Monday, December 26, 2016: Strategies in the worst times

Why have things gotten so bad and where do we go from here?

Rachel Herzing

Rebecca Gordon

Rinku Sen

Rinku Sen of Race Forward and Colorlines, Rachel Herzing, cofounder of Critical Resistance and co-director of Center for Political Education, and Rebecca Gordon, author and professor at University of San Francisco join Kate Raphael to discuss strategies and lessons for the current crisis.

"Thinking in decades is crucial."
"Build cultural, social and political movements."
"Love and solidarity will be more important than ever."

Kate says: "These women blew me away with their ability to articulate both critique and vision. I came away more hopeful as well as more determined to be deliberate and strategic in responding to the crisis of democracy in our country."

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Monday, December 19, 2016: Feminist culture producers make sense of the moment

What lessons should and shouldn’t we take from the election debacle, and how do we seize on the strengths we have right now to turn in a new direction? 

Kate Raphael sits down with Uruguayan born novelist Carolina de Robertis,  filmmaker Pamela Harris and acclaimed poet, performer and novelist Aya de Leon.

Carolina De Robertis is author of The Invisible Mountain, Perla and The Gods of Tango and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is also a former staff member at Bay Area Women Against Rape and co-founder of Exhale, a nonjudgmental after-abortion talkline which calls itself Pro-Voice.

Pamela Harris’s extensive credits include the award-winning documentary Land of Promise: The Story of Allensworth, about a historically black town in California that faces the threat of encroachment by agribusiness; Waging a Living, a PBS documentary about low-wage working families and the Oscar-nominated Long Night’s Journey into Day, about South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A former Fulbright Fellow, she holds a masters degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.

Aya de Leon’s is Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, teaching poetry and spoken word at UC Berkeley. Her work has appeared in the Village Voice, Washington Post, American Theatre Magazine, and has been featured on Def Poetry, in Essence Magazine, and various anthologies and journals. She was named best discovery in theater for 2004 by the SF Chronicle for “Thieves in the Temple : The Reclaiming of Hip Hop.” Her first novel, UPTOWN THIEF, a Latina Robin Hood heist story, was published earlier this year.

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Monday, December 12, 2016: Brilliant radical Black feminist Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor

On today's Women's Magazine, Kate Raphael invites us to listen to a fabulous talk by one of the most sophisticated and clear-thinking analysts of the current situation we've heard yet. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book.

Michael C. Dawson, author of Blacks In and Out of the Left, says, "Deeply rooted in Black radical, feminist and socialist traditions, Taylor’s book is an outstanding example of the type of analysis that is needed to build movements for freedom and self-determination in a far more complicated terrain than that confronted by the activists of the 20th century."

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

Taylor spoke on Monday, December 5, at Impact Hub in Oakland. She challenged the assertion that the election represents a "whitelash" by blue collar white voters, presents a persuasive counter-narrative that points to possible ways forward for a multiracial working class-oriented social justice movement.

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Monday, December 5, 2016: Wanna Have Fun? Bonnie Burton and Crafting with Feminism

Women's Magazine this Monday, December 5 is just going to be super-fun. No heavy stuff. 

I talk with Bonnie Burton about Crafting With Feminism. Tampons with sequins, Ruth Bader Ginsburg finger puppets - you can't beat it. And find out what a huggable uterus pillow is. Just in time for the holidays, surprise all your friends with vagina tree ornaments, NOPE necklaces or other hand-made rad gifts. Find the book at your favorite bookstore or library.

Listen now or Get MP3. 28:48 min

Plus find out whether it's really darkest before the dawn and hear some upbeat music.

No more doldrums! Time to pick it up.

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


Also on today's show:
AJ Baker and ENTANGLEMENT

Monday, December 5, 2016: Wanna Have Fun? AJ Baker and ENTANGLEMENT

Women's Magazine this Monday, December 5 is just going to be super-fun. No heavy stuff. 

Sharon Sobotta talks with playwright AJ Baker about ENTANGLEMENT, a play about a play about the quantum mechanics of love. It’s been twenty years since actors Emma and Luke were a couple, but they’re still connected by a net of loose ends and secrets. When Emma writes a thinly veiled roman-a-clef of a play and asks Luke to direct her in it, the struggle over who controls the story of their break-up –and its far-ranging results — becomes just as important as the script itself.  Aided and abetted by Luke’s daughter and Emma’s husband, the former lovers turn Emma’s play into a backdrop for grappling with how their long-ago choices entangle them in each other’s lives forever.

Only 12-18% of new plays produced by the American mainstream theatre establishment in any year are written by women — an incredible statistic made even more so by the fact that this low percentage is roughly the same today as it was a century ago.  3Girls Theatre Company is proud to be one of  the very few theater companies in the nation that produce only plays by women playwrights.

From November 18- December 17, 2016 at Z-Below. For tickets visit 3girlstheatre.org

Evenings at 8 pm

Thursdays:   Dec 1, 8 & 15

Fridays:  Nov 18 (preview),  Nov 25, Dec 2, 9 & 16

Saturdays:  Nov 19 (opening night),  Nov 26, Dec 3, 10 & 17

Matinees at 2 pm

Saturdays:  Dec 17

Sunday:  Nov 20 & 27, Dec 4  & 11 

How's that for a double-bill? Plus find out whether it's really darkest before the dawn and hear some upbeat music.

No more doldrums! Time to pick it up.

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

Also on today's show:
Bonnie Burton and Crafting with Feminism