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.
Fathers, Feminism, Tenants’ Rights and Theatre Hear a collage of women sharing perspectives and experiences about fathers and feminism: struggle, pride, humour and disgust. Passionate stories with wonderful music, including Chaka Khan’s Papillon (aka Hot Butterfly); Ana Gabriel’s Mexico, Querido y Lindo; Mary Gauthier’s Mercy Now, Don Jose Alfredo Jimenez’ El Rey, and Tori Amos’ … Continued
We celebrate Queer Pride month and talk to artists and organizers, Micia Moseley, Kebo Drew and Madeleine Lim who will be featured at the Queer Arts Festival that runs throughout the month of June in San Francisco. Later in the show, we talk to Maria Suarez Toro and Margaret Thomspson, just two of the amazing … Continued
A presentation of "NO! Confronting Sexual Assault in our Community," film about sexual assault in the Black Community. Co-hosted by Andrea Lewis.
A non Hallmark card tribute to Mothers for the upcoming Mother’s day on May 13th. You will hear voices of diverse group of women talking about their more complicated relationship to their mothers and mothering. We will have a commentary by reproductive rights activist Elizabeth Creely about the recent supreme court decision banning certain late … Continued
Poetry and Secretaries: A Time to Celebrate and Commemorate In the first half hour, Women’s Magazine continues celebrating National Poetry Month with artists including Lucille Clifton, who celebrates African American heritage and feminist themes; Jayne Cortez, who puts much of her political, musical and surreal poetry to the music of the Firespitters; poet musician Joy … Continued
The progressive media was once the province of a white male elite, but we’ve come a long way baby. Or have we? An analysis of Democracy Now’s 2006 coverage reveals that men were interviewed almost three times as often as women, and a recent issue of the Nation magazine featured no women writers. Today on … Continued
A talk by UCB Graduate student Huma Dar called "Women and the ‘War on/of Terror’ or "Looking for Osama and Finding Mukhtaran," a talk about how the West’s desire to save Muslim Women is used as a pre-text for the war on terror. We will also hear, a remembrance of Queer Fat Activist Heather MacAllister, … Continued
Special Half Hour Women’s Magazine
Lisa Dettmer talks to local artist Maya Gonzalez, children’s book author Amada Irma Perez and Patricia Zendejas Villasenor from San Francisco’s Children’s Book Press about some of their new multicultural books for children. And Kate Raphael talks to the founder’s of the Women’s Tent – a traveling women’s gathering that seeks to unite women through … Continued
