#07-20 The Feminist Press Turns 50 … Founder Florence Howe details the early years
Founded in the US in 1970, the Feminist Press publishes neglected masterpieces by women of many cultures, countries and races,
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Arts and Culture
#05-20 bell hooks on Transforming Rage … From the WINGS archive (1993), and still good advice
Renowned cultural critic and feminist theorist bell hooks gave the keynote address at the 12th annual conference of the Texas
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#03-20 Music Teacher Mother … Special for the week of Mother’s Day
Until the virus isolation began, my mother was still teaching music at age 94. In this interview she talks of
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#02-02 Sexing the Web … Exploring sex and gender through the brand new world wide web
This show from the archives (1996!) has new relevance now the pandemic renders many courtships virtual. Caitlin Sullivan and Kate Bornstein co-wrote
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#51-19 Peace Poetry … at the start of America’s longest war
On October 9, 2001, poet Susan Bright read peace poetry in Frieda Werden’s kitchen, as both were grieving Bush’s bombing
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#49-19 Right to Water … The UN Declaration on this Human Right, and how it is used
On 28 July 2010 the United Nations General Assembly declared safe and clean drinking water and sanitation a human right.
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#47-19 The Rapist In Your Path
“The patriarchy is a judge, that judges us for being born, and our punishment, is the violence you don’t see.
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#46-19 Matilda Joslyn Gage, Renegade Suffragist
Historian Sally Roesch Wagner discusses her favourite US suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage modeled her feminism on the practices of
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#45-19 Not from Man’s Rib!
A rousing talk by Islamic theologian Riffat Hassan, exploring how the story of Adam and Eve crept into Islam, though
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#43-19 Fasia – Afro-German survivor sang for peace
Her mother was German, her father a Liberian diplomat. When the Nazis came to power, young Fasia Jansen was sent
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