THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen : FIRST … The singer, songwriter, activist and truthteller Sinead O’Connor passed away last week at age 56. And there’s been a huge outpouring of memories and tributes.Fans are heartbroken, photos and video clips are being shared all over social media and many of us are talking about why Sinead’s music and persona were so deeply meaningful to so many of us.
Music journalist Allyson McCabe’s recent book Why Sinead O’Connor Matters just came out in May this year. And she joins us today to talk about it.
AND … The documentary film And So I Stayed raises awareness about criminalized survival, the criminal justice system’s long practice of imprisoning survivors of intimate partner violence when they fight back against their abusers. Amy Gastelum talks to journalist Natalie Pattillo and filmmaker Daniel A. Nelson about the film. Pattillo, herself a survivor, followed the stories of three women imprisoned for killing their abusers in a struggle to survive. And how Kim Dadou Brown has been fighting to change the justice system since her own release.
Wednesday at 7 on KPFK
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