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

April 1, 2019: Roderick Ferguson's (Not) One-Dimensional Queer

In his new book, One-Dimensional Queer (a homage to Herbert Marcuse), Roderick Ferguson counters orthodox portrayals of a gay movement narrowly focused on civil rights, and shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the mainstreaming of queerness intentionally, and falsely, placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation.  A fascinating unearthing of seldom discussed LGBT history, including groups like STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) and the Philadelphia-area collective DykeTactics.

"...heterosexual patriarchy or toxic masculinity know no national boundaries..." -Roderick Ferguson


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Also on today's show:
Amy Foley on making feminist dance

Monday December 17, 2018: The Space Between Us

The Space Between Women and Aging

Jovelyn Richards, host of The Space Between Us, talks ageism, the myths of aging and how women from various cultures approach aging with Susan Avery Steward, PhD.

Susan Avery Steward, a Professor of Psychology for over thirty years (now emerita), a retired therapist, and four times a grandmother, Susan Avery Stewart, PhD, is passionate about sharing the gifts of late life in a culture that mistakenly equates old age with debilitating decline.

Her book, Winter’s Graces: The Surprising Gifts of Later Life, was published in October by She Writes Press (Berkeley). In its pages she weaves together folktales, current research in gerontology and other fields, themes from the world’s wisdom traditions, stories of her own and other older women’s experience, and characters from film that reflect the qualities that ripen in later life, such as contentment, agelessness, simplicity, and necessary fierceness.

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Monday, December 3, 2018: Sexuality and gender rights and wrongs in Brazil

 2016 Pride Parade in Sao Paulo

KPFA Women's Magazine talks to journalist Beatriz Miranda about the threat posed to LGBTQI people by Brazil's newly elected president, Jair Bolsonaro. We also discuss the history of LGBTQI rights in Brazil - Miranda calls Brazil the LGBTQI murder capital of the world - and how and why Brazilians turned from the leftist Workers' Party (PT) of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, to the extreme right-wing Bolsonaro.

"Since Bolsonaro's election we did not even go to the streets once because we are literally scared." -Beatriz Miranda

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Also on today's show:
Sexuality and gender in Pakistan

Monday, June 18, 2018: The Space Between Us with host Jovelyn Richards

Just Sign on The Dotted Line- The Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath video by Carol Leigh

Jovelyn Richards talks to Carol Leigh  a.k.a. The Scarlot Harlot, feminist, author, film maker and sex worker activist.

Carol Leigh who coined the phrase "sex worker" will be joined in the studio by a sex worker Sugar to discuss everything from legislation to bias, the space between Madonna vs.Whores. Ayami Hatanaka joins the discussion by phone. Ayami talks about her research studies with sex workers. In her research Ayami interviews sex workers and includes their personal stories in her work.

Donate to help sex workers here.

The Space Between Us is a live, call-in show. Email Jovelyn with suggestions and thoughts at sugars982@gmail.com

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

Friday, March 30, 2018: Women's History Month Special

Safi Wa Nairobi host of KPFA's B.A.J.A.B.A. on JaZzLine brings us this special program on Women, Blues, and Jazz in celebration of Women's History Month.

Today's program airs a recording of a panel discussion on Gender and Jazz from the 2018 Inaugural Jazz Congress in New York.  Moderator is Michele Mercer (NPR) and Panelists include Terri Lyne Carrington (Berklee College of Music), Ingrid Jensen, John Murph, Ellen Seeling (Montclair Big Band). Also included is a reading of Ain't I a Woman.

Click here to listen to the show. 1:13:23

Monday, August 22, 2016: Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality

What if schools were places where children could explore their identities and passions without worrying about gender roles? This question and more are addressed in today's show.

"Whenever you teach oppression you have to teach resistance."

Educators Jody Sokolower, Liza Gesuden, Candice Valenzuela and AJ Jennings discuss methods and opportunities for introducing conversations and curricula about sexism, patriarchy, intersectionality, gender identity and sexuality with kids from preschool to high school.  The four women are all among the 50+ contributors to a new anthology from Rethinking Schools.  The book and the interviews are chock-full of information and ideas that will be helpful to teachers, parents, students, relatives and friends of young people all over this country.

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May 30, 2016 – Summer Is For Reading: Erotic Integrity: How to Be True to Yourself Sexually by Claudia Six; She Writes Press

Making your summer reading list?  You’re going to want to hear about this sexy new book:

EROTIC INTEGRITY: How to Be True to Yourself Sexually, by Claudia Six, is a how-to guide to a better sex life.  Frankly presented and illustrated with candid case studies, Dr. Six, a clinical sexologist for 20 years, leads readers through ten sexual themes including performance anxiety, sexual boredom, newly dating, coming out, and more. "Frankly presented and illustrated with candid case studies, these steps can be applied by individuals and couples of all ages and sexual orientations, with or without children." (from goodreads.com)

Dr. Six will be reading from her book Friday, June 3rd, 7 PM at Books Inc. on Van Ness in San Francisco and on Friday, June 17th, 7 PM at Book Passage in Corte Madera.

Brooke Warner talks about She Writes Press

Or maybe you plan to spend your summer writing a book.  Publisher Brooke Warner talks about how books are made in the new world of independent and hybrid publishing.  Brooke Warner is the publisher of She Writes Press, an acclaimed writer and the author of three books on publishing, including the newly released GREEN LIGHT YOUR BOOK.

Brooke Warner will be speaking on Thursday, June 16th, 7 PM at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Brooke will be moderating two panels at the Bay Area Book Festival this weekend in downtown Berkeley.

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Also on today's show:

Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis

Monday, November 9, 2015: Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities

In 2008 artist Maya Gonzalez talked to U.C Berkeley Professor Laura E Perez about her 2007  book “Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities.” One of the only books of its kind dedicated to Chicana feminist artists, Perez looks at over 40 local and national artists who challenge biased notions of gender, sexuality and politics. For example, in the work of Alma Lopez, Perez looks at how Lopez symbolically claims a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures. And in Ester Hernandez’s 1976 etching Libertad/Liberty Hernandez depicts a female artist chiseling away at the Statue of Liberty, freeing from within it a regal Mayan woman and, in the process, creating a culturally composite Lady Liberty descended from indigenous and mixed bloodlines.

These Chicana artists make use of, and often radically rework, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican and other non-Western notions of art and art-making, and create liberating versions of traditional iconography such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Sacred Heart. Filled with representations of spirituality and allusions to non-Western visual and cultural traditions, the work of these Chicana artists is a vital contribution to a more inclusive canon of American arts. Providing a rich interpretive framework, Pérez describes how Chicana artists invoke a culturally hybrid spirituality that challenges racism, bigotry, patriarchy, and homophobia.

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Events:
Rituals + Remembrance, Oakland Museum: now thru January 3,2016
Celebrating the theme of memorial across cultures, the  21st annual Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) exhibition, Rituals + Remembrance, explores how Latin American, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese and other communities view death, memory, and healing. The exhibition includes new and existing work by artists Nancy Hom, Lilli Lanier, Yvonne Escalante, Charles Valoroso, Bryan Keith Thomas, Safety First ©, Paco Garcia, Melanie Cervantes, and Jesus Barraza, as well as installations created by MetWest High School, Sankofa Academy, and the Alameda County Public Health Department.

Monday, September 8, 2014: Daisy Hernandez talks about her new memoir

Lisa Detmer talks with Daisy Hernandez about her life and her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed. She reads excerpts from her book.

Daisy grew up in a Latina women centric family with her parents and aunties. She writes about her childhood and spiritual background in a mixed Latino family and community. Daisy says about her new book:

I grew up in New Jersey. That’s where I heard the best stories about Cuba and Colombia and this lady who knows how to eat an avocado so you won’t get pregnant. It’s also where I first learned about feminism, queer identity, and race in the Americas. You can read these stories in my new book, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir. It’s in bookstores September 9.

Daisy will be reading from her new memoir tonight at Booksmith in San Francisco at 7:30 PM and at Book Passage at Corte Madera on Wednesday, September 10th at 7 PM.

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Also on today's show:
Exploring the experience of older homeless women