Monday, February 2, 2015: Book: Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and Politics of Violence

Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and Politics of Violence

Kate Raphael talks with Christina Hanhardt, author of SAFE SPACE: GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE.  It's a fascinating look at how the decision to seek safety by claiming space and eventually policing who could be in that space changed not only the gay movement but cities themselves.  Focusing on San Francisco and New York between the mid-sixties and the mid-nineties, the book explores the nexus between gentrification, gay identity, overpolicing and the War on Poverty.

Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies. Her research focuses on the historical and contemporary study of U.S. social movements and cities since the mid-20th century, with an emphasis on the politics of stigma, punishment, and uneven development. Her first book, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Duke University Press, 2013), is a history of (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) LGBT activism against violence in New York and San Francisco from the mid-1960s to the early 2000s, framed in the context of broader debates about poverty, gentrification, and policing. Safe Space won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBT Studies, and honorable mention for both the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies, and the Lora Romero Prize for Best First Book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation.

Hanhardt teaches classes in LGBT studies and queer theory, American studies, U.S. social movements, urban studies, and other topics. She was the winner of the 2013 Undergraduate Studies Teaching Award at the University of Maryland.

During academic year 2014-2015 Professor Hanhardt is on sabbatical and conducting research with the support of a Research and Scholarship Award from the Graduate School.  She is dividing her time between the DC-area and New York, where is a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.


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March 18th: Women's Magazine: Aging Women, Housing Rights & Domestic Violence

"How we treat people in this country--it's shameful." Rose Aguilar

The connections between domestic abuse and homelessness, issues that are increasingly affecting an aging population of women in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, and leaving some women sleeping in plastic chairs. Do we have a real quest to invest in affordable housing in San Francisco? Or is City Hall too focused on tax breaks for new downtown businesses inviting higher rents? What are our priorities as we move forward as a City and as a nation?

 Rose Aguilar talks about older homeless women in San Francisco.

• Valerie Ibarra of Mutiny Radio interviews Rose Aguilar - Host of "Your Call" on KALW 91.7, author of "Old, Female and Homeless" in The Nation, February 13th. There are 19,000 older adults living below the poverty line in San Francisco. There is not enough affordable housing and the problem is getting worse. According to the Coalition on Homelessness, there are over 40,000 homeless seniors in this country. The amount of money spent on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in one month could house everyone in this country for a year. These are just a couple of astonishing facts presented in this segment with Rose Aguilar. She gives an up close and personal perspective of what it's like to be on the streets of San Francisco, how easily it can happen, what is being done about it and the huge challenge of fixing the ever-growing tragedy of homelessness.
• Resources for homeless people: St. Anthony's feeds, houses, clothes and provides other services. Mission Neighborhood Health Center offers health care, laundry services, showers and Ladies Night every Thursday. A Woman's Place, formerly OSHUN emergency shelter for women.

Listen now or Get MP3 21:53 min.

 One of the leading causes of homelessness is domestic violence.

• Lindsay Sweetnam, Community Programs Director of La Casa de las Madres, talks about La Casa, which provides a range of domestic violence services in San Francisco.

• La Casa de las Madres was founded in 1976 by a group of women who were survivors of domestic violence. It houses 35 women and children every night for up to 8 weeks in a safe, supportive, non-judgmental environment. La Casa provides many other services including counseling, support groups, education, legal support, referrals, and case management. They have two advocates working with the police at 850 Bryant and run 24 hour hot lines for help with domestic violence issues, including a hotline for teens.

• 24-hour hotline: 877-503-1850.
• 24-hour hotline for teens: 877-923-0700.

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Not Over: The Legacy of ACT UP

In March 1987, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) held its first action in New York.  But radical AIDS activism was not born at that time.  The AIDS/ARC vigil, a years-long encampment at the Old Federal Building in San Francisco's UN Plaza, had begun a year and a half earlier, and hundreds of LGBT activists and community leaders had been arrested in dozens of actions at that site.  The affinity group Citizens for Medical Justice and the larger direct action group AIDS Action Pledge followed in 1986.  In late 1987, the San Francisco AIDS Action Pledge decided to change its name to ACT UP to promote the unity of the national movement.

On March 24, 2012, long-time Queer activists came together with younger folks from Occupy SF and Homonomixx to discuss the legacy of ACT UP and its lessons for present and future activism. 

The group is organizing a Good Friday protest on April 6 entitled "AIDS is not over: The Resurrection March of ACT UP".

Panel participants included:

Kenyon Farrow - NYC based writer and activist, former executive director of Queers for Economic Justice and current communications manager for Housing Works.

Tommi Avicolli Mecca - queer activist who has been part of social and economic justice movements since the 70’s to today, currently organizing in campaigns demanding affordable housing for all.

Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot - long-time activist, writer and videographer who was instrumental in the organization of the sex worker rights movement, as well as being part of ACT UP.

Cyd Nova - has been involved in the Occupy/Decolonize movement with queer economic justice group Homonomixxx. Organizer for transgender, sex worker and HIV prevention justice.

Dean Oullette - long time organizer with both ACT UP in San Francisco and in NYC. Advocate for sex workers.

Jorge Vieto - An HIV prevention worker for over 7 years and currently a staff member for STOP AIDS. Jorge has been a long time advocate for and member of the leather community.

Liz Highleyman (moderator) - freelance writer, editor, and health educator, ACT UP organizer and street medic for Occupy.

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July 18: Reaping Inspiration from the Seeds of Desperation

Taeva Scheffler of Prison Activist Resource Center talks about how women are organizing to support the California prisoners' hunger strike, now in its third week. 25 mins.

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Thanks to Movement Productions

We also speak with author and performer Conscious about her groundbreaking one-woman show based on her book Getting Unstuck: Homeless to Hollywood. Conscous will talk about her extraordinary career and the invisibility of male to female to female HIV transmission. Contact Conscious on Facebook

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From WINGS: Beyond the Money Paradigm

Kellia Ramares asks the question "Why must we pay to live on the planet we're born on?" She talks with three women who study how to meet human needs but bypass the capitalist framework.

Featured Speakers/Guests: Genevieve Vaughan, author of For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, and editor of Women and the Gift Economy; Janelle Orsi, co-director of the “sustainable economies law center” and producer of the video "Economy Sandwich"; Roxanne Meadows of The Venus Project, who envisions a future "resource-based economy.

Listen to the piece. Courtesy of Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS).

June 27th: Beyond Gay Marriage

This special one-hour broadcast is a documentary offering a radical Queers critique of the Gay Marriage movement and how it is driving a more assimiliationist gay politics. It is 40 years since the Stonewall rebellion generated the birth of the gay liberation movement, but the gay movement today is a far different movement than the radical politics of the 1960’s. While many have assumed that gay marriage is important to most Queers, this documentary challenges that myth and shows how the emphasis on gay marriage is part of the loss of a radical Queer critique. We discuss how we got to where we are and what kind of political work radical Queers are dong. You will hear the voices of many radical queers and academics sharing their perspective on what a radical Queer movement and politics could be.

This documentary includes the voices of:
Kenyon Farrow, Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice
Brian Bassinger, Executive Director, Aids Housing Alliance of San Francisco
Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
Professor Lisa Duggan, NYU
Professor Dean Spade , Seattle University School of Law
Professor Priya Kandaswamy, University of Portland
and many more dynamic and articulate voices for LGBT liberation in the context of all liberation.


Don't miss "Beyond Gay Marriage".




"Beyond Gay Marriage" was produced as part of Queer Radical Voices. For other groundbreaking documentaries on queer issues you don't usually hear about, check out http://queerradio.blogspot.com/.

To learn more about people and groups who are building a queer liberation agenda, see http://www.beyondmarriage.org/.

To hear today's Women's Calendar Events listen to entire show.

Twice Censored: Underreported Women's and Gender Issues of 2010

The Project Censored List of Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-2010 includes not one story related to a women's or gender issue. NOT ONE! Does that mean women's issues get lots of attention? We don't think so. Instead, it points to the masculinist bias of even the progressive media and media watchdogs.

So producer Kate Raphael has produced her own quite inexhaustive list of censored or underreported stories related to women and gender in the last year. See what you think. If you want to comment on one of her choices or suggest one of your own, please email us at kpfawomensmag@gmail.com.

Listen to the show, which also includes memorial tributes to Dorothy Height, Wilma Mankiller and Mary Daly.


The list below is not in ranked order, though Kate feels that Iraq does belong at the top.

-- The impact of 7 years of occupation on Iraqi women (Malihe Razazan of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa comments)

-- Sexual assault in the military hits epidemic proportion (includes excerpt of report by Scott Shafer of KQED TV)

-- New mammogram guidelines stir controversy (interview with Barbara Brenner of Breast Cancer Action)

-- Grassroots women's organizations are leading in the rebuilding of Haiti (interview with Yifat Suskind of Madre International [Malihe points out that Madre's website doesn't even mention Iraq!))

-- Pregnant women prisoners in California still face shackling, and thousands of abused women are still in prison for defending themselves (interview with Karen Shain of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children)

-- Victoire Ingebirre Umuhoza was the leading challenger to Rwandan president Paul Kagame, except instead of being allowed to run, she was imprisoned (Ann Garrison interviewed Ingebirre for WINGS)

-- Many women political prisoners in Iran are held in solitary confinement and without access to lawyers, families or medical care (interview with Malihe Razazan)

-- Global gatherings like the Cancun climate conference, the G20 and the U.S. Social Forum were covered from start to finish by progressive media, but several major international women's gatherings didn't even rate a headline. These included the 15 year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, the Global Maternal Health Conference and the third African Feminist Forum (interview with Nigerian feminist scholar Amina Mama).

-- Year of the Disabled Lesbian (interview with Laura Rifkin, founder of the Fabled Asp project)

-- Disabled women led the fight against cuts to In-Home Support Services and other social welfare programs, with ArnieVille, a tent city in Berkeley (Jean Stewart, Jan Santos and Hannah Jo Karpalo talk about the creative protest known as ArnieVille).

-- More bad news for women workers: Republicans in the Senate filibustered to block passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have required employers to prove that wage disparities were job-related, not gender based.

-- Did you know there were women working on oil rigs and leading the clean up of the Gulf? Coastal Women for Change is one of a number of women's organizations that sprung into action when the Deepwater Horizon well blew up. (Merle Savage, general foreperson on the Exxon Valdez cleanup, begs President Obama to make BP give the Gulf cleanup crews respirators and tell them the truth about the risk.)

-- Same sex marriage and Don't Ask Don't Tell were all over the media, both mainstream and progressive, but where were the voices of queers who aren't interested in heteronormative marriage or seeing queers join the imperialist military? (Excerpt from the documentary "Beyond Gay Marriage" by Women's Magazine's Lisa Dettmer)

Monday, July 12: Visit Arnieville, a tent city in Berkeley. Travel to Atlanta to see who's not on the Oprah Network.

Yvette Hochberg brings us the voices of women from Arnieville, the three-week old tent city that is fighting to save home health services for seniors and disabled people. And Sharon Sobotta introduces us to five of the amazing women who auditioned for the new Oprah network. Plus we'll bring you an update on the case of Caster Semenya, the South African runner forced to undergo gender testing, and hear shocking testimony about sexual assault against women activists at the G20 protests in Toronto. All that plus the women's calendar.

Arnieville on Adalaide Ave.

Jean Stewart, Jan Santos and Hannah Jo Karpalo, three of the activists behind the tent city in Berkeley that is fighting to save In Home Supportive Services, talk about the issues and the encampment in this lively discussion. 19:13



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Women's Magazine correspondent Sharon Sobotta went to the Oprah auditions in Atlanta, Georgia. In this inspiring collage, she brings us the voices of some of the extraordinary women she met there. Sharon spoke to five women, including two deaf women, Esmeralda Willamson-Noble, the mother of a young man who jumped off of a building in New York, and Heidi Kirshner, an oil painter about their dreams, their challenges and of course, what they hope to share on the Oprah Network. Then Sharon discovers Healthful Essence, a Carribean vegan restaurant and interviews the owner/chef, Princess Dixon. 24:20



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Listen to the entire show to hear Kate Raphael's updates on the G20 protests and sexual assaults in Toronto, and gender testing of South African woman athlete. Also, women talk about their passions and dreams.

April 5: Focus on Cancer Prevention and Treatment for Women

Late last year, the Preventive Services Task Force stunned the country with a report on the advisability and effectiveness of standard breast cancer prevention techniques. Eryn Matthewson of Women's Magazine interviewed Barbara Brenner, founder of Breast Cancer Action, about how she views the task force's advice.

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Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable and treatable diseases there is, yet 300,000 Global South women die each year for lack of simple treatments. Preeti Mangala Shekar talks to Dr. Kay Taylor of Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer, who is working to remedy this disparity in women's health care.

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Haitian Women in the Forefront and Suppressed Women's Histories

As Haiti disappears from our TV screens and our attention returns to
domestic issues, the people of Haiti are now in even greater peril as
the rains begin threatening a public health disaster. But the people
of Haiti are not just standing in the rain waiting to be rescued. They
are organizing, both in the U.S. and in Haiti, where over 50 grassroots groups met in Port Au Prince to demand input into the future of Haitian reconstruction, and the issues of women and children are front and center.
Lisa Dettmer talks to well known Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat about how the Haitian American community is responding to the Earth quake in Haiti, and with Beverly Bell, editor of "Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance," about the grass roots movements organizing in
Haiti and creating a new paradigm for Haiti's future. Beverly is the coordinator of the organization Other Worlds Are Possible.

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Kate Raphael talks with Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives, about her 40 years of groundbreaking work on women’s power and contributions to many cultures. Orthodox history says men have always dominated women, but Max Dashu says otherwise. Hear about the evidence she has unearthed over the last 40 years.

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February 1 Show: Human Rights Are Gender Rights from Haiti to the Super Bowl

Today on our show, we look at how human and gender rights workers are supporting grassroots earthquake relief in Haiti; and we talk about the controversy surrounding the Focus on the Family commercial to be aired during the Super Bowl. Plus a moving tribute to feminist theologian Mary Daly.

Listen to entire show, including music by Toshi Reagon and Mamina and poetry by Suheir Hammad and Janet Stickmon, on the KPFA archive.

(Photo: copyright Zanmi Lasante, Partners in Health)

Haiti: Human Rights, Gender Rights and Humanitarian Aid

Rivian Berlin of Women's Magazine speaks with Yfat Susskind, Director of MADRE, about the crisis in Haiti. MADRE began its work in Central America during the 1980s, working with local women's groups to counter U.S. policy of intervention in the region. It has been active in Haiti for many years and was one of the first organizations to mobilize effective aid after the devastating earthquake. 20:58
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CBS: Pull the Ad

Destiny Lopez of ACCESS Women's Health Rights Coalition talks with KPFA Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael about the Focus on the Family ad to run during the Super Bowl. Women's groups have organized to pressure CBS to pull the ad. (Join the campaign) 16:25
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Radical feminist theologian Mary Daly, who died last month at age 81, transformed the language in which we critique patriarchy. In this short clip (copyright, Pacifica Archives, permission required for rebroadcast), she reads from her Wickedary, a reimagining of the English language based on feminist principles.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Women's Magazine 2010

Photo: "We Came to America" (1997) by Faith Ringgold ©

Listen to today's show, including music by Mahalia Jackson and the Neville Brothers, the Women's Calendar, on KPFA's archive.

Earthquake in Haiti: Not a Natural Disaster

Laura Flynn, editor of Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, speaks with Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael about the aftermath of the earthquake and the political challenges for Haiti. Laura is also former international policy director of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy. 14:29
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What you can do to help Haiti:
Haiti Action Committee/Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
MADRE: Women Hardest Hit in Disasters

License to Kill?
Last week the judge in the trial of Scott Roeder, who killed Dr. George Tiller in Kansas, ruled that Roeder can introduce a justifiable homicide defense to argue for a conviction for voluntary manslaughter. Kathy Spillar of the Feminist Majority says this decision may lead to more murders of doctors who provide abortion services. Audio 5:58
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The Long Tradition of Black Feminism
Did Black feminism arise from the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Which women got to speak at the 1963 March on Washington? How new is the controversy over the movie "Precious"? What's the value of women's studies? Feminist scholar and professor Michele Wallace discusses these issues and more with KPFA Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael. 14:53
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Where Is the Affordable Housing
One year after the hope-filled inauguration of President Obama, what has changed for Bay Area homeless? Is affordable housing more available? What can we do to stop the threatened cuts to General Assistance? Janney Castillo of BOSS, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, speaks with two women who are trying to navigate the process of moving from shelter to housing. Audio 15:45
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Homelessness Ends with a Home: Housing Not Handcuffs, Take Action January 20

Beyond Gay Marriage - Special Documentary Premiere

This special one-hour broadcast is a documentary offering a radical Queers critique of the Gay Marriage movement and how it is driving a more assimiliationist gay politics. It is 40 years since the Stonewall rebellion generated the birth of the gay liberation movement, but the gay movement today is a far different movement than the radical politics of the 1960’s. While many have assumed that gay marriage is important to most Queers, this documentary challenges that myth and shows how the emphasis on gay marriage is part of the loss of a radical Queer critique. We discuss how we got to where we are and what kind of political work radical Queers are dong. You will hear the voices of many radical queers and academics sharing their perspective on what a radical Queer movement and politics could be.

This documentary includes the voices of:
Kenyon Farrow, Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice
Brian Bassinger, Executive Director, Aids Housing Alliance of San Francisco
Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
Professor Lisa Duggan, NYU
Professor Dean Spade , Seattle University School of Law
Professor Priya Kandaswamy, University of Portland
and many more dynamic and articulate voices for LGBT liberation in the context of all liberation.


Don't miss "Beyond Gay Marriage".




"Beyond Gay Marriage" was produced as part of Queer Radical Voices. For other groundbreaking documentaries on queer issues you don't usually hear about, check out http://queerradio.blogspot.com/.

To learn more about people and groups who are building a queer liberation agenda, see http://www.beyondmarriage.org/.

Feminist Roundtable on Health Care Reform and Abortion Rights

Kate Raphael sits down with Lupe Rodriguez, Policy Director of ACCESS Women's Rights Coalition, Serena Garcia, Communications Coordinator of Sistersong: Women of Color Health Collective, and Marit Knutson, member of Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, to analyze the process and outcome of the health reform discussions in Congress.
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Then we hear an excerpt of a talk given by Professor Andrea (Andie) Smith, author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, and Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances. Andie is a cofounder of INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence. This talk was given at Critical Resistance 10, a conference on opposing the prison industrial complex, held last fall in Oakland. In this excerpt, Andie explains how heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism are entwined, how the nonprofit industrial complex keeps us from making revolution, and why the Christian right attracts so many more people than the U.S. left. Download clip or listen here


We also remember Hilda Roberts, the last surviving nurse from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which supported the Democratic forces in Spain in the 1930s, and a stalwart of Berkeley Women In Black against Israeli occupation. download or listen:


This show also showcases music by Blame Sally and Metropolitan Klezmer. Hear all that, plus Jovelyn's World and the Women's Community Calendar, by downloading the entire show here (available after 2:00 p.m. on December 21, 2009).

Climate Change Is a Feminist Issue; Dying for Health Rights; and More Real Talk with Kiki & Miz Chris

Today's packed show on Women's Magazine:

Listen to the entire show, including Jovelyn's World and the Women's Calendar.

Dying for Health Rights: Over 100 people died-in at the San Francisco Ferry Building on Saturday, December 5, to protest the Stupak Amendment and demand quality health care for all. The Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) teamed up with a broad coalition of single payer advocates including Direct Action for Single Payer and Raging Grannies to say "Shame on Nancy Pelosi" for allowing right-wing Democrats to dictate health policies she knows are wrong.
Rivian Berlin reports from the die-in. Download or listen here.


"Climate Change Hits Women Hardest, So Where Are the Feminist Voices?"
That's the question asked by Anushay Hossain, gender policy analyst and founder/editor of Anushay's Point. According to a UN Report released in advance of the Copenhagen talks on climate change, women are the most likely to be impacted by by climate change. They are losing their homes, forced to flee with their children, losing their livelihoods and increasingly vulnerable to sex trafficking and other dangerous forms of survival. So why hasn't this gender aspect of the crisis made its way onto the agenda for Copenhagen? Because feminist groups haven't made enough noise, says Anushay.
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Get the Gender and Climate Change Toolkit, "Climate Change Connections" from WEDO (Women's Environmental Development Organization). Lots more information and actions are available at http://gendercc.net/.

Kiki & Miz Chris Return with Real Talk. Today they focus on the music industry and talk with two lesbians of color who are making their way in the male-dominated world of hip-hop. Don't miss their lively conversations with Felice Archbold of Fresh Vibe Media and Femcee Mack Mistress.

Disability and Breast Cancer Awareness

Today, Women's Magazine spotlights women living with breast cancer.

In the first half hour you'll hear a documentary on Grace Paley, poet, writer, activist and social critic who died of breast cancer at age 84. Paley's short stories, which were rich with everyday dialogue, often chronicled the lives of women—generally Jewish New Yorkers. The Grace Paley documentary includes a contrast with young poet Ra Goddess. The documentary is produced by Reggie Johnson, with co-production by Deepa Fernandes and Matt Rogers.

In the second half of the show, we'll share a portion of a documentary about breast cancer from an African American perspective.

And, of course, you'll hear Jovelyn's World and the weekly calendar of events. The stories of African American women living with breast cancer comes from WABE's program Journey to Wellness. Today's show is hosted by Jovelyn Richards, the calendar compiled by Yvette Hochberg, and produced by Safi wa Nairobi.

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Monday, Sept. 7: Women Changing the World Through Art

Today on Women's Magazine, we celebrate Labor Day by speaking with some of our cultural workers, women who are changing the world through their art.

Listen to entire show, including great music by Mack Mistress and Eliza Gilkison and Jovelyn's World, as well as the downloadable segments below.

Journalist Carol Harvey interviews artist Christine Hanlon about her work on homelessness and poverty, and the upcoming Coalition on Homelessness art auction. Produced by Yvette Hochberg. Download

Kate Raphael speaks with Carolina de Robertis, author of the new novel The Invisible Mountain, a sprawling multigenerational story of Uruguay, through the eyes of women. Download



And Kiki Poe and Christine de la Rosa tell us about Bliss Weekend: an oasis for Women of Color weekend in Palm Springs.

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This week on WM - Spotlight on Poverty

The Queerness of Class, a documentary about perceptions and realities of class and income in the gay and lesbian communities. Plus voices from the struggle to save welfare and health care in California, including Anna Kelleher, manager of the Community Jobs Project at Goodwill Industries, and Barbara Lopez of La Voz Latina.



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Women's Magazine - The Queerness of Class - June 15, 2009 at 1:00pm

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Segments:

Governor Proposes to eliminate CalWORKS: An Interview with Anna Kelleher, Manager of the Community Jobs Program at Goodwill Industries (6 mins)


Thousands Protest Mayor's Proposed Budget Cuts in San Francisco: audio collage (6:30)


** Tuesday, June 23 **
HUGE DIRECT ACTION IN SAN FRANCISCO!
SAVE THE STATE BUDGET
Meet at 12 NOON at Civic Center Park
(Grove & Larkin Streets, in front of City Hall)
From there we'll march to the Governor's office.
For info: contact Jessica Lehman, Community Organizer
Community Resources for Independent Living (CRIL)
(510) 881-5743 x5937
jessica.lehman@cril-online.org

Men Outearn Women in Almost All Occupations

Something we would be covering if we were on the air ...

For Immediate Release
Contact: Elisabeth Crum 202.785.5100 ext. 24

A new analysis released by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) today on Equal Pay Day shows that men out-earn women in nearly every occupation for which data are available.

Of the more than 500 occupational categories for which sufficient data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in only 5 occupations do women earn the same or more than men.

Men earn more than women even in jobs that are most common among women, such as
Administrative assistants: women earn only 83.4 cents for a man's dollar
Elementary and middle school teachers: women earn 87.6 cents for a man's dollar
Registered nurses: women earn 87.4 cents for a man's dollar

Men and women still tend to be concentrated in very different jobs, with the most common jobs among women paying less than the most common jobs held by men. For example, the highest paying of the ten most common occupations for women, 'Registered Nurses,' pays $1,011 in median weekly earnings, whereas the highest paying of men's top ten most common jobs is 'Managers, all other,' which pays $1,359 per week. The lowest paying of the most common jobs for women is 'Cashier' at $349 per week, whereas the lowest paying most common job for men is 'Cook' at $404 per week.

Ariane Hegewisch, Study Director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, says, "Women tend to be in the minority of workers in the occupations with the highest earnings. We need to ensure that women are fully informed about the earnings potential of an occupation before they choose their careers."

The analysis uses data from the Bureau of Labor statistics from 2008.

To view the Fact Sheet, see www.iwpr.org/pdf/C350a.pdf

Women Resisting Foreclosures: Vida Urbana/City Life

Rivian Berlin speaks with Roxanne McKinnon, Executive Director of the housing rights organization, Vida Urbana/City Life. The Boston-based group is organizing women to resist foreclosures with creative nonviolence. This piece aired in December.