Monday, February 8, 2021: Allie Lahey and Raha Mirabdal talk about East Bay DSA, plus Abby Ginzberg's a new film, "Waging Change"

On KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we talk to 3 feminist located in the Bay Area doing some exciting work.  First we talk to Allie Lahey and Raha Mirabdal about the Democratic Socialist of America and the Work they are doing with DSA. DSA has been one of the fastest growing leftist groups in the U.S. with membership now over 85 thousand and with members being elected to public office all across the country.  They are also doing exciting work locally on getting Universal Health Care in California. 

Allie Lahey is Co-Chair of East Bay DSA and Chair of the Socialist Feminist Working Group. She works in reproductive rights and is transitioning into nursing. Raha Mirabdal (She/Her) is a Registered Nurse from the Bay Area.  She is a DSA member and organizer in the DSA's Medicare for All Committee. 

And then we talk to film director Abby Ginzberg - a true Bay Area hero, whose films highlight struggles of race, gender and social justice. Her new film “Waging Change” is having its SF premiere on KQED on Fri. Feb. 19, 2021 at 8:00 pm. It features Saru Jayaraman, Lily Tomlin, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Jane Fonda, who have been working tirelessly for One Fair Wage, a campaign to end the sub-minimum wage for tip workers who in a majority of states earn just $2.13 per hour. 

Abby Ginzberg is A Peabody award winner, and her recent work includes “And Then They Came for Us”, about the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WW II and the current Muslim travel ban; and “Agents of Change”, which examines the untold story of racial conditions on college campuses that led to a successful struggle for black studies.

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Monday, September 14, 2020: LGBTIQ Frameline Film Festival

This September 14th on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we look at some of the highlights of the LGBTIQ Frameline Film Festival which starts this Thursday, September 17th and runs through Sunday, September 27th online.

from Unapologetic

We talk to Dominque Oneil about some of the really special female centered fiction films. And then we talk to three documentarians who have feature films in Frameline, Ashley O’shay, who is director of the really timely and important new documentary “Unapologetic” which is a powerful and inspiring documentary that follows two Black, queer feminist Chicago women organizers working with the movement against police violence.  And Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow who are the co-directors of the new documentary “Ahead of the Curve” which is a film that looks at the history of the Lesbian glossy magazine Curve, its founder Franco Stevens and the importance of Curve magazine to the Lesbian community. 

Netflix, Hulu and other movie streaming sites may not have the lesbian or queer film that you want to see so look for the request page on their websites and ask for these films.

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Monday, September 23, 2019: Akemi Johnson, Rebecca Sonnenshine, Somali American Women in Minn. and Betty Reid Soskin

Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Sharon Sobotta interviews TV & Screenwriter and Producer Rebecca Sonnenshine as she tells us how having a seat at the writing table for network series and films, as a woman, is changing the way stories are told.

Next Sharon talks to Akemi Johnson who gives us a close up view of what is happening in the border towns of military bases in places like Okinawa, Japan with book released in June 2019

Betty Reid Soskin

Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U. S. Military Bases in Okinawa

Somali American women in Minnesota offer support for Representative Ilhan Omar, as she is continually bullied and mischaracterized by the president. Sharon interviews writer Jojo about her experience as a Somalian woman in America.

Betty Reid Soskin, America’s oldest park ranger turns 98 this week, just in time for the launch of the documentary featuring her life called, No Time To Waste. Look for screenings on October 5 in Mill Valley and other places in the near future.

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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

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Monday, April 8, 2019: LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION! Feminist films at SF International Film Festival

SFFILM, the San Francisco International Film Festival, begins Wednesday, April 10 and runs through April 23 in multiple venues throughout the Bay Area. This year's festival includes films by 72 women directors. The full schedule is here.

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We talk with director Janice Engel about her new film, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, and with Kristina Motwani, co-editor of Midnight Traveler, a real time documentary of a two-filmmaker family's migration from Afghanistan to Europe. Director of Programming Rachel Rosen joins us to break down other highlights of this year's festival, which offers films from 52 countries, in 36 languages.

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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.

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

Monday, September 24, 2018: Dolores - the Movie

Jovelyn and Lisa hosts today's KPFA Women's Magazine and fund drive with the 2017 documentary, Dolores about activist and feminist grassroots organizer, Dolores Huerta. The film is coming to your local theater this month. We also hear an interview with Jessica Congdon who co-wrote and edited the film. Thanks for your pledge and support of KPFA Women's Magazine.

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Naila and the Uprising at Jewish Film Festival

Kate Raphael talks to Julia Bacha, director of the film, Naila and the Uprising, about the central role of women in the First Palestinian Intifada. Julia and executive producer Suhad Babaa will be present at two screenings of the film at the Jewish Film Festival, on Sunday July 29 at 5:00 pm at the Castro Theater, and on Monday, July 30, at 3:25 pm at the Albany Twin.

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Also on today's show:
Middle Schooler’s organize Feminist Club

Monday, June 11, 2018: LGBT Film Festival Preview

Dykes, Camera, Action! at the Castro Theatre, Tuesday June 19, 2018 at 4PM 

Lisa Dettmer and Kate Raphael preview films on offer at the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival, presented by Frameline. This 42nd season includes more than 150 narrative, documentary and short films, with 52% directed by women.

Kate and Lisa discuss Picture This, Riot, Night Comes On, A Great Ride, Many Loves One Heart, Fifty Years of Fabulous, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Appropriate Behavior and more. If you are have trouble deciding what to choose, listen now to their in depth with no spoilers conversation.

The festival starts Thursday and runs through Sunday, June 24, at multiple venues in San Francisco and the East Bay.

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Also on today's show:
Stroke Prevention

Monday, April 2, 2018: Previewing SF International Film Festival

Bad Reputation with Joan Jett and others

Amanda Salazar, programmer for the 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival, fills us in on other feminist movies and events that are part of this 61st annual festival, the longest-running film festival in the US. 40 films by women and many with strong female-driven story lines are among the 180+ films on offer between April 4 and 17. Go to the Film Finder to choose the films you want to see.

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Also on today's show:
Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters
Women Directors Struggle for Opportunity

Monday, April 2, 2018: Women Directors Struggle for Opportunity

Kate Raphael speaks with Amy Adrion about her documentary HALF THE PICTURE, which screens at the San Francisco International Film Festival April 7, 9 and 16. Adrion interviews a diverse group of women filmmakers including Ava DuVernay (Selma), Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball), Jill Soloway (Transparent), Lena Dunham (Girls) and Karen Kusama (Girlfight). Women make up only 4.5% of directors of top grossing Hollywood films annually; women of color make up 0.06%; and these numbers have not changed in twenty years.

Director Amy Adrion is expected to attend the April 7 and 9 screenings. April 9 screening is a special collaboration with additional guests. Following the April 9 screening, the Festival will present an extended conversation about building a pipeline towards gender equity in the film and media industry, featuring director Amy Adrion from Half the Picture and Esther Pearl, Founder & Executive Director of Camp Reel Stories - A Media Camp for Girls.


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Also on today's show:
Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters
Previewing SF International Film Festival

Monday, July 24, 2017: Amazing women’s rights activist, Heather Booth

Extraordinary Women Changing the World

On Monday July 24th on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we talk to two amazing and influential women’s rights activist who unfortunately you probably have never heard of.

First Kate Raphael talks to Lilly Rivlin and Heather Booth about the new documentary called “Heather Booth: Changing the World” which tells the story of one of the most influential women involved in social movements in the U.S in the last half Century. This film will be showing this coming week at the SF Jewish Film Festival.

"People should ask for Jane." -Heather Booth





Listen now or Get MP3 for an extended interview with Heather. 34:56 min

"Heather Booth: Changing the World" screenings:
Thursday, July 27
SF Jewish Film Festival 37
at CineArts Theater, Palo Alto  
Director Lilly Rivlin in attendance
12.00 pm
Cinearts
3000 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA

Saturday, July 29
​SF Jewish Film Festival 37
​Albany Twin theater, Albany
Director Lilly Rivlin in attendance      
11.30 am​
Albany Twin
1115 Solano Ave.
Albany, CA

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Also on today's show:
Neesa Medina

Monday, February 6, 2017: When Abortion Was Illegal

Then, a week after Mike Pence promised the DC "March for Life" a Supreme Court justice who would Make Abortion Illegal Again, we listen to part of a radio documentary adapted from the film WHEN ABORTION WAS ILLEGAL by the Women's International News Gathering Service. This program was adapted for radio by Dorothy Fadiman and Frieda Werden.




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Also on today's show:
Hidden Figures
Pauli Murray

Monday, Jan. 30, 2017: Speed Sisters: Palestinian All-Women Car Racing Team

Amber Fares, director of the thrilling documentary Speed Sisters, joins us to talk about the five Palestinian women who make up the first all-female street car racing team in the Middle East.  The film is playing now through Wednesday, February 2 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

Watch the trailer.

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Also on today's show:
Sounds of Resistance from SFO to the Women's March to S.F. State
Defending Academic Freedom at SF State University

Monday, September 12, 2016: Changing Our Concept of Masculinity

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The Violent Construction of Masculinity

This Monday, September 12, Women's Magazine features two cutting-edge documentaries by men challenging masculine violence by examining how our cultural construction of masculinity pressures boys and men to be aggressive and suppress any feelings but anger.  No one exemplifies this more than Donald Trump, says Thomas Keith, in his new film, THE EMPATHY GAP: Masculinity and the Courage to Change.  Keith gives a nuanced reading of the interplay between racist and sexist stereotyping in U.S. popular culture and offers evidence-based solutions. 

Educator Jackson Katz points out that "Gender" issues are considered "women's issues," just as "race" is assumed to be a problem about people of color and "sexual orientation" is only discussed in relation to LGB people. "It's as if people of the dominant culture have no race, gender or sexual orientation," he says.  In “TOUGH GUISE 2,” he proposes a radically different approach to gender violence, foregrounding and challenging the ways that boys are taught to be men.

Kate Raphael and Lisa Dettmer present excerpts from and discuss these powerful documentaries.

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Monday, August 29, 2016: Women's Magazine examines how race and class influence sexual assault cases?

Recently widespread outrage has erupted over the bias and leniency in court decisions involving rape and the general acceptance and prevalence of violence against women.  In California, a judge's decision to give a white former Stanford University swimmer an unusually lenient  six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious Stanford student sparked a campaign to have him removed after the victims stomach churning impact statement went viral.  The outrage of women has succeed in forcing Judge Aaron Persky to give up his docket of criminal cases. This is just one of the many cases of sexual assault that women have been protesting in the media garnering widespread attention and also raising the issue of how race and class influences sexual assault decisions.  

Another incident which Black feminists have taken the lead in debating is the alleged sexual assault by actor and director Nate Parker 17 years ago, which came to the attention of the media  after his recent remarks about the victims suicide while promoting his new film "Birth of Nation" about the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, a film which had been destined for an Oscar.  Today we talk about that case and how class and race intersect with issues of sexual assault  with African American Lesbian Feminist filmmaker and writer  Aishah Shahidah Simmons. Simmons directed the groundbreaking film “No! The Rape Documentary.” Check out Aisha's Vimeo channel at https://vimeo.com/afrolez. Also see Afrolezproductions.com for more information and discussions about rape.

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Monday July 20, 2015: A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile

"For me it's very important that people know how to behave with technology...Syrians were just trying to get a freedom they never had...the regime used that story as a wide westerner propaganda pretending the revolution never existed..." Sandra Bagaria

In June 2011, Sandra Bagaria was in an online romance with a Syrian revolutionary named Amina Arraf.  Then Amina disappeared, and someone told Sandra she had been kidnapped by agents of the regime.  Sandra mobilized along with gay activists all over the world to demand Amina’s release. But then everything unraveled, and Sandra learned that her lover never existed.

A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile, which opens at the Roxie theater on July 24 in San Francisco, is Sandra’s story.  We talk with Sandra about the experience of making the film.

More info on the film can be found at SundanceNow Doc Club.

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Also on today's show:
Interview with WHO researcher Meghan Bohren
3 Girls Theater

Monday June 1, 2015: On Her Own

Tune in to KPFA 94.1 FM on Monday at 1 PM:

In the second half, a discussion about the reality of maintaining a family farm, with Nancy Prebilich, the subject of the new film ON HER OWN, will change the way you think about your food supply. The film documents Nancy’s struggle, along with her sister, niece and nephews, to hold onto the life their family lived for five generations.  Filmmaker Morgan Schmidt-Feng also joins the discussion.
The film shows at docfest on June 7 and 14.

More information at Docfest.

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Also on today's show:
Peace activist Kathy Kelly

July 21, 2014: Palestinian Women Take Aim with Cameras

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We speak with filmmakers Judith Montell and Emmy Scharlatt about their film, "In The Image," which features footage shot by half a dozen young Palestinian women working with the Israeli human rights group, "Btselem" to document daily life under occupation. Not just human rights violations but also graduation parties, shopping, falling in love, resisting by existing - they tell it like it is.

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In the Image is showing at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on Wednesday, July 30 at 1:50 PM at the Castro Theatre, and on Sunday, August 3 at 4:45 PM at the California Theatre. For tickets and more information go to SFJFF.org.

We are two Jewish women filmmakers interested in women’s rights, non-violent activism and social issues throughout the globe. We are excited to be telling a different story about the relationships between Jews and Arabs.

Judith Montell has produced and directed documentaries dealing with issues of social justice, history, and education. Among them are Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, nominated for an Academy Award; A Home On The Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma with Bonnie Burt; Timbrels and Torahs: Celebrating Women’s Wisdom with Miriam Chaya., Professional Revolutionaary: The Life of Saul Wellman and First Amendment On Trial: the Case of the Detroit Six. She directed and edited a series of 16 half hour dramatic programs in Esperanto, “Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo” for the purpose of teaching the language to aspiring Esperantists around the world. In The Image: Capturing the Struggle for Human Rights is in the spirit of these films, encouraging and teaching activism and featuring “ordinary” individuals working for a common good.

Emmy Scharlatt, started her film career as an assistant editor in Hollywood. Her feature film credits include: Year of The Dragon; Karate Kid II; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; Steel Magnolias. She has worked as an editor, researcher, writer, and producer on documentaries and feature films since 1982. She edited Taino Maida’s Peace is Every Step, The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hahn, and was Consultanting Editor and Associate Producer on Mark Eisner’s film on the life of Pablo Neruda, The Poets Calling. Emmy co-produced Four Questions For A Rabbi by Stacey Ross and Jay Rosenblatt, an 11-minute film that won the Directors Cut award at the 2008 Black Maria film festival. In the Image is her directorial debut. She holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from San Francisco State University.

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Also on today's show:
The Life of Valerie Solanas

California Coalition of Women Prisoners is sponsoring a caravan and rally on July 31st to protest the re-opening of McFarland prison, to be run by the GEO Group, a private company with an abysmal reputation. Low level women offenders qualified for release are being transferred to McFarland for a brutal program falsely entitled Enhanced Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction Campaign. The caravan will meet at MacArthur BART at 11 AM and link up with Trail for Humanity. A rally at 5 PM will be held at McFarland Park. For more information contact CCWP at 415-255-7036 ext 4 or email notomcfarlandgeo@gmail.com. To find out more about Trail for Humanity you can find them on Facebook.

June 9, 2014: Preview the film KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER

Interview with Sam Feder

We preview the film KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER with filmmaker Sam Feder.

KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER will be at the Roxie in San Francisco on Saturday, July 14th at 12:30 PM. Tickets are available at http://sfindie.com/festivals/sf-docfest/.

For more about Kate Bornstein go to http://katebornstein.typepad.com/.

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Also on today's show:
Radical queer writer & activist Yasmin Nair
Diana Whitten discusses her film, VESSEL
Tribute to revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama