FM Jan 21: Women Protest Citizenship in India & Artesia / “Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old”

This week on Feminist Magazine with co-hosts Lynn Harris Ballen and Sehba Sarwar:   FIRST …  Sehba talks to Anjali Arondekar about protests in India against the government’s new Citizenship Amendment Act – CAA. Arondokar serves as Associate Professor of Feminist Studies as well as Director of South Asian Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She tells us about how India’s constitutional amendment is a threat to Muslims and other minorities in India, after her recent trip to Bombay/Mumbai, India where she participated in protests against the CAA.
THEN … Guests Sarah Manjra and Bilal Kazmi will report on the protest against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act that they organized along with a group of community activists this past Sunday in Artesia, L.A’s Little India. The rally was held in solidarity with students in Delhi as well as Muslim women in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, who along with millions of undeterred Indian citizens, have been protesting for a month to protect India’s secularism.
AND … We hear from Kimberly Dark, author of the new book “Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old” – a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection of personal essays. Using storytelling and social analysis to move readers into a deeper understanding of how appearance privilege (and stigma) function, it’s a blueprint for how each of us can build a more just social world, one interaction at a time.
All this on Tues at 2 on KPFK.
THIS is what Feminism can sound like!