THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with with co-hosts Lynn Harris Ballen and Suzette Zazueta :: FIRST … Black Lives Matter LA recently posted a statement condemning the Women’s March Los Angeles organizers for excluding BLMLA speakers from City Hall stage at the 4th Annual Women’s March in LA. The statement calls out lack of inclusion and a stage devoid of any Black women grassroots leaders. We’ll talk to BLMLA’s Melina Abdullah about the fundamental difference in approach between on-the-ground action and engaging in actual work that transforms the world, rather than just gathering for a parade.
THEN … The Trump administration last week threatened to withhold federal funding from California over its requirement that private health insurers cover abortions. Although last week was also the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Jessie Nieblas of the New Orleans Abortion Fund and Liza Fuentes of Ibis Reproductive Health talk about how all across the country abortion access keeps being eroded.
AND … “Nice Chinese Girls Don’t: A Poetry Memoir” is a short documentary that introduces the work and words of pioneering activist and Chinese American lesbian poet Kitty Tsui. Tsui wrote the first book by a Chinese American Lesbian, contributed to the emergence of the Asian Pacific Lesbian Feminist Movement and was a Gay Games Gold Medal Bodybuilder. The documentary talks about her coming of age in San Francisco in the 1970s, and about having been rediscovered by a whole new generation. Suzette Zazueta talks to Kitty Tsui and director Jennifer Abod about the film and its significance.
All this on Tues at 2 on KPFK.
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This week’s program was produced by Lynn Harris Ballen
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