The Poetics of Fragility with Lata Mani, Angela Davis, Cherrie Moraga and Nicolas Grandi

Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we listen to a recent conversation recorded at the Impact Hub Oakland with feminist historian and cultural critic Lata Mani and filmmaker Nicolás Grandi,  who are the co-directors of the inspiring new film “The Poetics of Fragility.” Ashara Ekundayo hosts a conversation with the filmmakers and activist and scholar … Continued


Gail Dines talks about the violence of pornography

The mainstream has become increasingly outspoken about the increasingly violent and ubiquitous 97 billion dollar Pornography industry which makes more than the top tech companies combined with 3 billion made annually on child porn. Time Magazine’s recent cover story “Porn and the Threat to Virility” examines how men who watched porn as children and teenagers … Continued


Feminist resistance to neoliberalism and Lesbian Feminist Poet Barbara Ruth

This Monday Women’s Magazine speaks to the authors of a new article called “For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University”, which is a call for a feminist ethics of care that challenges the neoliberal working conditions of the university and replaces it with a feminist and collective … Continued


Trans rights vs Feminist Rts; new documentary on Miss Major

Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we will look at a current issue in the conflict that’s been brewing between the feminist and trans community for many years We will hear a talk by UC Berkeley Professor Wendy Brown on the war between some larger reproductive rights groups and with trans activists that demand that … Continued