Monday, February 25, 2019: Film - A Great Ride

Monday February 25th KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine offers a premium for fund drive you don’t want to miss.  We offer a limited number of copies of the recently released, but not yet available, film A Great Ride generously provided by the director Deborah Craig for your donation of $75.*   A Great Ride which was just featured at Frameline this year, looks at the lives of local older lesbians—the lesbian feminist Icon, Sally Gearhart, activist, Brenda Crawford, and several women who live in an LGBTQ-friendly retirement community in Santa Rosa—all who are aging with dynamism and zest for life, determination, and humor.  We will be talking with A Great Ride director Deborah Craig about her documentary, which is both inspiring and funny and not to be missed.

Professor Eisenstein

And we talk with well known Socialist Feminist author and activist Professor Zillah Eisenstein about what has happened with socialist feminism. Is it still alive and well or has it disappeared or merely changed since the heady days of the 1970’s.

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Monday, October 8, 2018: Family Stories of Resistance and Resilience - Berkeley High School Women's Student Union

Listen to a chat with Simone Ewell-Szabò, one of the co-presidents of Berkeley High School's Women's Student Union.  A video the group produced last week in response to the Kavanaugh hearings has gotten over 20,000 views on YouTube.

The students are holding a festival for International Day of the Girl on Oct 11 at lunch hour across the street from Berkeley High School. There will be big sweeps of paper for people to paint, food and things for sale to raise money for women's shelters in Berkeley, and  tables with women's literature, poems and a place to express your feelings.

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Also on today's show:
Novelist Barbara Artson
Artist Lucia Ippolito

Monday, January 16, 2017: Women led marches, protests and actions for everyone

This week on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine we look at some of the marches, protests and actions happening this week around the issue of patriarchy and gender violence.

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• We talk to Jadelynn Stahl, cofounder of Disclose, about the intervention they are planning for January 19th at 6:30 pm at Oscar Grant Plaza

to protest the election of an accused rapist and a government that supports gender violence and affirm the possibility of a world without gender-based violence. Join us for a solidarity rally and creative action. For more information and accessibililty questions contact support@disclosesilence.org. More information about the rally and action can be found on Facebook.

• And we talk to Renee McKenna, Alison Mata and Jenny Bradanini some of the organizers of the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Women's Marches happening on January 21st in concert with Women's March in Washington DC and around the country to protest the election of Trump and to proclaim that women's rights are human rights. Find the Facebook listing here.

• And lastly we talk to artist Epil about the "Women Who Made Us" project, which is a call to the strength of the generations of women who came before us. They will be carrying photos of our female ancestors and offering to print posters of others ancestors. WomenWhoMadeUs@gmail.com for information on this action.

Information and links for marches:

EVENT DETAILS FOR OAKLAND
We will meet at Madison Park in Oakland at 10AM.  At 11AM we will begin our march up Oak Street to Grand Avenue along Lake Merritt.  We will then march down Broadway to end at Frank Ogawa Plaza.  At 12:30PM we will begin our rally with speakers, art and music concluding at 3PM.

Time of March: 10AM - 3PM
Starting Location: Madison Park
Ending Location: Frank Ogawa Plaza
No tickets required. Please register on our Eventbrite page.

EVENT DETAILS FOR SAN FRANCISCO
We will rally with speakers, arts and music from 3 - 5PM at Civic Center in San Francisco. At 5PM we will begin our candlelight march down Market St. to Justin Herman Plaza.

Time of Rally: 3 - 5PM
Time of March: 5 - 8PM
Starting Location: Civic Center
Ending Location: Justin Herman Plaza
No tickets required. Please register on our Eventbrite page.

EVENT DETAILS FOR SAN JOSE

Time: 10AM -3PM
Starting Location: City Hall
Ending Location: Cesar Chavez Plaza
No tickets required. Please register for the event on Eventbrite.

SISTER MARCHES IN VARIOUS OTHER CITIES IN CALIFORNIA

Today's show also has information about the KPFA apprentice program. Applications are due January 27 for this excellent 18 month program. More information at www.kpfaapprentice.org. Email at Apprentice@kpfa.org. Phone 510-848-6767 ext 235.

Monday, June 27, 2016: Homosexuality in the Middle East

KPFA Women's Magazine Commentary; 

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And now for today's show.

As the narrative around the shooting at the gay club in Orlando has shifted from domestic terrorism to the internalized homophobia of a (possibly) closeted Muslim man, we look at some of the other narratives surrounding the massacre fanned by the mainstream media, and examine the real history of homosexuality in Islam. Lisa Dettmer talks to Dr. Samar Habib, scholar, researcher and author of many books on sexuality in the Arab world, including Female Homosexuality in the Middle East and Islam and Homosexuality.

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Also on today's show:
S.F. Mime Troupe
Women's Community Calendar

November 17, 2014: Radical Feminism and Sustainability

Earth at Risk 2014 Conference November 22nd and 23rd

This week on Women's Magazine, we hear from radical feminist Saba Malik of the Fertile Ground Institute, an organizer of Earth At Risk, a conference on sustainability and social justice, along with aboriginal women's rights activist Cherry Smiley and anti-trafficking and economic justice organizer Yuly Chan.  Yuly and Cherry will both be speaking on the Confronting Misogyny panel at Earth At Risk next Sunday. They talk about the interrelationship of rape culture, prostitution, environmental destruction, capitalism, land rights and patriarchy.

Earth at Risk Conference is in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts.

For tickets go to: http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/tickets---earth-at-risk-2014.html
For event schedule go to: http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/earth-at-risk-2014-schedule-and-details.html

or Get MP3. 24:38 min.

Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
Whole Foods Workers in For the Fight
Dhaya and Karinda Take on the World

August 25, 2014: Black Feminists Examine Police Violence, Gender and Racism then and now.

As the nation has been shocked by the images of overwhelming police violence in Ferguson, Missouri and the epidemic of murders by police of Black men around the country we have also been inspired by the organic uprisings in response. This Monday August 25th KPFA radio's Women's Magazine looks at how police violence is not only racialized but is also gendered. Lisa Dettmer talks to journalist and author Thandisizwe Chimurenga about the racial and patriarchal aspects of police violence, and to UCLA Law Professor Kimberle Crenshaw about how an intersectional feminist perspective is missing from the mainstream and left analysis in these post racial times.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant. Kimberle Crenshaw is co-founder of the African American Policy Forum and author of New York Times op-ed The Girls Obama Forgot, why My Brother’s Keeper ignores young Black women.

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