Monday, August 6, 2018: Leslie Cagan Remembers Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Kate Raphael talks with Leslie Cagan about the contribution of her long-time lover, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, to Jewish feminist and anti-racist scholarship and activism. Melanie, a founder and director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, professor and author of My Jewish Face and Other Stories, The Colors of Jews, and co-editor of The Tribe of Dina, died on July 10.

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Also on today's show:
Stacy Russo on Love Activism
Hiroshima Day

Monday, July 11, 2016: A lesbian ex-Hasid's story

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We speak with Leah Lax, author of the memoir Uncovered: How I left Hasidic life and finally came home. Lax's memoir of her life as a closeted lesbian, wife, and mother of seven among the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher Hasidim, has resonated with people from every religious tradition, and helped to start a secret network for queer Hasidim. She's currently collaborating on an opera based on the memoir, which was selected by both Redbook and Good Housekeeping magazines as one of the 2015 Best Books by Women.

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Lax will be reading from Uncovered this Wednesday, July 13 at 6 PM at Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Building.

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Also on today's show:
Homeless women veteran stories take the stage‏
Women's Calendar

Monday, February 8, 2016: "When White Men Rape"; Feminists not voting for Hillary; New Anthology of LGBTQ Voices

Lisa Dettmer talks to writers Roqayah Chamseddine about her article "Rejecting  Bourgeois Feminism"  which looks at the criticism of  women for not supporting the election of Hillary Clinton. Roqayah Chamseddine is a researcher for teleSUR's EmpireFiles, and a freelance writer. You can follow her on Twitter at @roqchams.

We also talk 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. Bobby London is co-host of On Resistance Radio on our sister station  KPFK radio in Los Angeles and she is a  also a writer and journalist. You can find her writing on ThisIsBobbyLondon.com and on CounterPunch.org.  She wrote an for the website For Harriet called When White Men Rape.

Lisa Marie Rollins talks to Helen Klonaris and Amir Rabiyah, the editors of the new anthology "Writing the Walls Down- A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices."

Listen now. 59:50 min.