Monday, June 17, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

On today's show Jovelyn Richards interviews Lisa Geduldig, standup comedian and comedy show producer and Sabreen Ali, writer and children's book author.

Jovelyn and Lisa discuss comedy, laughter, cultural diversity and how laughter fills the space between us.

Don't miss Lisa's newest show this month, Pride Comedy Night featuring Marga Gomez and more. There will be two nights of comedy. On June 22nd at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz and on June 23rd at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley. For ticket information and more.

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In the second part of the show Jovelyn welcomes writer Sabreen Ali to talk about raising children, writing, and fairy tales. Sabreen reads and sings the children's book/lullaby that she wrote for her daughter, Precious Girl, You're My World. Find Sabreen on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Contact Jovelyn with stories and ideas at sugars982@gmail.com

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

Monday, April 4, 2016: Illuminating Identity--Author Sarah Schulman

Universalists like to say art transcends identity, but today’s guests insist it illuminates it.

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Lisa Dettmer talks with Sarah Schulman, whose new novel, The Cosmopolitans, is an updating of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette. Schulman sets the story in the Greenwich Village of the 1950s, using the story to look at intersections of racism, sexism, homophobia and rootedness. Sarah also discusses accusations of anti-Semitism aimed at her and the Students for Justice in Palestine at CUNY Staten Island, where she teaches.

Greenwich Village, 1958. Earl, a black, gay, actor, and Bette, a white secretary, have been neighbors for thirty years, forming a deep bond as refugees from small-minded hometowns. But when Hortense, a wealthy young actress with links to Bette's painful past, shows up, Earl and Bette's hard-won assumptions are shaken to the core.The Cosmopolitans is a beautifully written, page-turning novel about friendship, love, and revenge set in the disappeared world of 1950s New York.

Listen now or Get MP3. 25:42 min

Sarah Schulman

Sarah will be reading from her new book The Cosmopolitans. See schedule below.

Tuesday, April 5th 7PM with Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Laurel Book Store
1423 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
510-452-9232

Wednesday, April 6th 7:30 PM
Green Apple Books on the Park
1231 9th Avenue
SF CA 94122
(415) 742-5833

Thursday, April 7 - 4:30 pm with Terry Castle
The Poetry Center
HUM 512
San Francisco State University

Plus a little poetry in honor of National Poetry Month.

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

Also on today's show:
Michelle Cruz Gonzales

Eclectic events for the Bay Area feminist:
Eclectic events for the Bay Area feminist
April 6, 3:10 Pm
Japanese Film from 1948: A Hen in the Wind
UC Berkeley Art Focus
2155 Center St
Berkeley, CA
BAMPFA.org or 510-642-0808

April 7, 6-9 PM
BAR Besties
Oasis
398 11th St
SF, CA
EBAR.com/besties2016

April 7, 7 PM
Shobha Rao discusses her new book, An Unrestored Woman
Revolution Books
2444 Durant
Berkeley, CA
510-848-1196

Poet Nancy Morejon will be performing at the following events:
Friday, April 8, 7 PM, Reception at Pinata Art Gallery, 4268 Mission, SF
Saturday, April 9, 3 PM, Poetry and Jazz Extravaganza, St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, 1661 15th St, SF
Sunday, April 10, 3 PM, Richmond Public Library, 325 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA

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.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min.

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, June 15, 2015: Outside the Frame: Queers for Palestine Film Festival

Creating Cultural Revolution. Don't miss this one-time event!!!

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Outside The Frame: Queers For Palstine Film Festival, offers a radical alternative to Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.  Frameline, which boasts that it’s the largest queer cultural institution in the world, has had a long partnership with the Israeli government.

Outside The Frame, a free one-time only event, June 19-21, will present 28 films by filmmakers who have pledged not to screen at Frameline until the festival agrees to respect Palestinian calls for a cultural boycott of Israeli institutions.

Lisa Dettmer talks to organizer Amanda Bloom and filmmaker Jennifer Abod, whose film The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen will have its Bay Area sneak preview at Outside The Frame.

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

The film festival is June 19-21 at Brava Theater, 2781 24th St, San Francisco.

For a complete schedule of Outside the Frame films go to www.outsidetheframefest.org.

Demonstrate with Q.U.I.T., Gay Shame and others on Thursday June 25th at 8 PM at the Castro Theater. Get Out of Bed With Israel. Pajamas otional. Pillow are welcome.

Also on today's show:
Remembering Ronnie Gilbert

Monday, April 13, 2015: Visionary Politics

The Catalyst Project Presents Another World is Possible--Visionary Politics

Lisa Dettmer talks to Issac Lev Szmonko from the Catalyst Project and Patty Berne from Sins Invalid about their talk on April 19th on Visionary politics to imagine and create a world organized and operated by values of cooperation, equity, interdependence, and liberation featuring three amazing women activists, PATTY BERNE, of Sins Invalid, CARLA MARIA PÉREZ, from Movement Generation and INGRID CHAPMAN, from Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice.

Click here to listen to today's show. 59:50 min.

Another World is Possible: Visionary Politics

Sunday April 19th, 1-3pm

Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland

Sliding Scale Donation: $0-$15

**Please read information on accessibility below.** 

If you are interested in volunteering for this event, please email Rachel at bradenintern@collectiveliberation.org.

Visionary politics invite us to imagine and create a world organized and operated by values of cooperation, equity, interdependence, and liberation. This panel will explore how different social movement organizers are experimenting with putting these visions into practice, and also visioning what we can't yet practice.

Please join us for a panel and Q & A with:

PATTY BERNE, Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid

CARLA MARIA PÉREZ, Movement Generation Collective Member & Healing Clinic Collective Lead Coordinator

INGRID CHAPMAN, Executive Director, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ)

ACCESSIBILTY INFO

Sliding scale donation of $0-$15 suggested.

Childcare requests should be made ASAP to Rachel bradenintern@collectiveliberation.org.

Requests for ASL or Spanish interpretation during the event must be made by April 9th to isaac@collectiveliberation.org.

This event's main room is wheelchair accessible. Please note that due to construction, the permanent wheelchair-accessible restroom is out of order. We are providing a portable toilet that is wheelchair-accessible. We know that scents and chemicals can be an issue with porta-potties, so please plan accordingly if needed. We’re so sorry for the inconvenience.

This will be a reduced-scent space and there will be fragrance-free seating area. Please join us in ensuring accessibility for beloved community members with chemical injuries and chronic illness by not bringing fragrances or scents on your clothes, hair, or skin from colognes and perfumes, scented laundry detergent, hair and body products, “natural” products, and essential oils. You can prepare in advance by not using products with fragrance, or by using fragrance-free, non-toxic products. For more info on what this means, visit here.

Panelist Biographies:

PATTY BERNE, Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid

Berne's background includes advocacy for immigrants who seek asylum due to war and torture; community organizing within the Haitian diaspora; international support work for the Guatemalan democratic movement; work with incarcerated youth toward alternatives to the criminal legal system; advocating for LGBTQI community and disability rights perspectives within the field of reproductive and genetic technologies; offering mental health support to survivors of violence; and cultural activism to centralize marginalized voices, particularly those of people with disabilities.

CARLA MARIA PÉREZ, Movement Generation Collective Member & Healing Clinic Collective Lead Coordinator

CARLA M. PÉREZ is a dedicated mother and community organizer of Native Mezo American and Spanish heritage residing in Oakland, California. She has worked on issues of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture & resilience-based organizing with community groups from Yucatán, Mexico to Bay Area communities such as Richmond, East Oakland, Southeast San Francisco and more. Today, as a member of the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project (MG), Carla leads MG’s Resiliency and Permaculture work, including the Earth Skills Training Program. She is also the founder of the Healing Clinic Collective, an autonomous project housed within MG which offers free traditional, non-industrial healing to some of the most traumatized populations in the Bay Area. Carla’s hard work is done in dedication to her daughters, her ancestors and to the Spirit of Creation.

INGRID CHAPMAN, Executive Director, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ)

INGRID CHAPMAN came to Alabama in response to a call for organizing support in the wake of the worst anti-immigrant law in the country, Alabama’s HB 56. Prior to being the Director she worked as ACIJ’s Organizing Director for 2 years building up a strong statewide network of emerging immigrant leaders, grassroots community groups along with civil rights and advocacy organizations. Prior to moving to Alabama, Ingrid served as a dedicated organizer for 16 years in communities across the country. She is a former staff member of the Catalyst Project and co-founder of the Anne Braden Program. Ingrid has spent significant time working with people and building movements in areas hit by crises of institutional racism -- post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, SB 1070 Arizona and now, for the last 3.5 years, building up a movement for immigrant and human rights in Alabama. Ingrid is a carpenter by trade, lover of dancing, rock climbing and life’s beauty. Her commitment to struggle against injustice is driven by her working class roots, deep love and a vision of all people being able to live safe, fulfilling and dignified lives.

Also on today's show:

SF WAR

Women of Impact