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.
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
Jazz without Patriarchy- an hour of Black Jazz women’s music with Dr Angela Wellman. Inspired by the motto of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice at the Berklee School of Music, this hour of “Jazz without Patriarchy” music curated by Jazz musician Dr Angela Wellman, features some of the under-celebrated and under-recognized Black … Continued
Steph Jacobs: “The California Girl I Needed to Be” Producer: Suki Wessling This episode of the Babblery from KSQD in Santa Cruz features Stephanie Jacobs, a retired CBS News producer. In a discussion of US elections past and present, Steph leads with her knowledge, experience, and thoughtful analysis. Her identity informs her perspective, of course, … Continued
People who will be affected by a second Trump administration discuss their concerns. Featured guests are: Ashleigh Budiwarman, a community organizer in San Diego and Freddie Segura-Glavey, a healthcare worker in the Bay Area. They share their concerns as marginalized peoples in both gender and race. To support Ashleigh’s community events follow @hativillage on Instagram.
Our focus today is Land and Water Protection. Native American Indigenous People have long believed that we should be thinking of the Generations to come and of our Ancestors who came before us. Today we will be hearing Native American Indigenous Women from across the United States. They each will be sharing their concerns about … Continued
Producer: Margo Okazawa-Rey Berkeley, California is an important home and reference for disability rights movement and culture. The vision and advocacy Judy Heumann and Ed Roberts, for example, inspired the Independent Living Movement and helped establish the first Center for Independent Living in Berkeley and the passage of Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Since … Continued
Now more than ever, supporting queer and trans prisoners is critical. On today’s program, we spotlight Flying Over Walls, a prison abolitionist collective in the SF Bay Area working to build solidarity through prisoner correspondence, workshops, and study groups. Tune in to learn more about their work and how they push back against a system … Continued
Hear music created and performed by girls and gender-expansive youth and an interview with Rock Camp instructor & board member Kendal in this 29-minute feature on Bay Area Girls Rock Camp in Oakland, CA, and the worldwide girls rock camp movement. Camps in the international Girls Rock Camp Alliance work to amplify the creativity of … Continued
