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Women’s Magazine – July 8, 2013

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


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Womens Magazine – July 1, 2013

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


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Women’s Magazine – June 24, 2013

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


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Women’s Magazine – June 17, 2013

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


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Women’s Magazine: Bangladesh, Breast Cancer and the Right to Self-Defense – June 10, 2013

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


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Women’s Magazine: Ecofeminism, Animal Rights and Factory Farming – April 22, 2013

In the first half hour, Sharon Sobotta interviews Katie Cantral, Executive Director of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition.  In the second half, we hear past interviews with two ecofeminist foremothers who have since died: Lisa Dettmer speaks with Marti Kheel, founder of Feminists for Animal Rights and author of Nature’s Ethics; and Preeti Shekar sits … Continued