Monday, October 27, 2014: BAD FEMINIST Roxane Gay

Wanting Equality for Women: Roxanne Gay Discusses her Essays and Writings

And Tara Dorabji interviews author Roxane Gay, about her new collection of essays, "Bad Feminist." Gay is also the author of the novel AN UNTAMED STATE and a frequent contributor to Salon, The Guardian and The New York Times Book Review.

"I don't mind men taking care of cars and trash."

Our bodies are still under legislative control. Women still don't have the same rights as men. Gay discusses the sanctity of choice and the physical and ecomomic consequences to pregnancy.

Gay writes and talks about what it means to depict sexual violence. She talks about rape culture and how necessary it is to ethically depict sexual violence and to stop exploiting rape for craven means. Listen to how she sees the world as a "bad feminist."

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Also on today's show:

Gone Girl and Rape Myths

Fracking for the Cure?

Men Explain Things to Rebecca Solnit

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courtesy rebeccasolnit.net

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of fifteen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, the power of stories, and hope.  He recent books include Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, and The Faraway Nearby.  A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster was the San Francisco Public Library’s One City One Book for 2012.  River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West won the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award).

She works with the group 350.org on climate issues and against gentrification and displacement in San Francisco. She is a contributing editor to Harper’s and regular contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com.

Her latest book is a collection of essays titled, provocatively, MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME.  You can still get this beautiful book as a thank you gift for your donation to KPFA of $85 or more - go to www.kpfa.org/support.

 

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April 28, 2014: San Francisco International Film Festival

Programming Director Rachel Rosen joins us to preview the female-directed and gender-themed films at the fifty-seventh annual San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs April 24 through May 8.

Among the films highlighted:  Difret (Ethiopia), School of Babel (France), Belle (UK), The Blue Wave (Turkey), Palo Alto (US). Also Live and Onstage: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down.

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Also on today's show:

Chinese Canadian Gossip maven Elaine Lui discusses her new memoir, LISTEN TO THE SQUAWKING CHICKEN

Artists Sigi Arnejo, Kay Cuajunco and Genevieve Erin O'Brien talk about food and Asian identity, and the exhibit EATING CULTURES, which opens Thursday at SomArts Gallery.

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April 28, 2014: Listen to the Squawking Chicken

Nonprofit fundraiser turned professional gossip Elaine Lui lays bare her own story, and that of her mother, aka The Squawking Chicken.  Alternately hilarious and tragic, Lui's first memoir bristles with honesty, wit and insight.

Get to know Elaine, founder and maven of the massively popular website laineygossip.com in this charming conversation with Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael.




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Also on today's show:

Artists Sigi Arnejo, Kay Cuajunco and Genevieve Erin O'Brien talk about food and Asian identity, and the exhibit EATING CULTURES, which opens Thursday at SomArts Gallery.

We check out the women-directed and gender-themed films at San Francisco International Film Festival

More info about Listen to the Squawking Chicken

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