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Today I am in conversation with Janell Hobson, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York today’s program, to discuss Black Feminist Theories Transnational Approaches co-edited with Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Carole Boyce Davies, Angelique V. Nixon, and Christen A. Smith. The post Womens Magazine – October 26, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

“Jane Loeb Rubin transports us to the Catskill Mountains in 1924 in her riveting and action-packed new novel, Mayhem in the Mountains. As the story opens, Prohibition fuels crime and the Ku Klux Klan has drifted north, threatening those they consider outsiders. Against this turbulent backdrop, Rubin follows three characters struggling with family bonds and sweeping change. Whether you’re a fan of Rubin’s earlier novels or new to her stories, you’ll race through Mayhem in the Mountains, cheering for her characters to overcome all obstacles.”    —Marlie Parker Wasserman, Author of Inferno on Fifth and First Daughter   The post Jovelyn’s Bistro Welcome’s Jane Loeb Rubin, Writer to share her lastest work. appeared first on KPFA.

Recently the alleged gang rape of the Cornell student “Jane Doe” and the handling of it by Cornell, the campus police and the local District Attorney has made headlines in mainstream media. But this event is not unique or unusual. So how do we understand the alleged gang rape of the Cornell student “Jane Doe” as an example of the larger problem of violence against women and femicide and its relationship to larger structures of white male supremacy? What is the larger harm caused by violence against women and the misogyny that underlies it to all women? And how has the limited liberal legal analysis which focuses on consent and the liberal perspective of sex positivity of some feminists both failed to address the underlining power dynamics inherent in rape and violence against women? These are some of the questions we will address today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine at 1-2 PM on Monday October 12th when we will be joined by three activist scholars who have been working to fight violence against women for decades. Soraya Chemaly is the author of the best-selling book “Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger,” and “All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy.” Kate Manne is Professor of Philosophy at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, where she primarily focuses on moral, feminist, and social philosophy and is the author of the 2020 book “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women. ” And Dr Janelle White has served as the executive director of San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR) for over 20 years and has taught at SF State’s Women and Gender studies on the prison industrial complex and history of African American women since 2006.   The post Rape Culture, Consent, And Male entitlement w Janelle White, Kate Manne and Soraya Chemaly appeared first on KPFA.

Today a conversation with beloved SF Bay Area neighbor, lifelong activist, movement leader, and spiritual guide Ericka Huggins. We will be discussing her as described in the recently released biography, Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins, written by Mary Frances Phillips and published by New York University press in 2025. Come listen to Ericka Huggins’s voice, thoughts, and reflections in this hour. We hope our conversation will inspire you to donate to our Fall Fundraiser. The post Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins appeared first on KPFA.

Today Jovelyn Richards and Margo Okazawa-Rey continue their conversation on Black feminism and their “guest” is the late Claudia Jones, described as Left of Karl Marx. The post Black Feminisms Conversation Claudia Jones Left of Karl Marx appeared first on KPFA.

Who is The HummingbirdLion? Jessie Elliott is an adoptee, adoptive and biological mother of four young adults, and the founder of The HummingbirdLion Adoption Hub. She is a doctoral researcher in Developmental Psychology whose work focuses on trauma, attachment, and adoption across the lifespan. Jessie blends lived experience, rigorous research, and public education to help agencies move beyond feel‑good adoption narratives toward adoptee‑centered, trauma‑competent practice. Through her unique intersection—adoptee, transracial adoptive parent, biological parent, and researcher—Jessie names needs many organizations overlook and backs them with data and lived experience. Why Adoption Reform Now Adoptees experience elevated rates of mental health challenges and suicidality compared to non‑adopted peers. Systems still minimize pre‑placement trauma, sexual trauma, racial harm in transracial adoption, and the impact of secrecy and DNA discoveries. Agencies are being asked to move from placement‑focused metrics to lifespan‑focused, adoptee‑centered outcomes. The post Womens Magazine – Host of The Space Between Us, discusses and unpacks Adoption Reform with Jessie Elliot appeared first on KPFA.

Today on at 1-2pm on KPFA Radio’s “Women’s Magazine” I spend most of the hour talking about a new must see documentary “Second Nature” about the proliferation of homosexuality and/or gender changing/bending in all species in nature. For centuries the Church, science and now Republican lawmakers have invoked biological essentialism to justify pathologizing and attacking Queers and Transgenders. This attack is especially obvious now when transgender health care, school participation, bathroom access, and public visibility is being made illegal. Conservative activists routinely describe trans identity and homosexuality as a rejection of science itself. And homophobes often assert that heterosexuality and male dominance is part of natural law following centuries of darwinian bias and argue that homosexuality is an aberration in all of nature. Today I talk to Drew Denny, the director of the new documentary “Second Nature” which debunks this century’s old science based propaganda. And I also talk two scientists from the film about the science; the ground breaking evolutionary biologist Dr Joan Roughgarden, the author of the seminal science changing book “Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People” and renowned feminist darwinian primatologist Dr Amy Parish about the fallacy of this heterosexist science. This excellent and thoroughly convincing documentary is showing on September 17, at 7:00 PM as the opening night film of Critter Fest showing at the 4-Star Theater in San Francisco. You can find more info on their website secondnaturedoc.com And I want people to check out another important political documentary “Democracy Noir:A New Dawn” which is showing September 16th at 7:15 a the grand lake theater. “Democracy Noir: A New Dawn” is an informative account of how Viktor Orbán installed authoritarian rule in Hungary and of his stunning defeat by the unification of the people across parties. You can get more info about this film at clarity films.org. And I want to note the death of Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, two important feminists from the 70’s. Their passing and the continual loss of older feminist sadly marks the end of an era. I want to note that Steinem was lauded in the NY times obituary and my many feminist everywhere but was also attacked online for being a CIA spy and Neo liberal feminist. Steinem may not have been a radical anti imperialist feminist but she did work to create bonds and support with many African American feminists including bell hooks and Angela Davis among others. Like the Hungarians I hope we can realize we are in a state of emergency that may require we work together with those who may not be exact duplicates of ourselves. So rather than go into the both sides of that debate I am just gonna play a few short clips from Steinem. The post “Second Nature” documentary on gender and sexuality in nature 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 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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 steady marching of governments, political trends, and formations marching steadily toward the racist, misogynist, nationalist Right and fascism in the US and countries around the world? What are the limitations of those perspectives? What kinds of feminisms must we develop to ensure all life forms will thrive, not only survive? Come join our conversation. The post What Black Feminisms for This Political Moment? Part 2 appeared first on KPFA.

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 young and older adults creating art together using naturally available materials? On today’s program, you will have the chance to learn from artists Haya Allabadi, Sara Hammoudeh, and Sera Maraka about the work of an art studio and their creations to archive and document the beauty of Palestine to build bridges of hope for generations to come. The post Young Palestinian Women Artists “Preserving Memory through Beauty” appeared first on KPFA.

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 Prayer: A Night of Queer South Asian Films.” This film program features “PARAMITA” by Kirthi Nath and “Longing Suite” by Lata Mani and Nicolás Grandi—two poetic films that move through longing, belonging and spiritual transformation. PARAMITA bears witness to Prajna Choudhury’s 25-year journey of coming out to her traditional Bangladeshi mother. Told with intimacy and tenderness, the film invites us into a meditative experience as Prajna connects with Buddhist practice and nature as gateways for intergenerational healing. “Longing Suite” is a lyrical exploration of awakening to the feminine Divine. Building on a cycle of poems written by Mani in the 1990s, the film traces the arc of a heart-mind-body awakening to the sacred in all that exists. Together, these intimate, spiritual films invite us to experience cinema as prayer. The screening will be followed by a conversation and Q&A with the filmmakers, moderated by Madeleine Lim, Executive and Artistic Director of QWOCMAP (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project). And then I talk with Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, the author of “The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde” — a book exploring the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde through a Dharmic lens. “The Fire Inside”reveals how two of America’s greatest literary voices reflect — and expand — Buddhism’s most timeless truths toward justice and liberation, showing that liberation depends not only on organizing and mass movements, but on the generative power of inner well-being, authenticity, art, and embodiment. It offers space for the kind of conversation our communities need: one that centers and celebrates Black, queer, radical thought, and doesn’t shy away from difficult truths. That’s 1-2pm on KPFA Radio at 94.1FM or online at kpfa.org where the show will be available afterwards to stream and download. The post Cinema as Prayer showing and James Baldwin and Audre Lorde on Suffering and Joy appeared first on KPFA.

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 program called “Cinema as Prayer: A Night of Queer South Asian Films.” This film program features “PARAMITA” by Kirthi Nath and “Longing Suite” by Lata Mani and Nicolás Grandi—two poetic films that move through longing, belonging and spiritual transformation. PARAMITA bears witness to Prajna Choudhury’s 25-year journey of coming out to her traditional Bangladeshi mother. Told with intimacy and tenderness, the film invites us into a meditative experience as Prajna connects with Buddhist practice and nature as gateways for intergenerational healing. “Longing Suite” is a lyrical exploration of awakening to the feminine Divine. Building on a cycle of poems written by Mani in the 1990s, the film traces the arc of a heart-mind-body awakening to the sacred in all that exists. Together, these intimate, spiritual films invite us to experience cinema as prayer. The screening will be followed by a conversation and Q&A with the filmmakers, moderated by Madeleine Lim, Executive and Artistic Director of QWOCMAP (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project). And then I talk with Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, the author of “The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde” — a book exploring the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde through a Dharmic lens. “The Fire Inside”reveals how two of America’s greatest literary voices reflect — and expand — Buddhism’s most timeless truths toward justice and liberation, showing that liberation depends not only on organizing and mass movements, but on the generative power of inner well-being, authenticity, art, and embodiment. It offers space for the kind of conversation our communities need: one that centers and celebrates Black, queer, radical thought, and doesn’t shy away from difficult truths. That’s 1-2pm on KPFA Radio at 94.1FM or online at kpfa.org where the show will be available afterwards to stream and download. The post Buddhism, Spirituality and healing from Racism, Sexism, Suffering appeared first on KPFA.

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 young and older adults creating art together using naturally available materials? On today’s program, you will have the chance to learn from artists Haya Allabadi, Sara Hammoudeh, and Sera Maraka about the work of an art studio and their creations to archive and document the beauty of Palestine to build bridges of hope for generations to come. The post Palestinian Artists Building Bridges of Hope appeared first on KPFA.

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 national and global “poly crises”. They will also pitch for support on this next to the last day of the KPFA Summer Fund Drive. The post What Black Feminisms for This Political Moment? Conversation with Jovelyn Richards Women’s Magazine Producer Live appeared first on KPFA.

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 feature film, Pomegranate has swept over 50 international film awards and caught the eye of Home Alone producer Scott Rosenfelt, who came on board as executive producer. The post Jovelyn Richards of The Space Between, chats with Iraqi American writer & Director; Weam Namou appeared first on KPFA.