Monday, February 12, 2018: Rabi’a Keeble - Black Women Making History Right Now

Rabi’a Keeble is founder of Qalbu Maryam, the nation’s second “women’s mosque.” Qalbu Maryam (Mary’s Heart) is an inclusive mosque, open to people of all genders and faiths.  Rabi’a is also a nurse, an activist, poet, writer and speaker. A convert to Islam after living for ten years as an Orthodox Jew, she founded Qalbu Maryam in order to promote women’s leadership.


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Yolanda Holder

Monday, October 17, 2016 - Poetics of Fragility

"While in bed, in the depths of the pain I began to experience an extraordinary loving force. I recognised that force as Kali. It kept asking me to die out of what I believed myself to be and be born into something other....I was seduced by the love. The process required me to let go of what I knew and step into unknowing without any cognitive assurance as to what I would discover or have to unlearn."--Mata Lani, codirector of The Poetics of Fragility

In this modern capitalist society we often go thru life taking our bodies for granted, too often disconnected from embodied knowledge. Feminist cultural critic and filmmaker Mata Lani describes the physical and spiritual journey that began when in 1993 with a car accident and head injury. "Until then, my body had been fit and I had taken shelter in my mental attic. Now, I was literally thrown into my body. Even though like other feminists I had theorised the importance of experience, and the centrality of the body to discourses on women and to the social control of women, I had not fully inhabited my own body."

Lani explores these revelations in her new film, THE POETICS OF FRAGILITY, a 63-minute “videocontemplation” about the power and aesthetics of fragility. Shot in the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2015 by co-directors Lata Mani and Nicolás Grandi, the film features internationally renowned scholar-activist Angela Davis, the acclaimed playwright and critic Cherrie Moraga, Nora Cortiñas, the inspiring founding member of Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora, actor-dancer Greg Manalo, feminist performance artists Thao P. Nguyen and Martha Rynberg, theater scholar Jisha Menon, healer Christopher Miles, creative writer Xochitl M. Perales and the young trombone talent, Jasim Perales

On today's Women's Magazine, we broadcast the discussion at an October 2, 2016 screening of the Poetics of Fragility at the Impact Hub Oakland.  Lata Mani, Nicolas Grandi, Angela Davis and Cherrie Morga discussed the film, growing old, fragility and strength and the power of spirituality and the importance of the body for social movements.  

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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.

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

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Homeless women veteran stories take the stage‏
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Monday, November 9, 2015: Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities

In 2008 artist Maya Gonzalez talked to U.C Berkeley Professor Laura E Perez about her 2007  book “Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities.” One of the only books of its kind dedicated to Chicana feminist artists, Perez looks at over 40 local and national artists who challenge biased notions of gender, sexuality and politics. For example, in the work of Alma Lopez, Perez looks at how Lopez symbolically claims a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures. And in Ester Hernandez’s 1976 etching Libertad/Liberty Hernandez depicts a female artist chiseling away at the Statue of Liberty, freeing from within it a regal Mayan woman and, in the process, creating a culturally composite Lady Liberty descended from indigenous and mixed bloodlines.

These Chicana artists make use of, and often radically rework, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican and other non-Western notions of art and art-making, and create liberating versions of traditional iconography such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Sacred Heart. Filled with representations of spirituality and allusions to non-Western visual and cultural traditions, the work of these Chicana artists is a vital contribution to a more inclusive canon of American arts. Providing a rich interpretive framework, Pérez describes how Chicana artists invoke a culturally hybrid spirituality that challenges racism, bigotry, patriarchy, and homophobia.

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Events:
Rituals + Remembrance, Oakland Museum: now thru January 3,2016
Celebrating the theme of memorial across cultures, the  21st annual Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) exhibition, Rituals + Remembrance, explores how Latin American, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese and other communities view death, memory, and healing. The exhibition includes new and existing work by artists Nancy Hom, Lilli Lanier, Yvonne Escalante, Charles Valoroso, Bryan Keith Thomas, Safety First ©, Paco Garcia, Melanie Cervantes, and Jesus Barraza, as well as installations created by MetWest High School, Sankofa Academy, and the Alameda County Public Health Department.

Monday, October 6, 2014 Show: Challenging Anti-Semitism and Internalized Oppression

This Monday we look  at an issue that affects us all;  how internalize oppression prevents us from healing and  keeps us from being the best activists we can be.  In her new book "Hope Into Practice : Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears," activist, author and teacher Penny Rosenwasser  shows how working through internalized oppression, we can link personal healing with social justice—enabling us to fight more effectively to change systems that are immoral and unfair. 

Penny Rosenwasser takes on the most explosive issues today—racism and anti-Semitism, victimization and privilege, and Jewish politics around Israel and Palestine and  makes the crucial point that Jewish liberation is interconnected with the liberation of all oppressed people, whether they are African-American, undocumented immigrants, queer or transgender, homeless, or Palestinian.   Join us on KPFA's women's Magazine on Monday October 6th from  1-2pm as we  talk with Penny Rosenwasser and find hope thru practice. 

We'll be offering Hope into Practice as a thank you gift for your pledge to KPFA during this hour. I hope many of you will donate to show your support for feminist programming and progressive, community-controlled radio.  But whether you can give or not, please don't miss this hour of great conversation and stirring footage.

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December 30, 2013: Simple Truths: Eve Decker's Dharma Folk Music

Singer/songwriter Eve Decker was a member of the feminist folk trio Rebecca Riots before she went out on her own and decided to use her music to express her spiritual truths.  She released her first solo CD, Commentaries on Perfections of the Heart, in 2006, with a sold-out concert at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.

This Friday, January 3, Eve will again be at the Freight to celebrate the release of her new CD, Simple Truth. 

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Nov. 11, 2013: Hope Into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears

Activist, author and teacher Penny Rosenwasser discusses her book, Hope Into Practice. The book explores the origins and expressions of anti-Semitism and how its legacy still prevents Jewish American women from becoming the best activists we can be.   The book contains personal stories of ten Jewish women, including Rosenwasser, blended with scholarship, exercises for healing and an action-oriented Reader's Guide.

Penny Rosenwasser is the author of two previous books, Voices from a Promised Land: Palestinian & Israeli Peace Activists Speak their Hearts, and VISIONARY VOICES, Women on Power: Conversations with shamans, activists, teachers, artists and healers. She's also a former KPFA radio host, founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace, and long-time staff member of Middle East Children's Alliance.

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Penny celebrates the release of Hope Into Practice Monday, November 18 at  7 pm
Kehilla Synagogue, Social Hall
1300 Grand Avenue
Oakland (Lake Merritt area)

Hear more about the book, engage in lively discussion, enjoy wonderful music, sample taste treats Wheelchair accessible.

Also on this show:  Eating Disorders: Not Just a Teen Problem

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October 28, 2013 - Geeky Women, Ex-Nuns and Iranian American Theater

Why Don't U.S. Women Choose Science Careers?

Eileen Pollack was one of the first two women to receive a bachelors in Physics from Yale, but ended up teaching creative writing instead of going on in science. In this interview, Ms. Pollack talks about what happened to her, and why the numbers of U.S. women in math and science have changed very little in the last thirty years.  Ms. Pollack is author of the novels BREAKING AND ENTERING and PARADISE, NEW YORK. She recently wrote a piece for the New York Times entitled "Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?"

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"444 Days" from Z Below

Golden Thread Productions, recognized as the leading Middle Eastern Theater in the country, opens its fall season with "444 Days." "444 Days" is artistic Torange Yeghiezarian's first full-length play to be staged in 15 years. It explores the relationship between a former American hostage in Iran, and one of his captors, who has come to the Bay Area 25 years later to seek treatment for her critically ill daughter. It has received excellent reviews in local press. Torange Yeghiezarian talks with Kate Raphael about how she wrote the play and what she hopes to accomplish.




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Being Out of Order, or How Feminism Rocked the Convent

Carole Ganim and Lucienne O'Keefe spent 38 years between them in an Ursuline convent in the 1950s and 60s. They were very happy there, yet by the early seventies, they, like so many other women, had left their order. In this interview they discuss why they grew restless with the idyllic life of the convent, and how they see the future of the Catholic church.  Ganim is author of the book BEING OUT OF ORDER: THE PROPHETIC GENERATION OF NUNS AND SISTERS. 

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July 15th: Hunger strikes in prison from Palestine to Pelican Bay. Queer Astrology Conference.

On today's show Kate Rafael discusses the complexities of the Zimmerman case. Click here for Kate's view of Trayvon Martin's support actions and the other interviews as they aired on KPFA. Thank you for listening and supporting Women's Magazine and KPFA. 59:50 min.

 

Prisoner Hunger Strikes:

In the first half hour, we discuss the uses and usefulness of prisoner hunger strikes, from Palestine to California, with Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, Palestinian Human Rights Association. Addamer was founded in 1992 to support Palestinian Political Prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. Addamer shares in all the networks working on Palestinian Human Rights and advocates for the release of all Palestinian prisoners, among many other human rights activities. 21:12 min.

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Queer Astrology Conference:

In the second half, Erica Bridgeman talks with Ian Waynsler and Stella Lawson, organizers of the first ever queer astrology conference, which happened on July 20 & 21 in San Francisco. Ian and Stella talk about astrology and what queer astrology means to them. The Conference also included a memorial to Jack Fertig who died in 2012. 27:40 min.

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March 25, 2013: Focus on Film

"Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years"

Dagmar Schultz and Ika Hügel-Marshall discuss their film "Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years" with Paola Bacchetta.  This unique film documents the time that Black feminist icon Audre Lorde spent in Berlin between 1984 and 1992.  Her presence there helped to build a community of Afro-German women.  She also challenged white feminists to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and to deal with difference in constructive ways.  The film will screen at Oakland's Parkway Theater on March 31.

Ika Hügel-Marshall discusses her experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II in Germany. Dagmar Schultz reads from Hügel-Marshall’s book, Invisible Woman-Growing up Black in Germany.  Get MP3. 32:30 min.

"Pink Smoke Over the Vatican"

Jules Hart

Jules Hart directed and produced the award-winning film "Pink Smoke Over the Vatican," which chronicles the struggle of women for ordination in the Catholic church.  During the recent conclave in Rome, the Women's Ordination Conference released pink smoke as they had done in 2005, to dramatize their demands for inclusion. Get MP3. 20:07 min.


Ordain a Lady music video from YouTube

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February 11, 2013: Raising Women's Voices

Today we look at four women-led media projects

First up, we hear from three recipients of the 2012 Media Equity Collaborative awards, and from the founder of the collaborative, Ariel Dougherty.

• Susana Morris, member of Crunk Feminist Collective, which "aims to articulate a crunk feminist consciousness for women and men of color, who came of age in the Hip Hop Generation."
• Angela Tucker, producer of the hugely popular web TV series, Black Folks Don't.
• Kellia Ramares-Watson, investigative journalist, working on a project on how Big Pharma and government institutions are combining to push psychiatric drugs.

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Sauda Burch and Xochipala Maes Valdez are the coeditors of Road to Ife, a multimedia journal of spirituality and activism.  Ifa is an ancient spiritual tradition from West Africa, that traveled to the Americas with the slaves.  It evolved differently in every community, and has practitioners all over the world.  With this new venture, initiates, writers and artists Burch and Valdez strive to address the needs of Ifa practitioners and connect with practitioners of other earth-centered traditions.

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Two weeks ago, over 400 people from all over California marched and rallied at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.  Family members and friends of incarcerated women along with social justice activists from every community came together to protest the overcrowding and mistreatment of women being squeezed into even more crowded conditions as Valley State Women's Prison is being converted to a men's prison.  Governor Jerry Brown says the crisis over overcrowding and inadequate health care in California's prison system is over, but those with first-hand knowledge of the conditions for women disagree.

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December 24th: Feminist Responses to Violence; What to Do on New Year's

Male Violence, Militarism and Mass Killings 

What role does gender play and why is it so ignored by the media? How is empathy bred out of men, and how can we restore it? How can we make people feel the deaths of thousands of children in Afghanistan and Palestine, or in our own inner cities, as acutely as those in Newtown, Connecticut? Is this a "tipping point" moment for action on gun control? These and other questions are explored in this engaging half hour discussion.

A discussion with authors and activists Elana Dykewomon, Kathleen Barry and Judith Mirkinson about unexplored dimensions of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Audio: 31:26

 

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Interview with Meditation & Spirituality Teacher Spring Washam

Spring Washam is hosting two Great Turning events New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. She writes:

"The great turning is happening NOW as we turn towards a life sustaining model of community, generosity and interconnectedness. We have enormous power and our hearts songs are weaving a new tapestry in the collective consciousness of our human family. Gaia is our home. It’s time we reclaim the earth as our sacred altar."

In this interview with Syra Smith, she talks about her philosophy, her work in mediatation and spirituality, the purpose of the events and how they came together. The Great Turning is a benefit for The Sujata Project, which will provide accessible retreats for low-income Bay Area women.

Spring Washam, cofounder of East Bay Meditation Center and teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, talks about her work making mediatation accessible to women of color, LBT and low-income women. Audio: 15:29



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Phenomenon 2013

Phenomenon 2013 is the second New Year's extravaganza organized by Roke Noir and Siren Theatre. The first, Blue Moon Phenomenon 2010, was named "coolest spiritual New Year's Eve for women" by the San Francisco Examiner. Food, dancing, drumming, fire play, comedy -- Phenomenon 2013 has it all. Find out more.

Roke Noir of Siren Theater explains Phenomenon 2013, a spiritual New Year's feast, ritual and celebration for women. Audio: 7:06



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Monday, August 20: Uprising in Quebec; Love Lives of American Muslim Women

Kate Raphael talks with union leader and feminist activist Louise Turcotte about the massive student-led protests in Quebec

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Preeti Shekar interviews Ayesha Mattu and Ify Okoye about their new book, Love, Inshalla: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women. Listen Now or Get MP3

Max Dashu: Suppressed Histories of the Americas

In the second half of our March 26 show, Nina Serrano of La Raza Chronicles interviewed feminist historian Max Dashu.

Max's work "uncovers the realities of women's lives, internationally and across time, asking questions about patriarchy and slavery, conquest and aboriginality. About mother-right, female spheres of power, indigenous philosophies of spirit-- and the historical chemistry of their repression. Even more important, their role in resisting oppression."

Nina talked to Max about how she began to unearth the suppressed history of women in the Americas, and how the "rebel shamans" of the past can inspire women's resistance for today.  They also talk about Rush Limbaugh and other recent events.

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Muslim American Women Speak About 9/11

Muslim women, and especially their dress, have become in many ways the symbols of 9/11. Yet we rarely hear the voices of Muslim women. In a panel held on September 11, 2011, five Muslim women speak about their personal experiences and the impact of the events of 2001 on their communities. The panel was organized by Friends of South Asia and held in San Francisco.


Speakers:

Veena Dubal, courtesy
Asian Law Caucus

Veena Dubal, civil rights activist and attorney, Asian Law Caucus, Staff Attorney, National Security & Civil Rights Program

Fariba Nawa, an award-winning Afghan-American journalist specializing in immigrant communities in the United States. She lived and reported from Afghanistan from 2002 to 2007, witness to the US-led war against the Taliban and al Qaeda. Her work has appeared in the Sunday Times of London, Newsday, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, as well as radio reports for National Public Radio (NPR).

Roshni Rustomjee-Kerns, Professor Emerita, Sonoma State University. Roshni Rustomji-Kerns was born in India and educated in India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Mexico, and the United States. Her short stories have been included in the anthologies Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora, Her Mother's Ashes and Other Stories, and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (1996). She is the coeditor of Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War (Westview, 1994).

Dr. Maheen Mausoof Adamson, Director of Research, War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto. Her current research is on trauma related changes in veterans and includes post deployment health complaints from recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.



Fariba Nawa says people always
tell her "You don't look Afghan"



Yasmin Qureshi, is a bay area human rights activist involved in social justice movements in South Asia and Palestine. She works with the Culture and Conflict Forum in the South Bay. Originally from India she continues to work with women artisans in Lucknow, Aligarh and Delhi, helping them with income generation schemes. Her articles have been published by CounterPunch, Z communication and electronic intifada.

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Sharon Sobotta, Director, Women’s Resource Center, St Mary’s College, journalist, educator and world traveler. Her expertise is on documenting everyday struggles and societal impact of xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism and sexism. She’s the author of The Journey of Life: 100 Lessons from Around the World. Sharon is a reporter for Pacifica News and producer for Women’s Magazine.

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Who Were the Witches: A Halloween Special

Halloween is more than trick-or-treating and jack o'lanterns.  Every year at Halloween, thousands gather in Kezar Pavilion to celebrate the Samhain, or Witches' New Year, in a huge ritual known as the Spiral Dance.

Today Kate Raphael spends the hour with Starhawk, best-selling author of The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing and The Last Wild Witch.  They talk about the origins and history of the new feminist religious tradition known as neopaganism.  Starhawk also talks about her work doing Earth Activist Trainings, anti-capitalist organizing and her evolution as a supporter of Palestininian liberation.

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August 23rd: Women's Magazine examines Islam and women in Iran, families and homophobia as a pathology and a tribute to Abbey Lincoln

Minoo Moallem, professor of Women's and Gender Studies at U.C. Berkeley, challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric.

In this interview with Iranian American Simin Yahaghi, Moallem explains that veiling, like other signifiers of national and cultural identities, needs to be understood in the context of both Iran's own nation-building traditions and Orientalism and colonial attitudes toward Islam and feminism. She discusses how the Iranian women's movement has navigated complex identities, and calls on us to challenge both religious and secular forms of absolutism
Simin Yahaghi talks with Minoo Moallem, author of the book Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: The Politics of Patriarchy in Iran. Audio, 22:39
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Well-known lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman speaks with Lisa Dettmer about the possibility of recognizing homophobia in families as a pathology, rather than pathologizing gay people. They also discuss the relationship between familial homophobia and the demand for same-sex marriage.


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Singer, songwriter, actress and civil rights activist Abbey Lincoln died last week at the age of 80. She was best known for her collaboration with Max Roach on the Freedom Now Suites in 1960, but she also wrote the song "Caged Bird" which inspired the title of Maya Angelou's . This piece includes short selections of Lincoln's powerful music and an interview with KPFA's Gabrielle Wilson.



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Untold Stories: Catholic and Palestinian Women Are Making Change - Monday, May 3, 2010

The Other Vatican Sex Scandal, and What Women Are Doing About It
We've heard a lot about sex abuse in the Catholic church recently, but nearly all of it has focused on abuse of boys. Are women and girls not abused in the church? And what about the courageous church women who are organizing to expose and stop it? Angela Bonavoglia, author of Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church, talks with Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael. 14:55

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When Gandhi Is a Woman

"Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" ask commentators from Bono to innumerable New York Times reporters. One possible answer is that she's a 15-year-old girl in a village called Budrus. The new film Budrus documents the nonviolent resistance waged by that village since 2003, and the pivotal role played by young women. Kate Raphael of KPFA Women's Magazine talks with Ronit Avni, one of the producers of this powerful and engaging film. Audio, 17:47

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Flower in her Hair

Nina Serrano interviews Ethiopian American singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero. This rich discussion also incorporates three full songs from Meklit's beautiful new CD, "On a Day Like This," just released from Porto Franco Records.  If you enjoy the music, you can buy the full album and more on her website.  Download or Listen:



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March 22: Much Misunderstood Religions

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For thirty years, Starhawk has been one of the most influential voices in the development of women's earth-based spirituality. Her classic text The Spiral Dance has been continuously in print for 30 years and has been translated into 11 languages. Starhawk is also the author of ten other books and a teacher of magical activism. She sits down with Women's Magazine Kate Raphael for a wide-ranging discussion about how magical activism grew up in the context of the women's movement, her own beliefs, and how she became involved in the movement for Palestinian liberation. Learn more about neopaganism and the Spiral Dance.
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You're not alone if you've ever wondered what Muslims really believe and practice! Fortunately, in her new book, The Muslim Next Door: the Qur'an, the Media, and that Veil Thing, author Sumbul Ali-Karamali, a Stanford - educated mom and corporate lawyer with degrees in Islamic law and English, invites you inside for a candid, witty, and surprisingly down-to-earth conversation about Muslim life in America. Sumbul Ali-Karamali spoke with Gabrielle Wilson about this groundbreaking book.
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Haitian Women in the Forefront and Suppressed Women's Histories

As Haiti disappears from our TV screens and our attention returns to
domestic issues, the people of Haiti are now in even greater peril as
the rains begin threatening a public health disaster. But the people
of Haiti are not just standing in the rain waiting to be rescued. They
are organizing, both in the U.S. and in Haiti, where over 50 grassroots groups met in Port Au Prince to demand input into the future of Haitian reconstruction, and the issues of women and children are front and center.
Lisa Dettmer talks to well known Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat about how the Haitian American community is responding to the Earth quake in Haiti, and with Beverly Bell, editor of "Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance," about the grass roots movements organizing in
Haiti and creating a new paradigm for Haiti's future. Beverly is the coordinator of the organization Other Worlds Are Possible.

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Kate Raphael talks with Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives, about her 40 years of groundbreaking work on women’s power and contributions to many cultures. Orthodox history says men have always dominated women, but Max Dashu says otherwise. Hear about the evidence she has unearthed over the last 40 years.

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