International Women's Day Special Broadcast - Siblings in Liberation: African and Asian American Feminist Solidarity

Siblings in Liberation: African and Asian American Feminist Solidarity

What are the radical possibilities of catalyzing cross-racial feminist solidarities, imaginations, and substantive realities? What revolutions must we create within ourselves to dismantle our prejudices, discrimination, and silences to create the world we want to see?

We’re featuring audio from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s event Siblings in Liberation, Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, which celebrated the editorial collaboration between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective that found a home in AAWW’s digital magazine The Margins. Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities is an ongoing monthly series of critical essays, conversations, poetry, fiction, and more. The series looks to Black and Asian American feminist histories, practices, and frameworks on care, community, and survival as the tools and strategies to build towards collective liberation.

This hour features remarks and discussion with Jaimee Swift of Black Women Radicals and Tiffany Diane Tso, Senti Sojwal, Salonee Bhaman, and Rachel Kuo of the Asian American Feminist Collective; a poetry reading by Cecile Afable and Zuri Gordon; and a conversation between sex work activists Kate Zen and SX Noir.

Asian American Writers’ Workshop

Black Women Radicals

Asian American Feminist Collective

Hosted by Lily Philpott

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Monday, February 22, 2021: Exploring Transformative Justice Principles and Practices - A Conversation with Dr Xhercis Mendez with Margo Okazawa-Rey

There have been many conversations and debates about defunding the police and abolishing prisons.  Also, currently there are official conversations about Black reparations. This past Friday,  Japanese American communities celebrated their Day of Remembrance for those imprisoned in  concentration camps during WWII. I  agree that we should abolish prisons and defund the police.  But our positions also require us to think about fundamental questions related to justice about people who are injured, traumatized, sexually assaulted, and otherwise violated,  and people who have harmed them. One of the creative and grassroots responses is the transformative justice movement emerging in several places in this country.  Today, I am in conversation with Dr Xhercis Mendez to learn about and understand better what transformative justice is,  its values and principles, and its practices. 

Along with being  a professor at CSU Fullerton, Dr. Mendez is a popular educator, organizer, decolonial feminist philosopher, and founder of The Campus Transformative Justice Project that started in 2017 in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar case at Michigan State University. She  describes herself as the Boricua (Puerto Rican) child of factory workers and a bruja by ancestry, who lives to inspire the next generation of “troublemakers” and believers that a better world is possible.

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Monday, January 4, 2021: What are your deepest yearnings for 2021?

Margo Okazawa-Rey aka DJ MOR Love and Joy (HAHA) broadcasts a LIVE CALL-IN show on Women's Magazine, substituting for Vylma V. Friends CALL the KPFA Call-in Number: +1800-958-9008 

Margo says: "What are you hoping for in 2021? More deeply, what are your yearnings—“things” that flow from the deepest parts of your being and existence. Today's your chance to share some of what’s in your heart. I want us to speak together about our dreams, hopes, and visions. Join me in my first call-in broadcast 1:00-2:00PM KPFA Radio 94.1FM.  +1800-958-9008.  Don't leave me hangin'. "

Hear great music and what KPFA listeners had to say about their hopes for the coming year.

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Monday, November 30, 2020: Imagining a Post-“45” US and the World with Vylma V, Jovelyn Richards, and Margo Okazawa-Rey

Welcome everyone to Women’s Magazine!  I’m Margo Okazawa-Rey, your host. Today is the 5th Monday so three of us hosts of WM Jovelyn Richards, Vylma Ortiz, and I decided to team up.  

We’re here to discuss our observations about the incoming administration and most important, share our vision of a feminist future under Harris and Biden. We will be answering three questions during the show. At the end, we will invite you to share your thoughts via email to Women’s Magazine. In the meantime, think along with us your answers to the questions.

• What are our reactions to the  presidential transition and, based on what you see, what can we expect from the incoming administration?
• What do we want the Biden-Harris administration to create that will ensure women will  thrive? 
• What signs will show us we are on the right road to our vision? What should be our underlying values?

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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.

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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 16, 2020: Feminists across the globe talk about the US election.

Welcome everyone to Women’s Magazine!  I’m Margo Okazawa-Rey, filling in for Jovelyn Richards, who usually hosts the “Space Between Us” Program.  I’m on the air from Berkeley California, on occupied Ohlone territory. Thanking all the Ohlone ancestors and mine  for another day.

We in the US have no question that the processes and the results of the 2020 presidential election reflect the history, the current political climate, and the future of this country. More than 150 million voters turned out—breaking records. Though not surprising, one very noteworthy development always to keep in mind is that the organizers and voters of colour—African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Native American-all played critical roles in this year’s election. They saved America. Special kudos and appreciations to the Black, and queer women-led Movement for Black lives, and all allies, that constitute the biggest movement in US History. In other words, the seriousness of this election has not been understated.

As we think and learn about the implications for the US, let’s also consider the global implications. As the saying goes, “when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches pneumonia.”

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I am delighted to have this extra show today, just after the elections, to give us a more global perspective.  I interviewed feminists from various parts of the world and asked them two questions:

·      What is your reactions to the outcome of the US presidential elections?

·      What difference will the Biden-Harris administration make on the lives of the women in your country?

Most KPFA listeners will probably not be surprised to hear what my guests have to say. Still, it’s important that we hear their voices as they tell us. You will get to listen to feminists in Europe and various parts of Asia.

As with my regular shows, my intention is for us in the Bay Area and the US to connect the dots—between geographies of “there” and “here” and between their lives and ours, so we feminists across the globe  can stand together in ethical solidarity to imagine and be part of creating a genuinely secure and sustainable world.

We featured the following people:

Ruth-Gaby Vermot, former Swiss Parliamentarisn of the Socialist Party, Bern, Switzerland. 15 years ago, Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold together with an international team nominated 1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize. In an unprecedented initiative, they searched the world for women working for peace and justice. She is the initiator and co-president of PeaceWomen Across the Globe.

Randa Siniora is a Palestinian human rights and women’s rights defender with over 30 years of professional experience in the field of international human rights and humanitarian law. Since 2015, she has been the General Director of the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC). WCLAC provides Legal Aid and Counseling for women's victims of Gender Based Violence and works towards gender equality and non-discrimination against women in all aspects of Palestinian life.  Prior to joining WCLAC, Ms. Siniora was the Senior Executive Director of the Palestinian National Human Rights Institution the “Independent Commission for Human Rights” and the General Director of Al-Haq/Law in the Service of Man one of the most prominent NGOs in Palestine with a consultative status with UN ECOSOC. She was also a Human Rights Specialist with the Secretariat for the support of human rights and good governance organizations in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).

Kunthea Chan  Just Associates Southeast Asia (SEA) Regional Program Coordinator, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is a feminist activist and co-author of Diving Deep, Going Far: Stories of the Women Leaders Forming Cambodia's Future

Kozue Akibayashi is a feminist researcher/activist and has worked on issues of gender and peace. She is a professor at Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and a member of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

Corazon Valdez Fabros, Philippines feminist activist,  is currently Vice President of International Peace Bureau and a core member of thematic circle on Peace and Security both at the civil society process at Asia-Europe Peoples Forum and the ASEAN Civil Society Conference- ASEAN Peoples Forum. She is Lead convenor of the STOP the War Coalition Philippines and Nuclear Free Pilipinas. Currently the focal person for the Philippines at the No Nukes Asia Forum (A network that focuses on campaigns against nuclear power plants in Asia and the promotion of alternative renewable energy sources as an option to dirty and destructive energy)

Kamla Bhasin, who lives in New Delhi, is an Indian feminist activist, poet, and author. Kamla's work  focuses on gender, education, human development and the media. She is a founding member and adviser of Sangat - A Feminist Network. She is also the co-chair of PeaceWomen across the Globe in Bern Switzerland and South Asia coordinator of One Billion Rising. She practices advocacy that combines feminist theory and community action, often using posters, plays, and other non-literary methods to mobilize communities with limited literacy skills.

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Monday, November 9, 2020: The fight to Dump Trump and lesbian feminism of the 70's.

This Monday on Women’s Magazine for our first post trump show we will talk to Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about the election and the new multiracial black and brown lead movements that helped win this election for the Democrats especially in the south.

"I would encourage people not to get confused by red and blue maps but to pay attention to population density...actually look and see how many people were disenfranchised from voting in the very first place." Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a 35 year old Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), woman from the working class, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN. As a member of multiple leadership teams in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), Ash-Lee has thrown down on the Vision for Black Lives and the BREATHE Act. Ash-Lee has served on the governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly, the advisory committee of the National Bailout Collective, and is an active leader of The Frontline a united front working to prevent voter suppression among other issues. She is a long-time activist who has done work in movements fighting for workers, for reproductive justice, for LGBTQUIA+ folks, for environmental justice, and more.

"I am hopeful for the future [because] I am informed by literally centuries of successful organizing work particularly led by Black women...we have already saved this country multiple times and we saved it on November 3rd..." Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson

And we talk to Ginny Berson about the radical  lesbian and feminist movements of the '70s and '80s which created an impetus to form more independent and equitable social and cultural institutions—bookstores, publishers, health clinics, and more—to support the unprecedented surge in women's arts of all kinds. Olivia Records was at the forefront of these models, not only recording and distributing women's music but also creating important new social spaces for previously isolated women and lesbians through concerts and festivals.

Ginny Z. Berson, one of Olivia's founding members and visionaries, kept copious records during those heady days—days also fraught with contradictions, conflicts, and economic pitfalls. With great honesty, Berson offers her personal take on what those times were like in her new book “Olivia on the Record: A Radical Experiment in Women’s Music” where she revisits the excitement and the hardships of creating a fair and equitable lesbian-feminist business model—one that had no precedent.

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Monday, July 27, 2020: Suffering from Three Viruses: Occupation, Corona, and Traditional Patriarchal Culture with Margo Okazawa-Rey

Today I continue what has turned out to be a series on colonization, militarism, and their impacts on women. Today also marks the 67th anniversary of the armistice that ended the war on the Korean Peninsula so let’s keep that in our hearts.

On past shows, my guests discussed Memorial Day, and US colonization and occupation of Okinawa and the Pacific. In our show titled Suffering from Three Viruses: Occupation, Corona, and Patriarchal Culture, we broaden the earlier discussions by shifting to Afghanistan and Palestine. In interviews recorded on July 22, my guests Sima Samar and Faiha Abdulhadi shared what’s happening in Afghanistan and Palestine respectively. Next month, we’ll hear about Sudan.

As you are listening, please ask yourselves these questions: How has it been possible to forget about Afghanistan and Afghan women? What do you know about Palestine and Palestinian women? And again, I am urging you to make the connections between “here” and “there”, the relationships between domestic policy and foreign policy, and ultimately to imagine what real security--all the way from in your lives and communities, to the entire country, and the world-- would look and feel like. Especially for women.

The latest in Afghanistan and Palestine, reported by wonderful feminist activists, women and human-rights defenders, visionaries, and my dear friends, Sima Samar and Faiha Abdulhadi. Given what you heard, as US-based feminists, what is the “common context of struggle,” as Chandra Mohanty asks, with Afghani and Palestinian women? How are our destinies bound up with theirs?

Dr. Faiha Abdulhadi has extensive experience as a writer, poet, oral-historian, researcher and research-consultant, community activist, and lecturer, and has been working on gender and other issues of human interest. She is the founder and director of Al Rowat for Studies and Research, which seeks to rewrite social history by documenting stories of marginalized groups and of witnesses to key historic events. She is a member of the Palestinian National Council, the Palestinian Central Council, the deputy Commissioner General for the Independent Commission for Human Rights in Palestine.

Dr. Sima Samar is a medical doctor for poor people by profession, and a women’s and human rights activist. She was the first Minister for Women’s Affair after the fall of the Taliban. Since 2004, she is the Chairperson of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, the first established in the country, which holds human rights violators accountable, a commitment that has put her own life at great risk. She has established and nurtured the Shuhada Organization that, in 2012, operated more than one hundred schools and 15 clinics and hospitals dedicated to providing education and healthcare, particularly focusing on women and girls. She was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 2012.

Resources:

Free Women Writers https://www.freewomenwriters.org/2016/09/14/afghan-women-history-post-taliban/

Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling www.wclac.org

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

Monday, May 25, 2020: Who and What We Must Remember This Memorial Day hosted by Margo Okazawa-Rey

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Protesters in the Oura Bay demanding the end of
construction of new US base there

May 24 was the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, a women’s day we in the US hear very little about.  The US Memorial Day is for honouring and mourning the military personnel who have died while serving in the US Armed Forces as colonizers and more latterly in the name  of “national security.” But many of us know that armed conflict and militarism go hand-in-hand with global capitalism. I remind listeners also that working-class men and women of colour are disproportionately represented among the military enlistees and casualties. Women in the military also face domestic violence and sexual assaults committed by male military personnel. On today’s show, my guests and I will emphasize peace, disarmament, and decolonization while we mourn.

Cornerstone of Peace Naha, Okinawa

We’ll be asking you to rethink the various aspects of the military apparatus in the US, from the war-based economy and military spending, to environmental impacts of wars and military operations, and the militarized violence especially against women and civilians. We will talk about other causalities of wars and militarism. These are especially relevant in the current Pandemic when we see the militarized responses to it in many places around the world including the US.  We see in the US especially the failures of the state, the economic systems, and political and moral leadership currently in place.  Finally, and most important, we’ll  be urging you to imagine what real security, all the way from in your lives  and communities to the entire country and the world, would look and feel like, and to think about useful ways young people can work in their communities to realize that vision, rather than serving in the military.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies ... 
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children… 
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war,
it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

-US President General Dwight D. Eisenhower April 17, 1953  

Guests:
Rev. Deborah Lee is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity based in Oakland CA. For over 25 years as a faith-based, social-justice leader, she has worked in popular education, community organizing  and advocacy connecting issues of race, gender, economic justice, anti-militarism, LGBTQ inclusion and immigrant rights. She is a founding member of International Women’s Network Against Militarism and also Women for Genuine Security.

Gwyn Kirk is a scholar activist who teaches women’s and gender studies courses, most recently at Mills College, Oakland. She is a founder member of the International Women’s Network Against Militarism and also Women for Genuine Security, the US-based partner in this Network.  Her writing focuses on ecofeminism, militarism, and transnational feminist peace organizing.

Martha  Matsuoka is at  Occidental College, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy. Her work focuses on metropolitan regionalism, sustainable community development, social movements, and environmental justice. She is a founding Board  member of Asia Pacific Environmental Network and a founder of Women for Genuine Security and International Women's Network Against Militarism.

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Monday, March 23, 2020: Intersectional and Transnational Feminism

This Monday March 23rd at 1pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine Lisa Dettmer speaks with three pre-eminent Feminist activist scholars: Margo Okazawa-Rey, Paola Bacchetta, and Gwyn Kirk who provide an overview of contemporary intersectional and transnational feminism with a special attention to issues of race, class, sexuality and coloniality. They discuss feminism’s importance in their lives and work, the importance of having an analysis of power, and they also address some of the myths and stereotypes prevalent among many about what feminism looks like.

Paola Bacchetta is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of California at Berkeley, and a globally renowned feminist, lesbian and Queer of Color scholar and activist. She has published six books and over 60 professional articles in English and many different languages. She has been active in decolonial, anti-capitalist, pro-immigration, anti-racism feminist and Queer of color movements in the U.S., India, France and Italy.

Margo Okazawa-Rey is an activist and educator working on issues of militarism, armed conflict, and violence against Women examined intersectionally. She has long-standing activist commitments in South Korea and has been associated with the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling in Palestine.

Gwyn Kirk is a scholar-activist concerned with genuine security and creating a sustainable world. She has taught Women’s and gender studies at U.S. colleges and universities for 30 years. She publishes a textbook/anthology, Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives co-edited with Margo Okazawa-Rey and has written widely on eco-feminism, militarism, and women’s peace organizing.

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Monday, October 7, 2019: Exploring Blackness and Policing of Black People in Europe

Margo and Vanessa

Margo

Interview with Vanessa Eileen Thompson

Margo Okazawa-Rey, gender studies professor and a member of the legendary Combahee River Collective, discusses the similarities and differences between anti-Blackness in the U.S. and in Europe with Afro-German scholar Vanessa Eileen Thompson.  Thompson is a researcher at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and a former visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies. She is one of the organizers of the upcoming symposium "On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives" to be held at UCLA October 11-12. Find out why a symposium on racism in Europe is being held in the United States!

Click here to listen to the entire interview with Vanessa. 30:33 min

Vanessa Eileen Thompson is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Previously, she was a guest lecturer in gender studies at the University of Cologne and a fellow at the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching are focused on critical race and racism studies, black studies (with a focus on Black Europe), gender and queer studies, post- and decolonial feminist theories and methodologies, critical security studies, and transformative justice. Thompson is also engaged in these fields as an activist.  Her current research project focuses on racial gendered policing in Europe and transnational articulations of abolitionist visions and alternatives from a black feminist perspective. Vanessa has published articles on the work of Fanon, black social movements in Germany and France, and racial gendered policing in Europe.


Film: The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo

Then we listen to excerpts of the brilliant documentary "The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo", which chronicles the career and writings of one of the foremost African feminist writers. Aidoo, the author of nine books, two plays and many short works, also served as Ghana's Minister of Education from 1982-1983. After eighteen months, she concluded that she would not be able to realize her goal of free universal education because nationalist ideals had been subverted by the elite. In 2000 she founded the Mbaasem Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in Ghana with a mission "to support the development and sustainability of African women writers and their artistic output."

Much love to all of you who have supported me and KPFA Women's Magazine over these many years. -Kate Raphael

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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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Get MP3 of interview with Janice Engel. 19:46 min

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.

Get MP3 of interview with Kristina Motwani. 16:38 min


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Monday, March 25, 2019: Jennifer Eberhardt Racial Bias; Anasuya Sengupta, Inequality on the Web

In the first part of our show produced by Safi wa Nairobi, we listen to excerpts of a talk by Jennifer Eberhardt about the dangers and effect of implicit racial bias in policing, which is inherently unintentional yet more pervasive than explicit bias but equally deadly.  Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias and the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See,Think, and Do will also be speaking at the JCC of SF on April 1st at 7pm. 

And in the second half of the show we look at sexual and racial bias in the internet. Today, nearly half the world is online. Nearly 75% of this half comprises the people of the global south. Women are 45% of online users. Yet, the digital footprint of women and girls, reflecting real world iniquities, is tiny.  More than 80 percent of the content produced on Wikipedia is written by 20% of people based in the global north. 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors is a woman.

Anasuya Sengupta

Recently a small fierce group of feminist geeks at "Whose Knowledge" came along and have been working hard to change these stark statistical realities Wikipedia entry by Wikipedia entry, one digital step at a time. "Whose Knowledge" is a global campaign to center the knowledge of the marginalized communities to create a truly inclusive internet. Preeti Shakar and Lisa Dettmer talk to co-director of "Whose Knowledge", Anasuya Sengupta, to discuss the work they are doing to decolonize the web.

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Event:

For more info go to SFWAR.org

Monday, January 7, 2018: Memory, Trauma, and the Politics of Fear - Conversations with Rosalind Petchesky and Elizabeth Rosner

Conversation with Rosalind Petchesky

Women’s March leaders from left Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez, Linda Sarsour. Photo: Jody Rogac/TIME

What's all this about anti-Semitism in the Women's March? Rosalind Petchesky, MacArthur fellow, socialist-feminist scholar and activist with Jewish Voice for Peace, questions why accusations made nine months ago are suddenly hitting the mainstream media just weeks before the third national Women's Marches are scheduled to step off. Petchesky's Appeal to Jewish Women to Support the 2019 Women’s March and Its Leaders has been viewed over 15,000 times and shared widely on social media.

"In a climate of fear, violence, intimidation and rising fascism, the only way forward for a truly transformative Women’s March and movement is to unite the struggles to end violence, racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, settler colonialism everywhere, including in Palestine, and the white nationalism that undergirds them all." - Rosalind Petchesky

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

Also on today's show:
Elizabeth Rosner

Monday, October 22, 2018: Third I Film Festival

Preeti Shekar talks to Anuj Vaidya, Vaishali Sinha and Indu Krishnan about the upcoming 3rd i Film Festival’s women’s films. Women filmmakers dominate this year's festival. 3rd i Film Festival begins November 1 thru November 4 in San Francisco and November 17 in Palo Alto. WWW.Thirdi.org for tickets.

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Also on today's show:
Poet Heid Erdich

Events:
49 Years: Suppressed Histories Archives
Saturday, October 27, 7 pm
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar St, Berkeley, California 94709
Donation at the door benefits the Archives and the Berkeley Unitarian Universalist congregation. 
Everyone welcome, no one turned away for lack of funds.

39th Annual Spiral Dance Ritual
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2018
DOORS OPEN AT 6 FOR ALTAR VIEWING
& READING THE NAMES OF THE BELOVED DEAD.

RITUAL BEGINS AT 7

Monday, October 1, 2018: Resisting Kavanaugh

"We should really believe in ourselves and our power..." -Rachel O'Leary Carmona

Kate talks with Rachel O'Leary Carmona of Women's March about Friday's dramatic actions at the Capitol and what she expects this week and beyond.

"There's a progressive wave of power coming." -Rachel O'Leary Carmona

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

Also on today's show:
Hip Hop Feminism

Monday, August 6, 2018: Leslie Cagan Remembers Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Kate Raphael talks with Leslie Cagan about the contribution of her long-time lover, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, to Jewish feminist and anti-racist scholarship and activism. Melanie, a founder and director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, professor and author of My Jewish Face and Other Stories, The Colors of Jews, and co-editor of The Tribe of Dina, died on July 10.

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Also on today's show:
Stacy Russo on Love Activism
Hiroshima Day

Monday, July 23, 2018: Middle Schooler’s organize Feminist Club

Teens Inspired to found Feminist Club 

Today on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we talk to some of the new local feminist leaders of the young adult generation when we speak to Neva Zamil, Miaze Cline and Anjuna Mascarenhas-Swan three of the students at Berkeley’s Longfellow Middle School that helped to start a student Feminist Club to address sexism and teach their fellow students about feminism.

"43% of middle school girls are sexually harassed."

Students demonstrate in Berkeley

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Also on today's show:
Film Naila and the Uprising at JFF

Monday, May 7, 2018: Lucy Jane Bledsoe on Paradises Built in Hell

Rebecca Solnit's 2010 book A Paradise Built in Hell posits that disasters, whether natural or human created, commonly bring out our most generous and cooperative nature, leading to the development of new forms of community and democratic organization. This week on Women's Magazine, I talk with two women who have done their own research into this phenomenon. 

Lucy Jane Bledsoe's new novel, The Evolution of Love, imagines the aftermath of a massive earthquake in the East Bay, and suggests that our bonobo nature, favoring love and cooperation over conflict and competition, might ultimately triumph. Bledsoe is the award-winning author of A Thin Bright Line, which has just been optioned for a film.

Hear Lucy read from The Evolution of Love Saturday May 12th, 5 PM at Laurel Books in Oakland.

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Also on today's show:
Rahila Gupta



Events:
The Asian American Film Festival, CaamFest starts Thursday May 10 - 24. Follow link for schedule and tickets.

Monday, April 9, 2018: Changing the Sexual Culture

Pursuing Our Passions, from the Bedroom to the Skies

Kate Raphael talks with author, educator and activist Jaclyn Friedman about her new book, UNSCREWED, which documents groundbreaking work being done to change the sexual culture.

From her website: "Friedman’s work has popularized the “yes means yes” standard of sexual consent that is quickly becoming law on many US campuses. In Unscrewed, she calls on the movement for women’s sexual liberation to move past individualistic “empowerment” messages (for which she coined the term “fauxpowerment”) to focus on collectively transforming the systems and institutions invested in keeping women sexually servile."

In addition to her writings Friedman also hosts a podcast series, also called UNSCREWED.

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Also on today's show:
Juana Alicia and the Maestrapeace Mural
Mercury 13 and Gender Bias

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