THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with co-hosts Lynn Harris Ballen & Kiyana Williams :: FIRST … Mujeres Market is a Los Angeles-based market that gathers local womxn of color entrepreneurs, artists, writers, and collectives to display their work. MM also includes vendors from the gender-nonconforming and transgender community. MM is curated by Nalgona Positivity Pride and celebrates the resiliency, talent, and hustle that exists in these communities. We talk to NPP founder Gloria Lucas about the market and other current projects.
THEN … Summer is here and the great outdoors is supposed to be a place of relaxation. But, the messages we’re sold about outdoor activities are that they are for mostly white, super-fit and affluent people. Bitch Magazine’s Popaganda focused on body positivity and how to deal with the anxieties people have around having their bodies being on display outside. And Sarah Mirk spoke with Unlikely Hikers creator Jenny Bruso about her experience being out in the woods as a self-identified fat, queer femme … and how her instagram account is taking on diversity, inclusion and representation.
AND … We chat with members of Turn It Up! – a newly-formed collective working toward gender parity in music. They advocate for equal airplay, media coverage, and industry employment of groups historically and structurally excluded from the business and institutions of music-making. Their members include musicians, DJs, journalists, and scholars. Turn It Up! is hosting their first public event with an all-star women line-up on July 21 from 2 to 6 p.m. at The Echoplex. The concert brings together a diverse group of female artists, including Alice Bag, Adele Bertei, Nina Diaz, Phranc, Sharon Needles, Abby Travis, The Groans, Lisa Kekaula, Solvej Schou and more! DJs diA and Mukta Mohan will woman the turntables, and our very own Valecia Phillips of Feminist Magazine will MC. And we’ll get all the info about it from Turn It Up! steering committee members Evelyn McDonnell and Adele Bertei.
All this on KPFK on Tuesday at 2.
THIS is What Feminism Can Sound Like.
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