KPFA - Womens Magazine

KPFA - Womens Magazine

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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Womens Magazine – Host of The Space Between Us, discusses and unpacks Adoption Reform with Jessie Elliot

September 21, 2026 • 59 mins
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 ...
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“Second Nature” documentary on gender and sexuality in nature

September 14, 2026 • 59 mins
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. Th...
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Womens Magazine – September 7, 2026

September 7, 2026 • 59 mins
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

August 31, 2026 • 59 mins
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 R...
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Young Palestinian Women Artists “Preserving Memory through Beauty”

August 24, 2026 • 59 mins
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...
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Cinema as Prayer showing and James Baldwin and Audre Lorde on Suffering and Joy

August 17, 2026 • 59 mins
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 Nat...
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Buddhism, Spirituality and healing from Racism, Sexism, Suffering

August 10, 2026 • 59 mins
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&...
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Palestinian Artists Building Bridges of Hope

August 3, 2026 • 59 mins
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...
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What Black Feminisms for This Political Moment? Conversation with Jovelyn Richards Women’s Magazine Producer Live

July 27, 2026 • 59 mins
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...
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Jovelyn Richards of The Space Between, chats with Iraqi American writer & Director; Weam Namou

July 20, 2026 • 59 mins
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 o...
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Lisa Dettmer talks to Stop AI members/ and to 3 directors of films at SF Jewish Film Festival

July 13, 2026 • 59 mins
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 line as they seek a world that values humanity over machines and community care over profit. They work to rais...
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“Every Breath: The Cosmic Purpose” Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

July 6, 2026 • 59 mins
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. Alexis and their beloved Sangodare also create and facilitate regularly scheduled spaces for education, emotional and spiritual renewal and t...
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Women, Girls, and the War in Sudan with Dr. Suad Musa

June 29, 2026 • 59 mins
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 experience working with international NGOs, such as Oxfam and civil society organizations in Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and Britain. Dr. Mu...
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Palestine 1492 A Report Back

June 22, 2026 • 59 mins
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 Quiquivix write, the book is “a report back of what I see from 500 years of struggle in words, maps, and images in the 7 cardinal direc...
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Jovelyn delves into Conversation with Professor Elizabeth Pryor’s Book: Something We Said.

June 15, 2026 • 59 mins
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 – the iconic comedian Richard Pryor – had written. After the incident, Elizabeth dove into research to better understand the ...
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SF Frameline, QWOCMAP and remembering Jill Lessing

June 8, 2026 • 59 mins
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, and most widely recognized queer film exhibition in the world so this year marks 50 years of Frameli...
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Black German Women Singing for Life, Love, and Liberation!

May 25, 2026 • 59 mins
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 music and hear them harmonize impromptu on this program. You will love them! This program was produced for KPFA International Women&rsquo...
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Womens Magazine – May 18, 2026

May 18, 2026 • 59 mins
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

May 11, 2026 • 59 mins
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 humanitari...
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Womens Magazine – May 4, 2026

May 4, 2026 • 59 mins
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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