Monday, September 2, 2019: Brooke Warner on Writing with Courage

Courage takes many forms. For some it's telling our truths and denying those who tell us to shut up. For others, it's organizing to resist the densest military occupation in the world.

Next Kate Raphael speaks with publisher, author and podcaster Brooke Warner about how women are finding new ways to make ourselves heard. Brooke's new book is Write On, Sisters! Voice, Courage and Claiming Your Place at the Table.

Brooke talks about the publishing world via hybrid press, NaNoWriMo, self-subsidized publishing and how to survive the world of publishing as a woman and a woman of color. She is also producing a weekly podcast, Write-minded that just celebrated its one year anniversary.  She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) hold an annual writing contest for women of color.

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Also on today's show:
Athar Zia and Maneja Jehan on Women's Resistance in Kashmir

Monday, August 19, 2019: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us

Today Jovelyn is joined by Theresa Adams, a KPFA Apprenticeship Program graduate. Jovelyn and Theresa welcome guest Ebony Roberts, prison activist and writer of the memoir, The Love Prison Made and Unmade, an in-depth look at a women who falls in love with a person in prison. Ebony Roberts explores the fairy tales and the realities of romance and relationships.

The second part of the The Space Between Us celebrates the life of Toni Morrison. Jovelyn, Theresa, and Ebony share stories about Toni Morrison.

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Monday, November 20, 2017: The Space Between Us, Hosted by: Jovelyn D. Richards

As the stories of sexual exploitation, power, under the umbrella of patriarchal rein continues in the media Joyce Bulifant known for television roles as: Marie, wife of Gavin MacLeod on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", the Disney musical "Airplane" and "The Happiest Millionaire" as well the "The Match Game" shares her personal story.  In her Memoir titled: My Four Hollywood Husbands, give us a up and close personal examination of her journey in the most influential industry in American.

In the second half of The Space Between Us, Jovelyn speaks with Oakland boxer Rae Black. Rae shared her beliefs and journey as a female boxer and her thoughts regarding how women live in their bodies trained by society to live "As If" its TKO.





Jovelyn closes the show with an interview with Bianca sharing the story of her family in Puerto Rico and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Help the Sandra Torres family at https://www.youcaring.com/sandratorresfamily-977288. Check out Sandra's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/babyandchildrenart. Contact Bianca at Bianca@lapena.org

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Monday, October 9, 2017: Betsy Graziani Fasbinder

Next Kate interviews Betsy Graziani Fasbinder. She describes herself as "a teacher, an organizational consultant, a corporate trainer, a licensed psychotherapist, a writing and speaking coach, and through it all, a writer." Her most recent book, Filling Her Shoes: A Memoir of an Inherited Family, the book that Fasbinder wished for when she first became a parent.

From Goodreads:
On the day that she decided to marry a widower--also a long-time friend--Betsy Graziani Fasbinder knew that she wasn't only gaining a husband, she was inheriting a son. Unlike many stepmothers, Betsy didn't have to struggle with an ex, or court battles, or the weekend shuffle between houses--but she did have to navigate living in the shadow of a young mother taken too soon, to honor the memory of her son's first mother, and to become the kind of parent and partner she herself wanted to be. Over time this family would learn how love's roots were formed in their shared losses, and how the new family love and joy they created together would become the richest kind of inheritance.

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Event:
LitQuake – Naked on the Page https://litquake2017.sched.com/speaker/betsygrazianifasbinder
October 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street 
San Francisco, CA

Also on todays show:
Living on Ohlone Land
Christina Klugston: This is Our Pussy

Monday, June 5, 2017: Giovanna Capone, editor of Dispatches from Lesbian America

Lisa Dettmer speaks with Giovanna Capone, one of the editors of the new anthology Dispatches from Lesbian America: 42 Short Stories and Memoir by Lesbian Writers. Giovanna and her coeditors,

Xequina Berber and Rome Cheela Smith, will be reading at Laurel Books in Oakland this Saturday, June 10, at 5:00 pm. And on Friday, June 23 they will be at Folio Books in San Francisco's Noe Valley.

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THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO DONATED DURING THE RECENT FUND DRIVE. WE LOVE YOU!

Also on today's show:
Black Lives Matter Cofounder Alicia Garza 

Monday, September 26, 2016: Understanding privilege and practicing solidarity--part 1

"Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock." from South African sisters' freedom struggle

Today's show begins with two important and empowering women-led events happening in Spain and Gaza, the Truth & Reclamation Pilgrimage and the Women's Boat to Gaza.

Actress LisaGay Hamilton says about her participation on the boat to Gaza: “It is an honor to be here and join this extraordinary group of women. This issue is bigger than me, than any of us. As a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, I cannot help thinking of Palestinian women in Gaza, who live in an open-air prison because of the occupation. It is so painful to think of them, we have to take action to end the blockade of Gaza.” Read LisaGay Hamilton's Counterpunch op ed  Why I am on the women's boat to Gaza.

Chivvis Moore discusses her memoir

Chivvis Moore discusses her memoir, First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God: An American Feminist in the Arab World. Moore spent 17 years living in Egypt, Syria and Palestine, and taught for nine years in the Institute of Women's Studies at Bir Zeit University in Palestine.

CHIVVIS MOORE reads from First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust in God: An American Feminist in the Arab World

Tuesday, September 27, 7 pm

360 42nd Street, Oakland

Book sales benefit Middle East Children’s Alliance

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Also on today's show:

Sharon Sobotta interviews Shakti Butler and Peggy McIntosh

Monday, July 4, 2016: Chivvis Moore discusses her new memoir

Militarism, Feminism and Nationalism

First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust In God: An American Feminist in the Arab World

Chivvis Moore discusses her new memoir, First Tie Your Camel, Then Trust In God: An American Feminist in the Arab World.  Moore lived in the Middle East for 17 years, including three in Egypt, three in Syria, and 11 in Palestine.  She talks about what attracted her and what she learned about Muslim and Arab culture, volunteering as a medic in Jenin Refugee Camp immediately after the brutal siege of 2002, the impact of Western funding on the Palestinian women's movement, and how community helps people make it through intolerable situations.

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from Moore's website:
Since living in Brazil three years as a child, I have been drawn to live among people of other cultures, whether on a Native American reservation in Arizona, among African Americans in the Fillmore District in San Francisco before ”gentrification,” or in Arab communities in Egypt, Syria and Palestine. As an adult, I lived and worked 17 years in the Middle East —  3 years in Egypt, 2 in Syria, a year in Israel, where I taught Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel, and 11 years teaching at Birzeit University in the West Bank, returning to the US in 2008. I have earned my living as a journalist, a carpenter and general building contractor, an editor and researcher, and a teacher of English for Academic Purposes. I have worked with adults and youth establishing community newspapers in Native American, Latino and African American communities.  I now work with Zawaya, a non-profit organization that teaches and promotes the Arab arts, especially music, in the San Francisco Bay Area. I live in Oakland with my partner and my cat Nahar, born in Nazareth.

Chivvis Moore will be reading and discussing her book on Friday, July 8th at 6PM, Laurel Book Store, 1423 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 510-452-9232.

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Also on today's show:
Tribute to Pat Summitt
Cynthia Enloe on gender and militarism

June 23, 2014: Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her memoir, Living With a Wild God, with Alicia Sierra.

Living With a Wild God by Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her memoir, Living With a Wild God, with Alicia Sierra. Ehrenreich, raised as a confirmed atheist, talks about her "mystical" encounters that influenced her to write her searing memoir and profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition.

Barbara Ehrenreich is author of many other books including Nickel and Dimed, Bright-Sided and Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. For a list of her other books go to http://barbaraehrenreich.com/books-by-barbara-ehrenreich/.

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Also on today's show: Raising Resilient Children: with Dr. Shimi Kang and Dr. Ernest Swihart