Womens Magazine
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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.
Women’s Magazine – September 16, 2013
Ramah Kudaimi on Do’s & Don’ts for Progressives on Syria; Gabriella Heinsheimer, medical director of Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic; and a tribute to disabled poet, performer and cultural activist Cheryl Marie Wade.
Womens Magazine – September 9, 2013
The recent coming out of Chelsea Manning and look at the how transpeople especially transgender women of color are criminalized and brutalized by the prison industrial complex. We talk to Sasha Buchert from the Transgender Law Center about the high rate of sexual assault and incarceration of trans people of color and the laws governing … Continued
Women’s Magazine – August 26, 2013
It’s long been said that there were no women invited to speak at the March on Washington. One woman was invited, however: Myrlie Evers, widow of Medger Evers. When Ms. Evers could not attend, Daisy Bates, a leader in the Arkansas NAACP and of the Little Rock school desegregation, was asked to speak instead. Ms. … Continued
Women’s Magazine: Art & Politics Do Mix – August 12, 2013
Cecile Pineda, author of Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step-by-Step and Love Queen of the Amazon, talks about Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, and what we must do to combat the nuclear threat. Then comics Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Shazia Mirza put a hilarious spin on Indian and Pakistani Independence Day, doing comedy for their … Continued
Women’s Magazine – August 5, 2013
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