We speak with internationally renowned artist Justin BUA about his upcoming shows and street art. Later we speak with Sarah Siskin about the Bay Area Mural Festival fundraiser. ABOUT JUSTIN BUA: He’s an internationally renowned artist, author, speaker and entrepreneur. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is best known for his lyrical narrative paintings … Continued
On today’s program, we discuss the new exhibit, “Black Women Is God” with Karen Senferu and Melorra Green. Later we talk about the future of Oakland’s youth with Liz Derias-Tyehimba, the executive director of West Oakland Youth Center. Guests: Karen Seneferu is a self-taught artist that was born and raised in Oakland California. She … Continued
Robin Bradford discusses her play, Low Hanging Fruit, about four women veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, who are living in a homeless encampment on LA’s Skid Row. It’s playing now through July 30 at Z Below in San Francisco. Production company 3Girls Theatre is partnering with North Beach Citizens, Compass Family Services, San … Continued
As the narrative around the shooting at the gay club in Orlando has shifted from domestic terrorism to the internalized homophobia of a (possibly) closeted Muslim man, we look at some of the other narratives surrounding the massacre fanned by the mainstream media, and examine the real history of homosexuality in Islam. Lisa Dettmer talks … Continued
Universalists like to say art transcends identity, but today’s guests insist it illuminates it. We speak with Sarah Schulman, whose new novel, The Cosmopolitans, is an updating of Balzac’s classic Cousin Bette. Schulman sets the story in the Greenwich Village of the 1950s, using the story to look at intersections of racism, sexism, homophobia and … Continued
Palestinian feminist educators discuss the current crisis and its historical context. First, from Jerusalem, we speak with Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, professor of criminology at the Hebrew University, and a member of the Jerusalemite Women’s Coalition. The coalition issued a call for protection to the international community last week. Then, Rabab Abdulhadi, professor of Ethnic Studies … Continued
Accessibility Through Art We talk with three women who are exploring ways to make their commitments to social justice and transformation more accessible: novelists Ellen Bravo and Diana Block and dharma teacher and musician Eve Decker. Ellen Bravo is the author of Again and Again, which looks at the issue of date rape on college … Continued
On today’s program we hear a discussion recorded at Stanford University featuring Greg Tate, the Godfather of Hip-Hop writing. In his three decades of writing on Black artists—musical, visual, literary and more—Greg Tate influenced a generation of arts and cultural critics. He has been called “the godfather of hip-hop journalism,” and is widely regarded as … Continued
Queers and cultural revolution: Not all queers just want to get married. We preview Outside The Frame: Queers For Palestine Film Festival, and pay tribute to singer Ronnie Gilbert, whose career was derailed by McCarthyism in the fifties, only to have a resurgence in the feminist and lesbian music scene of the eighties.
Frida Kahlo’s life and work are world famous — yet what has become of the Mexican artist’s radical politics? Art historian Margaret A. Lindauer argues that Kahlo’s artistic legacy has been done a disservice by those who would read the painter’s works off her personal life, instead of looking at the complex intellectual and political … Continued
