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 Feb 23, 2022: “...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :   FIRST … Guest host Alexis Pauline Gumbs in a brilliant and joyful conversation with author and scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin, about her book Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and...

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FM Feb 16, 2022: bell h...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :   Coming up FIRST … for Valentines week, bell hooks asks Why Choose To Love? We hear excerpts from a talk that the late author gave at the Los Angeles Public Library in December 1999 … when she was launching...

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FM Feb 9, 2022: Flower-...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :  FIRST … Guest host Saba Waheed talks to Jaishri Abichandani – a Brooklyn-based, multimedia artist about her stunning new exhibit, Flower-Headed Children at the Craft Contemporary in LA through May 8th. Over...

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FM Feb 2, 2022: Fannie...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen  –  we focus on two movement changemakers, to start off Black History Month. FIRST … Right now – when actions are being taken remove voting rights from millions of Americans and honest discussion...

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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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