Womens Magazine – April 11, 2016
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
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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.
Universalists like to say art transcends identity, but today’s guests insist it illuminates it. We speak with Sarah Schulman, whose new novel, The Cosmopolitans, is an updating of Balzac’s classic Cousin Bette. Schulman sets the story in the Greenwich Village of the 1950s, using the story to look at intersections of racism, sexism, homophobia and … Continued
Womens Magazine – March 28, 2016: Two Views of Sex Discrimination
We look at the life and legacy of Black feminist, legal scholar, civil rights activist, lesbian and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray. Murray cofounded the National Organization for Women and the Congress on Racial Equality and her research was credited by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a groundbreaking sex discrimination case. She was gender nonconforming and had … Continued
Womens Magazine – March 21, 2016
Central America is not in the mainstream news as much as it was in the 1980s, but U.S. support for repressive regimes and destabilization of populist governments continues. In 2009, after a military coup ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, Hillary Clinton campaigned actively among U.S. allies in Latin America to prevent … Continued
Today on Women’s Magazine we talk to Sam Lai and Margo Okazawa- Rey, two of the organizers of the upcoming 3 day event, “Celebrating Grace Lee Boggs: a Century of Love and Struggle.” Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, Grace Lee Boggs challenged a new generation to throw … Continued
Womens Magazine – March 7, 2016
Hillary vs. Trump? Should feminists even bother? Writer and rebel Sue Katz says she isn’t giving up on Bernie Sanders just yet, and talks about Hillary’s feminism of privilege. Katz is the author of Thanks But No Thanks: The voter’s guide to Sarah Palin and Lillian’s Last Affair. Then Golden Thread Productions artistic director Torange … Continued
Womens Magazine – February 29, 2016
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 – February 22, 2016
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 – February 15, 2016
On this week’s edition of Women’s Magazine, we talk with two groups who are working to address inequities in pregnancy and childbirth. First, Lisa Marie Rollins talks with Dr. Julia Chinyere Oparah, one of the editors of the new anthology, Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth. Oparah and co-editor Dr. Alicia D. Bonaparte are … Continued
Womens Magazine – February 8, 2016
Lisa Dettmer talks to writers Roqayah Chamseddine about the Bourgeois Feminst’s who criticize women for not supporting the election of Hilary Clinton and to Bobby London, who in her article “When White Men Rape” looks at the double standard afforded David Bowie and other white celebrities who rape. And Lisa Marie Rollins talks to Helen … Continued