Monday, April 29, 2019: Kimberle Crenshaw, Kenyette Barnes and Margo Okazawa-Rey - Misogynoir and sexual abuse of Black Women

Two recent true-crime docu-series about the sexual abuse by well-known singers have rocked the mainstream world. HBO's "Leaving Neverland" about Michael Jackson and Lifetime's "Surviving R. Kelly" about acclaimed singer and producer R Kelly are causing another round of contentious debate in this time of #MeToo. Despite the revelations and decades-long public discussions of the alleged abuses of these two popular cultural giants, the documentaries seem finally to be breaking through the denial of the last 25 years. But even so, there is resistance to hold the two accountable. This is partly because of Jackson and Kelly's beloved status and partly because of the country's history of lynchings and incarceration of black men based on transgressions fabricated by white women. This history is further complicated by the fraught history of white feminists failing to include race and racism centrally in their analyses of sexual violence. Both factors complicate accusations against black men. So today Lisa Dettmer presents the views of three black feminist women who have have been working to address the denial of abuse in the black community and who discuss how white supremacy and Misogynoir can help prevent this abuse of black women by black men from getting the attention it deserves.

In the first half of the show we will hear clips from a new podcast called "Intersectionality Matters" by renowned feminist and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw who talks with #MuteRKelly co-founder Kenyette Barnes about her movement to expose R Kelly’s serial abuse of Black women and girls.

And then in the second half of the show renowned scholar, activist, and author Margo Okazawa-Rey talks to legal scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw about how to understand and address the complex problem of sexual abuse and related trauma in black communities.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, is professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, and is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. Her work has been foundational in Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. And she is the co-founder of the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a think tank that works to dismantle structural inequality. Margo Okazawa-Rey is Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership and Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of Public Policy at Mills College. She also is one of the original members of the Combahee River Collective.


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Monday, October 22, 2018: Third I Film Festival

Preeti Shekar talks to Anuj Vaidya, Vaishali Sinha and Indu Krishnan about the upcoming 3rd i Film Festival’s women’s films. Women filmmakers dominate this year's festival. 3rd i Film Festival begins November 1 thru November 4 in San Francisco and November 17 in Palo Alto. WWW.Thirdi.org for tickets.

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Also on today's show:
Poet Heid Erdich

Events:
49 Years: Suppressed Histories Archives
Saturday, October 27, 7 pm
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar St, Berkeley, California 94709
Donation at the door benefits the Archives and the Berkeley Unitarian Universalist congregation. 
Everyone welcome, no one turned away for lack of funds.

39th Annual Spiral Dance Ritual
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2018
DOORS OPEN AT 6 FOR ALTAR VIEWING
& READING THE NAMES OF THE BELOVED DEAD.

RITUAL BEGINS AT 7

Monday, April 9, 2018: Changing the Sexual Culture

Pursuing Our Passions, from the Bedroom to the Skies

Kate Raphael talks with author, educator and activist Jaclyn Friedman about her new book, UNSCREWED, which documents groundbreaking work being done to change the sexual culture.

From her website: "Friedman’s work has popularized the “yes means yes” standard of sexual consent that is quickly becoming law on many US campuses. In Unscrewed, she calls on the movement for women’s sexual liberation to move past individualistic “empowerment” messages (for which she coined the term “fauxpowerment”) to focus on collectively transforming the systems and institutions invested in keeping women sexually servile."

In addition to her writings Friedman also hosts a podcast series, also called UNSCREWED.

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Also on today's show:
Juana Alicia and the Maestrapeace Mural
Mercury 13 and Gender Bias

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Monday, January 22, 2018: Women's Voices - Women's Marches

Today on KPFA Women's Magazine we hear a collage of voices from the January 20, 2018 Women's Marches around the US and the world. Hundreds of thousands of women marched in cities across the globe. Lisa Dettmer brings a sampling of the speeches of Viola Davis, Cecile Richards, Layla Motley and many in the streets from Saturday's rallies and marches.

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Monday, October 23, 2017: Violence against women, ‘me too’ campaign and 3rd i film Festival

This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we talk to Radical feminist activist Hilla Kerner of the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter about organizing on the frontlines to end violence against women. And we discuss how to build on the recent viral #MeToo campaign in response to revelations of sexual assaults by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

And we speak to a panel of South Asian women participating in the 3rd i film festival which centers on South Asian perspectives. The panel includes singer, composer, musician and filmmaker Gingger Shankar talking about her film Nari, actress Nabila Hussein who co-stars in the show Brown Girls, and documentary filmmaker Pallavi Somusetty. They discuss their work and issues of representation and sexism in the film industry.

The film festival starts November 9-12 in San Francisco and November 18 in Palo Alto. For more info, schedule and tickets on the 3rd i Film festival go to: www.thirdi.org

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