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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Oct 1 on FM: ‘Lef...

Hosted by Lynn Harris Ballen and Valecia Phillips : Rachel Gelfand interviews Rochelle Ruthchild about the 888 Women’s History Project and their new documentary ‘Left On Pearl’. This important feminist film tells the story of a 1971 take over of a Harvard building....

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Sept 24 on FM: XXX-rate...

Hosted by Ariana Manov, Valecia Phillips & Abeni Moreno: XXX-rated sex activist, educator, and feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino gets down with Feminist Magazine, introducing her new anthology The Feminist Porn Book. Can porn be feminist? Says who? What does it mean to be...

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Sept 17 on FM: Tech Gir...

Hosted by Ariana Manov and Lynn Harris Ballen with Abeni Moreno : L.A. may be the home of the pop-up restaurant, but it recently played host to a pop-up Fellowship: The GOOD Global Neighborhood Challenge. It’s a week-long exchange of ideas between local community activists and...

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Sept 10 on FM: Creating...

Hosted by Lynn Harris Ballen, Ariana Manov & Abeni Moreno.  With contributors Sirena Pellarolo & Danielle Roderick : We’re talking about women and grrrls creating culture for themselves this week! First we cover the SoCal scene & hear all about “DIY: We’re...

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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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