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 Aug 18: White Noise ...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … Cherise Charleswell talks to Zara Zimbardo, co-founder of The White Noise Collective. How do the intersection of gendered oppression and white skin privilege interact? The White Noise Collective ‘conspires...

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FM July 21: Juneteenth...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with hosts Valecia Phillips & Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST – We feature a segment from Making Contact with guests Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott and Fania Davis that explores the history of Juneteenth and expands the conversation to include...

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FM July 14: Detained in...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … Are we paying enough attention to the situation of incarcerated and detained women and the CoronaVirus? Among 2.3 million people in prisons, jails and immigration detention facilities are 40 thousand ICE...

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FM July 7: Kimberle Cr...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen: FIRST … Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the concept of intersectionality 30 years ago. She developed that framework to understand how identities including race, gender and class intersect in overlapping...

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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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