THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … If you were a fan of the tv show ‘A League of Their Own’ or you loved the musical ‘Hairspray’ – you’re going to love High Heels on Wheels-The Musical. Today we’re talking to Leslie Sloan – lyricist, book writer and producer and Rachael McLachlan who plays the lead role of Doris. We hear about how life affirming it could be to come out as lesbian in the 1960s, the freedom for women in the roller derby community, and how birth control was illegal in some states in a parallel to today’s fight for self managed abortions.
High Heels opens at the Hudson Backstage Theatre on June 15, with a special event with the LA Derby Dolls on June 17. Tickets here.
AND … Honoring the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs via the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS. Revealing Boggs’s lifetime of action through U.S. social movements from labor to civil rights, to Black Power and Feminism, to the Asian American and environmental justice movements. And her radical connections to both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.
Wednesday at 7 on KPFK
Podcast on Spotify & Apple Podcasts
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