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.
Val Ibarra speaks with Mimi Lok and Audrey Petty of the Mission-based Voice of Witness. Voice of Witness uses oral history to illuminate human rights crisis. In High-Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing, they tell the stories of the people displaced by the demolition of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, which reflects both gentrification and … Continued
Pennie Opal Plant and Paula Szloboda of Idle No More and Sunflower Alliance talk about the Connect the Dots Refinery Healing Walks, which are bringing attention to the environmental racism and climate damage of by the oil and gas industry in the East Bay. Then playwright Terry Baum’s one-woman show, “Hick: A Love Story,” explores … Continued
We listen to part of a herstory event organized by Old Lesbians Organizing for Change honoring lesbian she-roes of the past. Everyone knows about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, but how many of us knew Lorraine Hansberry was a member of the club? And many people may not even know the name Frances Perkins … Continued
Raising Resilient Children: Tara Dorabji talks with Dr. Shimi Kang, author of The Dolphin Way, and Dr. Ernest Swihart, author of The Manipulative Child: How to Regain Control and Raise Resilient, Resourceful and Independent Kids. And Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her memoir, Living With a Wild God, with Alicia Sierra.
Today Lisa Dettmer talks NJ4, Renata Hill and Patreese, two of the young african american lesbians who were incarcerated for fighting back after a homophobic attack, and the filmmaker Blair Dorosh-Walther who made the riveting documentary about their struggle “Out in the Night,” featured at the Frameline Film Festival next week. And Angela Wellman talks … Continued
PHENOMENAL WOMEN: As we all mourn the immortal Maya Angelou, we also pay tribute to some lesser known feminist sheroes: African American feminist historian Stephanie Camp, who died in April at age 46, and psychologist Sandra Bem, whose work helped put an end to sex-segregated employment advertising and open up more careers to women. We … Continued
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
