The protests spurred by police killings of African Americans and other people of color has finally brought the punitive nature of the U.S. state into national view. Writer JoAnn Wypijewski argues that for at least the past half century we’ve been witnessing a particularly punishing turn by the state, often fueled by moral panics about … Continued
Today Anita Johnson speaks with Kendra Barnes and Jennifer Johns about this weekend’s performances of “ReDzONE: A Choreopoem and Transmutation Ritual” at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts (1428 Alice Street, Oakland). ReDzONE features dancers Lydia Clinton, Jhia Louise Jackson and Linda Steele II. “ReDzONE is a work created around the stories of women … Continued
“This Is a Win for Our City”: Chicago Teachers Celebrate End of Historic Strike After 11 Days; Chicago Teachers and UAW Members Show That Labor Movement Is Back After “Decades of Concessions”; “It Was Necessary”: Gambian Beauty Queen Returns Home to Testify About Rape By Former Dictator; Five Indigenous Leaders Massacred in Colombia; New Wave … Continued
“This Is a Win for Our City”: Chicago Teachers Celebrate End of Historic Strike After 11 Days; Chicago Teachers and UAW Members Show That Labor Movement Is Back After “Decades of Concessions”; “It Was Necessary”: Gambian Beauty Queen Returns Home to Testify About Rape By Former Dictator; Five Indigenous Leaders Massacred in Colombia; New Wave … Continued
We speak with actress Ryan Nicole about “Thomas and Sally” a play that explores Thomas Jefferson’s long term sexual domination of his slave, Sally Hemings. Presented by the Marin Theatre, Mill Valley Company the play distorts the true nature and history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
Okinawan feminist activist Suzuyo Takazato, Co-Chair Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence, discusses the deadly ecological and social consequences of the massive US military presence on Okinawa. Okinawan Women Act formed exactly 22 years ago, in response to the rape of a 12-year-old girl by three US soldiers. And we speak with San Francisco writer, teacher … Continued
Recently widespread outrage has erupted over the bias and leniency in court decisions involving rape and the general acceptance and prevalence of violence against women. In California, a judge’s decision to give a white former Stanford University swimmer an unusually lenient six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious Stanford student sparked a campaign to … Continued
Lisa Dettmer talks to writers Roqayah Chamseddine about the Bourgeois Feminst’s who criticize women for not supporting the election of Hilary Clinton and to Bobby London, who in her article “When White Men Rape” looks at the double standard afforded David Bowie and other white celebrities who rape. And Lisa Marie Rollins talks to Helen … Continued
