It’s International Women’s Day – what does that mean to you? Is it about solidarity with women’s struggles around the world?
This week on the show, FIRST : In this post-Roe world creative and artistic ways are vital to keep us going. Six for Sexual Freedom: Six Righteous Stage Plays to Preserve Sexual Rights – a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood – aims to do just that. An evening of six quirky and enterprising readings of short plays centering around women’s reproduction coming up Wednesday, March 22nd, 8pm at Theatre of NOTE. We talk to playwrights Jennifer Hugus and Stephanie Crowley.
THEN … From Black Panther to Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu, Afrofuturism has become part of our culture. Filmmaker and author Ytasha Womack defines Afrofuturism as “the intersection between black culture, technology, liberation and the imagination, with some mysticism thrown in, too.” On this episode of Making Contact – Afrofuturism: 3 Women You Need to Know – authors Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Jewelle Gomez discuss the role of history and politics in their work, the monsters that haunt their stories and the importance of imagining the future.
AND … March is Women’s History Month in the US. So how did that start? What is the origin? We get the story from Cultural Herstorian Amy Simon who invites everyone to celebrate Women’s History Month by seeing her new play SHE Is History! A FREE Reading. Onstage Tuesday, March 14th at 7:30pm as part of the Theatre West New Works Play Festival.
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