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Today for KPFA’s Women’s Magazine we are going to spend the hour talking about Cuba and the attacks on Cuba by the Trump administration whose blockage of Cuba is devastating Cuba’s economy. And we will look at how some leftists are responding to that newest war on Cuba. We will be joined by Steph Hoguin who was on the recent Nuestra America convoy to Cuba that brought humanitarian aid to Cuba. And we will also look at some of the amazing political work that cuban’s have been doing to expand human rights in Cuba. Kim Anno and Jennifer Rodgeguiz Montesino will join us to talk about their new documentary “Quba”that will be showing locally which explores the new very progressive family code that was passed in Cuba in 2022 that includes protections for women, children, the elderly and the LGBTQIA community including legalizing same sex marriage and adoption rights. Steph Holguin is a Black, queer, & trans community organizer, educator, and researcher based in Atlanta, Georgia. They organize locally and nationally with the Black Alliance for Peace and a Diasporic Dominican organization, Compas de la Diaspora/Comrades of the Diaspora. Steph recently returned from a delegation to Cuba in March with the Nuestras Americas Cuba Convoy which went to bring humanitarian aid and to show support for Cuba against the US current attacks on Cuba which is devastating the Island. They represented the Black Alliance for Peace, Haiti/Americas Team. Jennifer Rodríguez Montesino is a Cuban Photographer, Director, Producer, Scriptwriter and Translator. And she is joining us from Mexico City where she is getting a master’s degree in Filmmaking, and line producer on the documentary ¡Quba! Kim Anno is an internationally exhibiting/screening painter, filmmaker, and activist who has made a remarkable new documentary on the state of LGBTQ rights on the island, ¡Quba! This inspiring documentary is showing locally at on May 29th at the SF Roxie theater and on June 13th at the Queer Women of color film festival in SF. And on June 22nd at the Elmwood Rialto Theater. Go to qubafilm.com for more information. The post Cuba appeared first on KPFA.

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Today’s program features extraordinary Berlin-based German feminists Shireen Aga and Barbara Walker who have crossed multiple literal and metaphorical borders together as life partners for 50 years with 30 of those years building and running the Mockingbird Hilll Hotel, the first ecotourist hotel in northeastern Jamaica. Their relationship began with the deep friendship between their Jewish mothers, both holocaust surivors, and their respective Indian and Jamaican fathers, whom the two mothers met in Manchester England. They shared their story of having been the owners of the first ecotourism hotel I NE Jamiaca and their lives in Berlin after their retirement during the covid pandemic. The post Eco Feminism in Practice: German Hoteliers Shireen Aga and Barbara Walker appeared first on KPFA.

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This Monday on Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer looks at how spiritual activism can help us deal with being surrounded by so much violence, war, militarism and machismo. I wanted to know how as activists we can practice a spiritual activism in these very hard times and I wanted to learn why practicing spiritual activism is important for the health and success of our movements. To do that I invited three Jewish feminist spiritual activists who I feel have a lot of wisdom to share and who can help us figure out how we can live in integrity and without burn out in these times when there is so little to rejoice about and when we are surrounded by people in power who have so little integrity. I will be joined by: Susala Kay who is a ritualist, facilitator of sacred space, and instigator of eco-feminist beloved community striving towards ending all types of oppression. She lives with disabilities and cares deeply about radical access, power differentials, and liberation. As a JeWitch, and a priestess in the Reclaiming tradition, she has been involved in blending Pagan and eco-feminist Jewish community together since the mid-1990s. She is a co-founder and steward of JeWitch Collective and JeWitch Camp. She co-facilitates monthly in-person Anti-zionist covid-cautious disability justice infused shabbat services for Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Oakland. She is also involved with Richmond Area Mutual Aid and Singing Resistance East Bay. Rabbi Cat Zavis who is the Rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Oakland, California, and is a member of Rabbis for Ceasefire and the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Rae Abileah who is a member of Rabbis for Ceasefire, an advisory board member of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and is an organizer with ALAS, Ayudando Latinos a Soñar in Half Moon Bay, California. You can find Rae at:Tzimtzum Community: https://www.tzimtzumcommunity.com/ Resources Article by Rabbi Cat and Kohenet Rae: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/02/resistance-under-occupation-minneapolis-palestine/ JVP-Bay Area: https://www.instagram.com/jvpbayarea/ Collective for Inclusive Education: https://www.instagram.com/collective4inclusiveed (interfaith network to keep schools inclusive and counter racism and zionism in south bay schools – so important!) Use the Power of Ritual (Principle in the Beautiful Trouble Toolbox): https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/use-the-power-of-ritual The post Spiritual Activism with Rae Abileah, Susala Kay and Cat Zavis 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 – April 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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Today on Women’s Magazine host Margo Okazawa-Rey will be paying her respects and honoring the late Iraqi feminist activist Yanar Mohammed, assassinated in front of her home in Baghdad on 2 March 2026 for her activism, by re-broadcasting an interview aired 24 June 2024. The post Womens Magazine – March 23, 2026 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 – March 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to 3 Iranian and Iranian American scholars and activists to get an Iranian feminist perspective on the U.S. attack on Iran to help us better understand what a feminist response to Iran is. We talk to Iranian graduate student, playwright and cartoonist Sepehr Jafari who was active in anti-regime protests in Iran between 2015 and 2020. We also talk to Asma Adbi, an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter, whose research focuses on social reproduction, gender, and the political economy of war and sanctions, with a focus mostly on Iran. And we have joining us Manijeh Moradian, who is assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and a member of Feminists for Jina, a global network which formed in fall 2022 to support the women, life, freedom uprising in Iran. Manijeh Moradian Sepehr Jaffar Asma Abdi The post Iranian and Iranian American Feminists Discuss the U.S. /Israel attacks on Iran 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 – March 2, 2026 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 – February 23, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

This program is the third part in a series that started with the April 2025 broadcast to spotlight the genocide of Rohingya people of Myanmar. In 2017, a violent military offensive forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee across the border to refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 1.1 million people – 75% of them women and children – live there as of June 2025. There are also tens of thousands in refugee camps in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. This past week, on January 22, 2026, International Court of Justice began hearings on the genocide case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar). I will interview feminist advocates and activists Noor Azizah and human rights attorney Nuraisha Mohd Hanif to gather updates for listeners about the court case and the current conditions in the refugee camps where thousands of people continue to suffer beyond most people’s imaginations. This was first broadcast on January 26, 2026 edition of Women’s Magazine The post The Gambia vs Myanmar: Feminist Analysis of Rohingya Genocide Case at the ICJ appeared first on KPFA.

This Monday February 9th on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael talks with Arlene Eisen about her new memoir In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women. Arlene has been a militant in the struggle against imperialism and white supremacy since the 1960s—first as a protester facing tear gas and later as a teacher and writer. She edited the newspaper called The Movement, and was a leading voice in the anti-imperialist women’s movement of the 1970s. At various times as she raised her two sons mostly as a single parent, she was a lecturer in sociology and women’s studies, a machinist, a journalist and public health expert. During the first ten years of her children’s lives, she was on welfare. In 2012 Arlene Eisen authored the groundbreaking study, Operation Ghetto Storm, published by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which revealed that an unarmed Black person is killed by an agent of the state every 28 hours in the united states. In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women traces Arlene’s journey from New York to Berkeley to Vietnam, China, Cuba, and back to San Francisco. She narrates her deep involvement in the Black Freedom struggle, the sixties counterculture, the movements to stop the Vietnam War, to support anti-imperialist struggles from Iran to Puerto Rico people, and the growing importance of feminism in helping her make sense of her own life. In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women is available from Iskra Books. And in the second half of the show Lisa Dettmer talks to composer and Musician Adrienne Torf. Adrienne Torf and her collaborator Raymond O Caldwell have produced an intimate portrait of well known local legendary black feminist and activist scholar, teacher and poet June Jordan by combining her words of fierce commitment to justice and self determination for all people with music and movement. The show, “Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience” is being performed in Berkeley for one night only on February 24th at the Freight and Salvage. This show is performed by six actors from the Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles production and Jordan’s collaborator and partner, composer/pianist Adrienne Torf. the show features Jordan’s poetry, interviews, and other writing, along with her work set to music by Torf, John Adams, and Bernice Johnson Reagon. “Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience” was honored with the Theater Washington Helen Hayes Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play in 2023. This performance on Tuesday February 24th at the Freight and Salvage will be the only one outside of Los Angeles this year. *Premium tickets include admission to a post-show reception with the cast and sponsors. The post Arlene Eisen memoir on Militant Women and Adrienne Torf on June Jordan show 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 – February 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s program is the third part in a series that started with the April 2025 broadcast to spotlight the genocide of Rohingya people of Myanmar. In 2017, a violent military offensive forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee across the border to refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 1.1 million people – 75% of them women and children – live there as of June 2025. There are also tens of thousands in refugee camps in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. This past week, on January 22, 2026, International Court of Justice began hearings on the genocide case brought by Gambia against Myanmar, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishmen of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar). Margo Okazawa-Rey interviews feminist advocates and activists Noor Azizah and Yasmin Ullah to gather updates for listeners about the court case and the current conditions in the refugee camps where thousands of people continue to suffer beyond our imaginations. The post The Gambia vs Myanmar: Feminist Analysis of Rohingya Genocide Case at the ICJ 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 – January 19, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today I talk to Professor Jamie Harker, who is looking at the lesbian feminist movements and communities in the south in the 1970’s especially in the print world to find a lesbian aesthetic or queer utopia that may suggest a mode of resistance for the present and examines a past which can provide a historical reminder that resistance has been going on for generations. Jaime Harker is professor of English and the director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi, where she teaches American literature, LGBTQ literature, and gender studies. . She is the author of America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars and Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America, and The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon among other publications. And we will share a segment of a radio documentary Sharon Sabotta produced about local legend Bette Reid Soskin who died last month at the age of 104 . Betty Reid Soskin has been a homefront warriors worker, a singer-songwriter and a performer, co-founder of the legendary Reid’s Records in South Berkeley, a writer and legislative aid and, until she turned 100, the oldest working National Park Service ranger. The post Lesbians in the South, and Betty Reid-Soskin 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 – January 5, 2026 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 – December 29, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.