This Monday December 14th on KPFA Radio’s "Women’s Magazine" we look at how racial Capitalism and Patriarchy have created a punitive underfunded child care system in the U.S. where the the average hourly wage of child care workers is $10.72 per hour, many of the women in need of child care are black and brown women and few get any government support in accessing child care. This system is informed by the history of slavery in the U.S. where women’s job to reproduce the work force is required but never supported. And the reality in our neoliberal economy is that many women especially women of color are the essential workers during covid and are working 2-3 jobs just to survive and yet rarely getting any government support for child care.
Today we talk to Marcy Whitebook from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley, Clarissa Douthard with Parent Voices Oakland and Loira Limbal director of the award winning documentary about child care “Through the Night” that shows how caregivers balance the demands of “women’s work” while navigating systemic racism, sexism and classism in the U.S. today. This beautiful film is available online at https://www.throughthenightfilm.com/ and is also showing at the Roxy Theater locally.
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From sister radio hour, Feral Visions, comes a wonderful dialogue with the Mother-Daughter duo that is BabyMamaHood. Mama Juju and Zion Angeles help folks move beyond a one-size-fits all approach to parenting, Motherhood, & families & bring back the ceremony to birth. Juju & Zion are also the creators of A Love Adventure Project & Radical Childbirth. Learn about the important community work they’re doing and how you can get involved.
Feral Visions is a decolonial feminist radio hour from Liberation Spring, produced by We Rise.
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.
This week on Women's Magazine, we focus on some of the most challenged workers in today's workforce: domestic workers and young women of color.
Young workers also face an uphill battle to find employment that not only pays a living wage, but offers a path to leadership and training. Mamacitas Cafe is dedicated to changing those odds in Oakland, by creating well-paid jobs, with mentorship and training opportunities, for young women of color 18-24, especially women transitioning out of the criminal justice or child welfare system.
The three-year-old grassroots project started with popups and opened a brick-and-mortar cafe in 2015. Thanks to its success, the cafe is now fundraising to lease a bigger space and expand its staff. Find them on Facebook, Twitter and the web. Help Mamacitas Cafe with their Kickstarter campaign.
"Donuts and glazes and more made by hand in house!"
Listen now or Get MP3. 23:47 min On today's show we pay tribute to Judy Brady, author of the classic article, "I Want a Wife."
Event: Black LGBT Historical Society Presents 5th Annual Black LGBT Historical Society Celebration Honoring LENN KELLER Showcasing Bay Area Lesbian Archives Mobile Exhibit. Saturday, 6/17/2017, 1:00 - 3:30 Koret Auditorium Main Library 100 Larkin St. San Francisco, CA
KPFA’s Women’s Magazine looks at the practice of Restorative Justice and how that practice of justice based on healing provides an alternative to the punitive systems we have in our society today. Unlike the punitive system of justice we have, Restorative Justice focuses on healing and transforming the wounds of victims, offenders and communities caused by the wrongdoing through truth telling, apology, making amends, and reconciliation.
We talk to three leaders in Restorative Justice in the Bay Area. Jodie Geddes, Community Organizer Coordinator at Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), Rose Elizondo, co-founder of the San Quentin Prison RJ interfaith group and of the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council, and Malachi Scott, the Re-entry and Community Restorative Justice Coordinator at RJOY and co-founder of the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council.
Please join practitioners and scholars from around the world at the 2017 Sixth National Conference of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice in Oakland, CA at the Oakland Marriott. Hosted by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), this year’s theme is Moving Restorative Justice from Margins to Center — elevating historically marginalized voices, promoting radical inclusivity and healing, and exploring the intersections of RJ with other contemporary social justice movements. With healing spaces, circles, youth-led activities, field trips as well as plenaries and panels, we are planning a provocative, participatory, and creative conference in Oakland, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, and an international cultural and culinary mecca. We look forward to your participation.
On today's Women's Magazine, Kate Raphael invites us to listen to a fabulous talk by one of the most sophisticated and clear-thinking analysts of the current situation we've heard yet. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book.
Michael C. Dawson, author of Blacks In and Out of the Left, says, "Deeply rooted in Black radical, feminist and socialist traditions, Taylor’s book is an outstanding example of the type of analysis that is needed to build movements for freedom and self-determination in a far more complicated terrain than that confronted by the activists of the 20th century."
Taylor spoke on Monday, December 5, at Impact Hub in Oakland. She challenged the assertion that the election represents a "whitelash" by blue collar white voters, presents a persuasive counter-narrative that points to possible ways forward for a multiracial working class-oriented social justice movement.
We are raising money (hopefully) to support Women's Magazine and KPFA by offering Taylor's book and/or a CD or DVD of her talk as a thank you gift for your pledge to KPFA. Please donate by calling 1-800-439-5732 or going to www.kpfa.org to give securely online. Whatever you can spare is really appreciated and important. We're hanging on by a thread and funding is likely to get tighter in the coming months.
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Gail Dines talks about the violence of pornography
The mainstream has become increasingly outspoken about the increasingly violent and ubiquitous 97 billion dollar Pornography industry which makes more than the top tech companies combined with 3 billion made annually on child porn. Time Magazine's recent cover story “Porn and the Threat to Virility” examines how men who watched porn as children and teenagers have started a movement against porn. But ironically within the feminist community there are some feminists who defend pornography and attack the voices of radical anti porn activists. Today, we will hear a talk by anti-porn activist and scholar Gail Dines, professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College, and author of "Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality."
In a talk titled "From the Personal Is Political to the Personal is Personal: Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism." Gail Dines, explores how mainstream feminism has lost its way by fighting for the individual rights of a small group of elite white women instead of the collective liberation of all women. Dines argues that some third wave feminism offers a pseudo-empowerment to women who conform to the narrow standards of femininity set by porn culture. She calls for a feminism that is unapologetically fierce in its commitment to radical social change.
Robynn Takayama speaks with Chicana punk rocker Michelle Cruz Gonzales about her new memoir, The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. Raised in the small town of Tuolumne, by her single mom, she gravitated to the in-your-face aesthetics of hard core punk. She played drums for the ground-breaking, all-female band, Spitboy, from 1990 to 1995. She talks with Robynn about confronting hecklers at their live shows, how her Chicana heritage could be lost to a punk name, and the Bay Area punk scene in the mid-90s.
When PM Press said, yes, they would like to publish my book, the first thing that I thought was, now I just have to not die before it comes out. Writers are always writing against the clock, but now I only need to hang in here for about a week because there’s word that the books have shipped from the printers. I have written two memoirs, and this is the first one to be published, and the whole process, getting this book published, has been really fun and collaborative. I was assigned an editor, then a cover designer, a copy editor, and an events planner. Everyone at PM Press has been super cool to work with, and they see me, the individual, and that is, wow, really nice.
Michelle will be reading at the following dates:
Sunday, April 17, 2016 10 - 6 PM Gilman Zine Fest
924 Gilman, Berkeley CA
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 - 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94604
Plus a little poetry in honor of National Poetry Month.
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, 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
