Monday, July 22, 2019: Police and Corps out of Pride, Women Led Resistance in Western Sahara

Today on Women’s Magazine we look at the resistance to the mainstreaming of Pride events in San Francisco and nationally.  We talk to Mary Sue from Gay Shame and artist and activist Alex U. Inn about the demonstration at SF Pride this year against the presence of police and large corporations and the resistance nationally. Click on Alex's name to see how to elect her to the SF Pride Board of Directors. July 22nd is the deadline to become a member so you can vote for Alex. Also check SFPride.org for more information about the Board of Directors and more.

And Sharon Sobotta talks to the film team of the new documentary Western Sahara: Africa's Last Colony which they produced in collaboration with the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley about the women who are resisting the last colony in Africa. Watch the movie on DemocracyNow.org

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

Monday, May 20, 2019: Fund Drive: The Stonewall Era - Before, During and After

"The Hairpin Drop Heard Round the World"

Jovelyn Richards host of The Space Between Us features the amazing Stonewall retrospective that Corinne Smith and others pulled together from Pacifica archival tape. Listen to the voices of people who were at the Stonewall 70 years ago when the bar was raided by a group of cops called the Moral Squad. But this night the drag queens, gay men and lesbians fought back.

In the next part of the show Jovelyn talks with Carol Leigh and Erica Elena about the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival May 23-26. The movie marathon will be at the Roxie Theater on Saturday, May 25th. Check out the website for other events during the week.

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

April 1, 2019: Roderick Ferguson's (Not) One-Dimensional Queer

In his new book, One-Dimensional Queer (a homage to Herbert Marcuse), Roderick Ferguson counters orthodox portrayals of a gay movement narrowly focused on civil rights, and shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the mainstreaming of queerness intentionally, and falsely, placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation.  A fascinating unearthing of seldom discussed LGBT history, including groups like STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) and the Philadelphia-area collective DykeTactics.

"...heterosexual patriarchy or toxic masculinity know no national boundaries..." -Roderick Ferguson


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

Also on today's show:
Amy Foley on making feminist dance

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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