THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … Kristina Wong is a performance artist, comedian, writer and elected representative. She’s also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama, for her show Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord – currently onstage at the Kirk Douglas theater in Culver City. The show was born out of Kristina’s experience forming the Auntie Sewing Squad — a collective of mostly Asian women who organized during lockdown via Facebook. Their adaptive and quirky mutual-aid group showed up to meet a critical need – to sew masks for at-risk folks, front-line workers and vulnerable communities in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
We also hear about the anthology written and edited by Aunties themselves – The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice – that tells their powerful stories.
AND … Federal food programs, like WIC, face big changes coming out of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. Meanwhile, a single moms collective in Ohio holds it down for the single pregnant and parenting people in their community. Motherful’s resource pantry serves their 325-strong membership out of a garage three times a week. We talk to members and founders to learn what’s it’s like to participate, how it all started and where food justice is headed for them now and in their wildest dreams.
Wednesdays at 7 on KPFK 90.7FM and kpfk.org
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