Womens Magazine – April 15, 2019
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Womens Magazine
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This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Lights, Camera, Action! Feminist Films at SFFILM
SFFILM, the San Francisco International Film Festival, begins Wednesday, April 10 and runs through April 23 in multiple venues throughout the Bay Area. This year’s festival includes films by 72 women directors. We talk with director Janice Engel about her new film, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, and with Kristina Motwani, co-editor of Midnight … Continued
Roderick Ferguson’s (Not) One-Dimensional Queer; Amy Foley Creates Feminist Dance
In his new book, One-Dimensional Queer (a homage to Herbert Marcuse), Roderick Ferguson counters orthodox portrayals of a gay movement narrowly focused on civil rights, and shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that … Continued
Jennifer Eberhardt Racial Bias; Anasuya Sengupta, inequality on the web – March 25, 2019
In the first part of our show we listen to a talk by Jennifer Eberhardt about the dangers and effect of implicit racial. bias in policing which is inherently unintentional yet more pervasive than explicit bias but equally deadly. Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias and the author … Continued
Womens Magazine – March 18, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards
Today’s Space Between Us features two subjects. First Jovelyn discusses women and our minds with Barbara Berger author of Understanding How the Mind Works, Fast Food for the Soul and more.* Next Jovelyn delves into education and youth. Hilary Roberts of Peer Advocates Training and Consulting talks about empowering youth, schools and educators. Join Jovelyn and her guests at the river for these interesting conversations. … Continued
Years of Love and Danger: Madonna Thunderhawk, Lise Weil and Renate Stendhal
American Indian Movement leader (although she doesn’t really accept that label) Madonna Thunderhawk joins us to discuss her life in the movement, activism to save the earth and the new film Warrior Women, featuring her and her daughter, Marcie. The film is available for free on PBS’s The World channel this month. Then I have a conversation with Lise … Continued
Womens Magazine – March 4, 2019 – The Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
March 4 is the last Women’s Magazine show during this fund drive. We will be speaking with author and scholar Imani Perry about her brand new book, Looking for Lorraine: the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry, which makes use of recently released papers that fill in much of what’s been hidden about Hansberry’s … Continued
Womens Magazine – February 25, 2019 – Film: A Great Ride
Monday February 25th KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine offers a premium for fund driveyou don’t want to miss. A Great Ride which was just featured at Frameline this year, looks at the lives of local older lesbians—the lesbian feminist Icon, Sally Gearhart, activist, Brenda Crawford, and several women who live in an LGBTQ-friendly retirement community in Santa Rosa—all who … Continued
Womens Magazine – February 18, 2019: Safi Wa Nairobi presents an Audio Collage: Making Space Between Us
Audre Lorde, February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992 Safi Wa Nairobi hosts KPFA Women’s Magazine with a playlist of Black women’s voices, spoken word and music. Listen to readings, poetry, essays of Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Angela Davis, Toni Morrison and more. Also we hear a portion of a panel talk about making space … Continued
Black Feminism In Action; Turning Pain Into Power
KPFA Women’s Magazine speaks with historian Barbara Ransby about her new book, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century, an insider’s account of how Black feminism has anchored the movement that has transformed U.S. political culture over the last five years. Then we speak with Susan Swan, Executive Director of VDay, … Continued