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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.
Retrospective and Prospective As we bid farewell to 2006, the KPFA Women’s Magazine brings you excerpts of previously aired shows in today’s first half hour, including topics of sexual assault; emigration; the arts, including performance, poetry, and music; militarisaiton; trafficking; and disability. In the latter half of this afternoon’s show, KPFA’s Women’s Magazine presents a … Continued
Women’s Magazine Holiday Special From the Independent Eye, we bring you an unforgettable special about birth-giving human and divine: Nativity A celebration of the joy, pain and wonder of childbirth. Twenty-six women describe their pregnancies, child-bearing and what follows. It’s about the sacredness of every birthing – a miracle, in their words, that’s magical, hellacious, … Continued
Kellia Rameras looks at the connection between hunting, meat eating and violence against women in Australia, Catalina Vasquez gives us a report on the struggle of hotel workers at the Woodfin Hotel in Emeryville, who will be having a mass demonstration today to protest the lack of implementation of the new living wage and the … Continued
Today on KPFA radio’s Women’s Magazine we talk to the editor and some contributors of the radical new anthology "Nobody Passes: Rejecting Gender and Conformity". "Nobody Passes" challenges the intersections of identity and how we pass to fit into the different norms required by our culture. We talk to the editor of this genderbending intervention … Continued
Theme: violence against women. Janelle White from San Francisco Women Against Rape; Joy Duenas from Gabriela Network; Athena Colby, author of a study on human rights abuses in Haiti; A special report on the trial of eleven women from the Raging Grannies arrested in Philadelphia last July for attempting to enlist. In recognition of International … Continued
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.
