Monday, November 9, 2020: The fight to Dump Trump and lesbian feminism of the 70's.

This Monday on Women’s Magazine for our first post trump show we will talk to Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about the election and the new multiracial black and brown lead movements that helped win this election for the Democrats especially in the south.

"I would encourage people not to get confused by red and blue maps but to pay attention to population density...actually look and see how many people were disenfranchised from voting in the very first place." Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a 35 year old Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), woman from the working class, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN. As a member of multiple leadership teams in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), Ash-Lee has thrown down on the Vision for Black Lives and the BREATHE Act. Ash-Lee has served on the governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly, the advisory committee of the National Bailout Collective, and is an active leader of The Frontline a united front working to prevent voter suppression among other issues. She is a long-time activist who has done work in movements fighting for workers, for reproductive justice, for LGBTQUIA+ folks, for environmental justice, and more.

"I am hopeful for the future [because] I am informed by literally centuries of successful organizing work particularly led by Black women...we have already saved this country multiple times and we saved it on November 3rd..." Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson

And we talk to Ginny Berson about the radical  lesbian and feminist movements of the '70s and '80s which created an impetus to form more independent and equitable social and cultural institutions—bookstores, publishers, health clinics, and more—to support the unprecedented surge in women's arts of all kinds. Olivia Records was at the forefront of these models, not only recording and distributing women's music but also creating important new social spaces for previously isolated women and lesbians through concerts and festivals.

Ginny Z. Berson, one of Olivia's founding members and visionaries, kept copious records during those heady days—days also fraught with contradictions, conflicts, and economic pitfalls. With great honesty, Berson offers her personal take on what those times were like in her new book “Olivia on the Record: A Radical Experiment in Women’s Music” where she revisits the excitement and the hardships of creating a fair and equitable lesbian-feminist business model—one that had no precedent.

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Monday, September 24, 2018: Dolores - the Movie

Jovelyn and Lisa hosts today's KPFA Women's Magazine and fund drive with the 2017 documentary, Dolores about activist and feminist grassroots organizer, Dolores Huerta. The film is coming to your local theater this month. We also hear an interview with Jessica Congdon who co-wrote and edited the film. Thanks for your pledge and support of KPFA Women's Magazine.

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

Monday, August 27, 2018: Author Bonnie Morris and new book Gender at Work

First up we listen to a talk given at Laurel Books by lesbian feminist author and scholar Bonnie Morris about her new book The Feminist Revolution, a richly illustrated, engagingly written history of second-wave feminism and successor movements from the 1960s to the present. Lisa Dettmer is the host of today's show.

Then in the second half of the show Preeti Mangala Shekar talks to Aruna Rao, Joanne Sandler, David Kelleher and Carol Miller, authors of the new book “Gender at work: Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations” a book that looks at the deeper structures that create and reinforce gender inequality.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Monday, July 24, 2017: Amazing women’s rights activist, Heather Booth

Extraordinary Women Changing the World

On Monday July 24th on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we talk to two amazing and influential women’s rights activist who unfortunately you probably have never heard of.

First Kate Raphael talks to Lilly Rivlin and Heather Booth about the new documentary called “Heather Booth: Changing the World” which tells the story of one of the most influential women involved in social movements in the U.S in the last half Century. This film will be showing this coming week at the SF Jewish Film Festival.

"People should ask for Jane." -Heather Booth





Listen now or Get MP3 for an extended interview with Heather. 34:56 min

"Heather Booth: Changing the World" screenings:
Thursday, July 27
SF Jewish Film Festival 37
at CineArts Theater, Palo Alto  
Director Lilly Rivlin in attendance
12.00 pm
Cinearts
3000 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA

Saturday, July 29
​SF Jewish Film Festival 37
​Albany Twin theater, Albany
Director Lilly Rivlin in attendance      
11.30 am​
Albany Twin
1115 Solano Ave.
Albany, CA

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

Also on today's show:
Neesa Medina

Monday, February 13, 2017: Meet the East Oakland Collective

http://www.eastoaklandcollective.com/

Millennials Igniting Change in East Oakland

Aqueila Lewis talks with Candice Elder, Laksmi Lagares and Maliha James of the East Oakland Collective.  The East Oakland Collective is a cohort of millennials (and other generations) invested in the state of deep East Oakland. Find them on the web (link above), Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Calendar of events.

The East Oakland Collective is a cohort of millennials invested in the state of East Oakland through actionable community work and civic engagement.  Members are influencers that consist of natives, homeowners, residents and allies of the city of Oakland. Members are invested in working towards a better future for the underserved populations and communities of East Oakland.

Candice Elder, Founder/Executive Director

Candice Elder is a native of Oakland and long time resident of East Oakland. She currently resides in District 7 of East Oakland. It was the looming possibility of gentrification and the daily drives through underserved neighborhoods of East Oakland that ignited Candice to form The East Oakland Collective in January 2016.

After being a legal professional for nine years, Candice made a career change to work full time in the non-profit sector as the Executive Coordinator for the Women's Funding Network---the largest philanthropy network of women's funds and foundations in the country. In addition to working full time to make a better world for women and girls, Candice served on the advisory committee for Breaking the Silence Town Hall on Women and Girls of Color in Oakland. The Breaking the Silence dynamic model and initiative is spearheaded by the African American Policy Forum under the great leadership of renowned feminist Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw.

Candice holds a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley; and a Masters of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. Candice currently serves on the Board of Directors for the UC Berkeley Black Alumni Club. Candice enjoys hiking with her rambunctious dog, reading, exploring and engaging with the community.

Laksmi Lagares, Chief Strategy Officer

Laksmi Lagares’ purpose is to help people realize they are more than their environment or conditions predispose them to be.

Laksmi is a Civic Leader, C Level Strategist, owner and Principal Consultant at Lagares Consulting. Her firm supports impact and partnership needs of private and public sector companies, schools/ universities, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. Her career includes; 15yrs experience in all aspects of Business Development and Public Relations within: Civic Engagement, Tech, Education, Social Justice, Finance, Advertising and Marketing. She is the curator of Application versus Theory workshops, which have been featured at college campuses across the U.S. including Mills College, UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University. She is a subject matter expert in Diversity and Inclusion with an emphasis on race and equity and her communications styling, crosses cultural and socio economic divides; translating needs to create strategy supporting mutual wins. Laksmi is a Hive Global Leader, Co-Director of New Leaders Council Oakland, a key planner of Oakland’s Breaking the Silence Town Hall; an initiative of Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum, acknowledged by the Obama Administration; and Host Committee member of a three part workshop series facilitated by Dr. Monique Morris, author of Pushout.

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

Also on today's show:
Juana Alicia on the Artist's Role

Labor Day 2016 on KPFA Women's Magazine: Black Women Leading the Labor Movement

Black Women Leading the Labor Movement

"And Still I Rise is a part of The Black Worker Initiative, a bold and exciting new effort launched by the Institute for Policy Studies, which is deeply committed to helping achieve both the historic and contemporary aims of the labor and civil rights movements."

This Labor Day on Women's Magazine, we speak with Robin Williams, Director of Civil Rights and Community Action for the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union.  Williams joined UFCW as an 18-year-old Safeway worker with a new baby, and has become one of its key organizers.  She is one of 27 Black women labor leaders profiled in And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders, a report from the Black Worker Initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies.

"If I'm not making a difference then I don't want to be there." Robin Williams

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


Also on today's show:
Dancing to End Violence Against Women

Monday, December 1, 2014: Lesbian Avengers

Lesbian Avengers, a memoir

Kate Raphael speaks with Kelly Cogswell, author of Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger.

Spanning the twenty years from the Culture Wars through the War on Terror, EATING FIRE begins in 1992 with the author's transformation from ex-Southern Baptist hickster poet into fire-eating Lesbian Avenger. She haunts the streets of New York, battles cops on Fifth Avenue, eats fire in front of the White House, and mobilizes 20,000 lesbians for the International Dyke March. She also squirms through excruciating meetings and finds true love. Several times.

Her avenging doesn't end when the group implodes. She morphs instead into a pioneering citizen journalist, coding the pages of her own online magazine, The Gully, and looking everywhere for truth and justice, from Havana cafes to the Laundromats of Paris and New York. She mostly doesn't find any, and the book deepens into a meditation on citizenship and social change in the post-9/11 world.

Kelly will be reading from her book Thursday, Dec 11 at Modern Times Bookstore at 7 PM. It is located at 2919 24th Street in San Francisco. For more Modern Times Events go to www.moderntimesbookstore.com.

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We remember Mary Berg, longtime host of A Musical Offering on KPFA. Click here for Mary's tribute and the rest of the show. 59:50 min.
Also on today's show:
Thoughts on Ferguson
Wal-Mart Workers on Strike
Tru Bloo

Monday, November 24, 2014: TELL NO LIES

"Fiction is the truest truth."

Women's Magazine talks with author Barbara Rhine about her new novel, TELL NO LIES.  It's the story of a Black militant on the run, a Berkeley feminist and a UFW organizer in the midst of planning the largest farm worker march in the country's history.

TELL NO LIES is available at local bookstores, on-line, and at Amazon.com on paper and for electronic readers.





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Also on today's show:

Women In Black

Leslie Feinberg