Monday, November 30, 2020: Imagining a Post-“45” US and the World with Vylma V, Jovelyn Richards, and Margo Okazawa-Rey

Welcome everyone to Women’s Magazine!  I’m Margo Okazawa-Rey, your host. Today is the 5th Monday so three of us hosts of WM Jovelyn Richards, Vylma Ortiz, and I decided to team up.  

We’re here to discuss our observations about the incoming administration and most important, share our vision of a feminist future under Harris and Biden. We will be answering three questions during the show. At the end, we will invite you to share your thoughts via email to Women’s Magazine. In the meantime, think along with us your answers to the questions.

• What are our reactions to the  presidential transition and, based on what you see, what can we expect from the incoming administration?
• What do we want the Biden-Harris administration to create that will ensure women will  thrive? 
• What signs will show us we are on the right road to our vision? What should be our underlying values?

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

Monday, August 3, 2020: Quality Teaching and Distance Learning - School Days in the Time of COVID-19

IT’S JUST ABOUT THAT TIME OF YEAR WHEN STUDENTS START TO HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL, BUT CAN QUALITY TEACHING REALLY HAPPEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC? HOW CAN OUR STUDENTS LEARN WHILE STILL STAYING CORONA FREE? 

JOIN HOST VYLMA V AND HER GUEST FOR THE HOUR, DR. KITTY KELLY EPSTEIN (HOST OF KPFA’S EDUCATION TODAY, EVERY OTHER FRIDAY AT 2PM) AS THEY DISCUSS SCHOOL OPENINGS, SCHOOL BOARDS AND "DISTANCE LEARNING" IN THE BAY AREA DURING THE TIME OF COVID 19. 

Emma's Revolution sing From a (Social) Distance during the musical break:

Vylma shares the words of John Lewis who wrote this essay a few days before his death on July 17th:
   Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation by John Lewis

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Monday, March 23, 2020: Intersectional and Transnational Feminism

This Monday March 23rd at 1pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine Lisa Dettmer speaks with three pre-eminent Feminist activist scholars: Margo Okazawa-Rey, Paola Bacchetta, and Gwyn Kirk who provide an overview of contemporary intersectional and transnational feminism with a special attention to issues of race, class, sexuality and coloniality. They discuss feminism’s importance in their lives and work, the importance of having an analysis of power, and they also address some of the myths and stereotypes prevalent among many about what feminism looks like.

Paola Bacchetta is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of California at Berkeley, and a globally renowned feminist, lesbian and Queer of Color scholar and activist. She has published six books and over 60 professional articles in English and many different languages. She has been active in decolonial, anti-capitalist, pro-immigration, anti-racism feminist and Queer of color movements in the U.S., India, France and Italy.

Margo Okazawa-Rey is an activist and educator working on issues of militarism, armed conflict, and violence against Women examined intersectionally. She has long-standing activist commitments in South Korea and has been associated with the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling in Palestine.

Gwyn Kirk is a scholar-activist concerned with genuine security and creating a sustainable world. She has taught Women’s and gender studies at U.S. colleges and universities for 30 years. She publishes a textbook/anthology, Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives co-edited with Margo Okazawa-Rey and has written widely on eco-feminism, militarism, and women’s peace organizing.

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Monday, October 7, 2019: Exploring Blackness and Policing of Black People in Europe

Margo and Vanessa

Margo

Interview with Vanessa Eileen Thompson

Margo Okazawa-Rey, gender studies professor and a member of the legendary Combahee River Collective, discusses the similarities and differences between anti-Blackness in the U.S. and in Europe with Afro-German scholar Vanessa Eileen Thompson.  Thompson is a researcher at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and a former visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies. She is one of the organizers of the upcoming symposium "On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives" to be held at UCLA October 11-12. Find out why a symposium on racism in Europe is being held in the United States!

Click here to listen to the entire interview with Vanessa. 30:33 min

Vanessa Eileen Thompson is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Previously, she was a guest lecturer in gender studies at the University of Cologne and a fellow at the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching are focused on critical race and racism studies, black studies (with a focus on Black Europe), gender and queer studies, post- and decolonial feminist theories and methodologies, critical security studies, and transformative justice. Thompson is also engaged in these fields as an activist.  Her current research project focuses on racial gendered policing in Europe and transnational articulations of abolitionist visions and alternatives from a black feminist perspective. Vanessa has published articles on the work of Fanon, black social movements in Germany and France, and racial gendered policing in Europe.


Film: The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo

Then we listen to excerpts of the brilliant documentary "The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo", which chronicles the career and writings of one of the foremost African feminist writers. Aidoo, the author of nine books, two plays and many short works, also served as Ghana's Minister of Education from 1982-1983. After eighteen months, she concluded that she would not be able to realize her goal of free universal education because nationalist ideals had been subverted by the elite. In 2000 she founded the Mbaasem Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in Ghana with a mission "to support the development and sustainability of African women writers and their artistic output."

Much love to all of you who have supported me and KPFA Women's Magazine over these many years. -Kate Raphael

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Monday, March 18, 2018: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

Today's Space Between Us features two subjects. First Jovelyn discusses women and our minds with Barbara Berger author of Understanding How the Mind Works, Fast Food for the Soul and more.* Next Jovelyn delves into education and youth. Hilary Roberts of Peer Advocates Training and Consulting talks about empowering youth, schools and educators. Join Jovelyn and her guests  at the river for these interesting conversations. This a live, call-in show.

First Voice KPFA Apprenticeship Program is accepting applications. If you're interested in learning media and broadcast skills contact the apprenticeship program at KPFAapprenticeship.org or call 1-510-848-6767 ext 235.

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

* Go to this page on Barbara's website for her free ebook, THE MENTAL LAWS, Understanding the Way the Mind Works.

Monday, January 14, 2019: Ready to Strike - Support Oakland Teachers

Oakland teachers are ready to strike. We hear voices from the Defend Education march and rally on Saturday, January 12, 2019. Hundreds of people turned out to support the teachers, students and schools.

photo credit: Julie Starobin

photo credit: Julie Starobin

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Also on today's show:
Remembering those who died in 2018
Ancient Puberty Rites

Monday November 19, 2018: The Space Between Us

Host Jovelyn Richards interviews Raana Mohyee and Olivia Murillo best friends, college roommates and graduate students at UC Berkeley. Raana discusses her volunteer work with Love Without Borders and the use of virtual reality exposure therapy for treating PTSD.

Syrian children in refugee camp in Turkey

In today's live call-in show both guests explore the spaces between their academic research and the anticipated world in which they are entering beyond college.

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

You can reach Raana with any questions her work at Rmohyee@berkeley.edu.

If you have suggestions or comments to add to The Space Between Us, contact Jovelyn Richards at sugar982@gmail.com.

Monday, July 23, 2018: Middle Schooler’s organize Feminist Club

Teens Inspired to found Feminist Club 

Today on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we talk to some of the new local feminist leaders of the young adult generation when we speak to Neva Zamil, Miaze Cline and Anjuna Mascarenhas-Swan three of the students at Berkeley’s Longfellow Middle School that helped to start a student Feminist Club to address sexism and teach their fellow students about feminism.

"43% of middle school girls are sexually harassed."

Students demonstrate in Berkeley

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

Also on today's show:
Film Naila and the Uprising at JFF

Monday July 16, 2018: The Space Between Us - Part 1

The Space Between Women and Technology, Closing the Gap.

WM host Jovelyn Richards speaks with Lisa DeLapo about Makerspace: A program for women of color and disabled women that opens doors to leadership in the world of technology. Also joining Jovelyn in this segment are Gay Krause, founder of Krause Center for Innovation and Cicely Day, teacher and innovator.

Lisa DeLapo

Innovator in Residence

Krause Center for Innovation

Lisa has a Master’s Degree in Education with a concentration in teacher leadership, and she holds a graduate certification in network and communications management. Lisa has a multi-subject teaching credential as well as an administrative credential. She earned a 2016 CUE Gold Disk, and is a Google Certified Innovator and Microsoft Innovative Expert. She also volunteers on the East Bay CUE Board of Directors.

Lisa DeLapo joined the KCI as Innovator in Residence in 2017. Lisa is also the current MERIT Program Director. MERIT (Making Education Relevant and Interactive through Technology) is a research-based, educator development program designed to help teachers bolster their curriculum with technology-enhanced learning activities to motivate, challenge and inspire the diverse learners and leaders of the future. Lisa has taught K-12 students and teachers since 2005, and she has several years of experience as a cabinet-level Director of Technology in a public school district. Thoroughly familiar with MERIT, Lisa attend the program in 2013, served as an instructor in 2014 and as Assistant Director in 2015 and 2016. Please contact Lisa at ldelapo@krauseinnovationcenter.org

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Also on today's show:

The Space Between Us as Women and Gestures

Monday July 16, 2018: The Space Between Us - Part 2

The Space Between Us as Women and Gesture.

Jovelyn Richards host of WM:The Space Between Us, Dives into the story of Gestures, looking at what many cultures believe that gestures evoke spirits and rituals. This discussion is shared with Mandisa Amber Woods research in ancient tribal ritual and present day ritual.

Mandisa Amber Wood, M.A., M.F.A., is a Bay Area, CA artist, dancer, educator, and food justice activist. Mandisa incorporates intuitive painting, performance, regenerative and permaculture design, and transformative learning in her method for vibrant expression. Mandisa is an assistant editor for the Journal of Sustainability Education and a fourth year PhD student in the Sustainability Education program at Prescott College. Her emergent sacred research focuses on indigenous, first nations, and women of color priestesses in the Bay Area, CA catalyzing women-centered resurgence and biocultural diversity through community rituals, embodied practices, and healing centered social justice organizing. Contact Mandisa: www.MandisaRegenerativearts.com

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Also on today's show:
The Space Between Women and Technology

Monday, April 16, 2018: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us

Jovelyn Richards host of Women's Magazine: The Space Between Us talks with Dr. Charlene M. Brown.  Dr. Brown reveals her research title: FILLING THE GAP: HOW BLACK ADOLESCENT GIRLS DEFINE THEIR IDENTITIES USING A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY APPROACH. Dr. Brown asks Black girls/women how they feel about themselves in terms of class, color, and personal stories. For more information or to get in touch with Dr. Brown you can email her at CharleneBrownM@gmail.com.

Milka Rose, an African American Student and her high school mentor Kimberly Turner also join the conversation. Listen to the voices of young women moving off into the world.

The Space Between Us airs the third Monday of each month at 1 PM. It is a live, call-in show.

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

Monday, June 19, 2017: The Space Between Us

Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us every 3rd Monday. This is a live call-in show. Join us at the River with your story every 3rd Monday at 1 PM on KPFA Women's Magazine.

Rainbow is a consultant, trainer, and mediator working with groups and individuals to heal what divides us. She learned much about human needs and interactions working in early childhood education for 36 years. Growing up as a fat child and as an adult walking in this world as a fat lesbian who does not alter her body, Rainbow has her own perspective on oppression.

With her Masters degree in Non Profit Administration, Rainbow has used her expertise
to assist countless Non Profit organizations in all aspects of running a successful business.

Rainbow is a Master Trainer with StirFry Seminars & Consulting, facilitating Unlearning Racism, Unlearning Sexism, and Train the Trainer workshops, while also facilitating Color of Fear and Last Chance for Eden seminars.

Thanks to all of you who called in today and shared your story on The Space Between Us.

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Monday, January 23, 2017: Linda Burnham speaks at "People Get Ready"

"This is not such a hot time for you or for me..." -June Jordan

Linda Burnham

Speaking at the Center for Political Education's one-day conference, "People Get Ready: Building Resistance in the Trump Era," Linda Burnham, research director of Domestic  Workers United and cofounder of the Women of Color Resource Center speaks about dialectics: how we resolve apparent conflicts between dealing with immediate realities and urgencies and the longer arc and deeper dynamics of history; how to build the ranks of the left at the same time that we try to build the broadest possible alignment against authoritarianism, and the relationship between revolutionary imagination and the world as it actually is. Burnham's speech is aired in its entirety.

"There's no way to understand what just happened by following the news."-Burnham


Coming off the tremendous outpouring of energy on Saturday all over the country, this thrilling talk will leave you invigorated and motivated to get on to the next organizing challenge!

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Also on today's show:
Angela Davis at the Women's March on Washington
KPFA apprenticeship

Monday, August 22, 2016: Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality

What if schools were places where children could explore their identities and passions without worrying about gender roles? This question and more are addressed in today's show.

"Whenever you teach oppression you have to teach resistance."

Educators Jody Sokolower, Liza Gesuden, Candice Valenzuela and AJ Jennings discuss methods and opportunities for introducing conversations and curricula about sexism, patriarchy, intersectionality, gender identity and sexuality with kids from preschool to high school.  The four women are all among the 50+ contributors to a new anthology from Rethinking Schools.  The book and the interviews are chock-full of information and ideas that will be helpful to teachers, parents, students, relatives and friends of young people all over this country.

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

Monday, July 18, 2016: Feminist resistance to neoliberalism

Banner from CUPE 3909 presentation

This Monday July 18th KPFA's Women's Magazine speaks to the authors of a new article called  "For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University", which is a call for a feminist ethics of care that challenges the neoliberal working conditions of the university and replaces it with a feminist and collective model you all are calling slow scholarship.  Lisa Dettmer talks to Professors Win Curran, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Trina Hamilton and Alison Mountz about their article and how self care is a radical feminist act. You can find a link to download this article at www.academia.edu and on Facebook.

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Also on today's show:
Lesbian feminist poet Barbara Ruth
Women's Community Calendar

Monday, June 27, 2016: S.F. Mime Troupe

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Kate Raphael sits down with long-time SF Mime Troupe performers and collective members Keiko Shimosato Carreiro and Velina Brown, to talk about the history of the troupe, their careers and the new show, SCHOOLED, which debuts next weekend in Berkeley.

The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in Berkeley July 2 & 3, then San Francisco July 4 with its 57th season premiering "Schooled"

Education. It's like the weather: everyone has an opinion but nobody does anything about it. That's how Livina Jones feels about her son Tom's new school, Eleanor Roosevelt High. With it's old textbooks, crumbling classrooms, and racist treatment of kids just like hers Livina believes Roosevelt is exactly the sort of school that can benefit from a little free-market common sense. The nanny-state government has failed to see students as individuals, and failed to give them the real-world skills they'll need to get ahead. So who says it isn't time for some big money, for-profit schooling?
Edith Orocuru, for one. She's the long serving history/civics/American government/basketball coach at Eleanor Roosevelt, and she's willing to fight for her version of education as long as her reconstructed hips will allow. But is she fighting for a system that can be fixed, or is she just too blind by her past to see how times have left her and her school behind? And when an efficiency expert, Mr. Babbit, is assigned to improve her class is it a sign that Edith is behind the times, or a sign of something more sinister? And with privatization on the line, and a Wall Street heavy hitter lined up to fold the entire district into his conglomerate, suddenly the next School Board election is more about a hidden agenda than the open curriculum. And when did the hall monitors start wearing brown shirts and arm bands?

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Also on today's show:
Homosexuality in the Middle East
Women's Community Calendar

Monday, November 16, 2015 – Transgender Native Hawaiians

Sharon Sobotta talks with Kumu Hina, subject of an award-winning PBS documentary, about gender and sexuality in native Hawaiian culture. A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE is the true story of a young girl in Hawaiʻi who dreams of leading the boys-only hula group at her school, and a teacher who empowers her through traditional culture. This kid-friendly educational film is a great way to get students thinking and talking about the values of diversity and inclusion, the power of knowing your heritage, and how to prevent bullying by creating a school climate of aloha – from their own point of view! More information can be found at the links above.

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Also on today's show:
A Murder (Mystery) in Palestine
Singing to Stop Climate Change

Monday, March 23, 2015: Women of Color in Academia

"Prove it Again and Prove it Again." Surviving and Thriving in the Academy

Vylma V and LisaMarie Rollins host today's live, call-in show.

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TODAY at 1pm PDT on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine is our live call in show!! LisaMarie Rollins and Vylma V talk with two women professors about their experiences in higher education. We discuss the book, “Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia”. Our guests are Dr. Yolanda Neiman, Professor of Psychology & Senior Vice Provost at University of North Texas and one of the editors of “Presumed Incompetent” and Dr. Andreana Clay Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at SFSU and author of The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism, and Post–Civil Rights Politics. Listen in at 94.1fm or stream online at kpfa.org - and call us with your questions and comments!

Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America.

Dr. Clay's book:

From youth violence, to the impact of high stakes educational testing, to editorial hand wringing over the moral failures of hip-hop culture, young people of color are often portrayed as gang affiliated, “troubled,” and ultimately, dangerous. The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back examines how youth activism has emerged to address the persistent inequalities that affect urban youth of color. Andreana Clay provides a detailed account of the strategies that youth activists use to frame their social justice agendas and organize in their local communities.

Also on today's show:

Community Shuts Down Valencia St. in Front of SFPD Mission Station; Puts Police on Trial to mark one year anniversary of the SF police murder of Alex Nieto. For more information go to http://justice4alexnieto.org/

Calendar of Events:

Blackademics by Idris Goodwin will open April 9-May 2 at The Thick House in San Francisco. Produced by Crowded Fire Theatre. For tickets and info click http://www.crowdedfire.org/2015-blackademics/.

LUNADA Literary Lounge ~ Quinceañera Celebration 

Saturday, April 4, 2015 | 7:00 pm

Celebrating 15 years of lunar literary ritual: Spoken Word, Música and Open Mic.  BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/eng/events/index.php?op=view&id=5790

The Apprenticeship Program sign up deadline has been extended to April 3rd. Check it out at http://kpfa.org/about/apprenticeship-program/

July 14, 2014: Stories from Chicago Public Housing

First up: Grief in Palestine

The death toll in Gaza climbs daily. More than 200 Palestinians have died; 1 in 4 are children. The US gives Israel $14 million a day most of which is spent by the military. One can be assured that every kid that has been killed has been with weapons we paid for. Call or write your Congress people. To find out what is currently happening the following websites are excellent sources: Arab Resource and Organizing Center, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and The Electronic Intifada.

To order this book:
  http://voiceofwitness.org/high-rise-stories/

VOICE OF WITNESS EXPLORES CHICAGO PUBLIC HOUSING

Global Val Ibarra of Mutiny Radio speaks with Mimi Lok and Audrey Petty of Voice of Witness about their book, High-Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing.

Voice of Witness is a San Francisco-based nonprofit using oral history to illuminate human rights crises of our time. Voice of Witness was started in 2004 by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen. In 2008 Mimi Lok came on board as Executive Director and Editor. The Voice of Witness Book Series depicts human rights injustices through the stories of the men and women who experience them. The Voice of Witness Education Program connects thousands of students and educators each year with these stories and issues through common core-aligned, oral history-based curricula and holistic educator support. All of the teaching tools are free or at a very low price.

In High-Rise Stories, they use the stories of people displaced by the destruction of Chicago's high-rise public housing to illustrate the consequences of gentrification, redlining, privatization, and new approaches to urban policy. This Chicago specific book resonates on a national level.

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Hear the entire program in the KPFA archives. 59:49 min.


Also on today's show:
Tomboy, the Art of Nancy Cato

June 9, 2014: Diana Whitten discusses her film, VESSEL

VESSEL

Diana Whitten discusses her film, VESSEL, which chronicles the voyages of Women On Waves, a bold women's health movement bringing women-controlled medical abortion to ports of call around the world. This film follows Dutch physician, Rebecca Gomperts, who in 2001 began a sailing voyage to provide women with safe abortions.

A fearless sea captain sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

VESSEL airs at the Roxie on Saturday, June 14th at 4:45 PM and Wednesday, June 18th at 7:01 PM. Tickets are available at sfindie.com.

or Get MP3.

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

Also on today's show:
Radical queer writer & activist Yasmin Nair
Preview of the film KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER
Tribute to revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama