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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.
Courage takes many forms. For some it’s telling our truths and denying those who tell us to shut up. For others, it’s organizing to resist the densest military occupation in the world. This Labor Day, September 2, on KPFA Women’s Magazine, Preeti Shekar and Tara Dorabji speak with scholar Athar Zia, author of the … Continued
This Monday from 1-2pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we talk to Mordecai Ettinger, founding director of the Health Justice Commons. The Health Justice Commons works at the intersection of raciai, economic, gender, disabilty and environmental justice to help marginalized communities to re-imagine and re-design health care and healing. Health Justice provide training and … Continued
Today Jovelyn is joined by Theresa Adams, a recent KPFA Apprenticeship Program graduate. Guests include Ebony Roberts, prison activist and writer of a new memoir, The Love Prison Made and Unmade, an in-depth true story about a women who falls in love with a person in prison. The second part of the The Space Between Us celebrates … Continued
We remember the great Toni Morrison through archival interviews with her, clips from the film, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (still showing in Albany and Marin), and reflections by writers Aya de Leon, Carolina de Robertis and Nayomi Munaweera, as well as a discussion between Women’s Magazine’s Jovelyn Richards and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield Sanders. Then … Continued
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Today on Women’s Magazine we look at the resistance to the mainstreaming of Pride events in San Francisco and nationally. We talk to Mary Sue from Gay Shame and artist and activist Alex I.Unn about the demonstration at SF Pride this year against the presence of police and large corporations and the resistance nationally , … Continued
Women’s Magazine host Jovelyn Richards of the Space Between Us talks to Ashara Ekundayo owner of Ashara Ekundayo Gallery between the space between art galleries and women in particular Black womxn* and femmes. The gallery is located in the Uptown/KONO Arts District in Oakland, CA at 480 23rd Street. *womxn is an inclusive term that invites Black … Continued
This week on Women’s Magazine we explore the racial, cultural, economic and emotional roots of our obsession with thin bodies. Sabrina Strings, professor of Sociology at University of California, Irvine (and UC Berkeley alum), in her book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, brings a new lens to an old problem. … Continued
We talk about how women are coping with an escalation of government-sponsored violence in Haiti, and a political crisis we hear little about but which has been going on for over a year. Judith Mirkinson, president of the SF Bay Chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild and the Comfort Women Justice Coalition and Leslie Mullin, long-time member … Continued
Today on Women’s Magazine on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and as we approach the upcoming Pride parades and Marches we will listen to a previously presented documentary Beyond Gay Marriage: The Assimilation of the Radical Queer Movement, which looks at how the campaign for gay marriage was symptomatic of a move away from the … Continued
