Monday, May 18, 2020: Jovelyn Richards Hosts The Space Between Us - Women and Rage, the Space Between Rage and Healing

Jovelyn Richards host of KPFA Women's Magazine: The Space Between Us interviews singer and fashion designer Hawaii's Dion'e born inter-sexed. Dion'e story of mothering and marriage was interrupted when she was convicted of a crime she had not committed and what happened when she was forced into a men's facility despite her cry of gender reality.

To sample music by Dion'e Tamurè go to YouTube. To find out more about Dion'e's fashion design and her amazing work with people who are homeless go to Paradise Island Fashion Week. This year the show will be presented virtually.

"Allow no one to dim your leading light." -Dion'e

The Space Between Us, looks at women, trauma, and rage, the space between rage and healing.

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

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Monday August 10, 2015: Countering Dehumanization

Challenging Dehumanization

Interview with Margo Perin

We talk with Margo Perin, founder and director of Write & Rise, about how she uses narrative to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, at risk youth, as well as police and their families, heal from trauma.  Perin is the author of the autobiographical novel The Opposite of Hollywood, and contributing editor of the anthologies Only the Dead Can Kill:  Stories From Jail, and How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships.

"I don't think the system can change unless work is done on both sides." Margo Perin



Listen now or Get MP3. 25:29 min.

Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence

And from Making Contact: Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence.  We learn how one community is undoing the silence around the violence women of color face. We also hear about how serial killers were able to hunt down mostly Black women for three decades in South Los Angeles. Then to the Yucatan where pregnant indigenous women struggle under a health care system failing to provide proper medical care.

"If you are a woman of color and you're impoverished, you're at the very bottom and your life is seen as not worth anything."

"We may never know just how many women have died."

Click here to listen to this segment from Making Contact.  There are 4 audio files so be sure to scroll down. 34:21 min.

Host: Laura Flynn and Jasmin Lopez
Contributing Producers: Rochelle Robinson and Karen Stefan Tenorio

Featuring:
Rochelle Robinson, Making Contact Fellow
Kimberly Smith, community member attending Her Resilience mural project
Gabrielle Rae Travis,  Her Resilience Community Outreach Coordinator
Margaret Prescod founder of Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and host of KPFK’s Sojourner Truth
Mirna Aracely Tuz Acosta, Safe Maternity for the Indigenous Population in East Yucatan
Neyi Amparo Cime Arceo, resident of Xanlah.
Thanks to the Mary Wohlford Foundation for funding towards this program.

For more programs from Making Contact go to: http://www.radioproject.org/.  Making Contact airs every Friday at 3:30 on KPFA 94.1 FM or www.kpfa.org.


Click here to listen to entire KPFA Women's Magazine show. 59:50 min.

September 9, 2013: Transgender Incarceration and the Need for Critical Trans Politics

The recent coming out of Chelsea Manning has sparked the first national discussion about how transpeople, are criminalized and brutalized by the prison industrial complex. On today's show, we talk to Sasha Buchert from the Transgender Law Center about the high rate of sexual assault and incarceration of trans people of color and the laws governing medical help for transpeople in prisons.

Then we talk to Miss Major, executive director of the Transgender Variant and Intersex Justice Project, about the struggles of trans people to survive sexual assault and imprisonment.  Janetta Johnson, Program Coordinator at TGI, shares her own experiences being locked up in federal prison for 3 years and forced to live in a men's prison and face harassment and threats.

In the second half of the show, we talk to  attorney and trans activist Dean Spade about his new book "Normal Life: Administrative Justice, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law."  Spade argues that both the left and the mainstream gay movement have focused too much on legal changes that fail to promote real structural change, and elaborates on what a critical trans politics would look like.


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