Monday, June 6, 2016: Virgie Tovar

The Art of the Outsider

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Lisa Dettmer talks with Virgie Tovar, Managing Director of Radar Productions, which is heir to Sister Spit, a weekly, girls-only open mic that was an alternative to the misogyny-soaked poetry open mics of the 1990s.   Radar celebrates its 13th birthday on June 8 with a star-studded Radar Superstar literary event at the San Francisco Main Library at 6 PM, followed by The Witching Hour: an Intimate Benefit at the Luggage Store gallery.  For tickets go to www.witchinghour.brownpapertickets.com.

June 8, 2016
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
8pm - This event immediately follows Radar Superstar (to be held at 6pm in the Koret Auditorium)

Performances by: Maya Songbird and vainhein. Tarot by: Miss Ben McCoy. There WILL BE PUPUSAS.

You can find Sister Spit and Radar Productions on Facebook. Check these links for ongoing and future events.

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Also on today's show:
Echo Brown
The Women's Community Calendar

November 25th: Worlds beyond what we can see: Arab-American playwright Mona Mansour

Urge for Going now at Z Space

Mona Mansour talks about growing up on the west coast with an American mother and Lebanese father and how she came from being an actor to writing plays. Her play "Urge For Going" the second in a trilogy, tells the story of Palestinian refugees in a Lebanese camp.

Urge for Going is showing now through December 8th at Z Space at 450 Florida Street in San Francisco. Tickets can be purchased on their website box office.

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Listen to the entire show including clips from Andrea Smith and Arundathi Roy, and our interview with Kameron Hurley.

Women's Magazine April 29, 2013: Daily Sexism

When Deborah Copaken Kogan learned she was long-listed for Britain's Women's Prize for Fiction, she looked it up and found that it was nearly always preceded with the words "prestigious" and "controversial."  What's the controversy?  Some people think the time for separate literary prizes for men and women is past; women are equal in fiction, right?  Not so, says the author of The Red Book and Shutterbabe.  She speaks with Kate Raphael about the "little paper cuts" of sexism from the literary establishment and her article "My So-Called Feminist Life in Arts and Letters" published in the April 13 issue of The Nation.  Listen now:


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And as May Day approaches, we hear from Aileen Clarke Hernandez, second president of the National Organization for Women, labor organizer and the first woman appointed to the EEOC.  Hernandez talks about the role of radical economic justice activists in creating what we think of as liberal middle-class feminism.  Listen below:



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Listen to entire show, including music by Joan Baez and spoken word by Yazmin Monet Watkins.