Monday, November 2, 2020: Host Vylma V & Author/Activist Erica Etelson

Our national and local elections are happening TOMORROW and we want to hear from you! Who/what are you voting for and why? Call in with your questions and comments. Also, we will start the hour with an illuminating conversation with author/activist Erica Etelson. Her book “Beyond Contempt: How liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide” offers a blueprint on how to talk productively with those on the other side of you politically.  You can find Erica's book at your local bookstore or order on her website.  

Let’s begin the post election conversation (and hopefully healing) by skillfully communicating with those who may be very unhappy with tomorrow’s election results. Tune in with 1st Monday host Vylma V (Call in 1 800 958 9008)

Today's program was broadcast live. This is a recording of that show.

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

Monday, September 9, 2019: Story, Art, Action! Muralismo

Julieta Kusnir talks with muralist Juana Alicia, one of the seven visionary creators of the iconic Maestrapeace mural project on San Francisco's Women's Building.  The murals are 35 years old this year and a spectacular new book from Heyday Press commemorates both the original production and the restoration, along with profiles of the artists (Juana Alicia, Miranda Bergman, Edythe Boone, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Meera Desai, Yvonne Littleton, and Irene Pérez), and work by seven Bay Area poets including Alice Walker, Genny Lim and Sandra Cisneros and Dvora Major with a foreword by Angela Y. Davis. The artists and writers will celebrate the book with two upcoming events in San Francisco.

Maestrapeace at the San Francisco Public Library

• Sep 14 2019, 1pm
  San Francisco Public Library - Koret Auditorium
  San Francisco, CA.
  
• Maestrapeace: San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural
  Oct 08 2019
  California Historical Society
  San Francisco, CA.

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

Also on today's show:

Youth Climate Warriors 

The Life of a Web Series

Monday, May 13, 2019: Fund Drive Special: Socialist Feminism Past, Present and Future

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Two weeks ago, the Socialist Feminist Working Group of Philadelphia DSA hosted a gathering of 200 leftist feminists from all over the U.S.  It was the first explicitly socialist feminist national convergence in this country since 1975, when more than 1500 women gathered in Yellow Springs, Ohio for the first National Socialist Feminist Conference. Is socialist feminism making a comeback? As recent events concerning the International Socialist Organization and Worker's World Party illustrate, it is certainly badly needed.

For May, 2019, KPFA Women's Magazine is excited to bring you a selection of interviews Lisa Dettmer and Kate Raphael conducted on Socialist Feminism in February of this year. Included in this sampling are authors Elana Dykewomon (Beyond the Pale), Helen Zia (Last Boat Out of Shanghai),  Tithi Bhattacharya (Feminism for the 99%; she was also the keynote speaker at the recent Philly conference), Zilla Eisenstein (The Audacity of Races and Genders), educator Lois Helmbold and activist Leslie Cagan.  They discuss the Yellow Springs conference, the resurgence of DSA, real and perceived splits between "socialists" (presumed male) and "feminists" (presumed bourgeois and white) and how women are organizing now toward a socialist future. (We'll be doing more of these interviews in the coming months.)

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

We are offering the entire interviews -- more than five hours, plus two hours of archival material from the 1975 conference (the Third World panel and Lesbian panel) as a thank you gift for your donation of $75 or more to KPFA.  It's a great way to support Women's Magazine and community radio, and to keep our radical feminist herstory alive.

Call 1-800-439-5732, 1-800-HEY-KPFA (handy mnemonic) or donate securely online at www.kpfa.org and ask for the Socialist Feminist Pack.

Thanks so much for all your support and thanks for listening to Women's Magazine.

Monday, May 6, 2018: Jenny Brown talks about Birth Strike

As people around the country prepare to celebrate Mother's Day, we contemplate the reality that U.S. women are having fewer children than ever before. What are the social conditions and personal decisions leading to this development, and how does it change our concepts of family and even of womanhood?

Next we speak with Jenny Brown, organizer with National Women's Liberation and author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work. "By some measures our birth rate is the lowest it has ever been.  With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike," says Jenny Brown on her Birth Strike Blog. The Birth Strike has four demands: national health care, universal childcare, paid parental leave and shorter working hours.

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

Also on today's show:
Writers Grace Talusan and Nayomi Munaweera
Comics Diane Amos and Lisa Geduldig

Monday, May 6, 2018: Four Non-Moms (and one who is)

As people around the country prepare to celebrate Mother's Day, we contemplate the reality that U.S. women are having fewer children than ever before. What are the social conditions and personal decisions leading to this development, and how does it change our concepts of family and even of womanhood?

Nayomi Munaweera

Grace Talusan
(Photo by Alonso Nichols)

Last weekend Kate Raphael caught up with Grace Talusan and Nayomi Munaweera at the Bay Area Book Festival. Nayomi Munaweera is the author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors and What Lies Between Us and Grace Talusan is the author of The Body Papers. Grace and Nayomi talk about how and why they chose to be child free and the positive ways that decision has impacted their lives.

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

Also on today's show:
Author Jenny Brown
Comics Diane Amos and Lisa Geduldig

Monday, January 14, 2019: Keeping Collective Memory Alive - Remembering those who died in 2018

From Making Contact: a look back at a few of the gender and human liberation warriors we lost last year, including Japanese American researcher Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Brazilian LGBT and feminist activist politician Marielle Franco, LGBTQ and prison activist Ray Hill; Burmese indigenous environmental activist;Saw O Moo, Kiilu Nyasha, Black Panther, feminist activist and radio host; and acclaimed radical novelist Ursula Le Guin. Click link to listen to Making Contact - Fallen Heroes of 2018.

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

Also on today's show:
Ready to Strike
Ancient Puberty Rites

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.

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

Monday, November 26, 2018: Celebrating Woman filmmaker Wenonah Wilms, writer Kao Kalia Yang and feminist poet Kate Lynn Hibbard

Women's Magazine's producer Sharon Sabotta talks to Wenonah Wilms, winner of the Austin Film Fest Script competition who gives us a preview of her award-winning script Horse Head Girls and about and about her process of bringing the voices and narratives of her Native American roots to the screen. Wenonahwrites.com

Kao Kalia Yang, author of multiple non-fiction books and forthcoming children's books reveals her process of bringing Hmong American experiences to life on the page. Kaokaliayang.com

Feminist Poet KateLynn Hibbard reads a piece from her newly released collection Simples. katelynnhibbard.com

                            

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

Monday, October 22, 2018: Poet Heid E. Erdrich

On today’s show Sharon Sabotta talks to Litquake performer and poet Heid E. Erdrich. First up Heid performs a segment from her Autobiography as Mixed Tape. You can watch Heid perform her works on Vimeo. Heid is the editor of New Poets of a Native Nation, available from Gray Wolf Press and other on-line sources.

Pre-Occupied from Heid E. Erdrich on Vimeo.

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


Also on today's show:
Third i Film Festival

Monday, September 3, 2018: Rahila Gupta and Lucy Jane Bledsoe on Paradises Built in Hell

Today's show was originally aired on May 7. Enjoy this replay from KPFA Women's Magazine:

Rebecca Solnit's 2010 book A Paradise Built in Hell posits that disasters, whether natural or human created, commonly bring out our most generous and cooperative nature, leading to the development of new forms of community and democratic organization. This week on Women's Magazine, I talk with two women who have done their own research into this phenomenon.

British journalist Rahila Gupta traveled to Northern Syria to witness the grassroots feminist democracy being built in territory liberated from the Islamic State. She has written extensively about the impressive network of women's cooperatives, political education and legislative accomplishments built in just a few years.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe's new novel, The Evolution of Love, imagines the aftermath of a massive earthquake in the East Bay, and suggests that our bonobo nature, favoring love and cooperation over conflict and competition, might ultimately triumph. Bledsoe is the award-winning author of A Thin Bright Line, which has just been optioned for a film.

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

Interview blogs from May 7:
Rahila Gupta
Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Events:
Film showing:
Good Morning Pakistan by Dr. Hazan Zee
SAN FRANCISCO EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT September 6 and 13

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RISE FOR CLIMATE, JOBS AND JUSTICE MARCH

SEPTEMBER 8TH
Look for the queer and women contingents. Meet at 10:30 AM at 101 California for the queer contingent and at 10 AM on Stuart between Market and Mission for the women's contingent.

Monday, August 13, 2018: Challenging Fictions with author Nina Serrano

In this segment we talk with Nina Serrano about her novel, Nicaragua Way: An International Novel of Love and Revolution in the 1980s, which tells the fascinating story of the Bay Area's involvement in the Sandinista revolution. Nina also gives her take on the current crisis in Nicaragua.

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

Also on today's show:
What YOU can do to help immigrant detainees
Challenging Fictions with playwright Anne Galjour

Monday, August 6, 2018: Stacy Russo on Love Activism

Writer, oral historian and librarian Stacy Russo discusses Love Activism, the subject of her inspiring fourth book. She invites us all to join the Love Revolution. "It seems like a lot of time is spent chasing romantic love...elevate all the others kinds of love...There are so many opportunities for love that are gratifying." -Stacy Russo

Love Activism is a holistic daily activism of kindness with Eight Beautiful Elements: service - empathy - hope - self-care - feminism - creativity - non-violence - mindfulness

Love Activism can be found on-line or request a copy at your local bookstore.



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

Also on today's show:
Leslie Cagan Remembers Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Hiroshima Day

Monday, July 2, 2018: Novelist, Yang Huang

Immigrants Are Welcome Here! Stories of Struggle, Triumph and Resistance

This week on Women's Magazine, after a week of historic protests around the country protesting the government's inhumane treatment of refugees from Latin America, we hear three stories about immigration.

This segment features novelist and short story writer Yang Huang describes her own journey from Jiangsu, China to Berkeley, her life as a "blue collar writer" and what it feels like to be an immigrant in the U.S. today. Her newest book is MY OLD FAITHFUL, a collection of stories about family life in China.

"Writing has to be painful, it should not be easy...I choose writing." -Yang Huang

Get MP3 and listen now. 19:03 min




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Also on today's show:
Author, L. A. Kauffman
Filmmaker, Valerie Lapin

Monday, May 14, 2018: KPFA Fund Drive

If you missed your chance to donate during KPFA Women's Magazine this week you can call in next Monday May 21 between 1 and 2 PM to pledge your support to KPFA and Women's Magazine. Thanks for listening.

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

A message from Kate Raphael:

This week, KPFA is fundraising again - I know, it seems like we just had a drive, but that's the game in listener-supported noncommercial radio. We don't get corporate grants and very little government money, so we depend on you to keep us on air and able to bring you the information and culture you need in these difficult times.  If you have heard something on Women's Magazine in the last six months that you didn't know, if you have found out about a book you enjoyed or an event you wanted to attend, if you got inspired or energized, if you're an author or promoter or filmmaker who was given the opportunity to share your work on our show, think about how much that was worth to you and donate that amount to KPFA tomorrow during Women's Magazine.

We'll be featuring Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest living park ranger at 96 (she started the job in her eighties).  I know some of you missed this interview last time around, so this is your chance to hear it.   Betty works at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Park in Richmond, California, and has taken responsibility for making sure that the unique contributions and struggles of Black women during that period is included in the history.

We will be offering Betty's book as a thank you gift for your donation of $125 or more during that hour.  But anything you can give to help keep KPFA on air will be greatly appreciated. We are trying to raise at least $1,500 during the hour and that means we probably need at least 30 people to call in, so if possible, please be one of them!

To pledge by phone: 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732 (1-800-HEY-KPFA)
Or pledge securely online at www.kpfa.org and choose among all the thank you gifts at various levels on offer during this fund drive, including any or all of the KPFA-sponsored talks you might have missed this year (Patrisse Cullors, Sunaina Maira, and lots more),   But we hope many of you will want to get a copy of Betty's book to savor and share.

Thank you so much for all your past support.

You've kept Women's Magazine on air for thirteen years.  This is a difficult time for us but I believe we're going to make it and we can only do that if we increase our membership and fundraising, so if you live in the Bay Area and have never been a member, this is a great time to take that step.  And if you are not in the Bay, you can still get all of KPFA's great content online wherever you are, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and your donations also help to make sure that Pacifica's 200+ affiliates continue to get progressive perspectives and news that is not available anywhere else.

Keep hope alive - keep KPFA alive.

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 12, 2018: Best-Selling Author Kristin Hannah

Then Kristin Hannah, author of the #1 bestsellers The Nightingale and The Great Alone, joins Kate Raphael to talk about creating compelling stories of women's resistance and resilience.

Get MP3 of this segment. 19:52 min

Kristin will be in town on Monday, March 19 for a talk at Books, Inc. Opera Plaza. (This event is ticketed.) Kristin will be in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel, award-winning journalist, co-founder of the news site Berkeleyside, and author of Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Women Against Imperialism Oral History Project

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 19, 2018: Adrienne Maree Brown - Visionary Social Change

This Monday February 19th on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine, Viveka Jagadeseen talks to author and activist Adrienne Maree Brown about how we can organize a resilient mass movement capable of creating fundamental social change in today's political climate with an understanding of social change inspired by the resilience and adaptive nature of biological systems, that is non hierarchical and non harming.

Adrienne Maree Brown, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.  Brown is the Co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, and author most recently of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds a book described as a "resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us” and expands our radical imagination.


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

Monday, January 29, 2018: How Did We Get Here? Ursula LeGuin

Ursula K. Le Guin
21 October 1929–22 January 2018

Acclaimed novelist Karen Joy Fowler talks about her beloved friend, Ursula K. LeGuin.  We also hear clips from a few of LeGuin’s interviews and speeches. LeGuin, who has been recognized as one of the most important writers of the last century, frequently talked about fantasy and science fiction as ways of imagining deeper realities than what exists.

"...we'll need writers who can remember freedom..."
-Ursula K. Le Guin



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

Also on today's show:
Gymnastics Abuse Scandal
Remembering Mo Kalman

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