Monday, March 15, 2021: Global Black Feminism

photo credit Tia Cross

Listen to a kitchen-table conversation with Black transnational feminists Coumba Toure, Hakima Abbas, and Vanessa Thompson discussing the values, principles, and visions of global black feminism and the contradictions they face as they engage in the multifaceted activism. For more information see Why We Need Black Feminism Forum. 

Host: Margo Okazawa-Rey

Click here to listen to the show. 55:43 min. 

Monday, March 8, 2021: International Women's Day

In this hour we will learn about the radical socialist herstory of International Women’s Day with two American scholars, Eillen Boris, Professor at U.C Santa Barbara and Professor Premilla Nadasen from Barnard College. And while IWD doesn’t generate mass marches anymore in the U.S., Women’s Day is still an important day for protest and celebration in many places around the world.  Today we talk to feminist activists around the world who talk about the importance of Women’s Day marches against gender violence and patriarchy in their countries.    

We talk to, Pregs Govender, a South African feminist human rights activist and author of Love and Courage, A Story of Insubordination; Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, who is United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur and a medical doctor with expertise advocating for universal health access, HIV care, youth friendly services and family planning, in South Africa; Karen Tanada, who is executive director of Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute in the Philippines, and Lulú V Barrera a feminist activist and human right defender based in Mexico City. Lulú founded and currently leads Luchadoras, a feminist NGO that explores the intersections between gender, technologies and human rights, and works for an Internet free of violence against women. She is part of the National Network of Women Human Right Defenders in Mexico and the Latinamerican Network of Political Innovation.

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

International Women's Day Special Broadcast - Women in the Pandemic

From Punjab to Portland to the San Francisco Bay Area, women around the world are finding that there is more that unites us than divides us. What does activism, caretaking and innovation look like in these times and how are we learning to take what we have and make what we need.

Hosted by Sharon Sobotta

Click here to listen to the show. 29:50 min 

Monday, January 18th, 2021: Support opposition to desecration of Mauna Kea

This Monday, January 18 at 1 pm PST! Learn how you can help stop the UC’s proposed colonial project of building the TMT (Thirty Meter Telescope) on the sacred site of Mauna Kea.

Support Native Hawaiian community opposition and pressure the UC Board of Regents to DivestTMT on January 19-21, 2021.

For information on how to make written or spoken public comments, templates and talking points, see: bit.ly/ucdivesttmt

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

Monday, January 11, 2021: Fuifuilupe Nieumeitolu and Indigenous Women and the Land, and Lisa Fithian and strategies for activism

  Today we talk to  Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu to celebrate the inauguration of her new podcast that will be featured on women’s magazine starting next month and will also be available online. It is called  "From Moana Nui to California Indigenous stories of the Land" which will explore the importance of the land to all indigenous people to resist and over come colonization and to find healing.

Fui is a Tongan/ Pacific Islander scholar and community organizer. She has a PHD from UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies and her dissertation work was on  “The Mana of the Tongan Everyday.’ 

 Fui is on the founding committee of the Moana Nui Pacific Islander Climate Justice Project and (OCNC) Oceania Coalition of Northern California, a community organization working for Pacific Islander self determination through facilitating groups and Ceremony with Indigenous  prisoners here in California as well as organizing teach-ins and protests to protect Indigenous Sacred spaces in the Pacific and here in California. Fui is currently working with the Sogorea Te Land Trust an Urban Indigenous women’s land trust located in Oakland, California.

A 2000 article in Mother Jones called her “Professor Occupy” and recently a radio host suggested that if you looked up protester in the dictionary, you would likely find her picture.Then Kate Raphael speaks to Lisa Fithian author of the new book "Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance”. Lisa Fithian who has been an organizer, trainer and strategist for dozens of creative action campaign, she of the people responsible for the  continuity of resistance methods that  were passed down from the anti-militarist movements of the 1980s through the global justice movements of the early 2000s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. 

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

Monday, November 23, 2020: Abolition Feminism - A Conversation with Angela Davis and Gina Dent

"The term Abolition Feminism has come into popular usage, especially within feminist circles in the past several years. What is it? What is its genealogy? Why is it important to frame the current debates about the prison industrial complex, the massive incarceration of, and the state violence perpetrated against Black and Brown people in the US? What does intersectional feminism have to do with it?" -Margo Okazawa-Rey

I am very pleased to broadcast a segment of the lecture by Angela Davis and Gina Dent who are leading among the leaders in the abolition feminism movement and were the Distinguished Guest Lecturers at the UCB Center for Race and Gender in October. The conversation was Moderated by Leti Volpp, Director of CRG.

Gina Dent and Angela Davis, in conversation with Leti Volpp, argue for the critical role that abolition feminism can play in creating a genuinely secure future for us all. I think abolition feminism must include abolishing the entire military system and values at the core of the US state.

For the full recording of the conversation with Angela Davis, Gina Dent, and Leti Volpp, go to UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender Media Archives on the web.

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

Very special thanks Angela Davis, Gina Dent, and CRG for giving us permission to broadcast the conversation.  Thanks to Jose and Blue our techies. Stand steadily in your purpose; love even more deeply; and find your joy! Check us out on Facebook and listen to recordings of past shows in our archives. I'm Margo Okazawa-Rey.

Monday, November 2, 2020: Host Vylma V & Author/Activist Erica Etelson

Our national and local elections are happening TOMORROW and we want to hear from you! Who/what are you voting for and why? Call in with your questions and comments. Also, we will start the hour with an illuminating conversation with author/activist Erica Etelson. Her book “Beyond Contempt: How liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide” offers a blueprint on how to talk productively with those on the other side of you politically.  You can find Erica's book at your local bookstore or order on her website.  

Let’s begin the post election conversation (and hopefully healing) by skillfully communicating with those who may be very unhappy with tomorrow’s election results. Tune in with 1st Monday host Vylma V (Call in 1 800 958 9008)

Today's program was broadcast live. This is a recording of that show.

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

Monday, August 10, 2020: "What is the role of the artist in Revolutionary Socio-Political Movements?"

This week on Women's Mag, we ask:

"What is the role of the artist in Revolutionary Socio-Political Movements?"

hosted by Kendall Crakow.

We'll be in conversation with 3 very talented artists about their respective journeys in the time of Covid. They are Bay Area Native and PhilipinX Muralist, Sami See (@Samiseeart); Hawaiian Native, Reiki Master, and Mixed Media Artist, Dennise Aciao (find Dennise's soaps, bath salts and candles); and, LatinX Chef and Mixologist, Abril Ramirez.

Sami See

Dennise Aciao

Abril Ramirez

We'll be discussing how they are using their mediums to support radical change and how they are coping with the challenges presented by the Pandemic. We'll be exploring alternative ways of being and creating in this new world shift we are all experiencing...

MUSIC

"Boloko" by Fatoumata Diawara

"Rise Up" by Low Leaf

"Kahalu'nyuhe" by Joanne Shenandoah

"Clean Living" by RJD2 

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

Monday, July 13, 2020: Violence against Black Women and Girls

Today at 1-2 pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we discuss violence against black women and girls and in addition violence against black women by police with Janelle White, Executive Director of San Francisco Women Against Rape and author and police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie.  And we will also talk to Regina Y. Evans who is creating art installations on Oakland’s International Blvd in response to the enormous amount of sex trafficking that proliferates there.

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J.Ritchie is a Black lesbian, immigrant/police misconduct attorney, and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where she recently launched the Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color  

Janelle White

Janelle White has been the executive director for San Francisco Women Against Rape for over a decade.  SFWAR  is a community-based, anti-sexual assault, social justice, women of color-led organization. Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, SFWAR has been serving the residents of San Francisco City & County for over 46 years. SFWAR provides support to sexual assault survivors, their families, and communities, and uses education and community mobilization as tools of rape prevention. And at SFWAR, they believe that ending all forms of oppression is integral to ending sexual assault.

Regina Y Evans

Regina Y Evans who is  a native of Oakland, California, is a Poet, Playwright, Actor, Entrepreneur, Modern Day Abolitionist and a Survivor Leader in the fight against sex trafficking. She is the Owner of Regina's Door, a vintage boutique located in Oakland, Ca. Regina's Door is an artistic safe haven and healing sanctuary for at-risk youth, homeless youth, young Oakland Creatives and survivors of human trafficking. As a Modern Day Abolitionist, Ms. Evans volunteers with Love Never Fails, a Bay Area Anti-Trafficking organization founded by Vanessa Marie Johnson Russell.  She is also a member of the S.H.A.D.E. Movement (Survivors Healing, Advising and Dedicated to Empowerment), a survivor run consulting/advocacy organization. For more info and to be involved contact Regina at Evans.Regina@gmail.com.


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

Monday, July 6, 2020: Defund? Defund. Defund!

Calls to defund the police have moved from the margins to the mainstream. NYC reportedly just cut one BILLION dollars from its police department. Can this happen in the Bay Area, specifically in Berkeley? What does it mean to defund the police? How can this happen in Berkeley and how would it affect women?

Join 1st Monday host Vylma V and her guest, educator and activist Andrea Pritchett  co-founder of Berkeley Copwatch for an elucidating conversation about this timely issue. Typical for Vylma V, your questions and comments are welcome during the last half of the show.

If you missed this show on Monday click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Resources for all sorts of info and free downloads:
Anti Police Terror Project
Reclaim the Block
Black Visions Collective
Berkeley Copwatch

Ask yourself these questions before calling the police

Monday, July 29, 2019: Women's Magazine Fund Drive, Month of Momentum to Close the Camps starts Thursday Aug 1

Dear all,

It's that time again - seems like a constant refrain, I know. KPFA's on-air summer fund drive is in full swing, and the theme is 1969. There has been some great programming looking back at that fateful year - the occupation of Alcatraz, the Battle for People's Park, Stonewall - featuring archival audio that has not been heard for many years.

Unfortunately, the fundraising has been sluggish, and that means we may have to extend this drive beyond this week. We don't want that and I know you don't either. So if you yesterday's show, you can still call 1-800-439-5732 or donate securely online at www.kpfa.org and don't forget to mention how much you appreciate KPFA Women's Magazine.

We replay an interview some of you may have heard previously with Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest US park ranger and the face of the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond, CA. Betty is now 97 and still going strong; she's just released an album featuring songs she wrote in the 1960s. One of those songs is on the show. Even if you heard the interview before, I recommend tuning in and listening again. As I listened to it today, I found it just as inspiring and informative as I did the first time I heard it. She has such a unique voice.

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

We are offering Betty's book, Sign My Name to Freedom, as a thank you gift for your donation of $150 or more, but there are also tons of other thank you gifts available on our website kpfa.org. If you've admired my cool hoodie, those are also available.  But even if you can only give $10 or $25, it is worth it! $25 or more makes you a member and gives you the right to vote in board elections and help to determine the future direction of the station. And second, it helps keep us on the air and lets station management know that you value our show.

So if you can and haven't donated in a while, become a KPFA member. Call 1-800-439-5732 or go to kpfa.org/donate.

Thanks so much for all your support.

Kate

P.S. I'm also involved in organizing the Month of Momentum: 31 days of action to Close the Camps which kicks off on Thursday. In just over a week, we have pulled together a month of actions at the ICE Building in San Francisco (630 Sansome), every day from noon to 1 pm, each day organized by a different organization or community. Climate justice activists, drummers, public health workers, librarians, tenants and housing activists, comedians, lawyers & legal workers, restaurant & bar workers, even journalists!  Come out, come out - check out the calendar to see what's happening each day and come whenever you can!

Monday, July 22, 2019: Police and Corps out of Pride, Women Led Resistance in Western Sahara

Today on Women’s Magazine we look at the resistance to the mainstreaming of Pride events in San Francisco and nationally.  We talk to Mary Sue from Gay Shame and artist and activist Alex U. Inn about the demonstration at SF Pride this year against the presence of police and large corporations and the resistance nationally. Click on Alex's name to see how to elect her to the SF Pride Board of Directors. July 22nd is the deadline to become a member so you can vote for Alex. Also check SFPride.org for more information about the Board of Directors and more.

And Sharon Sobotta talks to the film team of the new documentary Western Sahara: Africa's Last Colony which they produced in collaboration with the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley about the women who are resisting the last colony in Africa. Watch the movie on DemocracyNow.org

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

Monday, July 15, 2019: The Space Between Us

Women's Magazine host Jovelyn Richards of the Space Between Us talks to Ashara Ekundayo owner of Ashara Ekundayo Gallery between the space between art galleries and women in particular Black womxn* and femmes. The gallery is located in the Uptown/KONO Arts District in Oakland, CA at 480 23rd Street.

*womxn is an inclusive term that invites Black cis women, trans women and gender non-confirming folx.

In the 2nd half host Jovelyn of The Space Between Us opens the phone lines to discuss the power and dis-empowerment of the pronouns Them, They & Us.

Join us at the River of The Space Between Us. The Space Between Us is a live call-in show that airs every 3rd Monday of the month on KPFA Women's Magazine. Any suggestions for future shows please email Jovelyn at sugars982@gmail.com.

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

Monday, June 10, 2019: Marie Harrison Fought for Her People

Marie Harrison at SF City Hall

We pay tribute to Marie Harrison, who held down the fight to demand cleanup of the toxic Hunter's Point shipyards and shut down the PG&E plant in Bayview/Hunter's Point for 40 years. Ms.Harrison was a community organizer for Green Action, a candidate for District 10 Supervisor, and a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Bay View.

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







Also on today's show:
Preparing for Post-Roe America
Previewing This Year's Queer Film Fest

April 1, 2019: Amy Foley on making feminist dance

Amy Foley, founder of Bellwether Dance Project and one of the latest feminist choreographers on the Bay Area scene, talks about what it means to make feminist dance, challenging a tradition that imposes narrow constraints on the bodies and lives of women dancers. Foley's inaugural home show, Let Slip the Witches, includes three premieres - two she choreographed herself as well as a solo created for her by Bay Area treasure, Robert Moses, as well as her piece "Thighs and Wages," which explores society's devaluation of women. Let Slip the Witches shows Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6, at ODC theater in San Francisco or call 415-863-9834. 



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

Also on today's show:
Roderick Ferguson's (Not) One-Dimensional Queer

Monday, March 11, 2019: Years of Love and Danger - Madonna Thunderhawk

KPFA Women's Magazine speaks with veterans of the movements of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Warrior Women was the opening night film for California's American Indian & Indigenous Film Festival. From left to right: Producer Anna Marie Pitman, Madonna Thunder Hawk, festival director Joely Proudfit, Marcella Gilbert, and director Elizabeth Castle

American Indian Movement leader (although she doesn't really accept that label) Madonna Thunderhawk joins us to discuss her life in the movement, activism to save the earth and the new film Warrior Women, featuring her and her daughter, Marcie. The film is available for free on PBS's The World channel until March 25.

1000 Grandmothers Bay Area is working with Madonna Thunderhawk and Women of All Red Nations to winterize three homes. If you'd like to support this project contact 1000 Grandmothers Bay Area on FaceBook.

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

Also on today's show:
Lise Weil and Renate Stendhal

Monday, February 25, 2019: Film - A Great Ride

Monday February 25th KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine offers a premium for fund drive you don’t want to miss.  We offer a limited number of copies of the recently released, but not yet available, film A Great Ride generously provided by the director Deborah Craig for your donation of $75.*   A Great Ride which was just featured at Frameline this year, looks at the lives of local older lesbians—the lesbian feminist Icon, Sally Gearhart, activist, Brenda Crawford, and several women who live in an LGBTQ-friendly retirement community in Santa Rosa—all who are aging with dynamism and zest for life, determination, and humor.  We will be talking with A Great Ride director Deborah Craig about her documentary, which is both inspiring and funny and not to be missed.

Professor Eisenstein

And we talk with well known Socialist Feminist author and activist Professor Zillah Eisenstein about what has happened with socialist feminism. Is it still alive and well or has it disappeared or merely changed since the heady days of the 1970’s.

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

*If you missed Monday's airing of KPFA Women's Magazine go to support KPFA and choose film to get A Great Ride for your donation of $75. Thank you for listening and supporting Women's Magazine.

Monday, January 28, 2019: Conscious Dying and Bay Area Lesbian Archives

This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to Lenn Keller and Pippa Fleming about the upcoming Bay Area Lesbian Archives event at La Peña on February 17th to celebrate the Black Lesbian magazine and organization Aché and its role in the community in the 80’s and 90’s. 

And we talk to Buddhist Nun and healer Kathleen Gustin about how to find peace while dealing with life changing transitions.

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


Events:

Rainbow Women's Chorus presents:
“Give Yourself to Love” a concert of love songs
FEBRUARY 2, 2019 - 3:00 PM
Plymouth United Church of Christ
424 Monte Vista Ave, Oakland, CA

General admission - $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Students and seniors - $15

Children under 12 - free

Remembering Aché: A Bay Area Lesbian Archives Benefit, An evening of memories, music, dance and spoken word (RENTAL)

February 17 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

La Peña Cultural Center

3105 Shattuck Ave. 

Berkeley, CA 

Doors open at 5:30pm / Program begins at 6pm

$25, $50, $100 sliding scale in advance / $27 at the door

Monday, October 8, 2018: Family Stories of Resistance and Resilience - artist Lucia Ippolito

photo of unfinished Balmy Alley mural Women in Resistance

Lucia Ippolito is the daughter of well-known San Francisco artist Tirzo Araiza, and her stepmother is Juana Alicia, one of the creators of the famed Maestrapeace mural on the San Francisco Women's Building and other iconic works. Lucia worked with her father on Mission Makeover, a mural about gentrification in San Francisco's Balmy Alley, in the heart of the Mission District.  On Saturday, October 13, Lucia and a group of women artists will unveil Women of the Resistance, Balmy's newest mural, with a block party including tables, a DJ, a shamanic invocation, Aztec dancing and live music.  Women of the Resistance also tells a multigenerational story.  Join us to hear Lucia talk about her inspirations, how the mural came together, and the impact of murals on a neighborhood fighting for its survival.

Balmy Alley Mural Unveiling & Block Party | SF

Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Cost: FREE

Balmy Alley | Mission and 24th St, San Francisco, CA

Listen now or Get MP3. 17:33 min

Click here for the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Berkeley High School's Women's Union
novelist Barbara Artson

Monday, August 6, 2018: Hiroshima Day

On Hiroshima Day, we look back on the antinuclear movement and ask how we can revitalize it. Some of you, I'm sure, will be out protesting at Livermore Labs, but you can listen later! Long time antinuclear activists Sister Megan Rice, Cecile Pineda, and Leslie Cagan talk about their experience and beliefs that why after 73 years the nuclear threat is still alive.

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

Also on today's show:
Leslie Cagan Remembers Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Stacy Russo on Love Activism