Monday, October 1, 2018: Hip Hop Feminism

Joan Morgan, Ohio State University Hip Hop Literacy Conference

In this segment we hear a brilliant talk by author and journalist Joan Morgan, who introduced the concept of "Hip-Hop Feminism" in her 1999 book, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost. Her new book, She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, looks not only at the impact of Hill's groundbreaking album, but at her significance to Black women, where Black women were in 1998 versus where they are today. In my favorite part of the talk, host Davey D says, "Can we put on the feminism hat for a minute," and Morgan says, "I never take off the feminism hat."

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Resisting Kavanaugh

Monday, November 14, 2016: Revolutionary Lesbian Poet Pat Parker

"Where will you be when they come?" From the voice and wisdom of Pat Parker.

Pat Parker was one of the pathbreakers of revolutionary lesbian culture in the 1970s and 1980s. She died in 1989 at age 45. Sinister Wisdom and Midsummer Nights Press have released anew collection of all of Parker's published works as well as some never before published. They will celebrate the book's launch with many of Parker's friends and contemporaries, as well as younger artists and activists influenced by her work, on Saturday, November 19 at 1:00 pm at the San Francisco Main Library.

Lisa Dettmer talks with editor Julie Enszer. 

About the event.

About the book.

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Palestine and the US Elections
Oakland Public Conservatory

Monday, February 16, 2015: Joan Little and the Right to Self-Defense

Who Was Joan Little? What Happened to the Right to Self-Defense?

On Black History Month, we discuss the groundbreaking 1970s trial of Joan Little in North Carolina - called "The Trial of the Decade" by the Chicago Tribune.  Feminist and civil rights organizations came together to fight for Little's freedom after she killed a white jailer who sexually assaulted her. We also look at the cases of Inez Garcia and Dessie Woods, with journalist, author and activist Victoria Law.

Joan Little (left) on the day of her acquittal.

The tale of Joan (pronounced “Jo-Ann”) Little is one replete with the hardships of a young African-American woman struggling to survive in a world that has been unkind to her gender. Coupled with the harsh realities of her upbringing, crime became a refuge for Little. Despite this, Little would become the first woman to be acquitted of murder by way of justifying killing in the name of self-defense against sexual assault on August 15, 1975.

Victoria Law is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) award. She frequently writes and speaks about the intersections between mass incarceration, gender and resistance.

Kate Raphael of Women's Magazine asks Victoria why don't we see the support of women who act in self-defense today as we saw in these earlier cases, specifically Marissa Alexander, Kelly Savage and the New Jersey Four. To find out more about Kelly Savage go to www.womenprisoners.org. Click here to sign a petition in support of Kelly.

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Elmaz Abinader on Body, Home and Memory

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This week's Calendar of Events:
Dance: ODC Presents Dance and Diaspora
Featuring Jill Parker & The Foxglove Sweethearts and Danica Sena
Feb 20-21, 2015 8pm 3153 17th Street in San Francisco
TICKETS $25 General, $35 Arts Patron

Film: They Were Promised the Sea
Thursday, Feb 18, 7 PM
South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis Street in Berkeley
Presented by Jewish Voice for Peace