Guests: Author, educator and activist Jaclyn Friedman discusses her new book, UNSCREWED, which documents groundbreaking work being done to change the sexual culture. Juana Alicia, one of the visionary artists who created the Maestrapeace mural that wraps the San Francisco Women’s Building, and Women’s Building Executive Director Teresa Mejia. Gene Nora Stumbough Jessen, one of the Mercury 13, women who … Continued
Sandy Butler, coauthor of IT NEVER ENDS: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters, talks about the challenges for women in remaining close – but not too close – to their daughters as they age. Butler is the author of two previous books, Conspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest; and the Lambda award-winning Cancer in Two Voices. IT NEVER ENDS was … Continued
On today’s show we discuss young people transforming the world through poetry. And later we discuss the new art exhibit, Game Recognize Game.
Health worker Amanda Bloom reports from Puerto Rico, where 80% of people still are without power. She describes what it’s like navigating a destroyed city with no lights or landmarks, and provides information about cool stuff people are doing. Then public historian Max Dashu discusses the secret history of witches in Europe during the early Christian period. … Continued
We speak with Reem Assil, who was a community organizer for ten years before deciding that her true passion is food. Reem started Reem’s California, an Arab street corner bakery in Oakland’s Fruitvale district, with the help of several community initiatives including the Women’s Initiative for Self-Employment, La Cocina and ICA Fund Good Jobs. And in … Continued
Six brilliant women read their letters from RADICAL HOPE: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times: Jewelle Gomez, Faith Adiele, Aya de Leon, Reyna Grande, Kate Schatz and of course, editor and visionary, Carolina De Robertis. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll want to give money to support Women’s Magazine! Thanks to our friends … Continued
We talk with Bo (Rita D.) Brown, who spent eight years in prison for her work as part of the revolutionary George Jackson Brigade. A white working-class butch from rural Oregon, Brown was known as the “Gentleman Bank Robber,” for a number of years in Seattle. Brown talks about coming out, becoming politicized and her … Continued
Liesl Tommy, Tony-nominated director of ECLIPSED, discusses her career and the show, which made history as the first Broadway show with an all-Black and all-female cast and creative team. ECLIPSED, the story of five women during the Liberian civil war, is playing at the Curran Theater in San Francisco through March 19. I will interview acclaimed … Continued
Aqueila Lewis talks with Candice Elder, Laksmi Lagares and Maliha James of the East Oakland Collective. The East Oakland Collective is a cohort of millennials (and other generations) invested in the state of deep East Oakland. Then Julieta Kusnir of La Raza Chronicles/Cronicas de la Raza interviews Juana Alicia, whose prodigious body of work … Continued
Kate talks with Bonnie Burton about Crafting With Feminism. Learn how to make tampons buddies with sequins, Ruth Bader Ginsburg finger puppets and huggable uterus pillows just in time for the holidays. Plus riffs on pop culture. Sharon Sobotta talks with playwright AJ Baker about ENTANGLEMENT, a play about a play about the quantum mechanics … Continued
