THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with co-hosts Lynn Harris Ballen & Suzette Zazueta : FIRST … ‘Choice, Church and State’. Abortion and women’s reproductive rights are hot button issues around the world. Women have a long way to go to obtain control over our own bodies, our family planning, our reproductive health. There are influential well-funded efforts to keep that control out of women’s hands. Women Rising Radio talks to key organizers whose work is advancing women’s reproductive rights. Sara Hutchinson Ratcliffe is an advocate with Catholics for Choice in the USA and abroad; and Sarah Flores is a youth organizer with Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. Ailbhe Smyth is a feminist activist and organizer in Ireland’s successful Together for Yes campaign, which made abortion legal there in 2018. All these women are on the front lines of activism for women’s reproductive rights.
THEN … Mujeres de Maiz is a grassroots, multimedia women’s activist organization – based in East LA – that brings together and empowers diverse women and girls through the creation of community spaces. Their work provides holistic wellness through education, programming, exhibition and publishing. Their annual Spring programming is full of art, food and spiritual events, deeply rooted in Xicanx culture. And we talk to co-founder Felicia Montes about upcoming April events.
AND … Soleil Ho from Popaganda talks about veganism and the politics of eating plants and meat. Is it possible to reduce it to diet or wellness , or is it inherently political? What is the connection between industrialized meat production and patriarchy? And why does Western culture conflate eating meat with masculinity, and what does that have to do with climate change? We’ll hear about the place of veganism in politics from Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and a recent cookbook, Protest Kitchen, on masculine anxieties around meat-eating and the progressive case for veganism (and how you really can’t be a Trump supporter and be a vegan!)
All this on Feminist Magazine on Tuesday at 2 on KPFK.
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