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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.
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
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
In June 2011, Sandra Bagaria was in an online romance with a Syrian revolutionary named Amina Arraf. Then Amina disappeared, and someone told Sandra she had been kidnapped by agents of the regime. Sandra mobilized along with gay activists all over the world to demand Amina’s release. But then everything unraveled, and Sandra learned that … Continued
Plowshares activist Sister Megan Rice, the 83-year-old nun recently freed from federal prison, talks about activism, nuclear weapons, feminism and the Church; Lina Nilsson discusses how to attract more women engineers.
Today on Women’s Magazine we have an encore presentation of Lisa Dettmer Radio documentary Beyond Gay Marriage. 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 … Continued
Gentrification, policing and the creation of gay place-based communities: a conversation with Christina Hanhardt. Hanhardt is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence. Also: Women’s Empowerment Day at Hip Hop For Change’s Second Annual Independent Hip Hop Festival on … 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.
Queers and cultural revolution: Not all queers just want to get married. We preview Outside The Frame: Queers For Palestine Film Festival, and pay tribute to singer Ronnie Gilbert, whose career was derailed by McCarthyism in the fifties, only to have a resurgence in the feminist and lesbian music scene of the eighties.
Host Lisa Dettmer talks to feminists Katha Pollitt and Meghan Murphy about the recent vote in Ireland to legalize same sex marriage. How is it that Ireland is now touted as in the vanguard of progressive politics after legalizing same sex marriage while abortion is still illegal in Ireland except when a women’s life is … Continued
