We speak with two powerful artists: Nell Painter, a prominent historian and author of the New York Times Bestseller, The History of White People, didn’t do what many people do when they retire. At 64, after retiring from Princeton University, she entered art school, receiving a BFA from Mason Goss School of Art at Rutgers, … Continued
Women’s Magazine interviews Rebecca Merton of Freedom for Immigrants and Almadelia, whose husband Jasiel was the first person bailed out by the West County Detention Community Fund. Bay Area residents are raising money to bail out immigrants housed in the Richmond jail before they are moved to prisons further away; the West County Detention Center is ending its contract … Continued
Playwright and poet Cherrie Moraga, co-editor of the class feminist of color book, This Bridge Called My Back, discusses her new play, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE, with Lisa Dettmer. In a time-traveling re-encounter with a 16th century female slave-turned-slaveholder, a Mexican woman in the early stages of Alzheimers is forced to concede a radically revised … Continued
Emily Hobson, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. The book is a sprawling history of rarely acknowledged parts of the LGBT movement of the seventies, eighties and nineties. Through the work and words of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and … 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
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
Live from Philly, satirist Will Durst reports on day one of the DNC. Then: YOU!!!! on the phone—are you a Berner who’s burnin’? Lesser of 2 Evils? With Her? Jill Stein? ALSO: Dan Hoyle, with an updated rendition of ‘The Real Americans’ . With host Kris Welch.
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
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is here again – and corporate-sponsored pink ribbons still don’t provide women’s health care. We listen to a portion of my interview with Karuna Jagger of Breast Cancer Action about what’s wrong with the whole concept of a breast cancer awareness. Then I speak in depth with Cecile Pineda, whose new … Continued
