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.
Women activists and journalists today, with Joyce Lynn, Lynn Pentz and Barbara Honegger, critics of the Administration’s official story of the events of 911 in the first half hour, Sonali Kohatkar, co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission on 911 as a pretext for war in Afghanistan. Spoken word by Ani diFranco, the Arab Film Festival’s … Continued
This Monday, September 4th, the Women’s Magazine on KPFA radio will celebrate women workers on Labor Day. We interview the directors of the film "Maquilapolis" showing at the Madcat Women’s Film Festival on September 21st, a film about the struggle of Mexican women to gain basic workplace rights. And we will speak to Leticia Hernandez … Continued
Theme: women and philanthropy, media. Highlights: A talk by Kavita Ramdas, head of the San Francisco-based Global Fund for Women; Jill Freeberg on the women in Oaxaca occupying a Mexican government owned radio and TV station and broadcasting their own voices over the air for two weeks. As head of the San Francisco Global Fund … Continued
Women’s Magazine on KPFA Radio features women’s voices on the crisis in the Middle East. We talk to Israeli Professor and author Tanya Reinhart about the new Middle East that the U.S. and Israel are trying to create. We also talk to Israeli women who are part of the Women’s Peace movement in Israel about … Continued
We will feature voices of women speaking out against the war in the Middle East and the invasion of Lebanon and Palestine. First, we will talk to Iraqi activist Haifa Zangana about the current political situation in occupied Iraq, the resistance against the occupation, and the demonstration against the recent Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Then … Continued
Host Jackie Barshak will discuss body image acceptance, fat discrimination and liberation, the politics of body size and shape oppression, the tyranny of slenderness and the diet industry with guests Laura Fraser, author of "Losing It:America’s Obsession with Weight and the Industry that Feeds on it"; cultural anthropologist Margaret McKenzie, and Colorlines Magazine’s Tammy Johnson. … Continued
KPFA’s Women’s Magazine will look at two women spiritual teachers, Arrina Weisman and Cheryl Dawson. Arinna Weisman has studied insight meditation with Ruth Denison and Thich Nhat Hanh and in many other traditions. Locally, she leads LGBT meditation retreats at Spirit Rock and she is the co-author of the book, "A Beginner’s Guide to Insight … Continued
Theme: Women’s Studies. Today’s show will feature two different talks presented at the 27th National Women’s Studies Association Conference held in Oakland last week. The theme of this year’s conference was Locating Women’s Studies: Formations of Power and Resistance and looked at mothering as resistance, aspects of empire building and globalization, race theory and feminist … Continued
In celebration of Queer Pride we discuss whether the Gay Marriage movement is really the direction Queers want to move in. We look at some of the conservative, and even racist aspects of the "Gay Marriage" movement and examine what a more progressive movement would look like. We talk to N.Y.U. Professor Lisa Duggan, author … Continued
Radical feminism need not be humorless, and to prove it Jackie Barshak spoke to three funny women: Sherry Glaser, Aundre Herron and Betsy Salkind. We play clips from their performances as they talk about what makes us laugh. Also, Zeina Zaatari speaks to Eileen Kuttab from the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University about … Continued
