KPFA celebrates International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8th 6 am PST to March 9th, 2026 PST ..with an 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.
Hear the stories of everyday women from Bay Area history who brought about extraordinary social and cultural shifts using little more than tenacity, smart strategy and a resolute belief in what they were fighting for. Find out how dancer Ruth Beckford founded Oakland’s first Black Panthers Free Breakfast for School Children program. Discover how San … Continued
Armed with a tape recorder, Kansas City librarian Irene Ruiz cataloged the evolving history of the Westside and made the library a more welcoming place for the Mexican immigrants and Latinos who lived there. Today, the Westside branch of the Kansas City Public Library — featuring the robust Spanish language collection that Ruiz began — … Continued
Future Schlock: Women and AI Produced By: Lynn Feinerman of Women Rising Radio Project https://www.womenrisingradio.com/ What is AI, Really? And what is it doing for us, or to us? Women Rising Radio spoke with women who know about that. Lucy Suchman is a tech expert, a veteran of decades at Xerox Parc, and deeply concerned … Continued
What To Us Is International Women’s Day? – Eleanor Goldfield Project Censored A 2025 Archive
Hosted and produced by Anita Flores About the episode: Podcast producer, host, and miscarriage expert Anita Flores is joined by comedian, friend and fellow miscarriage expert Natalie Wall to discuss pregnancy loss and the movies and TV that joined them on their grief journeys. If you’ve experienced pregnancy loss, you’re also a miscarriage expert! They … Continued
Not Forgotten Anymore: The African American Composer Initiative The Babblery, produced by Suki Wessling About the episode: One day at her piano lesson, LaDoris Cordell asked her teacher, Jodi Gandolfi, if there were any Black composers of concert music. Concert music is a more inclusive term for what many people know as “classical” music: art … Continued
KALW’s Uncuffed is the country’s leading radio and podcast training program for people in prison. In weekly classes taught by professional journalists, participants at San Quentin, Solano State Prison, and the California Institution for Women (CIW) learn how to make audio stories from start to finish using professional audio equipment and software. All stories workshopped … Continued
Lilias’ Bones is the story of the only witch in Scotland with a grave and the search for her stolen bones. In this podcast series, American journalist, Breena Kerr goes to Scotland to understand what happened during the European Witch Hunts, why hundreds of thousands were murderedand the legacy that still endures today. The coastal … Continued
Unveiling the Ancestors By Ann Hoffman Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I’m your host, Anne Hoffman-Freedman. Throughout the next hour, we’ll explore five stories. Five stories that…you could say… act as a portal from our current reality…into … Continued
Hosted and produced by Linda Freund for KPFA Documentary filmmaker Linda Freund tells the story of Sabrina Butler-Smith, the first woman exonerated from death row in the United States. At 18, Sabrina was wrongfully convicted of killing her nine-month-old son after signing a coerced confession and standing trial before an all-white jury with inadequate legal … Continued
