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This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – November 4, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael and Rae Abileah who will talk to Jewish Feminist Queer author, scholar and activist Judith Butler about two topics she has become famous for reshaping and making part of everyday discourse, that is gender and anti-zionism . If somehow you are one of the few people who haven’t heard of American philosopher, gender studies scholar and anti zionist and Queer feminist activist Judith Butler they have written over a dozen books including their seminal book “Gender Trouble” which came out in 1990 and which shook up the academic and political world with her redefinition of gender. And they have been have been a major influence on political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory ,and literary theory, and if that wasn’t impactful enough they are also are a huge force in support of Palestinian rights. For Butler’s concept of gender as having been constructed they have been seen as a threat throughout the modern world — to national security in Russia; to civilization, according to the Vatican; to the American traditional family; to protecting children from pedophilia and grooming, according to some conservatives and by Zionist they are excoriated as a defender of Hamas terrorism and banned from Israel. So we thought it would be important to talk to UC Berkeley Professor Judith Butler about her views on gender and zionism for fund drive and offer her newest book on gender as a thank you gift for your contribution to our fund drive. And to interview Judith Butler we are very lucky to have two experienced Queer activists, novelist, journalist, anarcha/feminist and queer activist and a long-time producer with KPFA’s Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael is co housing with social change strategist and ordained Jewish faith leader Rae Abileah and they will be leading our conversation with Judith Butler today . In the first half of the interview Kate Raphael will talk to Butler about their newest book on gender and in the second half of the show Rae will talk with Butler about her book “Parting Ways Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism” that came out in 2013 as well as her thoughts about anti-zionism today. The post Judith Butler on Anti-Zionism and Gender appeared first on KPFA.

This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – October 7, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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Today we have a special show for fund drive co hosted by feminist Queer activists Kate Raphael and Rae Abileah who will talk to Jewish Feminist Queer author, scholar and activist Judith Butler about two topics they have become famous for reshaping and making part of everyday discourse, that is gender and anti-zionism . If somehow you are one of the few people who haven’t heard of American philosopher, gender studies scholar and anti zionist and Queer feminist activist Judith Butler they have written over a dozen books including their seminal book Gender Trouble which came out in 1990 and which shook up the academic and political world with her redefinition of gender. and they have been have been a major influence on political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism,[2] queer theory,[3] and literary theory, and if they wasn’t enough they are also important to anti zionist activist and Queer activists since to many in these movements they are a huge force in support of these movements. for Butler’s concept of gender as having been constructed they have been seen as a threat throughout the modern world — to national security in Russia; to civilization, according to the Vatican; to the American traditional family; to protecting children from pedophilia and grooming, according to some conservatives and by Zionist they are excoriated as a defender of Hamas terrorism and banned from Israel. And to interview Judith Butler we are very lucky to have two experienced Queer activists, novelist, journalist, anarcha/feminist and queer activist and a long-time producer with KPFA’s Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael is co housing with social change strategist and ordained Jewish faith leader Rae Abileah and they will be leading our conversation with Judith Butler today . In the first half of the interview Kate Raphael will talk to Butler about their newest book on gender “Whose Afraid of Gender” that looks at the right wings utilization of gender to attack Queers, trans people and women. And in the second half of the show Rae will talk with Butler about her book “Parting Ways Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism” that came out in 2013 as well as her thoughts about anti-zionism today. The post Judith Butler – Challenging the right, gender binaries and Israeli settler colonialism appeared first on KPFA.

This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – September 16, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – September 9, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – September 2, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – August 26, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – August 19, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday Lisa Dettmer we will look at the security of our election system with our guests Emily Levy and Marilyn Marks who are working to make our election system more transparent and secure. While happily the polls show support for Harris as stronger than Biden’s were and gaining on Trump in swing states there are still ways the Republicans are working hard to manipulate this election. MSNBC has recognized that the Republican’s are planning election manipulation especially in swing states and has been covering problems with concerns about potential certification delays a lot recently, but around the country election systems that are not verifiable and transparent are in jeopardy of being hacked or subverted and this is especially true in In Georgia which is an essential swing state , and where the ‘Biggest Election Breach’ in History Has Gone Uninvestigated. Recently the non profit non partisan paper NOTUS covered this breach writing “It’s been more than three years since a team of Republican officials engaged in a covert operation to illegally access a rural Georgia county’s electronic elections system and appear to have made off with sensitive computer information — after briefing Donald Trump on aspects of that plan in the White House .Yet no one — not the feds, not state elections officials, not even local law enforcement — has ascertained exactly what happened in Coffee County, Georgia, a rural patch of the politically deep red American South.” And this is only the tip of the ice berg of election fraud possibilities in Georgia and many other states including California that don’t have a way to verify votes or have enough poll workers to make sure the system works fairly”. . So today we talk to two women who are working on voter transparency. Emily Levy is the Executive Director of Scrutineers.org, a progressive, nonpartisan online community dedicated to fair, transparent, accessible, and secure elections. An activist for over 50 years, Emily has been a leader in the election transparency movement dating to 2004 and specializes in helping members of the public understand election technology and security issues and to become active in the movement And Marilyn Marks is the Executive Director of Coalition for Good Governance, a non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to transparent government and evidence-based elections. Marilyn is the driving force behind the much-watched Curling v. Kemp lawsuit against Georgia’s election officials to rid the state of unverifiable, touch screen electronic equipment. And You can get more information from Marilyn Marks about her work in Georgia around election transparency at Marilyn@uscgg.org and for the group go to https://coalitionforgoodgovernance.org/ If you want to weigh in with Georgia’s State Election Board to encourage a transparent verifiable election in Georgia, let Marilyn know and she will send you some recommended messages. You can hear the show live at 94.1FM or at www.kpfa.org where the show is streaming and will be available afterward to stream and download at Women’s Magazine’s archives at kpfa.org And we will talk to Aida Touma-Sliman who is a Feminist Activist, Israeli Palestinian Politician and Palestinian Citizen of Israel Touma-Sliman is a member of the Israeli Knesset representing Hadash which is the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), and an Arab-Jewish party. She was first elected in 2015 and served as the first Arab chair of the Knesset statutory Committee for the Status of Women and Gender Equality till 2022. MK Touma-Sliman was the first woman to serve in the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and is Co-founder of the International Women Commission for Just Palestinian-Israeli Peace. She is also a secretary member of the World Peace Council. Aida was suspended from the Knesset last year for criticizing the Israeli military assault on Gaza. Despite endless attacks by the mainstream Jewish media and right wing politicians in...

This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – August 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Jovelyn Richards and Margo Okazawa-Rey pay tribute to Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon and listen to clips of her music and talks . Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 16, 2024) was an American song leader, professor of American history, composer, historian, musician, scholar, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist who, in the early 1960s, was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany Movement for civil rights in Georgia.[1][2] In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. Reagon, along with other members of the SNCC Freedom Singers, realized the power of collective singing to unify the disparate groups who began to work together in the 1964 Freedom Summer protests in the South.[4] The post Tribute to musician and activist Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon appeared first on KPFA.

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This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine, Kim Anno and Lisa Dettmer talk to queer ecology activists who are courageously fighting the climate crisis in Florida These inspiring and creative Queer activists are represented in the new film “Cant Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontlines”, that is now available to see online at Kinema at the URL kinema.com/films/cant-stop-change-queer-climate-stories-from-the-florida-frontlines-rclks for the month of July. “Can’t Stop Change” weaves together interviews with fourteen trans, queer, and Two-Spirit collaborators across Florida, bravely fighting for change in one of the most anti Queer states and a state that has been battered by natural and political storms: climate gentrification and displacement. These activists target the disproportionate affect natural disasters have oppressed communities based on race, class, and gender and link the environmental disasters with the political disasters of anti-abortion and ani-trans bills, permitless concealed carry laws; and white patriarchal corporate power that militarizes the police. Unlike many mainstream environmental groups these Queer ecology activists recognizes that we need deep structural change that challenges Cis Heterosexual white Capitalist patriarchy and doesn’t just treat symptoms. In the face of all of this devastation, these queer and trans ecology activists in Florida are courageously imagining a better future and tackling the issues head-on through mutual aid, building queer communities, and standing up to corporations and bad politics. In this stirring documentary they follow these inspirational activists as they tour the state, meet with mutual aid providers to uncover the challenges of each area, and learn about the passionate work being done to combat them. We talk to Vanessa Raditz, the Co-Director of Can’t Stop Change who is also a queer climate justice/queer ecology activist in the Southeast and Bay Area And we talk to Florida Native, Barbara Perez , who is PhD student at Florida Atlantic University where she is doing her dissertation on climate gentrification And lastly we talk to Rebecca Wood who is an Environmental Educator and Miami resident who is currently involved in local climate activism/community disaster preparedness The post Queer Ecology in Florida in new Documentary “Can’t Stop Change” appeared first on KPFA.

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