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Women’s Magazine – June 12, 2006

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


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Women’s Magazine – June 5, 2006

Women’s Magazine talks to two organizers of the art show "Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States," currently showing at New College, Rickie Solinger and Helene Vosters, as well as two formerly incarcerated mothers: Angela Wilson, who now teaches theater in jails and prisons, and Linda Walker, an activist with All of Us or … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – May 15, 2006

This Monday May 15th at 1pm on KPFA radio 94.1 the Women’s Magazine will be offering the film "Raise Your Voice" as a thank you gift. This film is a moving documentary about the all-female African American a cappella group "Sweet Honey in the Rock." Sweet Honey is an experience like no other. Together for … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – May 8, 2006

This Monday, May 8th on Women’s Magazine we will talk to two independent women filmakers about their films that will be showing in the Bay Area this week. Preeti Shekar talks to Linda Mandrayar, about her film "White Rainbow", a film that explores the oppression and exploitation of widows in Indian society and will be … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – May 1, 2006

For May Day, this Monday May 1st, KPFA’s Women’s Magazine will celebrate immigrant women and look at some issues facing imigrant women in these anti-immigrant and anti-worker times. We will have an interview with Marisa Franco from San Francisco’s "POWER" about their Women Workers Project and an interview with Carmela Bramila, an organizer with the … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – April 17, 2006

Women correspondents who covered the war in Iraq will join us by phone. May Ying Welch, freelancing with Al-Jezeera, Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times London, Hannah Allam with Knight Ridder and others will talk about the perspective that women bring to the coverage of the war. Marking the 57th anniversary of KPFA we host … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – April 10, 2006

Theme: feminist poetry. Celebrating National Poetry Month with Sonia Sanchez; poems by Iranian poet Fallojah Ah Assad and former San Francisco Poet Laureate devorah major; an interview with playwright and author, J. California Cooper. Sonia Sanchez writes poetry with revolutionary fervor and intensity. Women’s Magazine presents an interview with this prolific writer and poet who … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – April 3, 2006

This April 3rd on Women’s Magazine we will talk to documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto director of "Divorce Iranian Style" and "Pride of Place" just two of her many films being shown at the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley this April 13th thur April 15th. Kim Longinotto’s direct, compassionate documentaries take us into the often inaccessible … Continued


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Women’s Magazine – March 20, 2006

Theme: Middle-Eastern women’s voices. Today’s show features voices of several women from the Middle East including Malalai Joya, an Afghani woman in the U.S. speaking on the oppressive conditions in her country; an excerpt from the book Dancing in the No Fly Zone: A Women’s Journey Through Iraq by Hadani Ditmars; Bonnie Bone on the … Continued