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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.
Art as transformation: Kate Raphael talks with filmmaker and novelist Lucia Puenzo, whose film THE GERMAN DOCTOR (WAKOLDA), adapted from her novel, opens next week. Tara Dorabji talks with Shailja Patel, whose one-woman show Migritude, is now a book published by Kaya Press, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week with a reading at City … Continued
As most mainstream media ignore the UN Report on Climate Change, we talk with Carla Perez, Doria Robinson and Ellen Choy of Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project about the concepts of climate justice, food justice and resilience-based organizing. And comedians Karinda Dobbins and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan preview their upcoming show, Stand Up Sit Down, where … Continued
Research as Ceremony: Decolonizing Ethnic Studies is the theme of the upcoming National Ethnic Studies Association conference, to be held at Mills College this weekend. We preview the conference with some of the organizers. Corina Dross challenges the concept of “self-care” as well as the capitalist paradigm of “care work.” Plus live music and conversation … Continued
Forced marriage in the U.S.? Researchers and activists Vidya Sri and Darakshan Raja explain that the practice is more common than we think, cutting across all classes, geographies, ethnicities and religions.
Big news about mammograms — or is it? What to make of the newly released long-term study from Canada suggesting that screening mammography, contrary to everything we’ve heard from pink ribbon-funded public education campaigns, does not save lives? We talk with Karuna Jaggar of Breast Cancer Action and Lochlann Jain, author of MALIGNANT: How Cancer … Continued
We talk with Kristina Wilfore, former director of the National Democratic Institute in Ukraine and founder of Women Lead, about women in the Ukrainian uprising. Then Jewels Smith, author of political satiric comic series (H)afrocentric joins us to talk about the recently released volume 3; and Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch, discusses … Continued
How does a young woman become a superstar? We talk with Iraq War veteran and aspiring world dominator and ukelele superstar Emily Yates, and with Laurie Nobilette, whose daughter, MK, is a contender on American Idol. And we speak with former Army Colonel Ann Wright, who resigned her commission in protest of the Iraq war, … Continued
We talk with Mariame Kaba, co-author of “Interlopers on Social Media: Feminism, Women of Color and Oppression,” about the debate over “toxic twitter feminism.” Kaba calls out the anti-black rhetoric of white online feminism and challenges us to do better than false claims of “safety” and “inclusion.” And labor activist Maria Guillen talks about her … Continued
Excerpts of the film “Audre Lorde the Berlin Years 1984- 1992.”
