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.
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
The Wright Brothers got credit for being the first to fly, but even Orville and Wilbur knew they’d be nothing without their sister, Katharine Wright. And, it was the women they inspired and taught to fly who really pushed the Women’s Suffrage movement forward. This is the story of women who pushed the envelope so … Continued
Programming for International Women’s Day on KPFA.
Feisty Female Folktales is an anthology of international children’s stories adapted by northern California activist and performance artist Sherry Glaser with original music by David. M Brown and Johnny Qwest Hubel. “The Search for Magic Lake” is an Incan myth from Ecuador, featuring the voices of Sheba Love, Joe Seta, Andrea Shafir, Bridget Volk, Brian … Continued
