Today  hear a recent talk by Professor Sarah Haley about her new groundbreaking book “No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity.” Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers how black women were imprisoned and brutalized in the late 19th century and early … Continued


Womens Magazine

Womens Magazine – February 13, 2017

Aqueila Lewis talks with Candice Elder, Laksmi Lagares and Maliha James of the East Oakland Collective. The East Oakland Collective is a cohort of millennials (and other generations) invested in the state of deep East Oakland.   Then Julieta Kusnir of La Raza Chronicles/Cronicas de la Raza interviews Juana Alicia, whose prodigious body of work … Continued


The Bay Area is rising up to say NO to the Anti-Islamic, Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Woman onslaught from the White House. We hear voices form the Women’s March last week and this weekend’s massive protests at SF International Airport. We also talk with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi about how San Francisco State University students and faculty are … Continued


This week on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we look at some of the marches, protests and actions happening this week around the issue of patriarchy and gender violence. We talk to Jadelynn Stahl, cofounder of Disclose, about the creative  intervention they are planning for January 19th at 6:30 pm at Oscar Grant Plaza to protest … Continued