking Dyke Diagnostic Manual (Edition III, Revised). Plus poetry by Tai Rocket & Kai Green, trans men of color, on intersecting identities. And updates on protests at … Continued
Author Joy Castro and publisher/author Brooke Warner on discrimination against women in publishing; Pam Peniston of Queer Cultural Center and Sean Dorsey & Shawna Virago of Fresh Meat Productions preview offerings at this year’s National Queer Arts Festival; Myriam Fougere discusses her film, “Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution”. We’ll also have a brief conversation about the … Continued
Tinku Ishtiaq, cofounder of South Asian LGBT organization Trikone and former co-chair of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission discusses the situation for LGBT people in Bangladesh, and the impact of the twin crises in factory disasters and militant religious opposition to the government. We also look at the life and work of … Continued
Global Val Ibarra of Mutiny Radio hosts a showcase of women poets who share how they came to be poets and how they have been manifesting community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meet the poets and the poetry of mothers, teachers, feminists, healers, revolutionary poets for change and a library entrepreneur. Meet the Poets from this showcase NOW at … Continued
We talk with feminist scholar Cynthia Enloe (Beaches, Bananas and Bases, Does Khaki Become You: Militarization in Women’s Lives) about what we should being learning from the scandal about sexual assault in the military. Then we listen to a talk by Rabab Abdulhadi, professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State, on … Continued
Today on Women’s Magazine for fund drive we offer the new film “United in Anger the History of Act-Up” made by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Shulman. You hear clips from the film and from the interview by kate Raphael with Sarah Shulman .
Host Kate Raphael speaks with Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of The Red Book and Shutterbabe about the ways women writers are still marginalized by the literary establishment. And as May Day approaches, we hear from Aileen Clarke Hernandez, second president of the National Organization for Women, labor organizer and the first woman appointed to the … Continued
In the first half hour, Sharon Sobotta interviews Katie Cantral, Executive Director of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. In the second half, we hear past interviews with two ecofeminist foremothers who have since died: Lisa Dettmer speaks with Marti Kheel, founder of Feminists for Animal Rights and author of Nature’s Ethics; and Preeti Shekar sits … Continued
