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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.
Kate Raphael talks with Egyptian filmmaker Jehane Noujaim about her award-winning film THE SQUARE and the role of women in the Egyptian uprising. Noujaim’s previous films include THE CONTROL ROOM and EGYPT, WE ARE WATCHING. Then Tara Dorabji talks with midwife Treesa McLean about how new California laws governing licensing of midwives affect access to … Continued
2013 was the year feminism went big in the mainstream, with Cheryl Sandberg and Beyonce claiming the mantle of feminism. Is this a positive, a negative, or a mixed blessing? Women’s Magazine producers weigh in on the highs, lows, promises and problems of 2013 from the perspective of gender, sexuality and liberation. In the second … Continued
What makes a writer feminist, and what makes feminists writers? Gayle Greene, author of The Poetics of Change: The Fiction of Doris Lessing discusses one of the iconic women writers of the twentieth century, who sometimes rejected the label of feminist, but inspired a generation of feminist readers and writers. And authors Dorothy Allison and … Continued
We speak with science fiction author and blogger Kameron Hurley, author of God’s War, Rapture and Infidel; and playwright Mona Mansour, whose play “Urge For Going,” the second in a trilogy, tells the story of Palestinian refugees in a Lebanese camp. And in honor of Thanksgiving, we hear excerpts of speeches by Arundathi Roy and … Continued
Eating disorders are not only a teenage problem. Up to 4% of women over 50 struggle with anorexia, binge eating, bulimia or another type of eating disorder, and only 1 in 10 of those who suffer from these conditions seek treatment for them. Though people with eating disorders feel shame, they are medical conditions with … Continued
We hear from Indian feminist activist Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, a group that organizes poor women workers against feudal violence and state repression against women. We hear the talk she gave at UC Berkeley this September called Women Want Freedom — Shifting the Terms of the Debate which is … Continued
Author Eileen Pollack, one of the first women to get a BS in Physics from Yale, looks at why thirty-five years later, there are still so few US women in science. Iranian American playwright Torange Yeghezarian discusses her play “444 Days”, in which a former American hostage and one of his captors meet again twenty-five … Continued
