THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine, with host Lynn Harris Ballen : FIRST … It’s the 46th anniversary of the historic Roe v Wade supreme court decision legalizing abortion in the US. But opponents have been chipping away at availability and access and – during his election campaign – Trump even promised to overturn it. In this powerful documentary segment, Charlotte Landes of Making Contact looks back at the early ’70s when a radical collective in Chicago – nicknamed ‘The Janes’ – took abortions into their own hands. We’ll hear their voices from the Stanford Storytelling Project. And , Linci Comy of Woman’s Choice Clinic and Nina Liss-Schultz of Mother Jones Magazine discuss current challenges and how people continue to find ways to make this vital procedure safer, more affordable, and more accessible.
THEN … The “jezebel trope” in the black church and in black popular culture is pivotal to reinforcing men’s cultural and institutional power to discipline and define black girlhood and womanhood. Cherise Charleswell talks to Tamura Lomax, author of “Jezebel Unhinged” about how her book traces the history, drawing on theories of race and the commodification of women’s bodies under slavery. It looks at contemporary black church culture, and media stereotypes in the work of Bishop T. D. Jakes and Tyler Perry, and at ways women are resisting the stereotype.
AND … Who would YOU write a Feminist “love letter” to? To celebrate the third year of Feminist Love Letters, you’re invited to host a letter writing party with your favorite feminist friends during the month of February. The project – created by Sara Ellen Fowler and Cindy Rehm on Valentine’s Day 2016 – is gathering letters to feature on their archived platform. And we talk to Cindy about how to get together with friends and ‘profess your love, send words of encouragement, or unleash your feminist fury’ in a missive to a current or historic feminist … and document your passionate art messages!
ALL THIS on Feminist Magazine on KPFK at 2.
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