Monday, January 11, 2021: Fuifuilupe Nieumeitolu and Indigenous Women and the Land, and Lisa Fithian and strategies for activism

  Today we talk to  Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu to celebrate the inauguration of her new podcast that will be featured on women’s magazine starting next month and will also be available online. It is called  "From Moana Nui to California Indigenous stories of the Land" which will explore the importance of the land to all indigenous people to resist and over come colonization and to find healing.

Fui is a Tongan/ Pacific Islander scholar and community organizer. She has a PHD from UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies and her dissertation work was on  “The Mana of the Tongan Everyday.’ 

 Fui is on the founding committee of the Moana Nui Pacific Islander Climate Justice Project and (OCNC) Oceania Coalition of Northern California, a community organization working for Pacific Islander self determination through facilitating groups and Ceremony with Indigenous  prisoners here in California as well as organizing teach-ins and protests to protect Indigenous Sacred spaces in the Pacific and here in California. Fui is currently working with the Sogorea Te Land Trust an Urban Indigenous women’s land trust located in Oakland, California.

A 2000 article in Mother Jones called her “Professor Occupy” and recently a radio host suggested that if you looked up protester in the dictionary, you would likely find her picture.Then Kate Raphael speaks to Lisa Fithian author of the new book "Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance”. Lisa Fithian who has been an organizer, trainer and strategist for dozens of creative action campaign, she of the people responsible for the  continuity of resistance methods that  were passed down from the anti-militarist movements of the 1980s through the global justice movements of the early 2000s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. 

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Monday, September 16, 2019: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

A Route to Ourselves lessening the space between women's bodies.

Today's show on The Space Between Us we are introduced to Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, known as Tia, Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman. The topics are Intimacy & Sexuality with Celeste and Danielle and how to listen to the stories our bodies tell us everyday with Tia. The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show every third Monday of the month.

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If you have any topics you'd like to hear email your ideas to Jovelyn at sugars982@gmail.com.

BIO's

Tia

Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, know as Tia is a former Yoga Instructor. Tia is a doctor of physical therapy and in the completion stages of becoming a Women's Health Coach and is the host of a podcast, The Masterful Art of Self-care. You can find Tia's podcast on any podcast app and linked on her website.

Danielle

Danielle Harel, Ph.D. is a co-host of the series Somatica Sessions and the co-founder of the Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching. A new intro to core training starts September 28th. She brings a tenacious dedication to self-realization in all of her teaching and coaching.

Celeste

Celeste Hirschman, M.A. is a co-host of the series Somatica Sessions and the co-founder of the Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching.

Celeste and Danielle are the co-authors of two books Cockfidence and Making love Real

Monday, April 29, 2019: Kimberle Crenshaw, Kenyette Barnes and Margo Okazawa-Rey - Misogynoir and sexual abuse of Black Women

Two recent true-crime docu-series about the sexual abuse by well-known singers have rocked the mainstream world. HBO's "Leaving Neverland" about Michael Jackson and Lifetime's "Surviving R. Kelly" about acclaimed singer and producer R Kelly are causing another round of contentious debate in this time of #MeToo. Despite the revelations and decades-long public discussions of the alleged abuses of these two popular cultural giants, the documentaries seem finally to be breaking through the denial of the last 25 years. But even so, there is resistance to hold the two accountable. This is partly because of Jackson and Kelly's beloved status and partly because of the country's history of lynchings and incarceration of black men based on transgressions fabricated by white women. This history is further complicated by the fraught history of white feminists failing to include race and racism centrally in their analyses of sexual violence. Both factors complicate accusations against black men. So today Lisa Dettmer presents the views of three black feminist women who have have been working to address the denial of abuse in the black community and who discuss how white supremacy and Misogynoir can help prevent this abuse of black women by black men from getting the attention it deserves.

In the first half of the show we will hear clips from a new podcast called "Intersectionality Matters" by renowned feminist and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw who talks with #MuteRKelly co-founder Kenyette Barnes about her movement to expose R Kelly’s serial abuse of Black women and girls.

And then in the second half of the show renowned scholar, activist, and author Margo Okazawa-Rey talks to legal scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw about how to understand and address the complex problem of sexual abuse and related trauma in black communities.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, is professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, and is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. Her work has been foundational in Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. And she is the co-founder of the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a think tank that works to dismantle structural inequality. Margo Okazawa-Rey is Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership and Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of Public Policy at Mills College. She also is one of the original members of the Combahee River Collective.


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