Monday, July 18, 2016: Feminist resistance to neoliberalism

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This Monday July 18th KPFA's Women's Magazine speaks to the authors of a new article called  "For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University", which is a call for a feminist ethics of care that challenges the neoliberal working conditions of the university and replaces it with a feminist and collective model you all are calling slow scholarship.  Lisa Dettmer talks to Professors Win Curran, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Trina Hamilton and Alison Mountz about their article and how self care is a radical feminist act. You can find a link to download this article at www.academia.edu and on Facebook.

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

Also on today's show:
Lesbian feminist poet Barbara Ruth
Women's Community Calendar

Monday, June 6, 2016: Echo Brown talks about Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters

The Art of the Outsider

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Echo Brown discusses her long-running one-woman show, Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters, playing at the Marsh Berkeley through June 18. Humor shot through with some very serious moments, Brown's autobiographical show looks at the intersections of racism, colorism, sexism, poverty, dating and the Ivy League.  Oh, and hipsterism, of course.

"...plugging in and merging with the audience."

Hailed as a "transformational storyteller," Echo Brown is a writer, performer, & actress from Cleveland, Ohio. Echo’s meteoric rise in the San Francisco art scene with her hit one-woman show, Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters, has been widely praised. Attracting the attention of TV networks and literary agencies, Echo continues to garner critical praise for her stunning debut.

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Also on today's show:
Virgie Tovar
The Women's Community Calendar

Monday, December 21, 2015: UN Working Group's Myth-Shattering Tour of US

"There is a myth in America that...US women have it all."

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The United Nations recently sent a team of experts to the US to look at the state of women's rights. They described the inequities they found as shocking and in several key respects far worse than other developed countries, worse even than in some developing countries.  We talk with Frances Raday, a member of that delegation and a legal expert in international human rights and women's rights.

The team visited Alabama, Oregon, Texas and DC. They found that women in the US are deprived of human rights in four vital areas:
1. Maternity leave. 14 weeks of paid maternity leave is required by international human rights law.
2. Accessibility to reproductive health care for the termination of pregnancy.
3. Representation of women in government.
4. Unemployment and the wage gap.

Frances RADAY is a member of the Working Group on Discrimination against women in law and in practice. She assumed her function on 1st May 2011. She is a former member of CEDAW. Professor Raday is currently the Director of the Concord Research Centre for Integration of International Law in Israel at Haim Striks Law School, Colman. She is Professor Emerita, Hebrew University, Lieberman Chair for Labour Law; Honorary Professor, University College London; and Doctor Honoris, University of Copenhagen. She has additionally held academic appointments at Oxford Univ., Univ. of S.California, Tulane Univ. and Univ. of East Africa. Ms. Raday is the author of numerous academic books and articles on human rights, labour law and feminist legal theory. She has acted as legal counsel on precedent-setting human rights cases in Israel’s Supreme Court, including advancing women’s constitutional right to equality in political representation, participation in religious ceremony, religious court procedures and divorce, and combatting employment discrimination, in retirement age, sexual harassment and promotion.

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Also on today's show:
Starhawk's City of Refuge & Solstice Celebration
Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy

Monday, June 29, 2015: LGBT History and the Creation of Gay Identities

The threat of violence is the single most common issue that unites most LGBT people across lines of difference.

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Gentrification, policing and the creation of gay place-based communities: a conversation with Christina Hanhardt. Hanhardt is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence.

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Safe Space. Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. Now available as an ebook.

Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe space" have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have sought solutions in policing and privatization and have had devastating effects along race and class lines.

Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research in New York City and San Francisco, Hanhardt traces the entwined histories of LGBT activism, urban development, and U.S. policy in relation to poverty and crime over the past fifty years. She highlights the formation of a mainstream LGBT movement, as well as the very different trajectories followed by radical LGBT and queer grassroots organizations. Placing LGBT activism in the context of shifting liberal and neoliberal policies, Safe Space is a groundbreaking exploration of the contradictory legacies of the LGBT struggle for safety in the city.

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Also on today's show:
Women's Empowerment Day at Hip Hop for Change

Monday, February 2, 2015: Book: Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and Politics of Violence

Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and Politics of Violence

Kate Raphael talks with Christina Hanhardt, author of SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE.  It's a fascinating look at how the decision to seek safety by claiming space and eventually policing who could be in that space changed not only the gay movement but cities themselves.  Focusing on San Francisco and New York between the mid-sixties and the mid-nineties, the book explores the nexus between gentrification, gay identity, overpolicing and the War on Poverty.

Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies. Her research focuses on the historical and contemporary study of U.S. social movements and cities since the mid-20th century, with an emphasis on the politics of stigma, punishment, and uneven development. Her first book, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Duke University Press, 2013), is a history of (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) LGBT activism against violence in New York and San Francisco from the mid-1960s to the early 2000s, framed in the context of broader debates about poverty, gentrification, and policing. Safe Space won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBT Studies, and honorable mention for both the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies, and the Lora Romero Prize for Best First Book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation.

Hanhardt teaches classes in LGBT studies and queer theory, American studies, U.S. social movements, urban studies, and other topics. She was the winner of the 2013 Undergraduate Studies Teaching Award at the University of Maryland.

During academic year 2014-2015 Professor Hanhardt is on sabbatical and conducting research with the support of a Research and Scholarship Award from the Graduate School.  She is dividing her time between the DC-area and New York, where is a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.


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Also on today's show:
New film - She's Beautiful When She's Angry

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Monday September 8, 2014: Exploring the experience of older homeless women

Kate Raphael interviews Jo Kreiter of Flyaway Productions. Jo's new aerial dance piece, Multiple Mary and Invisible Jane, explores the experience of older homeless women.Kate and Jo talk about some of the stories about homeless women in San Francisco from a different, on the street perspective.Jo pushes through "compassion fatigue" with her incredible production.

In collaboration with journalist Rose Aguilar, Episcopal Community Services of SF, UC Hastings College of the Law, and composer Pamela Z, Flyaway will instigate the piece  on the border between the Tenderloin and Central Market Neighborhoods of downtown SF, where the city’s extremes of privilege and deprivation crash into each other. We will illuminate the experience of homeless women in San Francisco, whose population has grown dramatically in the last 20 years.  Flyaway will capture the sorrow faced by an increasing number of these women, as well as the dignity with which they are facing their new American reality. Featuring Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, Alayna Stroud, Marystarr Hope, Becca Dean, Laura Ellis, and Esther Wrobel.

MULTIPLE MARY AND INVISIBLE JANE
A new site specific dance in the Tenderloin Neighborhood of SF, bringing attention to the older homeless women who inhabit our streets, seeking refuge
UC Hastings School of the Law/ 333 Golden Gate Ave SF, between Larkin and Hyde
Look for the outdoor wall on the back side of the Larkin Street Parking Garage
Premiering September 12-20, 2014:
Friday-Saturday, Sept 12‐13@8pm and 9pm
Wednesday‐Thursday, Sept 17‐18@ Noon and 8pm
Friday‐Saturday, Sept 19‐20@8pm and 9pm

Click here to listen to KPFA Women's Magazine 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
Daisy Hernandez talks about her new writings.

Monday, August 18th, 2014: New film about Dorothea Lange

Photographer Dorothea Lange

Filmmaker Dyanna Taylor discusses her new film about her grandmother, photographer Dorothea Lange. Grab a Hunk of Lightning documents Lange's preparation for a one-woman show at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Lange, who helped the nation see poverty, is one of the best-known photographers of her generation.

This beautiful film premieres at the Oakland Museum in Oakland on Saturday, August 23 at 2 PM, and airs on "American Masters" on August 29th at 9 PM (check local PBS listings).

Check out the PBS site that features film excerpts, outtakes and additional information on Lange: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/dorothea-lange/about-the-film/3096/

Grab a Hunk of Lightning will stream for free at the above link after the Aug. 29 broadcast premiere.

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Also on today's show:
Paula Giddings on Ida B. Wells

April 7, 2014: Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project

Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project

As most mainstream media ignore the UN Report on Climate Change, we talk with Carla Perez, Doria Robinson and Ellen Choy of Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project about the concepts of climate justice, food justice, Urban Tilth and resilience-based organizing.

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Also on this show:

Comedians Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Karinda Dobbins on their upcoming interview with former Black Panther Elaine Brown.

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August 5: Harvesting Human Eggs & International Surrogacy; Abortion Rights Freedom Ride

Harvesting Human Eggs & International Surrogacy: Risks to Health & Human Rights

Discussing California AB 926 (on Governor Brown's desk as of August 5th): A bill that would repeal the current limits on compensation for women who 'donate' their eggs to research, and elevate it to $5-10K. Framed as a 'women's equity' bill, it neglects the health risks of invasive egg donation procedures. We'll discuss the history of this legislation, the health risks - as seen in the acclaimed documentary Eggsploitation - as well the legal argument against harvesting human eggs & the under-regulated industry of international surrogacy.

Featured Guests:
Diane Tober, PhD, Assoc. Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society 
Jennifer Lahl, Executive Producer & Director of the Award Winning documentary Eggsploitation: The Fertility Industry has a Dirty Little Secret - www.eggsploitation.com 
Mona Lisa Wallace, Esq.

Abortion Rights Freedom Ride

Plus the first in a series of live reports from the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride going around the country to raise awareness about the legislative assault on women's rights.

Listen to the entire show. 59 min.

March 18th: Women's Magazine: Aging Women, Housing Rights & Domestic Violence

"How we treat people in this country--it's shameful." Rose Aguilar

The connections between domestic abuse and homelessness, issues that are increasingly affecting an aging population of women in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, and leaving some women sleeping in plastic chairs. Do we have a real quest to invest in affordable housing in San Francisco? Or is City Hall too focused on tax breaks for new downtown businesses inviting higher rents? What are our priorities as we move forward as a City and as a nation?

 Rose Aguilar talks about older homeless women in San Francisco.

• Valerie Ibarra of Mutiny Radio interviews Rose Aguilar - Host of "Your Call" on KALW 91.7, author of "Old, Female and Homeless" in The Nation, February 13th. There are 19,000 older adults living below the poverty line in San Francisco. There is not enough affordable housing and the problem is getting worse. According to the Coalition on Homelessness, there are over 40,000 homeless seniors in this country. The amount of money spent on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in one month could house everyone in this country for a year. These are just a couple of astonishing facts presented in this segment with Rose Aguilar. She gives an up close and personal perspective of what it's like to be on the streets of San Francisco, how easily it can happen, what is being done about it and the huge challenge of fixing the ever-growing tragedy of homelessness.
• Resources for homeless people: St. Anthony's feeds, houses, clothes and provides other services. Mission Neighborhood Health Center offers health care, laundry services, showers and Ladies Night every Thursday. A Woman's Place, formerly OSHUN emergency shelter for women.

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 One of the leading causes of homelessness is domestic violence.

• Lindsay Sweetnam, Community Programs Director of La Casa de las Madres, talks about La Casa, which provides a range of domestic violence services in San Francisco.

• La Casa de las Madres was founded in 1976 by a group of women who were survivors of domestic violence. It houses 35 women and children every night for up to 8 weeks in a safe, supportive, non-judgmental environment. La Casa provides many other services including counseling, support groups, education, legal support, referrals, and case management. They have two advocates working with the police at 850 Bryant and run 24 hour hot lines for help with domestic violence issues, including a hotline for teens.

• 24-hour hotline: 877-503-1850.
• 24-hour hotline for teens: 877-923-0700.

Listen now or Get MP3 34:58 min.

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