Monday, November 9, 2020: The fight to Dump Trump and lesbian feminism of the 70's.

This Monday on Women’s Magazine for our first post trump show we will talk to Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about the election and the new multiracial black and brown lead movements that helped win this election for the Democrats especially in the south.

"I would encourage people not to get confused by red and blue maps but to pay attention to population density...actually look and see how many people were disenfranchised from voting in the very first place." Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a 35 year old Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), woman from the working class, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN. As a member of multiple leadership teams in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), Ash-Lee has thrown down on the Vision for Black Lives and the BREATHE Act. Ash-Lee has served on the governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly, the advisory committee of the National Bailout Collective, and is an active leader of The Frontline a united front working to prevent voter suppression among other issues. She is a long-time activist who has done work in movements fighting for workers, for reproductive justice, for LGBTQUIA+ folks, for environmental justice, and more.

"I am hopeful for the future [because] I am informed by literally centuries of successful organizing work particularly led by Black women...we have already saved this country multiple times and we saved it on November 3rd..." Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson

And we talk to Ginny Berson about the radical  lesbian and feminist movements of the '70s and '80s which created an impetus to form more independent and equitable social and cultural institutions—bookstores, publishers, health clinics, and more—to support the unprecedented surge in women's arts of all kinds. Olivia Records was at the forefront of these models, not only recording and distributing women's music but also creating important new social spaces for previously isolated women and lesbians through concerts and festivals.

Ginny Z. Berson, one of Olivia's founding members and visionaries, kept copious records during those heady days—days also fraught with contradictions, conflicts, and economic pitfalls. With great honesty, Berson offers her personal take on what those times were like in her new book “Olivia on the Record: A Radical Experiment in Women’s Music” where she revisits the excitement and the hardships of creating a fair and equitable lesbian-feminist business model—one that had no precedent.

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

Monday, October 14, 2019: Celebrating Toni Morrison

This episode of KPFA’s Women’s Magazine celebrates the life and work of Toni Morrison the first African American to win  the Noble Prize for literature and who also won a Pulitzer Prize for her ground changing seminal book “Beloved.”  Toni Morrison whose writings changed the literary landscape to include those of black people especially black women is described by the New York Times as “writing luminous, incantatory prose resembling no other writer in English.”   

Jovelyn Richards and Lisa Dettmer discuss the importance of Morrison's work and life and we listen to clips of the new documentary about her life called “Toni Morrison: The Piece I am.” The film and her newest book “The Source of Self-Regard”  are offered as gifts for the KPFA fund drive and you can donate securely on-line.  Thank you for your support of feminist and radical women’s voices. Any amount shows that KPFA Women’s Magazine is important to you.

Thank you!
Lisa Dettmer

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

Monday, April 22, 2109: Jovelyn Richards and Who Gets to be Seen As an Artist?

In today's program Kate Raphael speaks with two powerful African American artists. First is an interview with Nell Painter. In the next segment we hear from Jovelyn Richards.

BBQ Becky & Permit Patty go on trial!

Jovelyn Richards, host of The Space Between Us on Women's Magazine, brings her play, 9-1-1 What's Your Emergency? The Verdict to La Pena next weekend, April 26-27. The first act of 9-1-1 What’s Your Emergency? premiered at La Peña Cultural Center in September 2018 as an artistic response to the local 9-1-1 calls that made BBQ Becky and Permit Patty infamous on a national level. In this second act, framed as a courtroom drama, Jovelyn asks, should these calls be seen as hate crimes? You - the audience - get to weigh in on the verdict. The show will be performed with a multicultural cast and a jazz orchestra. In our interview, we discuss how sexism blends with white supremacy to lead white women to call the cops on Black and Brown people's expressions of love and intimacy. Jovelyn's shows always sell out so get your tickets early. Tickets are $20-$25.

"My goal is to take a traditional courtroom and change it into an indigenous practice." -Jovelyn Richards

Today is Earth Day and National Poetry Month. The show begins with a reading of the poem "Rise" by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna. Continue listening for a recording by Adrienne Rich after the first interview. Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Nell Painter

Event:
Oakland Comedy Dash
May 17th and 18th throughout downtown Oakland and Old Oakland
tickets and locations at Eventbrite

Monday, February 18, 2019: Safi Wa Nairobi presents an Audio Collage: Making Space Between Us

Audre Lorde, February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992

Safi Wa Nairobi hosts KPFA Women's Magazine with a playlist of Black women's voices, spoken word and music. Listen to readings, poetry, essays of Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Angela Davis, Toni Morrison and more.

Also we hear a portion of a panel talk about making space for transgender voices in the world of jazz music from the January Jazz Congress in NYC. Toni Morrison reads and comments on her writing. Safi interviews Catherine Russell, musician and vocalist who will be in the Bay Area for the San Jose Jazz Winter Fest on February 24th.

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

This program is dedicated to Katie the Cat Lady

Monday, October 15, 2018: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

Every third Monday Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us where women from all over gather at the river to share stories. If you have stories to share email Jovelyn at sugars982@gmail.com. The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show. If you missed Monday's show you can listen now. Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Host Jovelyn Richards opens the hour with  Executive Director Lori Sokol of Women's eNews, Covering Women Issues/Changing Women's Lives.  Based on an article written by Sokol suggesting that white women take a knee in response to the Supreme Court hearing caused many women of color to suggest: Once again white women are attempting a take over from black peoples' protest.

Alex, Jalena, and Reaa of Breaktide Productions.

The second half of the how: Film makers Reaa Puri and Alex Bledsoe talk with Jovelyn Richards on ways in which their production team creates art to inspire women to heal from a intersectional, interconnected modality. Reaa and Alex along with Jalena Keane-Lee founded Breaktide Productions. Breaktide Productions is based in the Bay Area, owned and operated by Women of Color.

Event:
Southwest of Salem: the Story of the San Antonio Four documentary film
Saturday, October 20, 3 PM
New Parkway Theater
474 24th St
Oakland, CA
benefit for #MeTooBehindBars lawsuit

Monday, September 10, 2018: She The People with Aimee Allison

This week on KPFA Women's Magazine, we look at elections - are they a good way to get what we want?

She the People Summit

"...women of color...have the ability to inspire and lead us to victory..." -Aimee Allison

Election season is officially here, and women of color are shattering previous numbers as candidates at all levels.  There have been some notable and unexpected victories by progressive women of color, taking out establishment candidates, from Stacey Abrams in the Georgia Governor's race to Congressional candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, Rashida Tlaib in Michigan and Ayanna Presley in Massachusetts.  Democracy In Color's Aimee Allison says women of color, the most consistent - and consistently progressive - voters in the Democratic base are poised to take their rightful place as leaders of the party and the progressive movement.  I'll talk with Aimee about the She The People Summit, a one-day national gathering of women of color to be held in San Francisco on September 20th (registration is open to the public).

Listen now or Get MP3. 24:26 min

She The People Summit Schedule:
Thursday, September 20, 2018
JuliA Morgan Ballroom
465 California St, San Francisco

8 - 9 AM Breakfast and Registration
9 - 9:30 AM Welcome and Introduction to the She the People Initiative
9:30 - 12:15 PM Morning Talks and Panel

Panel: The Women Building a Politics for All of Us
With speakers Alicia Garza, Deb Haaland, Dolores Huerta, Rashida Tlaib, Arizona House Minority Leader Rebecca Rios, Linda Sarsour, and more!

12 - 12:45 PM Lunch
1 - 3 PM Afternoon Talks and Panel

Panel: Leading the New American Majority
With speakers Colorado Speaker of the House Crisanta Duran, Congressmember Pramila Jayapal, Congressmember Barbara Lee, and more!

3 - 5 PM Facilitated Strategy Sessions
5 - 7 PM Happy Hour hosted by Emerge


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

Also on today's show:
Gayle McLaughlin

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, February 19, 2018: Adrienne Maree Brown - Visionary Social Change

This Monday February 19th on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine, Viveka Jagadeseen talks to author and activist Adrienne Maree Brown about how we can organize a resilient mass movement capable of creating fundamental social change in today's political climate with an understanding of social change inspired by the resilience and adaptive nature of biological systems, that is non hierarchical and non harming.

Adrienne Maree Brown, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.  Brown is the Co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, and author most recently of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds a book described as a "resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us” and expands our radical imagination.


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

Monday, February 12, 2018: Yolanda Holder - Black Women Making History Right Now

Often when we talk about Black History Month, we only hear about Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Ella Baker.  Remembering the roles played by these heroines of their times is important, but Black Women’s history continues to be made every day, in our own communities. 

http://www.yolandaholder.com/

Yolanda Holder, is a professional Endurance Ultra Marathon Walker and a 2-time Guinness World Record holder for “Most Marathons Completed in a Calendar Year”, finishing a staggering 106 marathons/ultras in 2010 and breaking her own record in 2012 finishing 120 marathons/ultras. Yolanda, who began walking competitively at age 50, is the first African American to Run or Walk over 100 marathons in a calendar year and the first woman in the world to ever do it twice. This interview was produced by KPFA's Amandla Collective.

Click here to listen to the entire show. 1:03:47

Also on today's show:
Rabi’a Keeble

January 15, 2018: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

KPFA Women's Magazine presents a new format that will air every third Monday. Each program of The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards will examine 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.

Today we discuss the space between Black women and white women by answering the question, when did you first realize who you are and how you knew the space between you and others? Judy Grahn, author of A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet joins us.

The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show. Today's show was pre-recorded and originally aired in March of 2017.

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

Monday, January 1, 2018: Laugh in the New Year with Women's Magazine

Greetings, Women's Magazine listeners! Despite dire predictions regarding the future of KPFA and Pacifica, as of now we are still here and tomorrow, New Year's Day 2018, I'll be bringing you an hour of funny and smart women.

In the first segment comics Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Karinda Dobbins, Maysoon Zayid, JADE (Just Another Disabled Entertainer) and Nina G. join me to talk about the highs and lows of 2017 and beyond, what they're looking forward to in 2018 and what it's like doing comedy as women whose multiple identities are so often under attack.

It's wild, it's witty and it's informative. Follow the links below to connect to audio file of the show that was aired on Monday and the full, unedited interviews. So put on your headphones and start laughing. And follow the links above to check out the websites and performance schedules of the artists.

Click here for the interview with Dhaya and Karinda. 29:51 min

Click here for the interview with JADE and Nina. 37:27 min

Click here for the interview with Maysoon. 17:26 min

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

Also on today's show:
Eryn Mathewson

Monday, January 1, 2018: Special Guest Eryn Mathewson

Next up special guest Eryn Mathewson, former producer of Women's Magazine and now director of ESPN's Rhoden Fellows Initiative, shares insights from the world of sports journalism and reflects on the continuing importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

https://theundefeated.com/features/figure-skating-in-detroit-is-aiming-to-change-the-color-of-the-sport/

Click here for the full interview with Eryn. 36:18

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

Also on today's show:
Laugh In the New Year

Monday, March 20, 2017: The Space Between Us with Jovelyn Richards

KPFA Women's Magazine presents a new format that will air every third Monday. Each program of The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards will examine 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.

Today we discuss the space between Black women and white women by answering the question, when did you first realize who you are and how you knew the space between you and others? Judy Grahn, author of A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet joins us.

This is a live, call-in show.

The next Space Between Us will air on April 17, 2017.






Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Monday, March 13, 2017: Tony Nominee Liesl Tommy

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.

Listen now or Get MP3. 15:38 min




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


Also on today's show:
Poet & Author Aya de Leon
Sandy O of Emma's Revolution

Monday, February 27, 2017: Tribute to Aileen Hernandez

Aileen Hernandez (1926-2017)

Women's Magazine presents a short tribute to Aileen Hernandez, who died a couple weeks ago. Aileen was the second national president of the National Organization for Women, the first woman on the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission and the founder of Black Women Stirring the Waters. She was also active in Women's International League for Peace & Freedom.

A celebration of Eileen Hernandez' life will be held Monday, March 6 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the San Francisco City Hall. Gloria Steinem and Belva Davis and others will speak.

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

Also on today's show:
Roxann Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whittaker: Countering Myths About Indigenous Women

Monday, February 20, 2017: Black Women & the Carceral State

Find this book at your local bookstore, library or on-line.

This week on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we hear a recent talk by Professor Sarah Haley about her new groundbreaking book “No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity.”  Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers how black women were imprisoned and brutalized in the late 19th century and early 20th century through local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners’ acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy. The talk was sponsored by the Center for Race & Gender at UC Berkeley.

A landmark history of black women’s imprisonment in the South, “No Mercy Here” recovers stories of the captivity and punishment of black women to demonstrate how the system of incarceration was crucial to organizing gender and race, and constructing Jim Crow modernity.

Sarah Haley is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity is the winner of the 2016 Sara A.Whaley Prize, National Women's Studies Association and the 2016 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians.

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

Book Lauch:
Feb. 25, 7 - 9 PM
Frank Bette Center of the Arts
1601 Peru St
Alameda, CA

Dispatches from Lesbian America
Dispatches from Lesbian America is a collection of more than forty works of short fiction and memoir from contemporary writers, some newly emerging and some well-known. Unique in recent lesbian anthologies, these thoughtful stories address themes meaningful to us in the modern world.

Monday, January 23, 2017: Linda Burnham speaks at "People Get Ready"

"This is not such a hot time for you or for me..." -June Jordan

Linda Burnham

Speaking at the Center for Political Education's one-day conference, "People Get Ready: Building Resistance in the Trump Era," Linda Burnham, research director of Domestic  Workers United and cofounder of the Women of Color Resource Center speaks about dialectics: how we resolve apparent conflicts between dealing with immediate realities and urgencies and the longer arc and deeper dynamics of history; how to build the ranks of the left at the same time that we try to build the broadest possible alignment against authoritarianism, and the relationship between revolutionary imagination and the world as it actually is. Burnham's speech is aired in its entirety.

"There's no way to understand what just happened by following the news."-Burnham


Coming off the tremendous outpouring of energy on Saturday all over the country, this thrilling talk will leave you invigorated and motivated to get on to the next organizing challenge!

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Angela Davis at the Women's March on Washington
KPFA apprenticeship

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, April 11, 2016: Pioneering Oakland Journalist Brenda Payton

Aqueila Lewis talks with journalist Brenda Payton, who was a columnist for the Oakland Tribune for 26 years.  Payton also worked at the San Francisco Examiner and co-produced "Your Loan Is Denied,” a documentary about lending discrimination, that aired on PBS’ Frontline.  She currently works with Oakland Voices, a website that develops and mentors community journalists. To learn more about at OaklandVoices.us and on Facebook.

Listen now or Get MP3. 24:24 min






April 17th 3 PM at Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center, Laney College in Oakland
Meet the Oakland Voices Fellow
Aqueila Lewis will present Artists Displacement and her Grandmother's Foreclosure
Sights and Sounds of East Oakland

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

Also on today's show:
WAH (We Are Here) Dance, Music & Art Fest

Events for Bay Area Feminists

Wednesday, April 13 at 11 AM
Cantor Arts Center - Patricia S. Rebele Gallery
Stanford
Intimate Frontiers: The Male Gaze in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
650-498-1480 or visit museum.stanford.edu

Today thru April 16, 5-8 PM
480 23rd Street between Telegraph and Broadway, through the side entrance.
DIVINE INVASIONS: SIX MALE ARTISTS ALLYING WITH THE DIVINE FEMININE
510-229-7035 or Krowswork.com

Friday, April 15
Celebrate KPFA's 67th birthday.

Monday, January 18, 2016: Black women at the forefront of feminism

How Black Women Led Birth of N.O.W.

Daisy Bates speaks during the Aug. 23, 1963, March on Washington. Bates, mentor to the Little Rock Nine, was the only woman to speak at the event 50 years ago in which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. Source Times Record: Online Edition

In the first part of our show today we’ll listen to a fascinating history put together by Fran Luck of WBAI’s Joy of Resistance for Sprouts, a national weekly program.  Luck tells the story of how black women activists, frustrated by being shut out of the 1963 March on Washington, led the charge to form the National Organization for Women.

Then Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, discusses the construction of Black girlhood in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, and what it tells us about the intersections of race and gender.  She also talks about Black Lives Matter, why it’s rewriting 2016 and why it’s important that so many of its leaders are women.

Listen now. 59:50 min.