1:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
On KPFA radio’s Women’s Magazine this Memorial day Monday May 26th at 1pm we will be presenting a special Memorial Day’s tribute by daughters to the Mother’s in their lives and around the world, from Argentina, to Palestine to Iran and in the U.S. , to mothers who have survived the hidden war on … Continued
Canadian Chinese gossip maven Elaine Lui discusses her new memoir, LISTEN TO THE SQUAWKING CHICKEN. Then we speak with Sigi Arnejo, Genevieve Erin O’Brien and Kay Cuajunco, LGBT artists featured in EATING CULTURES, an Asian American multimedia art exhibition exploring food, identity and migration; and we preview women-directed and gender-oriented films at this year’s SF … Continued
In this Earth Day special, we listen to a talk by Indian environmentalist activist and scholar Vandana Shiva and a 2006 interview with the late Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement. And we hear voices from the first Latino Poetry Festival and young radical women poets.
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
