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.
Limbo Rock is a three story special for International Women’s Day. In the first story, a twelve-year-old girl navigates the awkward social terrain of school dances in the 1960s. The second was inspired by the #MeToo movement, and raises the question: how do girls learn to be silent? The third story profiles master drummer Carolyn … Continued
Programming for International Women’s Day on KPFA.
Programming for International Women’s Day on KPFA.
This experimental docupoem takes listeners on a meditative trip between two capital cities—Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Washington, DC. Ethiopian-American writer and multidisciplinary artist Saaret Emebeat Yoseph creates an intimate audio scrapbook as she records the personal and family history of her mother, Emebeat Askale Bekele, who immigrated to DC from Addis, in the early 1970s. … Continued
Programming for International Women’s Day on KPFA.
For this International Women’s Day Special, KPFA looks at Russia’s war in Ukraine and the impacts of war on women, particularly women who serve in the armed forces and front lines in war zones. More than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine-nearly half of them children. While men cannot leave, women can, but some are … Continued
There are many ways women across the world have been disproportionately impacted by COVID. The pandemic has simultaneously increased the demand for unpaid labor from women — including childcare and homeschooling — while decimating industries like retail, leisure, hospitality, education and entertainment which are their main employers. So many of the jobs lost during the … Continued
What is feminist spirituality and why have traditional religions demonized women goddesses ? Today for our special international women’s day programming I talk to two professors from the Women’s Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral studies, Dr Annette Williams and Dr Mara Keller, about goddesses, the need for feminist spirituality and women deities … Continued
Programming for International Women’s Day on KPFA.
What are the radical possibilities of catalyzing cross-racial feminist solidarities, imaginations, and substantive realities? What revolutions must we create within ourselves to dismantle our prejudices, discrimination, and silences to create the world we want to see? We’re featuring audio from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s event Siblings in Liberation, Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, which … Continued
