Monday, August 10, 2020: "What is the role of the artist in Revolutionary Socio-Political Movements?"

This week on Women's Mag, we ask:

"What is the role of the artist in Revolutionary Socio-Political Movements?"

hosted by Kendall Crakow.

We'll be in conversation with 3 very talented artists about their respective journeys in the time of Covid. They are Bay Area Native and PhilipinX Muralist, Sami See (@Samiseeart); Hawaiian Native, Reiki Master, and Mixed Media Artist, Dennise Aciao (find Dennise's soaps, bath salts and candles); and, LatinX Chef and Mixologist, Abril Ramirez.

Sami See

Dennise Aciao

Abril Ramirez

We'll be discussing how they are using their mediums to support radical change and how they are coping with the challenges presented by the Pandemic. We'll be exploring alternative ways of being and creating in this new world shift we are all experiencing...

MUSIC

"Boloko" by Fatoumata Diawara

"Rise Up" by Low Leaf

"Kahalu'nyuhe" by Joanne Shenandoah

"Clean Living" by RJD2 

Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min

Monday, October 21, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

Today's show in the first half is hosted by Jovelyn and Theresa Adams. Candis Watts Smith co-author with Tehama Lopez Bunyasi of Stay Woke talks with Jovelyn in a pre-recorded interview about Black Lives Matter, staying woke, her writings and her work in developing a more equitable society. Follow Candis on Twitter @ProfCandis.

Get your very own copy of Stay Woke at NYU Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or request it at your local library!

In the second half of the show Kin Folkz and Jovelyn talk with Margo Okasawa-Rey about the book Gendered Lives, Intersectional Perspective, 7th ed. co-edited with Gwyn Kirk.  Who we are in the world or our identities and the structure of power is examined. Also they discuss womanists and feminists and why some Black women have trouble identifying as feminists. This segment was pre-recorded.

The book is available through Oxford Press and as an ebook through Red Shelf.






The Space Between Us is a live call-in show every third Monday of each month on KPFA Women's Magazine.

Click here to listen now. 59:59 min

Monday, February 26, 2018: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us; KPFA Pledge Drive

KPFA Women's Magazine presents The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards. 

Today Vylma V joins Jovelyn for the KPFA fund drive. The Space Between Us examines the relationships between girls and women all over the world by telling each other's stories. In this way we will attempt to shift and raise consciousness by listening and sharing our journeys. Find The Space Between Us every 3rd Monday at 1 PM.

Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Today's show presents clips from an interview with Patrisse Cullors co-founder of Black Lives Matter and co-author of  “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir”. Patrisse is interviewed by Cat Brooks. A CD of the interview is available as a gift for your pledge of $75. Get the book for a pledge of $125. Get the audio book for $150. Get the DVD of the interview for $100. Black history flash cards Volume 2: Women for $100. Many other gifts are online at KPFA.org.

If you missed Monday's show you can always donate and choose a gift online at KPFA.org. Thanks for your support of KPFA Women's Magazine. No donation is too small. No donation is too big.

Monday, June 5, 2017: Black Lives Matter Cofounder Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza from her website https://aliciagarza.com"

"Be mindful that elections are the battlefield on which most people in this country know how to engage." Alicia Garza

For a longer version of Monday's interview with Alicia Garza Get MP3. 40:16 min

In this broadcast on Women's Magazine, we kick off LGBT Pride month with Alicia Garza, Black queer organizer and writer and cofounder of the Black Lives Matter Network and Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Garza offers a nuanced and concrete analysis of the current situation and what we can do to change it.

Click here to listen to the entire broadcast. 59:50

Also on today's show:
Giovanna Capone, editor of Dispatches from Lesbian America

Event:

Emily Hobson will talk about and read from her book Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in Gay and Lesbian Left on Thursday, June 22 at 7PM Alley Cat Books on 24th Street in San Francisco.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO DONATED DURING THE RECENT FUND DRIVE. WE LOVE YOU!

Labor Day 2016 on KPFA Women's Magazine: Black Women Leading the Labor Movement

Black Women Leading the Labor Movement

"And Still I Rise is a part of The Black Worker Initiative, a bold and exciting new effort launched by the Institute for Policy Studies, which is deeply committed to helping achieve both the historic and contemporary aims of the labor and civil rights movements."

This Labor Day on Women's Magazine, we speak with Robin Williams, Director of Civil Rights and Community Action for the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union.  Williams joined UFCW as an 18-year-old Safeway worker with a new baby, and has become one of its key organizers.  She is one of 27 Black women labor leaders profiled in And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders, a report from the Black Worker Initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies.

"If I'm not making a difference then I don't want to be there." Robin Williams

Click here to listen to entire show. 59:50 min


Also on today's show:
Dancing to End Violence Against Women

Monday August 24th, 2015: Theo E.J. Wilson, In Defense of Black Women

Jeannine Etter interviews Community Activist, Black Lives Matter member and National Poetry Slam champion Theo EJ Wilson, on his viral video "In Defense of Black Women" where Mr. Wilson challenges the toxic narrative that Black women are the sole cause of the destruction of the Black Family.

"Hurt people hurt people."

Listen now or Get MP3. 26:48 min.






About Theo E. J. Wilson , also known by his poet handle, “Lucifury,” is a modern Renaissance Man. His natural knack for artistic expression had him dabbling in, and even mastering almost every art form he put his hands to.  Battling manic depression from and early age, this knack would save his life, and shape an award-winning career as a spoken word artist, pianist, actor, singer, rapper, dancer, and activist.  Theo is a founding member of the Denver Slam Nuba team, who won the National Poetry Slam in 2011.

You can follow Theo EJ Wilson on https://www.facebook.com/theo.wilson.31.

Click here to listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
Sex Testing and Gender Policing in Sports