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Happy Dog Days, Sisters! This summer soundtrack 2026 floats at ya like butterfly wings and hits hard like a train. #CatBradfield #WLRN #SummerMusicCountdown Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors Hole - Miss World Ani DiFranco - Atom L7 - Can I Run Suzi Quatro - The Wild One Heart - Barracuda 4 Non Blondes - What's Up The Stray Dags - Lets Have A Party Shilpa Ray - Venus Shaver Ashnikko - Invitation Bitch and Animal - P***y Manifesto Bitch - You're The Man Courtney Barnett - Dead Fox Pink - Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

MADISON - August 11, 2026. Tune in to this 4th episode of WLRN’s Summer Music Countdown for your sisterhood soundtrack that will carry you though the dog days of summer! #WLRN #SummerMusicCountdown Playlist for Today's Show: Building a Mystery Sarah McLachlan Sisters in the Struggle Lesbians on Ecstasy Restore Me Diane Patterson Jezebel Thistle Pettersen And Saints Sleigh Bells Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams Camp Cope Swinger in the Trees Dead Horses (Sarah Vos) Vagina Anthem Hungry Hearts The Collector Missy Higgins The Returner Alison Russell A War With Time Brandi Carlile

August 6, 2026 - Welcome back, sisters, to another WLRN music hour. This month, as promised, the focus will be on Lammas, the holy day of my female-centered earth-based spiritual tradition on The Wheel of the Year whose Old European roots stretch back into Neolithic times. Here around my home on HERground in the South Eastern mountains of the US, crepe myrtles have reached their long anticipated peak beauty, fields of sunflowers pull me into a swerve as I pass, basil and thyme has gone to flower and the agastache has gone to seed for the goldfinches. I can’t forget to mention the urgent caution of the season around nests of hornets and ground bees ever abundant at this time on The Wheel. And always, watching for the bears who mark the time with their growing cubs and small clans ambling purposefully towards the wild cherry trees or dangling hornet nests to gorge. The light of the days is lessening, though it’s subtle. Lammas is a subtle holy day, but while subtle, her energy is profoundly beautiful to dance with. I will read some again from Dr. Kim Duckett’s important book The Wheel of the Year as an Earth-based Spiritual Psychology for Women as well as from some other sources of inspiration of this season of Lammas to include Judy Grahn and Anya Robyak. I hope you enjoy both the information and the creative playlist I’ve crafted this month of music to include a variety of musicians from around the world. Since I live in the Northern Femisphere, I am experiencing the late summer energy while my sisters on the flip side are in late winter energy of a very different earthscape. Interestingly enough, both the holy day of Lammas and the holy day of Imbolc (which is directly across The Wheel, six months for us) are both times of fragility and leaning into one's community/tribe. These two themes will run through my play list along with themes of celebration, gratitude and remembering our phenomenal spiritual fortitude as women, born under Patriarchy. Thanks again for tuning back in! We’ll begin with music by Ayla Nereo called Wheel of Time.

MADISON - August 6, 2026. Edition 124 begins with a greeting from Ann, WLRN's sound engineer and producer who recently attended NOW's national conference in Arlington, Virginia. Ann provides us with her commentary later on in the program after Thistle interviews Peggy Patty, NOW member since 1977 and rarin' to go when it comes to women's rights! The world news segment is delivered by Cat and the featured song is called Sing, Sing, Sing by Melissa Manchester who performed at this year's NOW conference. in Arlington. Enjoy the show!

MADISON - July 25, 2026 Episode 3 of the WLRN Summer Music Countdown with Cat Bradfield continues on with songs tied for 72nd place. Songs: Possession - Sarah McLachlan At Seventeen - Janis Ian Horses - Patti Smith Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper Awful - Hole Not That Kind - Anastacia Untouchable Face - Ani DiFranco Superwoman - Karyn White I’m Gonna Be An Engineer - Peggy Seeger

This is the second in a series of episodes counting down WLRN's top 100 songs as voted by listeners for the summer of 2026. Thanks to Cat Bradfield for hosting the show!

This is episode 1 of Cat Bradfield's Summer Music Countdown featuring songs voted on by WLRN listeners to celebrate WLRN's ten year anniversary. Thank you, Cat!

DJ PhoeniXX is back! Thanks for tuning into another women’s music hour with Phoenixx! This month’s hour centers women who protect and defend that which is precious to us; that which we have nurtured and sustained, to include our own lives as well as the lives of our sisters, families, animals and the planet. If you tuned into Thistle’s roundtable discussion of the political Lesbian ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjjif6Rjqo), this music hour will be an enlivening follow up as Phoenixx features music and spoken word about both Lesbians and non-Lesbians who are fierce in their devotion to Female kind in the midst of misogyny and fascism. The energy and existence of The Amazon has an ancient cultural record: some that has been preserved and discovered by archaeologists and archeomythologists like the late Marija Gimbutas; much has been kept alive by Max Dashu’s archival research (www.suppressedhistories.net) while some herstory of Amazon existence has just persisted through stories/fantasies of tribes of ferocious women. Women’s Culture and Spirituality must remember and include The Amazon to be both Radically effective and reflective of our lived experience and realities. The work of Second Wave Radical Lesbian Feminists reignited these fires in the 1970s which have been, in most feminist and spiritual circles, currently watered down with the use of the word feminine to describe women or the divinity of female spiritual power. Typically the fight/warrior/protector roles and ferocity under/in patriarchy have been reserved for men, with the exception of the expectation of mothers for their children. Implicit in that is, of course, girls and women need to be mothers in order to be sanctioned strong. The rest of us... well…you know those particular heinous insults and the prominence of compulsory heterosexuality. Phoenixx has chosen dynamic music to accompany excerpts of a chapter on The Amazon read from The Wheel of the Year as a Spiritual Psychology for Women written by Radical Lesbian Feminist Dr. Kim Duckett. You can find more information about her, her work and how to order her book here: http://www.kimduckett.org/. Enjoy the hour! Stay tuned later this Summer for the top 100 Women’s Music results!

MADISON, July 2nd, 2026. First up is Cat Bradfield with WLRN's world news segment including a story about the recent Supreme Court decision to limit male athletes in women's sports. Happy 4th of July celebrations to all of our listeners. Stay safe this weekend! After the news, enjoy the song "Every Woman Can Be a Lesbian" by Alix Dobkin before hearing Jesika Gonzalez, Julianna Varni, Ann Menasche and Pinwheel Art give their thoughts on why a discussion of political lesbianism is important and what their definitions of the words "lesbian" and "political lesbian" are. In the podcast, you'll hear a 20 minute excerpt from the dynamic hour and a half long discussion recorded and under WLRN's LIVE tabe on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjjif6Rjqo&t=10s. After the round table excerpt, there is a 15 minute clip from Thistle's hour and a half long interview with Angela C. Wild, editor of the book, I Wish I Was a Lesbian. Finally, WLRN Team members Thistle & Jocelyn deliver their opinions and commentary on the topic. Thanks for tuning in to WLRN, your sisters out here in the Femisphere workin' hard to bring sisterhood to all women!

First up, Cat Bradfield greets the listener and delivers WLRN’s world news segment for June 4th, 2026. Next, stay tuned for the song “More Than Friends” by Robin Flower, followed by Cat’s interview with Nicole Mowbray of the Lesbian Action Group (LAG). Founded in 2023 after Posie Parker’s visit to Australia, LAG drew international attention to the importance of women speaking publicly and critically about transgenderism. Finally, we dive into Jocelyn Crawley’s commentary on the vital importance of women-only and lesbian-only spaces — both to protect women from male violence and to co-create a thriving culture of our own outside of patriarchy. Thanks for staying tuned to WLRN! To support our ten-year anniversary, please consider a purchase of merch from our merch page here: https://wlrnmedia.com/merch/

This is WLRN's 10th Anniversary Edition! Stay tuned for the greeting with Jocelyn Crawley, world news with Cat Bradfield, an interview with professor Gail Dines and concluding commentary from Jocelyn. The focus of this month’s show is the Jeffrey Epstein case and how it is being handled within the porn-sick society we live in, featuring Gail Dines—expert, activist for women’s and children’s rights, and founding member of Culture Reframed. Gail recently published a review in Ms. Magazine of Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumous book, Nobody’s Girl. https://msmagazine.com/author/gaildines/ She talks with Thistle a bit about this book and about how the porn industry has gotten its tentacles into all aspects of American society. She also, at the end of the interview, tells the story of an activist skit performed with Mary Daly at Harvard University in the 1980s. She muses that if women could do it then, we can do it again today and should in order to fortify our movement for the dignity and rights of girls and women. Listen to our original theme music from ten years ago composed by Thistle with a call for songs from Cat Bradfield for our Tenth Anniversary Summer Song Countdown show coming to an internet near you! To participate in this show, click this link and fill out the form: https://wlrnmedia.com/2026/03/08/cast-your-vote-for-wlrns-top-100-songs/ The more the merrier! Thanks for tuning in to WLRN for all these years. All of our shows are archived here: https://wlrnmedia.com/category/podcasts/ so if you want to remember what was happening in women's news back in the day, feel free to browse and discover compelling women's news and commentary that spans the last decade. We also have Ten Year Anniversary merch, designed by Margaret, to celebrate this milestone. Find our mug and t-shirt here: https://wlrnmedia.com/merch/

First up, hear Cat Bradfield deliver the greeting highlighting WLRN's ten-year anniversary top one hundred women's songs as voted by WLRN listeners. Learn more and cast your votes here: https://wlrnmedia.com/2026/03/08/cast-your-vote-for-wlrns-top-100-songs/ Please participate by the end of May, 2026! Next, hear the world news featuring stories from Iraq, Nigeria, Zambia and the USA. Then, enjoy an original song by Cat Bradfield that she played live at the International Women's Day Conference 2026 in Australia last month. Thank you, Cat! Cease and Desist They deny that we're oppressed on the basis of our sex. We matter less than some fetishist who puts on a dress We get arrested, just because we dare to tell it how it is. I need to talk this through but now I'm scared to get a therapist. If the mainstream left are right and no one gives a damn about this, Then why the hell do they keep telling us to cease and desist? You say that you don't vibe with gender roles, And you don't have a gendered soul, Well, you and me have common goals cause that's the point of gender abolition. And I ain't going back into the kitchen Til I'm serving up the patriarchy's head upon a plate. They say the sexes aren't so different, but when arguing on twitter It sure seems to me that they can see which side needs threats of rape. They've got deep fakes of JK Rowling, and deep fakes of Moira Deeming If it's trolling why's it only women's faces that I'm seeing? where's the bound and gagged Matt Walsh? Where's the naked Elon Musk? where's the artificial sex tape of that fascist Donald Trump? Yeah they cancelled Graham Linehan, we won't be seeing him again, but he's not getting threatened with a sexual assault. Every time I go outside wearing shirts purchased from the men's Get asked my pronouns like somehow my clothes can alternate my sex. Come buy your innate sense of gender from your local shopping centre and they'll throw in free mastectomy, but what do you expect? The human body can be modified, and therefore be commodified. And the same people who say this think that you can buy consent. When women protest with our signs that spell out men cannot be lesbians, The other side are shouting things like death to evil feminists. And I can't go to any march for any left wing cause Cause every single grassroots movement has been captured in their paws Rallies for Gaza, for the climate, for dismantling of ICE, Have always gotta have some f****r waving blue and pink and white. Everyone but Pauline Hanson's always dancin' round the signs That putting men in women's prisons should have always been a crime And all the mainstream right's got left is that they give a damn about this, They'll get the vote, we'll get the boot, and they'll make us cease and desist. We may be allies of a sort in terms of saving women's sport But if we use our voice to be pro choice it's cease and desist. they deny that we're oppressed on the basis of sex We matter less than some fetishist who puts on a dress We get arrested just because we dare to tell it how it is Need to talk this through but now I'm scared to get a therapist Men do all this shit and get a slap upon the wrist But when women do speak up, we've gotta cease and desist. So f**k them all, we will speak up, we will not cease and desist. After the song, listen to commentary about social media from from feminist and poet Ann de Hugard before hearing commentary about AI from Spinifex Press founder Susan Hawthorne. Finally, WLRN's Lola Bessis offers up her commentary and thoughts about social media and AI in an intriguing and compelling piece. Thanks for staying turned to feminist-powered community radio, WLRN!

WLRN's Jocelyn Crawley sits down with Esmée Streachailt of Medusa Rising to discuss the ever elusive concept of feminist love. Thanks for tuning in to feminist community-powered radio, WLRN.

First up, be greeted by Cat Bradfield, WLRN's World News Coordinator who announces a music show project she is heading to count down the top 100 songs chosen by WLRN listeners just in time to celebrate ten years of WLRN's stellar podcast hitting the Femisphere. Next, hear Cat deliver the world news with stories from the USA, Iran, Uganda, Australia and France. After the world news, enjoy an excerpt of the song Gole goldune man by Simin Ghanem, an Iranian artist. The song means "You are my flower who has gone" and was chosen by our guest this month, Fariba Amini. Next, stay tuned for an interview Lola did with Fariba, an Iranian-American journalist and freelance writer who discusses the strides and setbacks of the women of Iran and what American women can do to support them. Finally, hear commentary from Lola about the nuanced nature of women's progress in Iran and her anti-war stance. Thanks for tuning in to WLRN, feminist-powered community radio since 2016!

Wishing you a Happy Galentine's Day season, this episode is dedicated to a thorough look at the concept of feminist love with Esmée Streachailt and Jocelyn Crawley. First up, hear Thistle deliver the podcast greeting before the world news segment with Cat Bradfield featuring stories from the Gambia, Chile, Indonesia and the United States. Next, take a listen to the interview Jocelyn did with Ms. Esmée Streachailt of MedusaRising.org, a wonderful radical feminist organization that engages and inspires young women to join the movement. Esmée and Jocelyn explore patriarchal concepts of love in order to highlight the need for a radical feminist love that uproots and heals. Finally, take a deep dive into the concept of feminist love with Jocelyn's commentary she leaves us with after the interview. Stay tuned 'til the very end for Margaret's explanation of this month's cover art reprinted below. From WLRN's resident graphic designer, Margaret: "I started with the idea of light representing love. Light flowing out of our selves - connecting us. I found a photo of our sun I had captured which showed rays radiating out. I reused some silhouettes I had created for earlier editions, and arranged them to show women in a circle around the source of light, and love, holding hands. For the background I added a NASA image of stars that I altered with colors. Stars across the universe, like our sun, some with the potential for light and love. But it is our earth, and each other which constellates our reality. It is our sun which is the source of light that allows us to live, and to love. It is our selves which bring light and love to each other. Blessed be!"