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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.
Theme: women and labor, organizing. In today’s labor day special show, we talk to Carla Zombro featured in the documentary Labor Women, a film about the new generation of women transforming the labor movement. and Andrea Delandorf, Executive Director of the SEIU, speaks to the struggle of janitorial workers in the not-so-magical kingdom of Disney. … Continued
Theme: Feminist lesbian art; globalization. On today’s show, we have an interview by artist Kim Ono with three local lesbians of color artists and an interview by Eileen Javar with author Rhacel Salazar Parrenas (author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work and Children of Global Migration) about the effects of globalization on … Continued
Theme: pop culture, hip hop. Eileen Javar co-hosts today’s show with Jennifer Argyle on women artists and scholars in hip-hop communities who are making a difference. First, Medusa– known as the Angela Davis of hip-hop gives her views and thoughts about women in hip-hop. And next, Gwendolyn Pough, Associate Professor at Syracuse University, talks about … Continued
Today, on the women’s magazine we feature the new work of performance artist Joveylyn Richards "Pussy will sell a lot longer than cotton!" and interview community activist and performance artist Aryeh Shell about the multi-media women’s group the Herstories Project. And we will hear a reading of the poem "The Claim" by Palestinian-American Lisa Suhair … Continued
We will be featuring two premiums you cannot live without ! First, we will feature an interview with noted feminist scholar Susan J. Douglas author of The Mommy Myth, The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women. Douglas introduces us to "the new momism" trend in American culture that is making women feel … Continued
Theme: Health, reproductive rights. On today’s show we celebrate the female body and look at the hard won respect it deserves. We’ll see how the body is regarded – how it’s made too much of or is utterly ignored. We’ll hear from pro-choice advocates about the challenges of getting and funding late-term abortions. We’ll then … Continued
A cursory look at the lives of several women intimately involved in the fight for human rights and self-determination of Afrikan peoples. From ante-bellum-era lynchings to modern-day police terrorism, these sistah-warriors have used every method at their disposal to agitate and advocate for, and to secure the rights of Black people, and all humans who … Continued
In recognition of Gay Pride this month the Women’s magazine focuses on two lesbians from the Middle east and the Dyke March. We interview organizers of this years Dyke March in San Francisco about the political nature of the DYKE march, an alternative to the commercialized gay march. We also talk to Lesbian feminist activist … Continued
