Monday, July 13, 2020: Violence against Black Women and Girls

Today at 1-2 pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we discuss violence against black women and girls and in addition violence against black women by police with Janelle White, Executive Director of San Francisco Women Against Rape and author and police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie.  And we will also talk to Regina Y. Evans who is creating art installations on Oakland’s International Blvd in response to the enormous amount of sex trafficking that proliferates there.

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J.Ritchie is a Black lesbian, immigrant/police misconduct attorney, and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where she recently launched the Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color  

Janelle White

Janelle White has been the executive director for San Francisco Women Against Rape for over a decade.  SFWAR  is a community-based, anti-sexual assault, social justice, women of color-led organization. Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, SFWAR has been serving the residents of San Francisco City & County for over 46 years. SFWAR provides support to sexual assault survivors, their families, and communities, and uses education and community mobilization as tools of rape prevention. And at SFWAR, they believe that ending all forms of oppression is integral to ending sexual assault.

Regina Y Evans

Regina Y Evans who is  a native of Oakland, California, is a Poet, Playwright, Actor, Entrepreneur, Modern Day Abolitionist and a Survivor Leader in the fight against sex trafficking. She is the Owner of Regina's Door, a vintage boutique located in Oakland, Ca. Regina's Door is an artistic safe haven and healing sanctuary for at-risk youth, homeless youth, young Oakland Creatives and survivors of human trafficking. As a Modern Day Abolitionist, Ms. Evans volunteers with Love Never Fails, a Bay Area Anti-Trafficking organization founded by Vanessa Marie Johnson Russell.  She is also a member of the S.H.A.D.E. Movement (Survivors Healing, Advising and Dedicated to Empowerment), a survivor run consulting/advocacy organization. For more info and to be involved contact Regina at Evans.Regina@gmail.com.


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Monday, October 24, 2016 - Conflict Is Not Abuse

Queer feminist author and activist Sarah Schulman discusses her new book, CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE: OVERSTATING HARM, COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY AND THE DUTY OF REPAIR.

In this captivating new work, the author of GENTRIFICATION OF THE MIND and SHIMMER connects the feminist anti-violence movement’s cooptation by the state, Canadian laws that criminalize HIV transmission, same-sex marriage and compensatory motherhood, shaming and shunning in personal relationships, and the Israeli assault on Gaza.

 

Sarah will be in conversation with Virgie Tovar of Radar Productions on Monday, October 24 at 6:30 pm at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco and will read from and discuss the book on Wednesday, October 26 at 7:00 pm at Laurel Bookstore in Oakland.

 

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Monday, October 5, 2015: Star Trek Live

The Drag Kings present Star Trek Live: Mudd's Women at SF's Oasis.  It's a raucous good time, especially for those who love Star Trek.  Kate speaks with director/actor Laurie Bushman and famed William Shatner impersonator Leigh Crowe.

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The Drag Kings are taking over the stage at Oasis in Star Trek Live!, with one of the classic favorites, “Mudd’s Women”.  The cast features some of San Francisco’s best drag performers, including Leigh Crow, the world’s only female William Shatner impersonator as Captain Kirk, and Honey Mahogany from RuPaul’s Drag Race as Uhura. The cast also includes Laurie Bushman (Harry Mudd), Amber Sommerfeld (Spock), Ammo Eisu (Sulu), Zelda Koznofski (Bones), Emily Mcgowan (Scotty). The stellar line-up cast as Mudd’s Women include: Jef Valentine, Persia and Jordan L’Moore. Costumes by Amie Sarazan.

The show is directed by D'Arcy Drollinger and Laurie Bushman.

Get tickets for this hilarious show at SF Oasis.

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Also on today's show:
Cecile Pineda's Apology to a Whale
Selling Breast Cancer

Monday, June 29, 2015: LGBT History and the Creation of Gay Identities

The threat of violence is the single most common issue that unites most LGBT people across lines of difference.

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Gentrification, policing and the creation of gay place-based communities: a conversation with Christina Hanhardt. Hanhardt is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence.

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Safe Space. Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. Now available as an ebook.

Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe space" have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have sought solutions in policing and privatization and have had devastating effects along race and class lines.

Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research in New York City and San Francisco, Hanhardt traces the entwined histories of LGBT activism, urban development, and U.S. policy in relation to poverty and crime over the past fifty years. She highlights the formation of a mainstream LGBT movement, as well as the very different trajectories followed by radical LGBT and queer grassroots organizations. Placing LGBT activism in the context of shifting liberal and neoliberal policies, Safe Space is a groundbreaking exploration of the contradictory legacies of the LGBT struggle for safety in the city.

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Also on today's show:
Women's Empowerment Day at Hip Hop for Change

Free the Abolition 3 - Bring Our Friends Home

Please call the San Francisco DA's office now and demand they drop all charges against Rebecca, Prisca and Sarai.  Read more about the protest. 

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April 28, 2014: Eating Cultures

Asian American Women Artist Association (AAWAA) and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) join forces to present the multidisciplinary art exhibition Eating Cultures, for the United States of Asian America Festival.

Featuring over thirty emerging and established Asian Pacific American artists from around the country, Eating Cultures is a deliciously provocative multi-disciplinary arts exhibition of artworks inspired by Asian American food and foodways. Using food as a lens, artist share stories of global migration, adaptation, entrepreneurship, and the central importance of food in Asian communities around the world.

Kate Raphael talks to queer artists Sigi Arnejo, Kay Cuajunco and Genevieve Erin O'Brien about their contributions to the show, their exploration of identity and the meaning of food in their Asian cultures.




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Also on today's show:

Chinese Canadian gossip reporter Elaine Lui discusses her memoir, LISTEN TO THE SQUAWKING CHICKEN.

Women-directed and gender-themed films at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival

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March 3, 2014: What Does It Take to Become a Superstar?

When MK Nobilette decided to audition for American Idol, her moms, Mindy Spatt and Laurie Nobilette, didn't know how their lives were about to change.  Laurie Nobilette talks about the demands of helping a kid make it to the top, MK's coming out story, and what will help her win it all.





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Press about MK

http://www.towleroad.com/2014/02/gay-american-idol-contestant-mk-nobilette-gets-satisfaction-from-her-performance-video.html

http://realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com/2014/02/21/why-mk-nobilette-will-win-american-idol/

http://www.newnownext.com/out-american-idol-contestant-mk-nobilette-delivers-satisfaction-watch/02/2014/

MK's a Bay Area girl, graduate of School of the Arts and former performer at the SF Dyke March.  It's up to us to help keep her in the competition.  Here's how!

Emily Yates is on a different path to stardom, but she knows it's gonna come.  Emily's an Iraq War Veteran Against War and former UC Berkeley student.  She wanted to be a journalist until she spent a few years writing for the US military from Iraq. Now she wants to use music to spread her antiwar message with humor and a touch of raunchiness.

In this segment, she sings "Talkin' National Park Service Beat My Ass Black and Blues" and another song from her forthcoming album, Folk In Your Face.

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Also on this show:  On International Women's Day, Gaza Women Say End the Siege

On International Women's Day, Gaza Women Say End the Siege! - See more at: http://kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com/2014/03/march-3-2014-on-international-womens.html#sthash.zZCat5DV.dpuf

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June 17, 2013: The Arts of Inclusion

See How She Writes

41 years after the first issue of Ms hit newsstands, how close is the publishing industry to realizing gender neutrality?  Not nearly close enough, say author Joy Castro and publisher Brooke Warner.  Joy Castro is author of Hell or High Water, The Truth Book, and the forthcoming Nearer Home. Brooke Warner, formerly of Seal Press, is now publisher of She Writes Press. They spoke with Tara Dorabji.

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Frameline: Pinkwashing Israeli Apartheid?

Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, is the largest cultural event in the world.  For the last four years, the festival has been met by protests over its partnership with the Israeli consulate, which is a featured copresenter and sponsor of several films each year.  We hear from Zac Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement and a gay man born in Palestine, about the growing movement to oppose "pinkwashing," the Israeli government's marketing campaign aimed at international LGBT communities.

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Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) and Gay Shame, joined by the Brass Liberation Orchestra and others, will protest Frameline's opening night gala, Thursday, June 20 at Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison Street in San Francisco, at 10:00 p.m.

 Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution (Une Revolution Parallele)

Quebecois Filmmaker Myriam Fougère discusses her documentary, "Lesbiana," which explores "the rise and fall of the lesbian movement of the 1970s and 1980s.  The film shows Tuesday, June 25 at the Castro Theater.  Find out about tickets.

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National Queer Arts Festival

The month-long multidisciplinary arts festival has 5 visual art exhibitions and over 40 performance events at venues throughout the City.  Artistic Director Pam Peniston runs it down.  Schedule and ticket info.

 

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Fresh Meat

Sean Dorsey and Shawna Virago, codirectors of Fresh Meat Productions, tell us about the Twelfth Annual Fresh Meat Festival, a three-day extravaganza featuring transgender and queer performers.  This year's festival includes ten top-notch performers in dance, music, spoken word, humor and poetry.  Get tickets.

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June 17, 2013: Bangladesh, Barbara Brenner and the NJ4

Out in Dhaka: Tinku Ishtiaq, cofounder of Trikone South Asian LGBT Network and former cochair of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, discusses the recent labor disasters as well as the militant uprising of Islamist youth in Bangladesh. While Bangladesh has very little personal violence, he says, as a gay man living more or less openly he worries about the possible ramifications of increased Islamist influence in politics.


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Barbara Brenner, long-time director of Breast Cancer Action, died recently of ALS. We look back at her life and work and discuss her legacy with coworker Angela Wall.
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Finally, the New Jersey 7 are young African American lesbians from Newark who were arrested in New York City after defending themselves from a misogynist and homophobic assault.  After being tarred in the media as a "lesbian wolf pack," four of the seven received prison sentences ranging from 2 to 11 years.  Patreese Johnson, who got the longest sentence, is scheduled for release this summer.  Bay NJ4 Solidarity Committee is raising money for ongoing legal expenses and to help with Patreese's reentry.  Click here to find out how to contribute.

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June 11, Radically Gay: The Life of Harry Hay

Gay activist and independent historian Joey Cain speaks with Kate Raphael about the life and legacy of Harry Hay, the Communist labor organizer who founded the country's first gay rights organization in the early 1950s.

Harry Hay was a labor organizer, ranch hand, musicologist, stunt rider, actor, small business owner and Communist Party member. In 1949, he drafted a document proposing the creation of the United States' first organization of "temperamentals" -- gay men. It took two years to find one other man willing to be associated with such an enterprise, and in 1953, he and four others founded the Mattachine Society, an underground network of discussion groups. Harry later went on to co-found the Radical Faeries, a gay men's spiritual community.

Joey Cain is curator of an exhibit on Harry's life now showing at the San Francisco Main Library.  

Related Exhibitions and Events

Film screening, Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 6, pm
Filmmaker Eric Slade will be present for a Q&A

Which Side Are You On? Panel Discussion,
Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 6 pm 

Both at the Main Library, Koret Auditorium

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