April 1, 2019: Amy Foley on making feminist dance

Amy Foley, founder of Bellwether Dance Project and one of the latest feminist choreographers on the Bay Area scene, talks about what it means to make feminist dance, challenging a tradition that imposes narrow constraints on the bodies and lives of women dancers. Foley's inaugural home show, Let Slip the Witches, includes three premieres - two she choreographed herself as well as a solo created for her by Bay Area treasure, Robert Moses, as well as her piece "Thighs and Wages," which explores society's devaluation of women. Let Slip the Witches shows Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6, at ODC theater in San Francisco or call 415-863-9834. 



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Also on today's show:
Roderick Ferguson's (Not) One-Dimensional Queer

Monday, October 30, 2017: Max Dashu on the Secret History of Witches

Happy Halloween! Max Dashu talks about the fascinating and long-suppressed histories of witches with priestess and sociologist Giana Cicchelli.

Max just published her first book, Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100. The book looks at "what the authentic cultural heritages of European women are before Christianity."

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Visual talks / events with Max Dashu

Next live webcast Saturday Nov. 4   12 noon San Francisco time

Women in Ancient Arabia: we look at neolithic icons; invoking women as a key theme in rock art; the sculpture of Yemen and Jordan, of Timna, Petra, Khirbet et-Tannur, and Palmyra; the Sabaeans and astrological goddesses, with a bit on modern Arabian weavers and muralists.


Sunday Nov. 12, Noon (San Francisco time, live)

Witch hunts: We will honor the women felled by persecution, whether rebels, herbalists, or those targeted for many other reasons, by looking at what happened, and discussing its legacies in modern culture. (See link for more.)


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Also on today's show:
Health worker Amanda Bloom reports from Puerto Rico
A little bit of humor from Peter Tannen

August 26: Max Dashu on the Secret History of Witches; Dorothy Height, Ella Baker, Daisy Bates and the women at the March on Washington

Chelsea Manning

Women's Magazine speaks to Sara Lazar of Commondreams.org about Chelsea Manning's plans to transition and the military's response: "we don't do that..."

Protestors in Dublin, Ireland support Manning (http://www.breakingnews.ie)

The Women at the March on Washington

It's long been said that there were no women invited to speak at the March on Washington.  One woman was invited, however: Myrlie Evers, widow of Medger Evers.  When Ms. Evers could not attend, Daisy Bates, a leader in the Arkansas NAACP and of the Little Rock school desegregation, was asked to speak instead.  Ms. Bates spoke briefly during a "Tribute to Women," as part of which A. Philip Randolph read a poem while women leaders sat on the podium.

Ella Baker

Dorothy Height and other prominent women in the civil rights movement wanted a woman among the nine main speakers at the event, and this is what the male leadership refused.

We listen to interviews with Ms. Height, part of Ms. Bates' speech, and an interview with Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical  Democratic Vision.

The Secret History of Witches

Woman Shaman: the Ancients: dvd by Max Dashu

Then we speak with Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archive, about her forthcoming book and online class, The Secret History of Witches: Women, Goddesses, Patriarchy, and Christianity. This online course starts September 1.

Hunger Strike

California prisoners have been on hunger strike for seven weeks to end solitary confinement. To find out how to pressure Governor Brown check out www.prisonhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com

Click here to listen to August 26 KPFA Women's Magazine.

58 min.