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, July 22, 2019: Police and Corps out of Pride, Women Led Resistance in Western Sahara

Today on Women’s Magazine we look at the resistance to the mainstreaming of Pride events in San Francisco and nationally.  We talk to Mary Sue from Gay Shame and artist and activist Alex U. Inn about the demonstration at SF Pride this year against the presence of police and large corporations and the resistance nationally. Click on Alex's name to see how to elect her to the SF Pride Board of Directors. July 22nd is the deadline to become a member so you can vote for Alex. Also check SFPride.org for more information about the Board of Directors and more.

And Sharon Sobotta talks to the film team of the new documentary Western Sahara: Africa's Last Colony which they produced in collaboration with the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley about the women who are resisting the last colony in Africa. Watch the movie on DemocracyNow.org

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

Monday August 10, 2015: Countering Dehumanization

Challenging Dehumanization

Interview with Margo Perin

We talk with Margo Perin, founder and director of Write & Rise, about how she uses narrative to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, at risk youth, as well as police and their families, heal from trauma.  Perin is the author of the autobiographical novel The Opposite of Hollywood, and contributing editor of the anthologies Only the Dead Can Kill:  Stories From Jail, and How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships.

"I don't think the system can change unless work is done on both sides." Margo Perin



Listen now or Get MP3. 25:29 min.

Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence

And from Making Contact: Not Throw Away Women: Black and Indigenous Women Disrupt Violence.  We learn how one community is undoing the silence around the violence women of color face. We also hear about how serial killers were able to hunt down mostly Black women for three decades in South Los Angeles. Then to the Yucatan where pregnant indigenous women struggle under a health care system failing to provide proper medical care.

"If you are a woman of color and you're impoverished, you're at the very bottom and your life is seen as not worth anything."

"We may never know just how many women have died."

Click here to listen to this segment from Making Contact.  There are 4 audio files so be sure to scroll down. 34:21 min.

Host: Laura Flynn and Jasmin Lopez
Contributing Producers: Rochelle Robinson and Karen Stefan Tenorio

Featuring:
Rochelle Robinson, Making Contact Fellow
Kimberly Smith, community member attending Her Resilience mural project
Gabrielle Rae Travis,  Her Resilience Community Outreach Coordinator
Margaret Prescod founder of Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and host of KPFK’s Sojourner Truth
Mirna Aracely Tuz Acosta, Safe Maternity for the Indigenous Population in East Yucatan
Neyi Amparo Cime Arceo, resident of Xanlah.
Thanks to the Mary Wohlford Foundation for funding towards this program.

For more programs from Making Contact go to: http://www.radioproject.org/.  Making Contact airs every Friday at 3:30 on KPFA 94.1 FM or www.kpfa.org.


Click here to listen to entire KPFA Women's Magazine show. 59:50 min.