FM July 16, 2025: Mutual Aid / Operation Healthy Hearts

THIS WEEK on FemMag with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: Last month, a few days after the ICE kidnappings began in Los Angeles, rightwing media including Fox News and the NY Post reported that “ Leftwing nonprofit groups are openly helping to fuel anti-ICE riots in LA”.  Among the groups they attacked for sharing PPE kits was Operation Healthy Hearts (OHH) – which is in fact a grassroots mutual aid organization based in Hacienda Heights. We talk to Operation Healthy Hearts founder Jackie Villalta...

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FM April 6, 2022: Femin...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST …  Feminist Frequency fights abuse and challenges sexism in online Gaming. They began in 2009, when founder Anita Sarkeesian started making videos examining pop culture from a feminist perspective –...

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FM Mar 30, 2022 : Self ...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST – How do activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles take care of their mental health?  People who work in the service of others are particularly at risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. ...

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FM Mar 23, 2022 : Women...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … we hear about the situation for women in Ukraine. Christina Aanestad talks to Oleksandra Matviichuk – a Kyiv-based human rights lawyer and civil society leader. And then Margo Okazawa-Rey talks to Dr....

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FM Mar 16, 2022 : Women...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen : Two doc films for Women’s History Month! FIRST …  As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band and was also a key inspiration for the...

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• FM July 16, 2025: Mutual Aid / Operation Healthy Hearts
• FM July 2, 2025: Where Women Made History
• FM Sept 25, 2024: Bridges Across Homelands / She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
• FM Aug 11, 2024 : Gender Liberation March / Election Security
• FM July 17, 2024 : MeToo & Christine Blasey Ford / Revolutionary Mothering
• FM June 5, 2024:: Conscious Style Guide / Self Care for Activists
• FM May 28. 2024 :: Frida in America / Healing from Military Trauma
• FM April 3, 2024:: Land Liberation & Homefulness / “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”

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