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.
Eryn Matthewson speaks with Dr. Brittney Cooper and others about the controversial film, “The Help”; Kate Raphael talks with Lynn Hershmann Leeson about her documentary, “!Women Art Revolution” and Preeti Shekar speaks with Aniruddhan Vasudevan about his upcoming show Brihannalla, part of the Queer Eye South Asian LGBT film and art fest.
Today we discuss how local bay area organizations are helping women worldwide gain rights to water, land and basic human rights. Then we take a look at female infanticide in India and how to prevent it.
On today’s show, Kate Raphael speaks with NOW President Terry O’Niell about the debt ceiling debate, and to former prosecutor and legal blogger Debbie Hines, about the Casey Anthony and Strauss-Kahn cases. Then Eryn Mathewson discusses nuclear disarmament activism with independent policy analyst, Elena Ilina Nicklasson. We close with event updates from the Women’s Community … Continued
We speak with author & performer Conscious about her groundbreaking one-woman show based on her book Getting Unstuck: Homeless to Hollywood. Conscous will talk about her extraordinary career and the invisibility of male to female to female HIV transmission. We’ll also speak with Taeva Scheffler of Prison Activist Resource Center about how women are organizing … Continued
Today on our show, we hear from women veterans about how art can help them manage and cope with the impact of deployment. Later we revisit the Queer Women of Color Film Festival and hear different perspectives on how combining art and activism. Then close with event updates from the women’s community calendar.
Kate Raphael talks with Lebanese-American cartoonist Jennifer Camper and Syrian American activist Alia Ghabra about the relevation that the popular Syrian American lesbian blogger Amina Arraf was really a white heterosexual man. Then, Kellia Ramares asks the question “Why must we pay to live on the planet we’re born on?” She talks with Genevieve Vaughan, … Continued
As Same-Sex Marriage protection is extended in more and more states and captivates the attention of the media and the LGBT community, radical Queers are asking, Why is gay marriage the primary issue of the Gay Community and what effect does the funding and emphasis on Same Sex Marriage have on other crucial life and … Continued
Today we honor Juneteenth and Pride Month by featuring panel discussions on the criminalization of African American girls and on how art and activism are tied to the Queer Women of Color Film Festival. We close with updates from the Women’s Community Calendar.
Lisa Dettmer talks with author and psychotherapist Harriet Fraad about how the Great Recession is transforming gender roles within marriage; and Kate Raphael speaks with journalist Lauren Wolfe about a new report documenting rampant sexual violence against journalists. Plus the Women’s Calendar.
