Working with Menstrual Discomforts – January 23, 2014
Sarah Holmes discusses herbal approaches to working with PMS and menstrual discomfort.
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Women’s Magazine – January 20, 2014
From Sprouts and Joy of Resistance at WBAI comes the fascinating and little known history of how women’s exclusion from the March on Washington led to the founding of the National Organization for Women. And Freedom Rider Jean Denton-Thompson recounts her experience of one of the defining moments of the freedom struggle to Women’s Magazine’s … Continued
Women’s Magazine: Helping Ourselves, Helping Each Other – January 13, 2014
Mickey Eliason discusses Doing It For Ourselves, a health & wellness program for lesbian & bisexual women over 40. How grassroots health educators turned the federal craze for stamping out obesity into an opportunity to promote community, self-love, fun and health at any weight, shape and size. And Tara Dorabji talks about Dear Sister: Letters … Continued
Womens Magazine – Jehane Noujaim’s THE SQUARE
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
Women’s Magazine 2013 Wrap Up – December 30, 2013
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
Women’s Magazine – December 2, 2013
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
Women’s Magazine – November 25, 2013
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