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
Lucy Jane Bledsoe, author of the novel, A Thin Bright Line. Based on the (partially imagined) life of her aunt, Lucybelle Bledsoe, the novel weaves McCarthyism, climate change, civil rights and pre-Stonewall gay life into a rich tapestry. The New York Times calls it “an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” … Continued
On this special fund drive show, we talk with author, poet, teacher and activist Aya de Leon about her first novel, Uptown Thief, her writing career and growing up in the movement in Berkeley. Uptown Thief is the story of a Puerto Rican/Nuyorican sex worker-turned-feminist health worker who turns to robbing rich men to save her clinic. Aya discusses her views … 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
Making your summer reading list? You’re going to want to hear about these two sexy new books: GODS OF TANGO, by Carolina de Robertis, is a steamy story of music, migration, romance and identity. Leda, a young Italian bride, arrives in Buenos Aires to find out that her husband has died. In seeking herself in … Continued
We celebrate Malcolm Margolin, founder of HeyDay Books and publisher of the voices of Native Americans and native nature. He has just announced his retirement (sorta!) after over 40 years. PLUS: A new film celebrates comedy in S.F., with a focus on three legendary comics. One of them is satirist Will Durst, who joins us … 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
A Labor Day weekend round-up of the state of work, 2015. PLUS: his grandfather had least 20,000 books, and his grandmother fed most of the leftist intelligentsia of Europe—Sasha Abramsky’s memoir is for all of us. AND: renters’ rights—on the agenda, on the ballot, in Richmond, San Jose, Santa Rosa. With host Kris Welch.
Wikileaks has posted a $100,000 bounty on the TPP, and has leaked more documents from the massive secret trade deal. PLUS: over 300 authors from around the world to attend the first annual Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley. We speak with Elaine Elinson about her history of California civil liberties heroes. With host Kris … Continued
