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.

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

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, October 21, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

Today's show in the first half is hosted by Jovelyn and Theresa Adams. Candis Watts Smith co-author with Tehama Lopez Bunyasi of Stay Woke talks with Jovelyn in a pre-recorded interview about Black Lives Matter, staying woke, her writings and her work in developing a more equitable society. Follow Candis on Twitter @ProfCandis.

Get your very own copy of Stay Woke at NYU Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or request it at your local library!

In the second half of the show Kin Folkz and Jovelyn talk with Margo Okasawa-Rey about the book Gendered Lives, Intersectional Perspective, 7th ed. co-edited with Gwyn Kirk.  Who we are in the world or our identities and the structure of power is examined. Also they discuss womanists and feminists and why some Black women have trouble identifying as feminists. This segment was pre-recorded.

The book is available through Oxford Press and as an ebook through Red Shelf.






The Space Between Us is a live call-in show every third Monday of each month on KPFA Women's Magazine.

Click here to listen now. 59:59 min

Monday, November 27, 2017: Alicia Garza

photo by Kristen Little Photography

Alicia Garza along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, have helped to transform what was once a viral hashtag and social media force into a national and international grassroots  organization. Born out of the mass demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri and around the U.S. Black Lives Matter has become an essential ray of hope in this new wave of resistance to police terrorism, and in the fight against white supremacy becoming an important beacon for change in the global human rights movement.  Today we will hear a talk by Alicia Garza given at U.C. Berkeley recently about the importance of feminism,  especially black feminism the need for all politics to be intersectional, and about BLM today and the urgent need to fight threats ranging from fascism and extra-judicial racial terror to white supremacy. This event was sponsored by the Gender and Women’s Studies at U.C. Berkeley.

The talk is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCxFABGkPw

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