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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.
The financial difficulties threatening the future of the largest lesbian cultural event, the San Francisco Dyke March. And we talk to the amazing artist Meshell Ndegeocello, one of the first African American queer musicians to make it to the mainstream. MeShell has been nominated for ten Grammys and has performed with artists such as: the … Continued
Women’s History Month Kicks Off on Women’s Magazine with: Women’s role in the Palestinian struggle for liberation, with Diana Buttu, former advisor to the PLO negotiation team; filmmaker Maher Sabry on LGBT participation in the Tahrir Square revolution; and Nell Myhand on the Mothers March Against Poverty, Criminalization and War coming up on Tuesday. Plus … Continued
Today on Women’s Magazine we celebrate Black History month by celebrating movements advocating for freedom and respect for oppressed communities. Preeti Mangala Shekar reports on International Solidarity Day in the Bay Area and Eryn Mathewson talks with Jean Denton-Thompson about Freedom Rides and the American Civil Rights Movement.
Malihe Razazan speaks with Tunisian filmmaker Kolthoum Bornaz about the current uprising as well as her film, The Other Half of the Sky. And Kate Raphael talks to doulas Kathy Woo, Cindy Whitman-Bradley and Desiree Tamsky about this emerging area of women’s health. We also fill you in on the crisis at Lyon-Martin clinic and … Continued
Yana Walton of Women’s Media Center discusses how media treatment of women candidates affects their ability to win and hold office, and how they might have contributed to the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. And Lisa Dettmer talks to emerging comic Karinda Dobbins about the challenges for women breaking into comedy. Dobbins will … Continued
Kate Raphael speaks with writer and organizer Courtney Desiree Morris about confronting sexism, misogyny and gender violence in progressive social movements, and with Brazilian feminist Professor Cecilia Sardenberg about Dilma Roussef, Brazil’s first woman president.
This Monday on Women’s Magazine, we look back at stories related to women and gender issues which were underreported in both the mainstream and progressive media in 2010. On Project Censored’s Top 25 list for 2010, not one story has to do with women and gender issues. But that doesn’t mean there was so … Continued
An exciting round table on women and work; Mama Juggs: 3 Generations of Healing Negative Body Image; and commentary on Wikileaks and bad sexual politics in progressive movements. After broadcast check out our blog http://kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com/
