In the wake of rising violent crimes against the AAPI community, Thuy Nguyen set out to listen to the stories of Asian American Women on identity and racism. As the stories unfolded, her own story unfolded and what is revealed is a rich and complex tapestry of what it means to be an Asian American … Continued
Programming for International Women’s Day on KPFA.
Since the onset of the pandemic, over 2 million women have left the workforce. And, according to a recent McKinsey study, women with children under 10 are almost twice as likely to report that they are considering leaving their jobs as men. This story explores why. Weaving together interviews with researchers, policy experts, childcare workers, … Continued
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
