This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.

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Today  hear a recent talk by Professor Sarah Haley about her new groundbreaking book “No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity.” Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers how black women were imprisoned and brutalized in the late 19th century and early 20th century through local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners’ acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy. A landmark history of black women’s imprisonment in the South, “No Mercy Here” recovers stories of the captivity and punishment of black women to demonstrate how the system of incarceration was crucial to organizing gender and race, and constructing Jim Crow modernity. This talk was sponsored by U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Race & Gender. Sarah Haley is assistant professor of gender studies and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Aqueila Lewis talks with Candice Elder, Laksmi Lagares and Maliha James of the East Oakland Collective. The East Oakland Collective is a cohort of millennials (and other generations) invested in the state of deep East Oakland.

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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.

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The Bay Area is rising up to say NO to the Anti-Islamic, Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Woman onslaught from the White House. We hear voices form the Women’s March last week and this weekend’s massive protests at SF International Airport.

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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.

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This week on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we look at some of the marches, protests and actions happening this week around the issue of patriarchy and gender violence. We talk to Jadelynn Stahl, cofounder of Disclose, about the creative  intervention they are planning for January 19th at 6:30 pm at Oscar Grant Plaza to protest the election of an accused rapist and a government that supports gender violence and affirm the possibility of a world without gender-based violence. And we talk to Renee McKenna, Alison Mata and Jenny Bradanini some of the organizers of the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Women’s Marches happening on January 21st in concert with Women’s March in Washington DC and around the country to protest the election of Trump and to proclaim that women’s rights are human rights. And lastly we talk to artist Epil about the “Women Who Made Us” project, which is a call to the strength of the generations of women who came before us. They will be carrying photos of our female ancestors and offering to print posters of others ancestors.

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