KPFA celebrates International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 15th with an all-day audio extravaganza to draw attention collectively to gender equality and justice, reproductive rights, environmental justice, violence against women, militarism, armed conflict, and much more! This year, we are in an especially critical moment to raise our voices in resistance to the globalized rise in fascism and Right-Wing extremism. Join us for special music, culture and public affairs programming from women and gender expansive producers from the greater KPFA community! Click the link below for a full program schedule.
While childhood sexual abuse affects millions, it disproportionately impacts women and girls. Research shows that one in five girls and one in 20 boys experience abuse before the age of 18. The effects can be lifelong—but so can healing. In this episode, licensed psychotherapist and host Debra Sloss is joined by survivor and author Alreen Haeggquist, who shares … Continued
In this special International Women’s Day episode of Baby Talk Radio, Courtney and Vivienne dive into the viral world of tradwife content—an aestheticized online movement romanticizing traditional homemaking roles. They break down who these women are, why their content resonates, and how social media algorithms fuel the trend. Through an engaging mix of cultural analysis, … Continued
Welcome to Women of the Four Directions, Women’s Voices Across Time for Future Generations. Our focus today is Land and Water Protection. In Part 2 of this 2 Part Series, Peggy Berryhill, the First Native Programmer at KPFA, discusses the history of Relocation in the Bay Area and the importance of hearing our Voices and … Continued
mikO Tolliver interviews Black Dyke Rock band Skip The Needle with members Kofy Brown, Katie Cash, Shelley Doty & Vicki Randle about their experiences as queer women in the music industry.
In this program, Dr. Delores Thompson speaks with Bulgarian-American filmmaker Mimi Chakarova, director of The Mirror, an honest, at times absurd, conversation about being a Black woman in America, The Mirror is a short film that weaves the personal stories, experiences and reflections of nine Black women talking about their interactions with white people. This … Continued
Alexis Pauline Gumbs – Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. WBAI Radio’s OUT FM host Stahmili Mapp interviews writer /poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs author of the magical, fascinating, inspiring new biography about poet Audre Lorde, entitled Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Alexis describes herself as a … Continued
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism – Kristen Ghodsee In this conversation Upstream has invited on Kristen Ghodsee, author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence to explore how capitalism shapes not just sex, but relationships, care, and much of the life of people who identify as … Continued
The average adult in the US uses somewhere around 12 personal care products a day, with women typically using more than men. Those products can expose us to more than a hundred chemicals on a daily basis, some of which come with serious health risks. These risks are not-borne equally. Black women, in particular bear … Continued
Sharon Sobotta sits down with women who’ve experienced homelessness and with women who’ve made it their life’s work. In the spirit of Audre Lorde’s quote—there’s no such thing as a single issue story because we do not live single issue lives, the women bravely share the intersectionality of their struggles.
Women are the fastest growing population of incarcerated people in the United States today. The rate of growth for female imprisonment has been twice has high as that of men since 1980, with the incarcerated population growing nearly 600% in the last 45 years. For this International Women’s Day special we bring you the voices … Continued
