Womens Magazine
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.
Your Own Health and Fitness – The Hostage Brain
Neuroscientist Bruce McEwen, PhD, author of The End of Stress as We Know It discusses why the brain is the central organ of stress and adaptation and what happens to it under stress (good, tolerable, and toxic) and how early life adversity has lifelong effects on brain and body.
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
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
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
Women’s Magazine – April 12, 2010
In observance of Administrative Professionals Day, formerly known as National Secretaries' Day, Kate Raphael talks with office workers fighting for union recognition at Hastings College of Law, and with Linda Blum, author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement. Plus more feminist poetry for National Poetry Month and great music … Continued
Wome’s Magazine – Focus on Women’s Health
This week on Women's Magazine, strategies for preventing breast and cervical cancers. Eryn Matthewson talks with Dr. Barbara Brenner, founder and Executive Director of Breast Cancer Action, about the new mammography guidelines in this country. And Preeti Shekar interviews Dr. Kay Taylor of Prevention International about a transnational perspective on prevention of cervical cancer. After … Continued
Women’s Magazine – March 29, 2010
Two interviews about conventions and marches that are important to keeping women's issues on the front burner. Lisa Dettmer will talk to feminist activist and scholar Judith Ezekiel about the herstory of International Women's Day which was reactivated in the 1960's by Laura X right here in Berkeley, and about why it is important to … Continued
Womens Magazine – March 22, 2010
This Monday, Women's Magazine features a conversation with Starhawk, renowned women's spirituality teacher, author and activist. Kate Raphael talks with Starhawk about the reinvention of goddess worship in the context of the women's movement, her new children's book The Last Wild Witch, and the recent Gaza Freedom March. Also, Gabrielle Wilson interviews Sumbul Ali-Karamali, author … Continued
Women’s Magazine – March 15, 2010
As the rains begin in Haiti and public health disaster is threatened Lisa Dettmer talks to well known Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat about how the Haitian American community is responding to the Earth quake in Haiti and with Beverely Bell, editor of " Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance" and … Continued