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.
Produced By: Loyen Redhawk Gali & Catherine Jackson, with assistance from Morningstar Gali & Taweah Garcia -“To explain the many layers of the Indigenous People of the so called Americas, you would have to look at a map without borders. Tribe’s ancestral territories span across states and across man made country borderlines from the North … Continued
Mothers of Reproductive Justice turns the clock back to a 1994 lunch table, where twelve Black women gathered and transformed the conversation from choice to justice. They coined reproductive justice: a framework that affirms the right to have children, not have children, to raise them in safe and healthy environments, and to experience and enjoy … Continued
Kate Raphael, a veteran of International Solidarity Movement campaigns in Palestine, talks with Jasmine Ikeda, who helmed the boat Sirius as it sailed to Gaza in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Jinda, an English woman living and working alongside women in the autonomous region of Northeast Syria, known as Rojava, explains how women are preparing to … Continued
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
