Monday, December 14, 2020: Examining the crisis of the child care system in the US

This Monday December 14th on KPFA Radio’s  "Women’s Magazine" we look at how racial Capitalism and Patriarchy have created a punitive underfunded child care system in the U.S. where the  the average hourly wage of child care workers is $10.72 per hour,  many of the women in need of child care are black and brown women and few get any government support in accessing child care.  This system is informed by the history of slavery in the U.S. where women’s job to reproduce the work force is required but never supported.  And the reality in our neoliberal economy is that many women especially women of color are the essential workers during covid and are working 2-3 jobs just to survive and yet rarely getting any government support for child care.

Today we talk to Marcy Whitebook from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley, Clarissa Douthard with Parent Voices Oakland and Loira Limbal director of the award winning documentary about child care “Through the Night” that shows how caregivers balance the demands of “women’s work” while navigating systemic racism, sexism and classism in the U.S. today. This beautiful film is available online at https://www.throughthenightfilm.com/ and is also showing at the Roxy Theater locally.

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

This week is fund drive for KPFA  so please call  KPFA Radio at 1.800.439.5732 or online at KPFA.org and donate any amount you can to help keep voices like this and stories about women on the frontlines stay on the air.  It is because we are a listener sponsored station that we can have these radical and unheard  voices on the air.  So please call and support KPFA.  And please share this announcement with others. 

Thank you 

Lisa Dettmer 

Monday, November 11, 2019: Solo Moms Building Community

In this segment Kate sits down with Marika Lindholm, founder of the online community Empowering Solo Moms Everywhere (ESME), and one of the editors of We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart and Humor. We'll also hear from contributors to the anthology Lennlee Keep (Dad Day: When Death Is a Holiday) and Sharisse Kimbro (For My Sisters).

Message from Kate:
This will likely be the last time I will host Women's Magazine. Tune in to find out about what I'll be doing instead! Thanks to all of you for all your support over these many years, and I hope you will continue to be avid listeners and supporters of Women's Magazine. (Keep in touch with Kate at www.kateraphael.com. Click on contact and sign up for Kate's newsletter.)

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

Also on today's show:
Excavating Uruguayan Lesbian Herstory

Event:

NOURA ERAKAT, celebrating her new book, “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine”
Tuesday, November 12, 7pm, Berkeley
In Conversation with Lara Kiswani

Berkeley City College Auditorium
Tuesday, November 12, 7pm
2050 Center Street
(near downtown Berkeley BART)

Tickets on sale now via Eventbrite

Monday, September 16, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

A Route to Ourselves lessening the space between women's bodies.

Today's show on The Space Between Us we are introduced to Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, known as Tia, Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman. The topics are Intimacy & Sexuality with Celeste and Danielle and how to listen to the stories our bodies tell us everyday with Tia. The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show every third Monday of the month.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min 

If you have any topics you'd like to hear email your ideas to Jovelyn at sugars982@gmail.com.

BIO's

Tia

Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, know as Tia is a former Yoga Instructor. Tia is a doctor of physical therapy and in the completion stages of becoming a Women's Health Coach and is the host of a podcast, The Masterful Art of Self-care. You can find Tia's podcast on any podcast app and linked on her website.

Danielle

Danielle Harel, Ph.D. is a co-host of the series Somatica Sessions and the co-founder of the Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching. A new intro to core training starts September 28th. She brings a tenacious dedication to self-realization in all of her teaching and coaching.

Celeste

Celeste Hirschman, M.A. is a co-host of the series Somatica Sessions and the co-founder of the Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching.

Celeste and Danielle are the co-authors of two books Cockfidence and Making love Real

Monday, October 8, 2018: Family Stories of Resistance and Resilience - Novelist Barbara Artson

Barbara Artson grew up NOT hearing the stories of her family's exodus from Russia in the early 20th century, or the experiences that led to it, but she saw their impact, in her mother's fear of anything unfamiliar, in her deaf aunt's experience of being cut off from the world and then treated as if she were unintelligent because she was cut off. In her debut novel, Odessa Odessa, Barbara imagines those experiences and uses her knowledge as a psychoanalyst to reflect on how the legacy of trauma affects multiple generations, not only in this country but in Palestine as well. She also connects the story she tells, in which a mother is separated from her son by immigration authorities - in this case in Germany - to the trauma of parents and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Barbara and Kate will be in conversation on Thursday night at 7PM, October 18 at Books, Inc. in Berkeley at 1491 Shattuck Ave.



Listen now or Get MP3. 22:12 min

Click here for the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Berkeley High School's Women's Union
Artist Lucia Ippolito

Monday, October 9, 2017: Betsy Graziani Fasbinder

Next Kate interviews Betsy Graziani Fasbinder. She describes herself as "a teacher, an organizational consultant, a corporate trainer, a licensed psychotherapist, a writing and speaking coach, and through it all, a writer." Her most recent book, Filling Her Shoes: A Memoir of an Inherited Family, the book that Fasbinder wished for when she first became a parent.

From Goodreads:
On the day that she decided to marry a widower--also a long-time friend--Betsy Graziani Fasbinder knew that she wasn't only gaining a husband, she was inheriting a son. Unlike many stepmothers, Betsy didn't have to struggle with an ex, or court battles, or the weekend shuffle between houses--but she did have to navigate living in the shadow of a young mother taken too soon, to honor the memory of her son's first mother, and to become the kind of parent and partner she herself wanted to be. Over time this family would learn how love's roots were formed in their shared losses, and how the new family love and joy they created together would become the richest kind of inheritance.

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

Event:
LitQuake – Naked on the Page https://litquake2017.sched.com/speaker/betsygrazianifasbinder
October 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street 
San Francisco, CA

Also on todays show:
Living on Ohlone Land
Christina Klugston: This is Our Pussy

Monday, August 14, 2107: En-gendered Opinions --- or Excuse Me are You a Girl or a Boy? (Part 2)

Today's show is Part 2 of a creative, multi-voiced exploration of the many facets of gender in today's world. How much has changed and how much remains the same. Part 1 of today's program aired on July 3rd.

Produced by Queer in Your Ear Productions' Emily Charles and Mary Salome, graduates of the KPFA Affirmative Action training program (now called First Voice).

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Monday, November 14, 2016: Oakland Public Conservatory

We speak with Angela Wellman, founder and director of the Oakland Public Conservatory, now celebrating its tenth anniversary in a brand new space, after being displaced due to gentrification. Wellman was recently given a key to Oakland in recognition of the contribution of this unique Bay Area institution.

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

OPC observes its anniversary with an afternoon and evening of African American Roots Music on Saturday, November 19.  Concert at 7 pm, workshops begin at 3:00, followed by a catered community dinner.   Purchase tickets here.

Don't miss this exciting day of music by members of the Grammy Award-winning  Carolina Chocolate Drops,  Rhiannon Giddens and Hubby Jenkins, who have made a career out of delving into the lesser known story of black string bands. On Saturday, September 19th,  Giddens and Jenkins bring their explorations to Oakland through workshops and a culminating concert.  They will discuss the history, techniques, and contributions of Black string bands. With the aid of recordings and films they will break down tunes and give plenty of opportunities for playing music. Rounding out the trio is the talented tap dancer, Robynn Watson, member of Savion Glover's STePz. Watson will also present a workshop. The evening ends with a concert full of plenty fun and frolic. 

Workshops  1:30-3:30 pm

Black Ballads, Blues and Work Songs

Banjo, Bones, Tap Dance

Concert at 7:00

Also on today's show:

Palestine and the US Elections

Revolutionary Lesbian Poet Pat Parker

Monday, October 3, 2016: Pakistani Film maker, Maheen Zia

Next up Sharon Sobotta interviews Pakistani film maker Maheen Zia about her newest film, Lyari Notes. Through the lives of Hamza Jafri and his students, Lyari Notes provides an insight into just what it takes to have a voice in a country where self expression and music is often drowned out by cycles of violence…

A unique film project where two filmmakers Maheen (Pakistan) and Miriam Chandy Menacherry (India) collaborate to string a new political discourse through music. Lyari Notes is a project about melting boundaries…in spirit as well as how the film is being made.

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

Also on today's show:
Oldest Park Ranger, Betty Reid Soskin

Monday, August 11, 2014: August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month

West Coast Blockade of the Israeli Zim Ship

Port of Oakland

Saturday, August 16th

5am

Meet at West Oakland Bart and march to Berth 57

Those planning to participate: subscribe to text-alerts and receive live updates about the 8/16 Block the Boat, text “join” to (510) 346-5951.

For more information go to ArabOrganizing.org and Block the Boat on Facebook.

STOP THE SIEGE ON GAZA!

END THE COLONIAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE!

RIGHT OF RETURN FOR ALL PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!

BOYCOTT, DIVEST, SANCTION!

Breastfeeding Awareness Month

https://www.facebook.com/UrbanLactationProject

We talk with Jazmin Morelos, coordinator of the Urban Lactation Project, about public breastfeeding and some upcoming events in San Francisco.  August is Breast Feeding Awareness month. In celebration Two Nights of Art, Music and Poetry, a two day event will be held on August 16th and August 23rd from 6-9 PM at the Eric Quezada Center on 518 Valencia St in San Francisco, CA. Speakers on both nights will discuss the benefits of breastfeeding, myths about breastfeeding, and local resourses.

The goal of Urban Lactation Project is to promote nursing in public through art & creating comfortable and welcoming public environments.

Jazmin Morelos' favorite nursing mom and kid friendly restaurant is Espetus at 1686 Market St. at Gough in San Francisco.

Listen now or Get MP3. 8:37 min.





Click here for the entire show. 59:49 min.

Also on today's program:
Interview with Karen Joy Fowler

June 23, 20124: Raising Resilient Children

Raising Resilient Children in the 21st Century

Tara Dorabji talks with Dr. Shimi Kang, author of The Dolphin Way, and Dr. Ernest Swihart, author of The Manipulative Child: How to Regain Control and Raise Resilient, Resourceful and Independent Kids.

Dr. Shimi Kang talks about parenting, balancing, and living without "boiling over." Her research is on the science of self-motivation. She emphasizes how to reduce the stress of parenting to help raise a child with skills for the 21st century.

Dr. Kang uses the POD acronym: Play, Others, Downtime. The Dolphin Way is available in most bookstores and at thedolphinway.org.

Next Tara interviews Dr. Ernest Swihart, a pediatrician and professor in Minnesota. Drs. Swihart and Cotter, a pediatrician and a child psychologist collaborated for nearly twenty-five years on a clinically proven program for blocking manipulative behavior and getting our kids back on track. The Manipulative Child explores letting a child fail without being hurt. He maintains that children learn far more from failure than success won without effort.

The program teaches parents to say no without feeling guilt; to resist the urge to feel responsible for their child's happiness; to view their children as emotionally competent and resilient; and most importantly, to realize that effective parenting means allowing your child to make mistakes and develop a sense of competence, which leads to enhanced self-esteem and an ability to live independently and successfully in the real world.

Listen now or Get MP3 39:55 min.




Don't give in to cynicism and despair. Popular resistant prevents war sometimes!! Demonstrations do help. Whatever you are able to do can help stop the US from waging further attacks on Iraq. Click here to listen the entire show for how demonstrations work and more. 59:52 min.

Also on today's show: Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her memoir, Living With a Wild God, with Alicia Sierra.