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Womens Magazine – May 1, 2017 – Hope and Dissent Through Writing and Action

L.A. Kauffman talks about the history of radical action in the U.S. beginning May Day 1971, when an audacious collection of radical announced that “If the government won’t stop the war, we’ll stop the government.”  The extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten action in Washington, D.C. leads into a discussion of movements from the anti-nuclear power protests of the 1970s and … Continued


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Womens Magazine – April 10, 2017

Emily Hobson, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left.  The book is a sprawling history of rarely acknowledged parts of the LGBT movement of the seventies, eighties and nineties. Through the work and words of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and … Continued


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Womens Magazine – April 3, 2017

Lucy Jane Bledsoe, author of the novel, A Thin Bright Line. Based on the (partially imagined) life of her aunt, Lucybelle Bledsoe, the novel weaves McCarthyism, climate change, civil rights and pre-Stonewall gay life into a rich tapestry. The New York Times calls it “an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” … Continued


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Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture

Today we talk to historian and author Bonnie Morris about her new book “The Disappearing L. Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture”  just released by  SUNY Press.  In The Disappearing L Morris explores the rise and fall of the hugely popular women-only concerts, festivals, bookstores, and support spaces built by and for Lesbians in the … Continued


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Womens Magazine – March 13, 2017

Liesl Tommy, Tony-nominated director of ECLIPSED, discusses her career and the show, which made history as the first Broadway show with an all-Black and all-female cast and creative team. ECLIPSED, the story of five women during the Liberian civil war, is playing at the Curran Theater in San Francisco through March 19. I will interview acclaimed … Continued