Monday, December 25, 2017: Disability Activist and Writer Aurora Levins Morales

Today on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we talk to writer, artist, historian, chronic illness survivor and revolutionary activist and healer Aurora Levins Morales about her work and her life.  This show was first in June.

Aurora has fought against chronic illness and toxicity of 21st century Capitalism for decades and continues to tell stories with medicinal powers to shift our consciousness and change how we think about ourselves, each other and the world.  Her writing is lyrical and powerful. 

Today we talk to her about her work and in particular her book "Kindling:Writings on the Body” where she explores the meanings of sickness and healing, suffering and pleasure, through the story of her own body, of all of our bodies, of the body of the planet.

Learn more about Aurora's self-designed, environmentally safe, moving home at Vehicle for Change.

Click here for the audio file of the show. 59:50 min

Monday, June 26, 2017: Disability activist and writer Aurora Levins Morales

Today on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we talk to writer, artist, historian, chronic illness survivor and revolutionary activist and healer Aurora Levins Morales about her work and her life.  

Aurora has fought against chronic illness and toxicity of 21st century Capitalism for decades and continues to tell stories with medicinal powers to shift our consciousness and change how we think about ourselves, each other and the world.  Her writing is lyrical and powerful.

Today we talk to her about her work and in particular her book "Kindling:Writings on the Body” where she explores the meanings of sickness and healing, suffering and pleasure, through the story of her own body, of all of our bodies, of the body of the planet.

Learn more about Aurora's self-designed, environmentally safe, moving home at Vehicle for Change.



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

Monday, November 10, 2014: Black Women Surviving Social Trauma

Today's program begins a new format for Women's Magazine. Once a month new hosts Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins will bring us voices from global women of color and multiple diasporas. At the end our live show the phone lines will open for callers to share their knowledge, work and stories.

Vylma V and Lisa Marie Rollins

Surviving Global Social Trauma

In the last 25 years we have begun recognize that the experiences of war can cause PTSD.  But feminists and activists have long recognized that there is another kind of war occurring in the U.S upon women, people of color, activists and poor people by our unhealthy society, which causes social trauma for all but especially for those in targeted groups.  This Monday on KPFA's Women's Magazine we talk to two African American women about how they have been affected in their lives and bodies by the racism, sexism, homophobia and imperialism of our society and how they have found ways to heal.  

Nell Myhand is a Berkeley based organizer, author and speaker whose work brings people together across age, race, class and other differences forming alliances to create powerful, effective solutions to common problems that leave no one out and no one behind. She is writing children’s books that highlight solidarity and collective action for social justice towards creating the other world we know is possible.

Cara Page is a Black queer feminist from a long ancestral legacy of organizers and cultural workers. Cara works on Queer and trans liberation, reproductive justice and racial and economic justice and is currently the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in NYC.

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

July 21, 2014: The Life of Valerie Solanas

California Coalition of Women Prisoners is sponsoring a caravan and rally on July 31st to protest the re-opening of McFarland prison, to be run by the GEO Group, a private company with an abysmal reputation. Low level women offenders qualified for release are being transferred to McFarland for a brutal program falsely entitled Enhanced Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction Campaign. The caravan will meet at MacArthur BART at 11 AM and link up with Trail for Humanity. A rally at 5 PM will be held at McFarland Park. For more information contact CCWP at 415-255-7036 ext 4 or email notomcfarlandgeo@gmail.com. To find out more about Trail for Humanity you can find them on Facebook.

Life and Work of Valerie Solanas

To buy: http://www.feministpress.org/books/breanne-fahs/valerie-solanas

Breanne Fahs, professor of women's and gender studies at Arizona State University, discusses the controversial but important life and work of Valerie Solanas. Fahs is author of the new book, Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol).

Listen now or Get MP3 24:01 min.

Breanne Fahs

Breanne Fahs is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women's sexuality, critical embodiment studies, radical feminism, and political activism.  She has a B.A. in women's studies/gender studies and psychology from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in women's studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan.  She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored three books: Performing Sex (SUNY Press, 2011), an analysis of the paradoxes of women's "sexual liberation," The Moral Panics of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2013), an edited collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex," and Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), a biography about the controversial and politically significant life of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas. She is the director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.

To read S.C.U.M. Manifesto go to: http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm

To hear the entire program of Women's Magazine click here. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:

Palestinian Women Take Aim with Cameras

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

April 21st: Women's Magazine Earth Day Show

It's Earth Day! We honor the legacy of Wangari Matthai, founder of the Green Belt movement and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. And we hear a stirring speech by ecofeminist Vandana Shiva.

Plus a celebration of National Poetry Month with some fiery feminist words.

Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)

To hear the Wangari Maathai interview that aired on Nov. 20, 2006 go to: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/23805

For more info on Maathai:
www.globalfundforwomen.org/who-we-are/where-we-stand/1922-celebrating-the-life-of-wangari-maathai

Vandana Shiva says GMO means God Move Over

You can find the Vandana Shiva talk at: http://www.synbiowatch.org/2013/09/watch-video-vandana-shiva-and-gopal-dayaneni-discuss-corporate-biotech-green-vs-ecological-green/








And we hear voices from the first Latino Poetry Festival and young radical women poets. Donde Esta Mi Gente website is dondeestamigente.com.

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