FM Nov 24: Post-Election Transnational Feminists/ Feminist SciFi / Cherrie Moraga

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST…  Election reactions: KPFA Women’s Magazine’s Margo Okazawa-Rey talks to transnational feminists from four countries & asked them what difference the new administration could make for the lives of the women in their country?
We hear from Ruth-Gaby Vermot, former Socialist Party Swiss Parliamentarian , Randa Siniora a Palestinian human rights and women’s rights defender; Kozue Akibayashi a feminist researcher/activist in Kyoto, Japan; and Corazon Valdez Fabros, Philippine feminist activist all challenge us to work towards Transnational Feminism.
THEN … Wouldn’t you love to read more Feminist sci-fi?! We hear from Roz Helfand about the “Women Hold Up Half the Sky Award” – a special feminist themed sci-fi award co-presented by Artemis literary journal and Feminist Magazine KPFK. Submit your stories by December 15, 2020.
AND … La Maestra Cherrie Moraga recently posted a poem responding to these times – we share it here: “The Last Straw – COVID & La Política from a Xicana/Latina Indigenous Perspective”. Her latest work is Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir‘.

Tuesday at 2 on KPFK. What Feminism Can Sound Like

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