Monday, October 16, 2017: The Space Between Women and Mental Health/Mental Illness

Jovelyn Richards hosts her live call-in show, The Space Between Us. Today the theme is the space between us, mental health and mental illness. Jovelyn's guests are Diane Jeanette who created Women and Spirituality and Sylvia Toy St Louis, artist and co-founder of Jump! Theatre. They talk about they personal experience with mental illness.

In the second half of today's show Tracy Camp, mathematics professor at Laney College and Kathleen Tarr, lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University join the Space Between Us to talk about the play, Thomas and Sally currently showing at Marin Theatre Company. Guests and callers explore the extreme controversy surrounding the exploitation and rape of children and women that the play romanticizes. Today's show is also joined by an Anonymous guest who auditioned for the role of Sally. Kathleen Tarr with five others comment on the play in the HuffPost article Reflections on the Rape Of a Slave Girl.

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

Monday, July 10, 2017: Occupation - America

Colonialism - Past, Present and Future

In this segment Kate Raphael speaks with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, whose groundbreaking work An Indigenous People's History of the United States surprised everyone by landing on the New York Times best-seller list. Roxanne reflects on the founding of the women's movement, and how our history of colonialism, genocide and slavery have led to endless war.

Listen now or Get MP3. 27:45 min

Roxanne and Kate will be in conversation next Sunday, July 16 from 3 to 5 PM at the third Peace Talk sponsored by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.








Click here to listen to entire show and to hear a tribute to the memories of Shelia Michaels, Mary Lou Hadditt, and Angela Romagnoli.  59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Occupation: Palestine

Monday, November 7, 2016: Julia Ward Howe biography discussed.

Looking back at the days before women could vote.

Elaine Showalter discusses the fascinating career of poet and feminist activist Julia Ward Howe. Living into her nineties, from the slavery era into the twentieth century, Howe penned the most famous war anthem of all time before becoming a feminist advocate for peace and international solidarity.

Check out Showalter’s book, The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe.

Click here to listen to today's show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Rose Aguilar reports from Standing Rock