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, May 6, 2018: Comics Diane Amos and Lisa Geduldig

Lisa Geduldig

Diane Amos

Then we lighten it up with comics Diane Amos, a mom and grandmother (and the internationally renowned Pine Sol Lady), and Lisa Geduldig, an honorary Jewish mother. They'll be performing Thursday night at Ashkenaz, along with comic moms Emily van Dyke, Karinda Dobbins and Brandi Brandes.






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

Also on today's show:
Writers Grace Talusan and Nayomi Munaweera
Author Jenny Brown

Event:
Comedy at Ashkenaz! Mother’s Day Comedy Show
Thursday, May 9, 2019
8:00 PM  9:30 PM

Doors at 7:30 pm; Show at 8:00 pm
Tickets are $15 - $20 Sliding Scale

Don't forget to Donate to KPFA during the Spring 2019 Fund Raiser that starts next Tuesday.

Monday, January 1, 2018: Laugh in the New Year with Women's Magazine

Greetings, Women's Magazine listeners! Despite dire predictions regarding the future of KPFA and Pacifica, as of now we are still here and tomorrow, New Year's Day 2018, I'll be bringing you an hour of funny and smart women.

In the first segment comics Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Karinda Dobbins, Maysoon Zayid, JADE (Just Another Disabled Entertainer) and Nina G. join me to talk about the highs and lows of 2017 and beyond, what they're looking forward to in 2018 and what it's like doing comedy as women whose multiple identities are so often under attack.

It's wild, it's witty and it's informative. Follow the links below to connect to audio file of the show that was aired on Monday and the full, unedited interviews. So put on your headphones and start laughing. And follow the links above to check out the websites and performance schedules of the artists.

Click here for the interview with Dhaya and Karinda. 29:51 min

Click here for the interview with JADE and Nina. 37:27 min

Click here for the interview with Maysoon. 17:26 min

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

Also on today's show:
Eryn Mathewson

Monday, March 7, 2016: Comedian Gina Yashere

Comedian Gina Yashere, the only British comic to ever be on Def Comedy Jam, and four-time winner of Best Comedian at the UK Black Entertainment Awards, talks about how she got into comedy and why she loves it. 

Yashere will be at the Punch Line at 444 Battery St. in SF for four nights March 9-12.‏ Call 415-397-7573.

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Also on today's show:
Hillary vs. Trump?
"What Do Women Say?"

Monday, December 21, 2015: Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy

After 23 years Kosher Comedy is here to stay!!!

Stay tuned to the end to laugh with Lisa Geduldig and Dana Eagle, who perform at this year's Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, a 23-year San Francisco tradition.

Get your tickets at http://www.koshercomedy.com/tickets/ Don't miss it! Including the custom fortune cookies.

Click here to listen to entire show. 59:49 min. 

Also on today's show:

UN Working Group's Myth-Shattering Tour of US

Starhawk's City of Refuge & Solstice Celebration

Other events this week:

December 22: Lucie Stern Theatre presents Emma. For tickets go to http://www.theatreworks.org/shows/1516-season/emma or call 650-463-4900

December 26: at 11 AM Vernacular Vixens

Found Images of Women from the Robert E. Jackson Collection at Robert Tat Gallery. For more info call 415-781-1122

Monday, January 26, 2015: Speak For Yourself! Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan responds to Art at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Comic Dhaya Lakshminarayanan explains her invited disruption of a work of art pictured above at the San Jose Museum of Art. Check it out at http://sjmusart.org/momentum-artworks On Feb 19 a special event called ARTRAGE will be held at the museum.

Listen now or Get MP3. 5:52 min.

MOMENTUM: AN EXPERIMENT IN THE UNEXPECTED

Thursday, October 2, 2014–Sunday, February 22, 2015

Momentum sets out to disrupt the status quo and show that art is anything but just an inanimate object. This exhibition reflects on SJMA’s passages as an institution by looking at works in the collection from various eras in which artists explore notions of movement and the passage of time—two subjects that are not at all mutually exclusive. On view will be works by Alexander Calder, Jim Campbell, Sonia Gechtoff, Il Lee, Deborah Oropallo, Tony Oursler, Alan Rath, Jennifer Steinkamp, Tam Van Tran, Leo Villareal, and others. For its forty-fifth anniversary, SJMA invited creative movers and shakers from the realms of design, comedy, performance, music, writing, dance, and other fields to disrupt this exhibition of its permanent collection with their personal artistic responses to the art on view. Their interventions can take whatever form and be in whatever media, and in whatever scale, they so choose:

• Bicycle designer Craig Calfee on the new media work Emmanuelle(2013) by Chris Fraser
• Inventor and designer John Edmark on Alexander Calder’s sculptureBig Red (1959).
• Venture capitalist-turned standup comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan on Alan Rath’s Info Glut II (1997)
• Body paint artist Trina Merry on Rolfe Horn’s photograph Creek, Mashima, Japan (2001).
• Poet David Perez on Jim Campbell’s work Home Movies 300-3 (2006)
• Cartoonist Lark Pien on Il Lee’s Untitled #204 (2004)
• Calligrapher Carl Rohrs on the photograph Solstice (1998), by Susan Manchester.
• Damian Smith, principal dancer of the San Francisco Ballet, on the painting Grenholm (1965) by Fred Spratt
• Yarn-bomber Streetcolor on Tam Van Tran’s Most Secret Butterfly(2009)
• Sound artist Marc Weidenbaum and his online collaborative project Disquiet Junto on the video Untitled #8 (2004) by Josh Azzarella

To cap it off, visitors will be invited to “talk back” in turn to the exhibition through equally unexpected, open-ended, and self-curated modes of participation. 

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

Also on today's show:

The Vagina Monologues 

Reproductive Justice

November 17, 2014: Dhaya and Karinda Take on the World

Stand Up Sit Down

Preeti Shekar sits down with comics Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Karinda Dobbins to talk about their upcoming show, Stand Up Sit Down.

Socio-political comedians Karinda Dobbins and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan present the third “Stand Up Sit Down,” a daring new show with innovative comedians and special guest Chinaka Hodge on November 21^st at 8PM at La Peña Cultural Center. Also featured is standup comic Matt Lieb.

For more info about the show go to http://www.berkeleyside.com/BerkeleysideCalendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=23223

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Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
Radical Feminism and Sustainability
Whole Foods Workers in For the Fight

April 7, 2014: comedians Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Karinda Dobbins

Comedians Karinda Dobbins and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan preview their upcoming show, Stand Up Sit Down, where they'll interview former Black Panther chair Elaine Brown.

Stand Up Sit Down, April 11th at La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA, 8:00 to 9:30 PM. For tickets and more info go to: http://lapena.org/event/stand-up-sit-down/













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Also on this show:  Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project

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August 12: Art & Politics Do Mix

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima

Cecile Pineda, author of Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step-by-Step and Love Queen of the Amazon, talks about Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, and what we must do to combat the nuclear threat and restore democracy.

"United We Stand Up"

Then comics Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Shazia Mirza put a hilarious spin on Indian and Pakistani Independence Day, doing comedy for their home crowds and what their Indian and Pakistani families have in common (aren't you married yet?).  We'll have tickets to give away for their upcoming shows, "United We Stand Up."

Abortion Rights Freedom Riders

And sounds from the abortion rights struggle in Fargo, North Dakota, courtesy of the Abortion Rights Freedom Riders.

Click here to listen to the August 12th KPFA Women's Magazine. 59:47 min.

Democrazy Now! Comics Lighten Up the Elections

Comedians Dhaya Lakshminarayan and Karinda Dobbins talk about their upcoming pre-election show. (19:50)

This November, right before the Presidential election, comedians Aundre the WonderWoman, Dan St. Paul, Karinda Dobbins, and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan (plus surprise guests) come together to make audiences laugh about the sometimes confusing, painful, yet always hilariously entertaining presidential campaign.

The evening is produced by Karinda Dobbins and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, two San Francisco Bay Area based socio-political comedians.

Sunday, November 4 at StageWerx Theater, 446 Valencia St., San Francisco.  Get tickets & info.



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March 5, International Women's Day Week

What's So Funny?

Karinda Dobbins and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, that's what, or who. Listen to these two introspective, irreverent, "clean" funny women talk about how they make people laugh while struggling against the sexism and racism of the mainstream comedy world. What's funny? What's not? What if the audience isn't getting you? What's it like to be an Indian American from Alabama, or an African American lesbian mom who likes to make Macbeth jokes?

Karinda and Dhaya will be performing as part of two all-female shows Saturday, March 10, 2012 at The Purple Onion, 140 Columbus in San Francisco. Find out more

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We also re-broadcast an interview with Aileen Clarke Hernandez and Judith Mirkinson on the history and significance of International Women's Day and the importance of building an internationalist feminist movement.  Hear the full show.

June 6th: Interview with Zahra Noorbakhsh, writer/performer/comedian. And more!

Malihe Razzazan talks to Zahra Noorbakhsh about her one woman comedy show, Maria M. Oppett and Renee Camilla tell us about KPFA's First Voices Media Program, and we replay Kate Raphael's interview about the alleged rape involving IMF head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn . Yvette Hochberg closes us out with the Women's Community Calendar. 59:52 min.

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January 24th - When is a joke not just a joke?

Did Media Images of Women Leaders Lead to Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords?
How does sexist media treatment of women candidates and leaders affect their ability to win and hold office? And did it have a role in the tragedy in Tuscon?
Interview with Yana Walton of Women's Media Center. Audio, 23:07



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Interview with Up and Coming Comic Karinda Dobbins

Since the days of Moms Mabley and Lucille Ball, women comedians have challenged taboos and stereotypes. Today, Karinda Dobbins is following in the footsteps of those women, along with lesbian pioneers Ellen De Generes, Wanda Sykes and Marga Gomez. Lisa Dettmer talks with Karinda about her work, her background and the challenges she faces. Audio, 14 mins.




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Also included in today's show:
Talk by Native American Winona LaDuke.
Music by the Indigo Girls and Shirley Horn.
Women's Calendar