Monday, March 22, 2021: Name It: Anti-Asian Femicide with Margo Okazawa-Rey

Hyun-Jung Grant 51

Soon-Chung Park 74

Sun-cha Kim 69

Yong-Ae Yue 63

May they rest in peace and power

Today’s show is intended to help us understand better the complexity and nuances of what happened in Atlanta and the anti-Asian violence around the country.

All the victims above were murdered by a 21-year-old misogynist, racist white man.  “He is a devout Christian; he did not have a racial motive. He is a self-admitted sex addict.” 

We have heard similar expressions of sympathy, tolerance, and excuse too many times.  Long’s is consistent with the common storyline of the majority of mass shooters in the US: young, white men with access to guns, committing violence in the name of real or perceived grievances. Aside from racial differences among the shooters, all are MEN.

This  latest incident is part of the nearly 3800 reported incidents of hate violence against  Asians since March 2020. Buried in these aggregated statistics is the fact that women have been  victimized at  twice the rate of men. 

Last week’s murders are all part of the gendered, anti-Asian violence. But there’s more. Of the 6 Asian women, 4 were Korean immigrant women.

Make no mistake: Long’s violence is unequivocally racist and misogynist. Let’s call it what it is: Anti-Asian femicide. The deliberate killing of Asian women because they are women and Asian. 

And the bigger story of anti-Asian violence in the US is that it started in the 19th century against the first arrivals and has continued unabated, periodically more direct and more violent. It’s deeply rooted in economic and military policies and interests of the US and the political rhetoric and actions of national leaders. Anti-Asian violence clearly directs us to connect the dots: between US foreign policies and domestic policies; between white supremacist racism and misogyny.

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

About the Guests

Rev. Deborah Lee is the Director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity organizing faith communities for immigrant justice and ending criminalization and incarceration and is based in Oakland Chinatown.  She is a founding member of Women for Genuine Security and the International Women's Network Against Militarism.

Esther is an organizer with Red Canary Song since 2019, a sex-workers-led grassroots collective that does massage worker outreach in NYC and pushing for the full decriminalization of sex work. She is also currently a consultant at The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center and the Communications Associate at The Bronx Defenders. 

Tammy Kim is a freelance reporter and essayist, a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, and a co-host of the Time to Say Goodbye Podcast. She previously worked as a social-justice lawyer and is active in the labor movement. etkwrites.tumblr.com /@etammykim

Recording of the Red Canary Song Vigil for 8 Thursday 18 March 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfyJWmXytbY 1:38:00 min

Ways to support:  https://www.redcanarysong.net/atlanta

Butterfly Asian and Migrant Worker Support Network

https://www.butterflysw.org/

Monday, December 14, 2020: Examining the crisis of the child care system in the US

This Monday December 14th on KPFA Radio’s  "Women’s Magazine" we look at how racial Capitalism and Patriarchy have created a punitive underfunded child care system in the U.S. where the  the average hourly wage of child care workers is $10.72 per hour,  many of the women in need of child care are black and brown women and few get any government support in accessing child care.  This system is informed by the history of slavery in the U.S. where women’s job to reproduce the work force is required but never supported.  And the reality in our neoliberal economy is that many women especially women of color are the essential workers during covid and are working 2-3 jobs just to survive and yet rarely getting any government support for child care.

Today we talk to Marcy Whitebook from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley, Clarissa Douthard with Parent Voices Oakland and Loira Limbal director of the award winning documentary about child care “Through the Night” that shows how caregivers balance the demands of “women’s work” while navigating systemic racism, sexism and classism in the U.S. today. This beautiful film is available online at https://www.throughthenightfilm.com/ and is also showing at the Roxy Theater locally.

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

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Thank you 

Lisa Dettmer 

Monday, August 3, 2020: Quality Teaching and Distance Learning - School Days in the Time of COVID-19

IT’S JUST ABOUT THAT TIME OF YEAR WHEN STUDENTS START TO HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL, BUT CAN QUALITY TEACHING REALLY HAPPEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC? HOW CAN OUR STUDENTS LEARN WHILE STILL STAYING CORONA FREE? 

JOIN HOST VYLMA V AND HER GUEST FOR THE HOUR, DR. KITTY KELLY EPSTEIN (HOST OF KPFA’S EDUCATION TODAY, EVERY OTHER FRIDAY AT 2PM) AS THEY DISCUSS SCHOOL OPENINGS, SCHOOL BOARDS AND "DISTANCE LEARNING" IN THE BAY AREA DURING THE TIME OF COVID 19. 

Emma's Revolution sing From a (Social) Distance during the musical break:

Vylma shares the words of John Lewis who wrote this essay a few days before his death on July 17th:
   Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation by John Lewis

Click here to listen the show. 59:50 min

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Monday, July 13, 2020: Violence against Black Women and Girls

Today at 1-2 pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we discuss violence against black women and girls and in addition violence against black women by police with Janelle White, Executive Director of San Francisco Women Against Rape and author and police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie.  And we will also talk to Regina Y. Evans who is creating art installations on Oakland’s International Blvd in response to the enormous amount of sex trafficking that proliferates there.

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J.Ritchie is a Black lesbian, immigrant/police misconduct attorney, and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where she recently launched the Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color  

Janelle White

Janelle White has been the executive director for San Francisco Women Against Rape for over a decade.  SFWAR  is a community-based, anti-sexual assault, social justice, women of color-led organization. Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, SFWAR has been serving the residents of San Francisco City & County for over 46 years. SFWAR provides support to sexual assault survivors, their families, and communities, and uses education and community mobilization as tools of rape prevention. And at SFWAR, they believe that ending all forms of oppression is integral to ending sexual assault.

Regina Y Evans

Regina Y Evans who is  a native of Oakland, California, is a Poet, Playwright, Actor, Entrepreneur, Modern Day Abolitionist and a Survivor Leader in the fight against sex trafficking. She is the Owner of Regina's Door, a vintage boutique located in Oakland, Ca. Regina's Door is an artistic safe haven and healing sanctuary for at-risk youth, homeless youth, young Oakland Creatives and survivors of human trafficking. As a Modern Day Abolitionist, Ms. Evans volunteers with Love Never Fails, a Bay Area Anti-Trafficking organization founded by Vanessa Marie Johnson Russell.  She is also a member of the S.H.A.D.E. Movement (Survivors Healing, Advising and Dedicated to Empowerment), a survivor run consulting/advocacy organization. For more info and to be involved contact Regina at Evans.Regina@gmail.com.


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

Monday, June 22, 2020: Paradise Militarized hosted by Margo Okazawa-Rey

We begin with special tribute to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, and Eleanor Bumpurs dating back to the 1980s, all killed by the police. ABSOLUTELY Black Lives Matter! I hope y’all are taking part in the massive organizing and activism that we are seeing. Special shout-out to my friends Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Carissa Lewis, Charlene Carruthers, Alicia Garza, and all the other Black women leading the struggle on the ground.

The International Women's Network against Militarism

Today’s show is titled “Paradise Militarized.” In my show on Memorial Day, my guests discussed the importance of remembering all the unrecognized and unknown casualties of US wars and militarism. We talked about the lands that the US military is currently occupying and devastation to both human and natural life as a direct result. Today we deepen that discussion by sharing more details about three sets of islands in the Pacific Ocean. Okinawa was first colonized by Japan in the 19th Century and now is home to 75% of US military presence in Japan. Guahan, known by most people outside as Guam, is a current colony of the US, and Hawai’i was colonized by US also in the 19th century and was annexed as the 50th state in 1959. 

As you are listening, please ask yourselves these questions: What do Guahan, Hawai'i, and Okinawa have to do with colonization and imperialism, with anti-Blackness and liberation of  Black and other people and communities of color in the US?  We’ll be asking you to rethink the various aspects of the military apparatus in the US, from the war-based economy and military spending, to environmental impacts of wars and military operations, and the systems, tactics, and cities’ budgets for policing. Most important, we’ll  be urging you make the connections between “here” and “there”, the relationships between domestic policy and foreign policy, and ultimately to imagine what real security, all the way from in your lives and communities to the entire country and the world, would look and feel like. Especially for women.

I am in conversation today with long-time feminist activists and professors Lisa Natividad speaking to us from Guahan, and Kim Compoc who is in Honolulu. We will also listen to a recorded interview with professor Kozue Akibayashi in Japan. They are all members of the International Women’s Network against Militarism along with their respective organizations.

Dr. Kozue Akibayashi is a feminist researcher/activist and has worked on issues of gender and peace. She is a professor at Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and a member of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

Dr. Kim Compoc is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Hawaiʻi at West Oahu. Her research focuses on U.S. empire in the Philippines, Hawaiʻi and Oceania; Asian/American Studies /literatures, as well as diasporic Filipinx Studies with an emphasis on Indigenous, Feminist, and Queer critique.

Dr. Lisa Linda Natividad is Professor in the Division of Social Work at the University of Guam. She is also the President of the Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice. She has delivered interventions to the United Nations on issues of militarization, colonization, and indigenous peoples’ rights.

All three guests are members of the International Women’s Network against Militarism.

Resources:
Watch as Thousands Protest in Downtown Honolulu in Support of Black Lives Matter

Nihi! KIDS TALK about Self-Determination| KIDS TALK | Nihi! on YouTube 

Where will you be? Why Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom by Joy Enomoto

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

Monday, June 15, 2020: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards

The Space Between Us looks at:  Who Do We Want to Be?

Jovelyn Richards discusses the protest in Hawaii for Black Lives Matter with Hawaii native Di'one Di and Jovelyn reads excerpts of her own writings on the rebuilding relationships post-civil war.

"The one thing that is breaking our humanity is racism." -Jovelyn Richards

"...we're not standing for the inequality that's happening and we are here for change..." -Desiree Burton, youth organizer in Hawaii speaking at the Ala Moana Beach protest for Black Lives Matter. Find them on Instagram at @hawaiiforblacklives.

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

Monday, June 8, 2020: Racism and Black Women Athletes; The Rise in Domestic Violence amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

This Monday from 1-2pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine at 94.1FM and streaming and archived online at kpfa.org:

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As we demonstrate against the wide spread racism in this country we can not forget about the racism in sports where Black women athletes often experience the worst of misogyny mixed with racism. In our first segment, Kate Raphael talks with Dr. Joan Steidinger, author of Stand Up and Shout Out: Women's Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports, about struggles for equality of women and equality among women in sports.  For more information about Black Women in Sport Foundation, click here.

And next we look at the up to 20% rise in domestic violence during the Covid Pandemic. While the situation is horrific for all domestic violence survivors, accessing help can be particularly challenging for immigrants, including the large South Asian population in the south bay, specifically in Silicon Valley, where many women, many whom are privileged and economically independent, have no support system, are far from their families, and are not accustomed to calling the police to complain of their husbands, or accessing legal systems.  Preeti Mangala Shekar talks to two women from local domestic violence groups that serve the South Asian community; Zakia Afrin who manages the Helpline, Peer Counseling, Immigration Assistance and Legal Advocacy programs at Maitri in San Jose and Bindu OOmmen Fernandes from Narika which also continues to offer counseling, safety planning legal and shelter referrals and support groups via phone during the crisis.

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

Monday, June 1, 2020: Vylma V hosts a live call-in show today at 1 PM

Demonstrators turn out all over the world to demand justice for
George Floyd and an end to police violence. #BlackLivesMatter.

1st Monday of the month host, Vylma V, speaks with Marjorie Cohn, legal expert and past president of the National Lawyers Guild about pending Supreme Court decisions (on abortion and reproductive rights) and how Trump may use recent protests to further limit our civil rights and perhaps even use the military to suppress peaceful protests and demonstrations.

Vylma starts this episode with a timely interview between Kate Rafael and author Carol Anderson (White Rage and One Person No Vote) about black voter suppression in the US. Carol Anderson will participate on a virtual panel for young adult voters on June 17 at 7pm with the Bay Area Book Panel. Find out more at Bay Book Fest.

As usual for Vylma, she welcomes your call in questions and comments regarding recent protests and civil unrest 1(800)958-9008, this is a live show on Monday, June 1, 2020 at 1pm. 

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

Monday, December 23, 2019 - The Invisible Knapsack of Race, Gender and Class Privilege

Sharon Sobotta speaks with Peggy McIntosh, the anti-racist feminist activist and scholar author of the seminal 1989 article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” Years before the idea of "checking your privilege" became ubiquitous on college campuses, McIntosh's own experience of unconscious oppressive behavior by "very nice" men led her to examine how her own "unearned assets" her African American colleagues' experience in working with her. McIntosh is adamant that her concept of privilege is not meant to shame or blame, but simply to make us conscious of things we take for granted which get in the way of the changes we want to make in society.

Listen or download (segment begins @41:00)
In the first half hour of today's show, Dr. Ella Henry on restoring Maori land and cultural autonomy

Monday, October 7, 2019: Exploring Blackness and Policing of Black People in Europe

Margo and Vanessa

Margo

Interview with Vanessa Eileen Thompson

Margo Okazawa-Rey, gender studies professor and a member of the legendary Combahee River Collective, discusses the similarities and differences between anti-Blackness in the U.S. and in Europe with Afro-German scholar Vanessa Eileen Thompson.  Thompson is a researcher at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and a former visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies. She is one of the organizers of the upcoming symposium "On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives" to be held at UCLA October 11-12. Find out why a symposium on racism in Europe is being held in the United States!

Click here to listen to the entire interview with Vanessa. 30:33 min

Vanessa Eileen Thompson is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Previously, she was a guest lecturer in gender studies at the University of Cologne and a fellow at the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching are focused on critical race and racism studies, black studies (with a focus on Black Europe), gender and queer studies, post- and decolonial feminist theories and methodologies, critical security studies, and transformative justice. Thompson is also engaged in these fields as an activist.  Her current research project focuses on racial gendered policing in Europe and transnational articulations of abolitionist visions and alternatives from a black feminist perspective. Vanessa has published articles on the work of Fanon, black social movements in Germany and France, and racial gendered policing in Europe.


Film: The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo

Then we listen to excerpts of the brilliant documentary "The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo", which chronicles the career and writings of one of the foremost African feminist writers. Aidoo, the author of nine books, two plays and many short works, also served as Ghana's Minister of Education from 1982-1983. After eighteen months, she concluded that she would not be able to realize her goal of free universal education because nationalist ideals had been subverted by the elite. In 2000 she founded the Mbaasem Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in Ghana with a mission "to support the development and sustainability of African women writers and their artistic output."

Much love to all of you who have supported me and KPFA Women's Magazine over these many years. -Kate Raphael

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

Monday, July 29, 2019: Women's Magazine Fund Drive, Month of Momentum to Close the Camps starts Thursday Aug 1

Dear all,

It's that time again - seems like a constant refrain, I know. KPFA's on-air summer fund drive is in full swing, and the theme is 1969. There has been some great programming looking back at that fateful year - the occupation of Alcatraz, the Battle for People's Park, Stonewall - featuring archival audio that has not been heard for many years.

Unfortunately, the fundraising has been sluggish, and that means we may have to extend this drive beyond this week. We don't want that and I know you don't either. So if you yesterday's show, you can still call 1-800-439-5732 or donate securely online at www.kpfa.org and don't forget to mention how much you appreciate KPFA Women's Magazine.

We replay an interview some of you may have heard previously with Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest US park ranger and the face of the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond, CA. Betty is now 97 and still going strong; she's just released an album featuring songs she wrote in the 1960s. One of those songs is on the show. Even if you heard the interview before, I recommend tuning in and listening again. As I listened to it today, I found it just as inspiring and informative as I did the first time I heard it. She has such a unique voice.

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

We are offering Betty's book, Sign My Name to Freedom, as a thank you gift for your donation of $150 or more, but there are also tons of other thank you gifts available on our website kpfa.org. If you've admired my cool hoodie, those are also available.  But even if you can only give $10 or $25, it is worth it! $25 or more makes you a member and gives you the right to vote in board elections and help to determine the future direction of the station. And second, it helps keep us on the air and lets station management know that you value our show.

So if you can and haven't donated in a while, become a KPFA member. Call 1-800-439-5732 or go to kpfa.org/donate.

Thanks so much for all your support.

Kate

P.S. I'm also involved in organizing the Month of Momentum: 31 days of action to Close the Camps which kicks off on Thursday. In just over a week, we have pulled together a month of actions at the ICE Building in San Francisco (630 Sansome), every day from noon to 1 pm, each day organized by a different organization or community. Climate justice activists, drummers, public health workers, librarians, tenants and housing activists, comedians, lawyers & legal workers, restaurant & bar workers, even journalists!  Come out, come out - check out the calendar to see what's happening each day and come whenever you can!

Monday, October 29, 2018: Remembering Ntozake Shange

Prophetic and Profound: Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange, Reid Lecture,
Women Issues Luncheon,
Women’s Center, November 1978

We mourn the passing and celebrate the immortal contribution to our culture of Ntozake Shange, who, according to cultural critic Melissa Harris Perry, did more than any other artist to remind us that Black women's lives matter. Shange was unflinching in taking on domestic violence and patriarchy in the context of racism and classism, neither exempting African American men from critique nor allowing them to be scapegoated by white society. She was also groundbreaking in her creation of the "choreopoem," combining poetry, dance and music in her classic work, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf" and subsequent works, which anticipated what we now call "spoken word." We'll listen to excerpts from readings by and interviews with Shange over the last 35 years.

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

Also on today's show:

Kshama Sawant

Reflections on Pittsburgh

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, August 20, 2018: The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards; A celebration of Aretha Franklin's life

"BBQ Betty" calling 911 

In the era of Trump we hear the narrative of the "angry white man" but what's going in the narrative of white women calling the police on brown and black people?

Host Jovelyn Richards opens the phone lines to discuss the historical context of fear white women used as power to uphold public spaces and white dominance. If you have suggestions or conversations to bring to the river on the Space Between Us contact Jovelyn Richards at sugars982@gmail.com

We also celebrate Aretha Franklin as Queen of Soul and her contributions to civil rights. This part of the program is presented by Safi wa Nairobi.

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

Monday, April 30, 2018: Embrace Your Voice

Sharon Sobota produces and hosts today's show. Women of different generations and backgrounds share their stories and what inspires them.

Tarana Burke, founder of #metoo talks about her decade long work against sexual violence and healing.

Kathy D'Arcy is a poet and youth organizer living in Ireland, writing political poetry, women's rights and reproductive health care. Find her books through her website.

Shanthi Sekaran author of Lucky Boy talks about her non-linear path to writing and her now novel about immigrants from Mexico living in Berkeley, CA.

Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest National Park ranger and blogger, reads from her memoir Sign My Name to Freedom and talks with Sharon about her amazing life.  Betty says, "I am now living in the future that I helped to create."


Click here to listen now. 59:59 min

Monday, March 19, 2018: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us

On today's show Linda Gartz speaks with KPFA Women's Magazine host Jovelyn Richards of a fractured Chicago community in the 1960's in her new book, Redlined. This is a personal, political, social book.

Redlined exposes the racist mortgage laws that ravage a Chicago community in the 1960s, told through the story of one white family navigating the uncharted shoals of its neighborhood’s racial change. Based on long-hidden letters and diaries, this vivid memoir cracks open and lays bare complicated truths of marriage, sexual freedom, and race relations in a devastated landscape.

The book will be available at your local bookstore next month.


In the second part of today's show Jovelyn interviews Selena Hernandez, 4th generation Mexican American about her journey to discover her identity through studying Spanish and dance. She credits her grandfather for inspiring her to learn about her culture and history at a young age.

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

Happy 1 Year Birthday to the Space Between Us. If you have any ideas that you would like to share with Jovelyn about future topics for The Space Between Us email her at JovelynRichards@aol.com.

Monday, March 5, 2018: Betty Reid Soskin interviews for KPFA Winter Pledge Drive

Thank you for your pledge during KPFA Women's Magazine on Monday, March 5th. If you missed the show on Monday you can catch this excellent interview with Betty Reid Soskin. This amazing yet humble 96 year old woman has a lot to share stories about her own life and "living in the future that [she] helped to create." Listen now to this powerful voice.

Click here to listen to the entire show. 1:02:49 min

Kate and Sharon offer a special program featuring Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest National Park Ranger. Soskin works at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Park in Richmond, CA where she plays a vital role in bringing her personal experience as an African-American woman working in a segregated environment during WWII and beyond. Don't miss it!

Don't forget to pledge at KPFA. Any amount is greatly appreciated. There are many great thank-you gifts to choose from including Betty Reid Soskin's book, Sign My Name to Freedom for a pledge of $125. So please pledge now. Thanks!

Monday, February 26, 2018: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us; KPFA Pledge Drive

KPFA Women's Magazine presents The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards. 

Today Vylma V joins Jovelyn for the KPFA fund drive. The Space Between Us examines the relationships between girls and women all over the world by telling each other's stories. In this way we will attempt to shift and raise consciousness by listening and sharing our journeys. Find The Space Between Us every 3rd Monday at 1 PM.

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

Today's show presents clips from an interview with Patrisse Cullors co-founder of Black Lives Matter and co-author of  “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir”. Patrisse is interviewed by Cat Brooks. A CD of the interview is available as a gift for your pledge of $75. Get the book for a pledge of $125. Get the audio book for $150. Get the DVD of the interview for $100. Black history flash cards Volume 2: Women for $100. Many other gifts are online at KPFA.org.

If you missed Monday's show you can always donate and choose a gift online at KPFA.org. Thanks for your support of KPFA Women's Magazine. No donation is too small. No donation is too big.

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

KPFA Women's Magazine presents a new format that will air every third Monday. Each program of The Space Between Us hosted by Jovelyn Richards will examine the relationships between girls and women all over the world by telling each other's stories. In this way we will attempt to shift and raise consciousness by listening and sharing our journeys.

Today we discuss the space between Black women and white women by answering the question, when did you first realize who you are and how you knew the space between you and others? Judy Grahn, author of A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet joins us.

The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show. Today's show was pre-recorded and originally aired in March of 2017.

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

Monday, June 19, 2017: The Space Between Us

Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us every 3rd Monday. This is a live call-in show. Join us at the River with your story every 3rd Monday at 1 PM on KPFA Women's Magazine.

Rainbow is a consultant, trainer, and mediator working with groups and individuals to heal what divides us. She learned much about human needs and interactions working in early childhood education for 36 years. Growing up as a fat child and as an adult walking in this world as a fat lesbian who does not alter her body, Rainbow has her own perspective on oppression.

With her Masters degree in Non Profit Administration, Rainbow has used her expertise
to assist countless Non Profit organizations in all aspects of running a successful business.

Rainbow is a Master Trainer with StirFry Seminars & Consulting, facilitating Unlearning Racism, Unlearning Sexism, and Train the Trainer workshops, while also facilitating Color of Fear and Last Chance for Eden seminars.

Thanks to all of you who called in today and shared your story on The Space Between Us.

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