THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine, with host Lynn Harris Ballen : FIRST … Do you regularly take buses or trains in LA? Women take Los Angeles County public transit more than men … but the experiences, needs, and safety concerns of women have been chronically overlooked. Statistics about harassment and other issues are now included in a first-of-its-kind study by LA Metro called “Understanding How Women Travel”. And yes, no surprise, it found that women faced “outsized burdens and risks” on the transit network.
Madeline Brozen, deputy director for the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, was part of a team from UCLA that advised Metro staff on the study. And she joins us to talk about the LA Metro study, as well as other research studying public transit safety among female and LGBTQ college students.
THEN … Despite current survivor-affirming awareness, child sexual abuse is still a very taboo topic in families. Cherise Charleswell talks to Aishah Shahidah Simmons about her current project “Love With Accountability: Digging up the roots of Child Sexual Abuse.” Aishah is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, published writer, international lecturer, professor, activist; and incest & adult rape survivor. For over two decades her work has examined the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. This new anthology invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse, without relying on the criminal justice system.
AND … This week Iranian American citizens were detained at a border crossing from Vancouver. This is a new wave in unjust border policies and treatment of migrants. A special from Making Contact Radio … ‘Migrations: Standing in Solidarity With the Desperate‘ recently looked at activist women who founded groups organizing to transform the current border policies of the USA, and to uphold immigrants’ human rights internationally. We hear from Dr. Satsuki Ina, who co-founded Tsuru for Solidarity.
All this on KPFK on Tuesday at 2pm
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