Monday, July 8, 2019: Whose Image Is Our Body Image? - Shani Raviv

This week on Women's Magazine we explore the racial, cultural, economic and emotional roots of our obsession with thin bodies.

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Shani Raviv's memoir, Being Ana, explores the role that anorexia, personified as Ana, played in her life for ten years, from age 14 to 24. Moving from South Africa to Israel and back again, with parents who were depressed or absent, uncomfortable because of class issues and a severe squint, anorexia was less an extreme diet than a search for order and structure. Yet none of the adults around her recognized the problem and intervened. Shani talks about how she eventually healed and what you can do if you think someone you know is suffering from an eating disorder. For more information about eating disorders at NationalEatingDisorders.org.

Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:58 min (There is a break in the recording at 44:46 that lasts for about 45 seconds.)

Also on today's show:
Sabrina Springs



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Monday, April 22, 2109: Nell Painter and Who Gets to be Seen As an Artist?

In today's program Kate Raphael speaks with two powerful African American artists. First is an interview with Nell Painter. In the next segment we hear from Jovelyn Richards.

Nell Painter, a prominent historian and author of the New York Times Bestseller, The History of White People, didn't do what many people do when they retire. At 64, after retiring from Princeton University, she entered art school, receiving a BFA from Mason Goss School of Art at Rutgers, and then heading to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design for an MFA in painting. There, she developed a new appreciation for formalism, while coming to terms with the fact that age was the defining element of how her young classmates saw - or didn't see - her.  She'll be speaking at the upcoming Bay Area Book Festival about her memoir, Old In Art School, a National Critics’ Circle Award Finalist, and about her understanding of how race, gender and age affect who gets to be called an artist.  She'll also be joining a panel on The Legacy of Adrienne Rich and the Shape of Our Feminist Future.

Today is Earth Day and National Poetry Month. The show begins with a reading of the poem "Rise" by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna. Continue listening for a recording by Adrienne Rich after the first interview. Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min 

Also on today's show:
Jovelyn Richards

Monday, September 17, 2018: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

Van Driel's memoir will be released Oct. 4

KPFA Women's Magazine Host Jovelyn Richards interviews ex FBI agent Barbara Van Driel on how our ethics and values of women must be preserved. Special Agent Barbara Van Driel author of It Never Happened discusses her struggles within a unethical organization while holding on to her own beliefs.

The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show that airs every 3rd Monday at 1 PM on KPFA Women's Magazine. Look for it and join Jovelyn at the river to share your story.

It's pledge week at KPFA. Please donate and support women's programming and listener sponsored radio. KPFA Women's Magazine is entirely written and produced by volunteers.

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

Monday, March 5, 2018: Betty Reid Soskin interviews for KPFA Winter Pledge Drive

Thank you for your pledge during KPFA Women's Magazine on Monday, March 5th. If you missed the show on Monday you can catch this excellent interview with Betty Reid Soskin. This amazing yet humble 96 year old woman has a lot to share stories about her own life and "living in the future that [she] helped to create." Listen now to this powerful voice.

Click here to listen to the entire show. 1:02:49 min

Kate and Sharon offer a special program featuring Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest National Park Ranger. Soskin works at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Park in Richmond, CA where she plays a vital role in bringing her personal experience as an African-American woman working in a segregated environment during WWII and beyond. Don't miss it!

Don't forget to pledge at KPFA. Any amount is greatly appreciated. There are many great thank-you gifts to choose from including Betty Reid Soskin's book, Sign My Name to Freedom for a pledge of $125. So please pledge now. Thanks!

Monday, July 11, 2016: A lesbian ex-Hasid's story

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We speak with Leah Lax, author of the memoir Uncovered: How I left Hasidic life and finally came home. Lax's memoir of her life as a closeted lesbian, wife, and mother of seven among the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher Hasidim, has resonated with people from every religious tradition, and helped to start a secret network for queer Hasidim. She's currently collaborating on an opera based on the memoir, which was selected by both Redbook and Good Housekeeping magazines as one of the 2015 Best Books by Women.

Listen now or Get MP3. 23:35 min







Lax will be reading from Uncovered this Wednesday, July 13 at 6 PM at Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Building.

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

Also on today's show:
Homeless women veteran stories take the stage‏
Women's Calendar

Monday, September 8, 2014: Daisy Hernandez talks about her new memoir

Lisa Detmer talks with Daisy Hernandez about her life and her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed. She reads excerpts from her book.

Daisy grew up in a Latina women centric family with her parents and aunties. She writes about her childhood and spiritual background in a mixed Latino family and community. Daisy says about her new book:

I grew up in New Jersey. That’s where I heard the best stories about Cuba and Colombia and this lady who knows how to eat an avocado so you won’t get pregnant. It’s also where I first learned about feminism, queer identity, and race in the Americas. You can read these stories in my new book, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir. It’s in bookstores September 9.

Daisy will be reading from her new memoir tonight at Booksmith in San Francisco at 7:30 PM and at Book Passage at Corte Madera on Wednesday, September 10th at 7 PM.

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

Also on today's show:
Exploring the experience of older homeless women