Monday, September 14, 2020: LGBTIQ Frameline Film Festival

This September 14th on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we look at some of the highlights of the LGBTIQ Frameline Film Festival which starts this Thursday, September 17th and runs through Sunday, September 27th online.

from Unapologetic

We talk to Dominque Oneil about some of the really special female centered fiction films. And then we talk to three documentarians who have feature films in Frameline, Ashley O’shay, who is director of the really timely and important new documentary “Unapologetic” which is a powerful and inspiring documentary that follows two Black, queer feminist Chicago women organizers working with the movement against police violence.  And Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow who are the co-directors of the new documentary “Ahead of the Curve” which is a film that looks at the history of the Lesbian glossy magazine Curve, its founder Franco Stevens and the importance of Curve magazine to the Lesbian community. 

Netflix, Hulu and other movie streaming sites may not have the lesbian or queer film that you want to see so look for the request page on their websites and ask for these films.

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

Monday, February 2, 2015: Book: Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and Politics of Violence

Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and Politics of Violence

Kate Raphael talks with Christina Hanhardt, author of SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE.  It's a fascinating look at how the decision to seek safety by claiming space and eventually policing who could be in that space changed not only the gay movement but cities themselves.  Focusing on San Francisco and New York between the mid-sixties and the mid-nineties, the book explores the nexus between gentrification, gay identity, overpolicing and the War on Poverty.

Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies. Her research focuses on the historical and contemporary study of U.S. social movements and cities since the mid-20th century, with an emphasis on the politics of stigma, punishment, and uneven development. Her first book, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Duke University Press, 2013), is a history of (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) LGBT activism against violence in New York and San Francisco from the mid-1960s to the early 2000s, framed in the context of broader debates about poverty, gentrification, and policing. Safe Space won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBT Studies, and honorable mention for both the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies, and the Lora Romero Prize for Best First Book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation.

Hanhardt teaches classes in LGBT studies and queer theory, American studies, U.S. social movements, urban studies, and other topics. She was the winner of the 2013 Undergraduate Studies Teaching Award at the University of Maryland.

During academic year 2014-2015 Professor Hanhardt is on sabbatical and conducting research with the support of a Research and Scholarship Award from the Graduate School.  She is dividing her time between the DC-area and New York, where is a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.


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Also on today's show:
New film - She's Beautiful When She's Angry

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Monday, December 29, 2014: Black Lives Matter! Young Black Women Organize!

#BlackLivesMatter

Queers Come Out for Black Lives Matter

December 13th Demo photo by Waidye Palmer

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This week on Women's Magazine, we hear from the young Black women who are making themselves heard, from the streets of San Francisco and Oakland to the halls of power.  Thea Matthews, one of the organizers of Queers Come Out for Black Lives Matter, and also of the Millions March in San Francisco, joins Kate Raphael, along with Etecia Brown, lead organizer of the Millions March events in Oakland and San Francisco. Thea is president of the Black Student Union at City College of San Francisco and has been active in the Save City College Coalition.  Etecia is a fourth-generation Bayview-Hunters' Point resident and a graduate student in public policy at NYU. Also in today's show are recordings from the Oakland Millions March rally December 13 by Lisa Detmer and Nell Myhand.

"It's not a movement, it's a lifestyle."

Listen now or Get MP3 24:53 min.

It's a War

Next we feature part of an interview with Arlene Eisen, author of the 2013 report Operation Ghetto Storm, which generated the hashtag #Every28Hours. Listen now or Get MP3 11:38 min.





This interview originally aired in April 2013 at http://kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com/2013/04/april15th-operation-ghetto-storm-report.html


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June 9, 2014: Radical queer writer & activist Yasmin Nair

Yasmin Nair

Radical queer writer & activist Yasmin Nair critiques everything from the mainstream lesbian/gay movement's focus on marriage, military rights and hate crimes legislation to writers who write for free on websites that can afford to pay.

On same-sex marriage Nair says that the problem with marriage (straight, same-sex, or whatever the construction) has been that marriage is part of a neo-liberal structure of extreme privatization. She defines neo-liberalism as an increased privatization of resources that were once available to everyone, for example, clear, clean water, housing or healthcare. And on survivors of sexual assault: "And yet, no one considers the obvious solution: That perhaps fucking and producing children is no palliative or solution, and  that not fucking at all ever might actually be a perfectly rational solution to having been harmed, in any way, by fucking."

Yasmin Nair is a member of the Against Equality editorial collective. The collective's writings is published in an anthology called Against Equality: Queer Revolution Not Mere Inclusion is a compilation of radical queer thought.

To subscribe to Yasmin Nair's blog go to: http://www.yasminnair.net/





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Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on this show:
Preview of the film KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER
Diana Whitten discusses her film, VESSEL
Tribute to revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama

December 2, 2013: Dorothy Allison and Gail Tsukiyama: Creating a Writers' Community

Great writing is often portrayed, in our masculinist culture, as a solitary outpouring of individual genius.  But for the most brilliant women writers of our time, writing is something done alone, yes, but nourished and honed by a community of supportive women who challenge and strengthen each other.

Dorothy Allison, author of the best-selling Bastard Out of Carolina and Cavedweller, has been called one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation.  Gail Tsukiyama is the author of nine novels, including Women of the Silk and The Language of Threads, and was one of nine writers invited to appear at the first Library of Congress Book Festival.  In this conversation, the two friends discuss how their interactions with other women writers, especially at the unique women's writing retreat Hedgebrook, informs and nurtures their work.  They also talk about their own writing processes and methods for overcoming despair, fear and the temptation of endless revision.

Gail and Dorothy with other writers at Hedgebrook

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Also in this show:  The Many Faces of Doris Lessing.
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September 9, 2013: Transgender Incarceration and the Need for Critical Trans Politics

The recent coming out of Chelsea Manning has sparked the first national discussion about how transpeople, are criminalized and brutalized by the prison industrial complex. On today's show, we talk to Sasha Buchert from the Transgender Law Center about the high rate of sexual assault and incarceration of trans people of color and the laws governing medical help for transpeople in prisons.

Then we talk to Miss Major, executive director of the Transgender Variant and Intersex Justice Project, about the struggles of trans people to survive sexual assault and imprisonment.  Janetta Johnson, Program Coordinator at TGI, shares her own experiences being locked up in federal prison for 3 years and forced to live in a men's prison and face harassment and threats.

In the second half of the show, we talk to  attorney and trans activist Dean Spade about his new book "Normal Life: Administrative Justice, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law."  Spade argues that both the left and the mainstream gay movement have focused too much on legal changes that fail to promote real structural change, and elaborates on what a critical trans politics would look like.


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July 8 - Coup in Egypt; Saving City College; and a Life in Revolution

Egypt: Military Coup or a Further Revolution?

courtesy:  Shimaa Helmy

Blogger and organizer Shimaa Helmy, who was involved in the January 25 revolution in Egypt from Day One, shares her concerns about the military overthrow of Mohammed Morsi and the epidemic of sexual violence against women protesters.

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Takes an Uprising:  A Memoir in Lesbian Parables

Patricia Jackson walked her first picket line in 1964, as part of a wildcat teacher's strike in Louisville, Kentucky.  That began a life of activism and challenging racism, patriarchy and class inequality from California to the Ozarks.  She lived on women's land, participated in the early Women's Music scene, became a Communist, and is now active in the Gray Panthers and an intergenerational queer storytelling project.

In this interview she talks about her life, the lessons she thinks are most useful for the present, and the adventure of self-publishing her memoir, Takes an Uprising.

Listen to the interview (27:08)

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Saving City College

San Francisco City College is one of the most innovative community colleges in the country.  It had one of the first Women's Studies and the very first LGBT Studies program in the country.  Last week, the faculty and students of San Francisco City College were shocked when the private Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges—the ACCJC— announced that it planned to terminate the college's accreditation in July 2014. The Herculean efforts of the college over a short nine months were rejected as inadequate. The threat of closure could become real unless the College can turn itself inside out and meet the commission’s demands.

Leslie Simon, former Chair of the Women's Studies Department and current coordinator of Project SURVIVE, the campus sexual violence prevention program, talks about what is behind the commission's recommendation and we can stop it.

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Read Leslie's excellent explanation of the roots of the "crisis."

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March 11, 2013: Special International Women's Day Edition

 On this exciting edition of Women's Magazine:

• URGENT ACTION FUND FOR WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS

“We need students, we need housewives, we need professional people, we need high profile people like religious leaders and actors, and singers and musicians, to all speak out in one voice against violence against women. One Billion Rising provides us with that opportunity.” – Sunila Abeysekera 

www.urgentactionfund.org

Kate Raphael speaks with Kate Kroeger, executive director of the Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, which provides funding to grassroots women's organizations in the Global South on an emergency basis, responding to applications in any language within 72 hours.

• LABYRIS, the LGBT organization in Kyrgyzstan

 Anna Kirei, cofounder of Labyris, the LGBT organization in Kyrgyzstan, discusses the queer and feminist movements in the former Soviet Union and especially in Central Asia.  She also talks about the commercialization of International Women's Day in the Soviet Union.

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• Rally to save City College, Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 4:00 PM in front of City Hall, San Francisco. More info at www.saveccsf.org

•  Workers at Walmart organize for respect, better wages and affordable healthcare.

And in keeping with the labor origins of International Women's Day as International Working Women's Day, also hear from Venanzi Luna of OURWalmart about the ongoing struggle for justice at the nation's largest private employer.



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• Register now for the 6th Annual Bay Area Arab Women's Conference. $15 for students, $25 general admissions. Registration fee includes lunch.

Click to listen to the entire show and to hear about other fabulous events for Women's History Month. 59:51 min.

October 15th: Writers Nayomi Munaweera and Leslie Feinberg.

KPFA Women's Magazine takes a look at the social issues that inspired Nayomi Munaweera to write a novel about the Sri Lankan Civil War and Leslie Feinberg about Trans Liberation.

Nayomi Munaweera

Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, speaks to Tara Dorabji and Nono Girl from Apex Express about her book and the incidents that inspired it. 35:20 min.

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Leslie Feinberg

Next we hear a speech given by Leslie Feinberg on the complex relationship between the Trans and Women's Liberation Movements. 18:33 min.
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Click to hear entire show as it aired on KPFA. 59:00 min.

September 17th: Occupy Wall Street turns 1 year old and KPFA Women's Magazine asks how feminist is the movement and where is it going?

On the anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street, Kate Raphael asks if the movement is helping us build a new world or just a dressed up form of patriarchy?  Cyn, Kaitlyn and Frank of Occupy Oakland's Feminist and Queers Against Capitalism and Shaista Husain of Occupy Wall Street's Safer Spaces and Immigrant Justice Working Groups - share their thoughts on this and other Occupy-related issues. 55:22 min.

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This program is re-broadcast from KPFA Women's Magazine on November 29, 2011

Occupying Pride

Photo:  Roxy Lovebites

Occupy queers burst into the San Francisco Pride Parade on Sunday, chanting, "We're a community, not a commodity" and "Bullshit, don't buy it, Stonewall was a riot."  Kate Raphael was there.

Eryn Matthewson brought back sounds from the 20th annual SF Dyke March.

And on Saturday night, 20 queer activists briefly disrupted Frameline LGBT Film Festival's screening of "The Invisible Men" at the Roxie Theater. The group mic-checked Festival Director KC Price over Frameline's close relationship with Israeli government.

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Filmmaker Yariv Mozer followed the protesters out of the theater and explained why he does not agree with their approach.

Listen to part of Kate Raphael's interview with Mozer.