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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.
Preeti Shekar of KPFA radio’s Women’s Magazine talks to Noble peace prize winner and author Wangari Maathai about her new memoir, her struggle for human rights, the rights of women and the environmental movement in Kenya. And Catalina Vazquez talks to two women from Guam, one of the last colonies in the world, about the … Continued
Maxine Doogan talks to two experts, UC Santa Barbara Professor Grace Chang and graduate student and sex worker rights activist, Holly, about the recent sex trafficking series in the SF Chronicle and examines the validity of the claims made and the U.S. policies around sex trafficking. And Julieth Cifuentes talks to Gertudis Monzon about her … Continued
In recognition of National Adoption Month, Women’s Magazine will feature the voices of women of color adoptees from the new anthology "outsider within: writing on transracial adoption." Women’s Magazine will talk to co-editor Julia Sudbury and contributor Sandra White Hawk about this ground breaking anthology which for the first time brings together the voices of … Continued
Theme: health, domestic violence. New treatments for breast cancer with Susan Love; different women’s experiences with dealing with domestic violence. Today we will look at two issues together that affect the majority of women in the U.S. – breast cancer and domestic violence. The rate of breast cancer in the U.S. is amongst the highest … Continued
Eve Ensler and Robin Morgan special.
The Women’s Magazine will be discussing the recently published book The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology which brings together the vital writings of 32 activists and scholars discussing innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world fighting to eliminate violence against women at home and the world … Continued
This Monday the Women’s Magazine talks to two generations of African American women musicians, Bernice Reagon Johnson, co-founder of the internationally acclaimed African American women’s a cappela ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, and her daughter, musician, and collaborator Toshi Reagon.
Theme: feminist art. Highlights: The Kearny Street Workshop’s presentation of the Eight Annual APAture Window on the Aarp of the Asian Pacific Americans; a new one-woman show by local artist Jovelyn Richards showing this weekend at New College in San Francisco; poems by South Asian women; a tribute to Sandra Tellis, a woman who was … Continued
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
