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KPFA - Womens Magazine
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The Women’s Magazine is an hour long radio program that airs on KPFA radio that presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.This hour-long program focuses on social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental issues pertaining to the lives of people who identify and live as women. We discuss these from multiple, radical, feminist perspectives which include all social categories such as class, race and ethnicity, religion, ability, nation, and more and as they occur at local, national, and global locations and levels.Our audiences have chances to listen to live interviews, call-in to offer their perspectives, and listen to pre-recorded conversations with feminists around the world.
Episodes
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Womens Magazine – September 7, 2026
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 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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What Black Feminisms for This Political Moment? Part 2
Women’s Magazine Collective members Jovelyn Richards and Margo Okazawa-Rey host today’s live, call-in show to continue the discussion from Part 1, What Black Feminisms for This Political Moment? How do we understand Black feminisms in these times? How can the various perspectives illuminate the...
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Young Palestinian Women Artists “Preserving Memory through Beauty”
To the extent that news about Palestine is even covered in the world’s mainstream media, the coverage is typically about violence and destruction, and when Palestinian people are humanized, grief and suffering. When, where, and how have you seen and heard about another side: children, youth, and...
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Cinema as Prayer showing and James Baldwin and Audre Lorde on Suffering and Joy
ENCORE SHOW – Lisa Dettmer feature two segments both focusing on Buddhism, healing and spirituality. First I talk to Kithi Nath and Lata Mani about their two new films showing at the Elmwood Rialto cinema on Wednesday August 19th at 6:15 PM as part of a special one time program called “Cinema as...
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Buddhism, Spirituality and healing from Racism, Sexism, Suffering
Today at 1pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine I am featuring two segments both focusing on Buddhism, healing and spirituality. First I talk to Kithi Nath and Lata Mani about their two new films showing at the Elmwood Rialto cinema on Wednesday August 19th at 6:15 PM as part of a special one time...
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Palestinian Artists Building Bridges of Hope
To the extent that news about Palestine is even covered in the world’s mainstream media, the coverage is typically about violence and destruction, and when Palestinian people are humanized, grief and suffering. When, where, and how have you seen and heard about another side: children, youth, and...
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What Black Feminisms for This Political Moment? Conversation with Jovelyn Richards Women’s Magazine Producer Live
Black feminism, theory, and practice have profoundly influenced contemporary feminist thought and practices in and outside the US. Women’s Magazine producers Margo Okazawa-Rey and Jovelyn Richards discuss their respective understandings of Black feminism and its relevance in these times of…
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Jovelyn Richards of The Space Between, chats with Iraqi American writer & Director; Weam Namou
In her groundbreaking new film, Pomegranate, Iraqi American writer and director Weam Namou reveals the messy, humorous and heartbreaking reality of what happens when immigrants who fled the same country argue with each other over the American Dream. Widely recognized as the first Iraqi American...
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Lisa Dettmer talks to Stop AI members/ and to 3 directors of films at SF Jewish Film Festival
This Monday on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer will talk to Wynd Kaufman and Valerie Sizemore from the local grassroots group Stop AI about the existential threat that AI poses to our existence. Stop AI is a very committed group of local activists who are willing to put their bodies on the...
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“Every Breath: The Cosmic Purpose” Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
My guest today is Dr Alexis Pauline Gumbs, aka Docta Sista, who describes herself as Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. An independent scholar/author writer, she is a prolific writer of books, poems, essays, and more....
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Women, Girls, and the War in Sudan with Dr. Suad Musa
Today’s conversation is about war, politics, and the experiences of women, girls, and communities in war-torn Sudan with Dr Suad Musa. She is a freelance researcher and consultant on women, gender, peace, and governance issues. She has worked with the Government of Sudan and has extensive...
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Palestine 1492 A Report Back
My guest today is Linda Quiquivix (ki-ki-vish) a California-based geographer of Maya roots and author and illustrator of Palestine 1492: A Report Back, a political memoir and geography lesson, that places 500 years of struggles side by side with Palestine, from below and toward the common. As...
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Jovelyn delves into Conversation with Professor Elizabeth Pryor’s Book: Something We Said.
When a white student quoted a line from Blazing Saddles, blurting out the N-word in the middle of class, Professor Elizabeth Pryor froze. In that moment, she was shockingly confronted with not only the most notorious slur in the United States, but the line quoted by the student was one her father…
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SF Frameline, QWOCMAP and remembering Jill Lessing
Today for KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine, WM host Lisa Dettmer celebrates Pride month by talking about some of the films I recommend that are showing at the the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, hosted by Frameline. Frameline was founded in 1977 and is the longest-running, largest,...
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Black German Women Singing for Life, Love, and Liberation!
Listen to Oihane Roach and King Josephine share their stories of life as mixed-race Black German feminists and as musicians early in their careers seeking to contribute their music and sensibilities toward the liberation of all. You will also get the chance to listen to their evocative and lovely...
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Womens Magazine – May 18, 2026
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 – May 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Cuba
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...
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Womens Magazine – May 4, 2026
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 – May 4, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Eco Feminism in Practice: German Hoteliers Shireen Aga and Barbara Walker
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...
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Womens Magazine – April 20, 2026
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 20, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Spiritual Activism with Rae Abileah, Susala Kay and Cat Zavis
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…
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Sexual Assault Awareness w Dr Lori Pitts & HuNia Bradley
Join 1st Monday of the month host, Vylma V, as she recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) for April 2026 with two guests, HuNia Bradley Executive Director of the Sexual Assault Advocacy Network (SAAN) and Dr. Lori Pitts, author of The 5 Pillars of Healing, A Spiritual Blueprint for...
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Womens Magazine – March 30, 2026
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 30, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Honoring Yanar Mohammed
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 Honoring Yanar...
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Womens Magazine – March 16, 2026
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.
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Iranian and Iranian American Feminists Discuss the U.S. /Israel attacks on Iran
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,...
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Womens Magazine – March 2, 2026
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.
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Womens Magazine – February 23, 2026
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.
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The Gambia vs Myanmar: Feminist Analysis of Rohingya Genocide Case at the ICJ
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...
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Arlene Eisen memoir on Militant Women and Adrienne Torf on June Jordan show
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…
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Womens Magazine – February 2, 2026
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.
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The Gambia vs Myanmar: Feminist Analysis of Rohingya Genocide Case at the ICJ
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....
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Womens Magazine – January 19, 2026
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.
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Lesbians in the South, and Betty Reid-Soskin
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…
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Womens Magazine – January 5, 2026
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.
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Womens Magazine – December 29, 2025
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.
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Womens Magazine – December 22, 2025
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 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Womens Magazine – December 15, 2025
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 15, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Womens Magazine – December 8, 2025
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 8, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Womens Magazine – December 1, 2025
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 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Womens Magazine – November 24, 2025
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 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Womens Magazine – November 17, 2025
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 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Irish socialist feminists Camilla Fitzsimons and Isidora Duran, and DRUM Beats organizer Simran Thind
There have been two major socialist and socialist feminist victories in the last month. First was the election of socialist feminist Catherine Connolly to be president of Ireland and the other was the election of Zohran Mamdami to Mayor of NYC. But Mamdami’s election would not have been possible...
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The Women’s Magazine is an hour long radio program that airs on KPFA radio that presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.This hour-long program focuses on social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental issues pertaining to the lives of people who identify and live as women. We discuss these from multiple, radical, feminist perspectives which include all social categories such as class, race and ethnicity, religion, ability, nation, and more and as they occur at local, national, and global locations and levels.Our audiences have chances to listen to live interviews, call-in to offer their perspectives, and listen to pre-recorded conversations with feminists around the world.
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