FM Jan 4, 2023: Post-Roe Mutual Aid / Why Patti Smith Matters

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :  FIRST … Since the loss of federal protection, access to Abortion Care has become more difficult, especially in the south, the plains and the Midwest, but the movement for reproductive justice has only strengthened. From Making Contact / The Response hear about mutual aid efforts to connect folks to medical abortion and emergency contraception, & reproductive justice – about more than abortion access. Featuring: Gulf South Plan B, Angel Jones, Laurie Roberts, Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund

AND … music journalist, Caryn Rose, talks with Lucretia Tye Jasmine about Caryn’s recently released book, Why Patti Smith Matters – the first book written by a woman about the longtime and long esteemed singer and punk poet. Caryn writes – and speaks – with the confidence of someone who knows what she’s talking about. Decades of research and reflection have made Caryn beautifully informative. “Why Patti Smith Matters” reads like your smartest friend is telling you a fascinating story about why someone is important to her personally, and how that person made music history specifically. She explains how the punk poet-singer’s artistry and activism have turned Patti into an enduring icon, and how Patti reached and demystified that iconization: it’s the work that matters.

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