Monday, March 8, 2021: International Women's Day

In this hour we will learn about the radical socialist herstory of International Women’s Day with two American scholars, Eillen Boris, Professor at U.C Santa Barbara and Professor Premilla Nadasen from Barnard College. And while IWD doesn’t generate mass marches anymore in the U.S., Women’s Day is still an important day for protest and celebration in many places around the world.  Today we talk to feminist activists around the world who talk about the importance of Women’s Day marches against gender violence and patriarchy in their countries.    

We talk to, Pregs Govender, a South African feminist human rights activist and author of Love and Courage, A Story of Insubordination; Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, who is United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur and a medical doctor with expertise advocating for universal health access, HIV care, youth friendly services and family planning, in South Africa; Karen Tanada, who is executive director of Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute in the Philippines, and Lulú V Barrera a feminist activist and human right defender based in Mexico City. Lulú founded and currently leads Luchadoras, a feminist NGO that explores the intersections between gender, technologies and human rights, and works for an Internet free of violence against women. She is part of the National Network of Women Human Right Defenders in Mexico and the Latinamerican Network of Political Innovation.

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

Monday, May 9, 2016: She's Beautiful When She's Angry

Dear Friends,
This Monday on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we will be offering the inspiring  new feature documentary SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY as a premium.  This moving film  resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.  SHE’S BEAUTIFUL takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Conspiracy from Hell!).  Artfully combining dramatizations, performance and archival imagery, the film recounts the stories of women who fought for their own equality, and in the process created a world-wide revolution.  SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY captures the spirit of the time --- thrilling, scandalous, and often hilarious.

A story that still resonates today for women who are facing new challenges around reproductive rights and sexual violence, as the film shows present-day activists creating their generation's own version of feminism. Described by the Village Voice as one of the best films of the year, SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY is a film about activists who have changed the world as we know it.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min.

Secure donations can be made at KPFA.org. Thank you for your pledge and please mention Women's Magazine.

Monday, March 21, 2016: A sit-down with radio host Kris Welch

Nina Serrano sits down with long-time radio producer Kris Welch, who came to KPFA in 1972 to learn to do radio and cover women's issues.  They talk about Kris's fascinating youth traveling around Europe, Iran and Turkey, getting an abortion in England and how she ended up at KPFA.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Murder in Honduras
Zika in El Salvador

Calendar of Events:
Film Night at the Omni - "Fundi: the Story of Ella Baker" 
Tuesday, March 22
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Disco Room, Oakland CA

Selma James speaking on Caregiving:
An Anti-Capitalist Perspective
Friday March 25, 7pm
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland (at 48th St)
Donation $10, no one turned away

American Bookbinders Museum
All Month, Tue - Sat 10-4
355 Clementina, SF
415-824-9754

“THE WOMAN BOOKBINDER” through March 2016
WomanBookbinderAs part of Women’s History Month, the American Bookbinders Museum presents an exhibition featuring books and ephemera from the Museum’s collections, curated by Elspeth Olson, librarian and archivist at the ABM. The exhibition offers looks at women in the binding trade, women and the rise of the bindery unions, and women in artisanal binding.

Monday, February 29, 2016: She's Beautiful When She's Angry

Dear Friends,
This Monday on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we will be offering the inspiring  new feature documentary SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY as a premium.  This moving film  resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.  SHE’S BEAUTIFUL takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Conspiracy from Hell!).  Artfully combining dramatizations, performance and archival imagery, the film recounts the stories of women who fought for their own equality, and in the process created a world-wide revolution.  SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY captures the spirit of the time --- thrilling, scandalous, and often hilarious.

A story that still resonates today for women who are facing new challenges around reproductive rights and sexual violence, as the film shows present-day activists creating their generation's own version of feminism. Described by the Village Voice as one of the best films of the year, SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY is a film about activists who have changed the world as we know it.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min.

Secure donations can be made at KPFA.org. Thank you for your pledge and please mention Women's Magazine.