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Harvesting Human Eggs & International Surrogacy: Risks to Health & Human Rights Discussing California AB 926 (on Governor Brown’s desk as of August 5th): A bill that would repeal the current limits on compensation for women who ‘donate’ their eggs to research, and elevate it to $5-10K. Framed as a ‘women’s equity’ bill, it neglects … Continued
In the first half hour, we discuss the uses and usefulness of prisoner hunger strikes, from Palestine to California, with Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, Palestinian Human Rights Association. In the second half, Erica Bridgeman talks with Ian Waynsler and Stella Lawson, organizers of the first ever queer astrology conference, coming up next weekend … Continued
Blogger and organizer Shimaa Helmy, who was involved in the January 25 revolution in Egypt from Day One, shares her concerns about the military overthrow of Mohammed Morsi and the epidemic of sexual violence against women protesters. Then we sit down with long-time lesbian and social justice activist Patricia Jackson to discuss her new memoir, … Continued
Paola Bacchetta talks to three Queers of color about radical Lesbians and Queers of color organizing in Europe. We talk to UC San Diego professor Fatima El-Tayeb who is the author of European Others. Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, writer, activist and scholar Jin Haritaworn who co-founded SUSPECT, a trans and queer of color anti-violence … Continued
Lisa Dettmer talks with Sarah Schulman about the cooptation of international queer institutions to “pinkwash” Israeli apartheid; Kate Raphael sits down with Mickey Eliason, Ph.Dyk, to discuss the groundbreaking Dyke Diagnostic Manual (Edition III, Revised). Plus poetry by Tai Rocket & Kai Green, trans men of color, on intersecting identities. And updates on protests at … Continued
Author Joy Castro and publisher/author Brooke Warner on discrimination against women in publishing; Pam Peniston of Queer Cultural Center and Sean Dorsey & Shawna Virago of Fresh Meat Productions preview offerings at this year’s National Queer Arts Festival; Myriam Fougere discusses her film, “Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution”. We’ll also have a brief conversation about the … Continued
Tinku Ishtiaq, cofounder of South Asian LGBT organization Trikone and former co-chair of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission discusses the situation for LGBT people in Bangladesh, and the impact of the twin crises in factory disasters and militant religious opposition to the government. We also look at the life and work of … Continued
Global Val Ibarra of Mutiny Radio hosts a showcase of women poets who share how they came to be poets and how they have been manifesting community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meet the poets and the poetry of mothers, teachers, feminists, healers, revolutionary poets for change and a library entrepreneur. Meet the Poets from this showcase NOW at … Continued
