Monday, May 22, 2017: Radical Hope: Letters of Love & Dissent in Dangerous Times

Jewelle Gomez reads from her letter as editor Carolina de Robertis listens.

Thanks so much to all of you who gave last week during our show.  You rock!

This week on Women's Magazine we will hear from six of the contributors to the new anthology RADICAL HOPE: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times.

At the book launch at Laurel Bookstore on May 3, editor Carolina de Robertis (The Invisible Mountain) was joined by contributors Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Aya de Leon (Uptown Thief), Faith Adiele (The Nigerian-Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems), Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) and Kate Schatz (Rad Women Worldwide) for an evening of inspiring and challenging words and heart-healing community.

Thanks to our friends from Making Contact for this audio. We are offering the book as a thank you gift for your donation of $80 or more to KPFA . If you missed the show on Monday you can still donate securely at KPFA.org and request a copy of Radical Hope. Thanks for your support.

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


-Reel Resistance presents Trapped
Wednesday, May 24
6:30 PM-Reception and Hearty Food, graciously provided by our hosts, TD and Barbara Daniell
7:00 PM -Program
A benefit for the Dr. Willie Parker Fund for Abortion Access in the South.

Free admission; donations will be requested

Contact DaniellsDin@gmail.com or 510-277-6669 for a reservation, and location information.

-La Colectiva de Mujeres
Celebrating Quinceañera/15th Anniversary
Wednesday, May 24th, 6 - 9:30 PM
at San Francisco War Memorial Building

Ageing with Dignity Campaign Fund Benefit

July 21, 2014: The Life of Valerie Solanas

California Coalition of Women Prisoners is sponsoring a caravan and rally on July 31st to protest the re-opening of McFarland prison, to be run by the GEO Group, a private company with an abysmal reputation. Low level women offenders qualified for release are being transferred to McFarland for a brutal program falsely entitled Enhanced Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction Campaign. The caravan will meet at MacArthur BART at 11 AM and link up with Trail for Humanity. A rally at 5 PM will be held at McFarland Park. For more information contact CCWP at 415-255-7036 ext 4 or email notomcfarlandgeo@gmail.com. To find out more about Trail for Humanity you can find them on Facebook.

Life and Work of Valerie Solanas

To buy: http://www.feministpress.org/books/breanne-fahs/valerie-solanas

Breanne Fahs, professor of women's and gender studies at Arizona State University, discusses the controversial but important life and work of Valerie Solanas. Fahs is author of the new book, Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol).

Listen now or Get MP3 24:01 min.

Breanne Fahs

Breanne Fahs is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women's sexuality, critical embodiment studies, radical feminism, and political activism.  She has a B.A. in women's studies/gender studies and psychology from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in women's studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan.  She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored three books: Performing Sex (SUNY Press, 2011), an analysis of the paradoxes of women's "sexual liberation," The Moral Panics of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2013), an edited collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex," and Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), a biography about the controversial and politically significant life of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas. She is the director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery.

To read S.C.U.M. Manifesto go to: http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm

To hear the entire program of Women's Magazine click here. 59:50 min.

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