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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.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is here again – and corporate-sponsored pink ribbons still don’t provide women’s health care. We listen to a portion of my interview with Karuna Jagger of Breast Cancer Action about what’s wrong with the whole concept of a breast cancer awareness. Then I speak in depth with Cecile Pineda, whose new … Continued
Excerpts of Alicia Garza’s Speech: Building a World Where Black Lives Matter – Women’s History Month Keynote Address to University of Southern Maine. Click Here to Donate to KPFA Today
Excerpts of the audio book Radical Self-Acceptance: A Buddhist Guide to Freeing Yourself from Shame, by Tara Brash. Click Here to Donate to KPFA Today
Accessibility Through Art We talk with three women who are exploring ways to make their commitments to social justice and transformation more accessible: novelists Ellen Bravo and Diana Block and dharma teacher and musician Eve Decker. Ellen Bravo is the author of Again and Again, which looks at the issue of date rape on college … Continued
Solidarity and Historical Memory As the prime minister of Hungary announces that his country will not accept Muslim refugees, Professor Paola Bacchetta talks with Michèle Sibony, commentator and spokesperson for the French Jewish Union for Peace about Islamophobia and claims of rising anti-Semitism in France. Sibony locates the roots of French Muslim resentment against Jews … Continued
We spend the hour with Nina Serrano, prize-winning poet, activist, filmmaker, playwright, and radio host. Besides producing programs on politics and culture for KPFA over the last four decades, Nina is cofounder of the Mission Cultural Center and former director of San Francisco Poetry in the Schools. She was the first foreign woman to travel … Continued
Jeannine Etter interviews Community Activist, Black Lives Matter member and National Poetry Slam champion Theo EJ Wilson, on his viral video “In Defense of Black Women” where Mr. Wilson challenges the toxic narrative that Black women are the sole cause of the destruction of the Black Family. Then Rebecca Jordan-Young, Tow Associate Professor of Women’s … Continued
As the issue of Same Sex marriage is covered widely in the media “Beyond Gay Marriage” takes an a critical look at the Gay Marriage movement and asks : Why is gay marriage the primary issue of the Gay Community ? And is Same Sex marriage really the issue most LGBT people are interested in … Continued
Challenging Dehumanization We talk with Margo Perin, founder and director of Write & Rise, about how she uses narrative to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, at risk youth, as well as police and their families, heal from trauma. Perin is the author of the memoir The Opposite of Hollywood, and contributing editor of the … Continued
Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, discusses the construction of Black girlhood in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, and what it tells us about the intersections of race and gender. She also talks about Black Lives Matter, why it’s rewriting 2016 and … Continued
