Women’s Magazine – March 24, 2014
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.
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Women’s Magazine – March 17, 2014
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
Women’s Magazine – March 10, 2014
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
Women’s Magazine – March 3, 2014
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
Women’s Magazine – February 24, 2014
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
Womens Magazine – February 17, 2014
Excerpts of the film “Audre Lorde the Berlin Years 1984- 1992.”
Women’s Magazine – January 27, 2014
As President Obama announces a new task force to combat the epidemic of rape on college campuses, we’ll talk with historian Estelle Freedman about the history of how rape has been defined in the United States. And Jackie Cabasso of Western States Legal Foundation discusses a groundbreaking conference in Israel, the only nuclear power in … Continued
Working with Menstrual Discomforts – January 23, 2014
Sarah Holmes discusses herbal approaches to working with PMS and menstrual discomfort.