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Women’s Magazine – June 21, 2010

Women's Magazine  continues our special LGBT Pride Programing.  We  will talk to lesbian feminist activist and writer Sara Shulman about her new book "Ties That Bind: Familial Homphobia and Its Consequence " a book that explains how it is  that our  families are  often the real source of homophobia.  And we will pay tribute to … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – Queers reject Brand Israel; Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat presents Women Without Men

Kate Raphael talks with queer activists from Palestine, Toronto and San Francisco about the Israeli government's efforts to win support from the lesbian/gay/bi/trans community during this Pride season.  Simin Yahaghi talks with Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat about her spectacular new film, "Women Without Men," and Fabled Asp founder Laura Rifkin tells us why 2010 Is … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – June 7, 2010

LIsa Dettmer talks to  Pamela  Peniston, Executive Director of the Queer Cultural Center,  about the upcoming  Queer Arts Festival events,  a festival that is   one of the largest and most cutting edge LGBT arts  festivals in the world with hundreds of films, performances and art shows in various venues in the Bay Area throughout … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – May 31, 2010

Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity has brought the issue of the food we eat and who has access to healthy food to our national attention. But here in the Bay Area, women have been creating grassroots solutions to the food security crisis in our cities for a number of years.  On Women's Magazine, Rivian … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – May 3, 2010

We’ve all heard about the recent church sex abuse scandals, but there are many more we haven’t heard about – notably those cases the victims are women.  Kate Raphael interviews Angela Bonavoglia, author of Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading The Fight to Change the Church.  Nina Serrano and Yvette Hochberg present Flower in … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – April 26, 2010

Tune in to Women's Magazine for a poetry month special focus on the book Indivisible, a new anthology of contemporary South Asian American poetry by 3 bay area based women poets. Also a discussion with Masum Momaya from AWID on feminist technologies and use of Information and Communication Technologies in Women's movement building,  music and … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – Palestine, Cambodia and Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Malihe Razzazan talks with Susan Abulhawa, author of Mornings in Jenin, a powerful narrative of the Palestinian refugee experience.  Preeti Shekar speaks with Cambodian human rights and feminist activist Mu Sochua, and Kate Raphael talks to Janelle White about sexual assault prevention and next weekend's Walk Against Rape. Monday at 1 p.m. on KPFA, 94.1 … Continued