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, February 11, 2018: Black Feminism In Action

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KPFA Women's Magazine speaks with historian Barbara Ransby about her new book, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century, an insider's account of how Black feminism has anchored the movement that has transformed U.S. political culture over the last five years.

Ransby discusses racial and social justice issues past and present. She has a longtime activist and historian's perspective with an open mind to all generations.

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Turning Pain Into Power

Monday, February 11, 2018: Turning Pain Into Power

We speak with Susan Swan, Executive Director of VDay, and Mary Owen of Bay Area Rising about this year's One Billion Rising/VDay event in Oakland, where they will screen City of Joy, a film about the leadership institute for sexual violence survivors in the Congo.  The film screening takes place Wednesday, February 13, 6PM at the Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave in Oakland; it will be preceded by drumming and dancing with Afia Walking Tree and Destiny Arts, and followed by a discussion with playwright and VDay founder Eve Ensler and Christine Schuler-Deschryver (Director of the City of Joy center and V-Day Congo). These One Billion Rising events usually sell out so get tickets now! Tickets are $5 each.

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Also on today's show:
Black Feminism In Action

Monday, October 15, 2018: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

Every third Monday Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us where women from all over gather at the river to share stories. If you have stories to share email Jovelyn at sugars982@gmail.com. The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show. If you missed Monday's show you can listen now. Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Host Jovelyn Richards opens the hour with  Executive Director Lori Sokol of Women's eNews, Covering Women Issues/Changing Women's Lives.  Based on an article written by Sokol suggesting that white women take a knee in response to the Supreme Court hearing caused many women of color to suggest: Once again white women are attempting a take over from black peoples' protest.

Alex, Jalena, and Reaa of Breaktide Productions.

The second half of the how: Film makers Reaa Puri and Alex Bledsoe talk with Jovelyn Richards on ways in which their production team creates art to inspire women to heal from a intersectional, interconnected modality. Reaa and Alex along with Jalena Keane-Lee founded Breaktide Productions. Breaktide Productions is based in the Bay Area, owned and operated by Women of Color.

Event:
Southwest of Salem: the Story of the San Antonio Four documentary film
Saturday, October 20, 3 PM
New Parkway Theater
474 24th St
Oakland, CA
benefit for #MeTooBehindBars lawsuit

Monday, April 16, 2018: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us

Jovelyn Richards host of Women's Magazine: The Space Between Us talks with Dr. Charlene M. Brown.  Dr. Brown reveals her research title: FILLING THE GAP: HOW BLACK ADOLESCENT GIRLS DEFINE THEIR IDENTITIES USING A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY APPROACH. Dr. Brown asks Black girls/women how they feel about themselves in terms of class, color, and personal stories. For more information or to get in touch with Dr. Brown you can email her at CharleneBrownM@gmail.com.

Milka Rose, an African American Student and her high school mentor Kimberly Turner also join the conversation. Listen to the voices of young women moving off into the world.

The Space Between Us airs the third Monday of each month at 1 PM. It is a live, call-in show.

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Monday, February 19, 2018: Adrienne Maree Brown - Visionary Social Change

This Monday February 19th on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine, Viveka Jagadeseen talks to author and activist Adrienne Maree Brown about how we can organize a resilient mass movement capable of creating fundamental social change in today's political climate with an understanding of social change inspired by the resilience and adaptive nature of biological systems, that is non hierarchical and non harming.

Adrienne Maree Brown, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.  Brown is the Co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, and author most recently of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds a book described as a "resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us” and expands our radical imagination.


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