Monday, March 11, 2019: Years of Love and Danger - Lise Weil and Renate Stendhal

KPFA Women's Magazine speaks with veterans of the movements of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

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Join Kate Raphael in a conversation with Lise Weil, author of In Search of Pure Lust, and Renate Stendhal, author of Kiss Me Again, Paris. Both of these elegantly written memoirs explore the role of lesbian desire in creating feminist culture and politics in the early days of the women's movement. (She Writes authors: Lise is one of us!) These books are available on line and at your local bookstore.

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Also on today's show:
Madonna Thunderhawk

Monday, August 6, 2018: Stacy Russo on Love Activism

Writer, oral historian and librarian Stacy Russo discusses Love Activism, the subject of her inspiring fourth book. She invites us all to join the Love Revolution. "It seems like a lot of time is spent chasing romantic love...elevate all the others kinds of love...There are so many opportunities for love that are gratifying." -Stacy Russo

Love Activism is a holistic daily activism of kindness with Eight Beautiful Elements: service - empathy - hope - self-care - feminism - creativity - non-violence - mindfulness

Love Activism can be found on-line or request a copy at your local bookstore.



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Also on today's show:
Leslie Cagan Remembers Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Hiroshima Day

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.

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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 7, 2017: Cherrie Moraga

Cherrie Moraga’s play THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE takes off from the story of La Malinche, a Native woman who in myth became the collaborator of the colonizers of Mexico.

Playwright and poet Cherrie Moraga, co-editor of the class feminist of color book, This Bridge Called My Back, discusses her new play, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE, with Lisa Dettmer.  In a time-traveling re-encounter with a 16th century female slave-turned-slaveholder, a Mexican woman in the early stages of Alzheimers is forced to concede a radically revised ledger on her life; its loves and losses, in this play which opens at San Francisco's Brava Theater on August 10.  The Stanford Daily says the play has "the power to render its audience speechless – to wrench us from our academic stupor, remind us of the importance of good art, and make us feel a little more awake because of it."

The Mathematics of Love

Thursday, August 10, 2017 7:00 PM PT  
Sunday, August 27, 2017 3:00 PM PT
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA, 94110

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Also on today's show:
Diana Paul and Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

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Monday, September 12, 2016: Changing Our Concept of Masculinity

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The Violent Construction of Masculinity

This Monday, September 12, Women's Magazine features two cutting-edge documentaries by men challenging masculine violence by examining how our cultural construction of masculinity pressures boys and men to be aggressive and suppress any feelings but anger.  No one exemplifies this more than Donald Trump, says Thomas Keith, in his new film, THE EMPATHY GAP: Masculinity and the Courage to Change.  Keith gives a nuanced reading of the interplay between racist and sexist stereotyping in U.S. popular culture and offers evidence-based solutions. 

Educator Jackson Katz points out that "Gender" issues are considered "women's issues," just as "race" is assumed to be a problem about people of color and "sexual orientation" is only discussed in relation to LGB people. "It's as if people of the dominant culture have no race, gender or sexual orientation," he says.  In “TOUGH GUISE 2,” he proposes a radically different approach to gender violence, foregrounding and challenging the ways that boys are taught to be men.

Kate Raphael and Lisa Dettmer present excerpts from and discuss these powerful documentaries.

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