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 Today Lisa Dettmer will talk to Maureen Gosling  about her new film “The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane” that is playing the El Cerrito  Rialto cinema on august 14th at 7pm.  But first  I will talk to Judith Raiskin and Courtney Hermann about their new film “Outliers and Outlaws”  on the lesbians of the 70’s that created community in Eugene Oregon and which will be showing closing nite at the SF Queer Film Festival on august 24th at at 7pm at the Roxie theater in SF. And before we go, I talk to Nomy Lamm about the life of local Bay Area  disabilty justice activist Patty Berne who died much to young in May . The post Barbara Dane, Outliers and Outlaws and remembering Patty Berne appeared first on KPFA.

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In a time when Jewish trauma is being weaponized and used to justify the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, the book An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: Somatic Practices to Heal Historical Wounds, Unlearn Oppression, and Create a Liberated World to Come presents a liberatory model for Jewish healing firmly rooted in Jewish spiritual values. In this book based conversation the panel  discusses the intersection of healing and activism that can make our organizing movements more healing and our healing more political to strengthen our collective work for a free Palestine and a Jewishness beyond Zionism. Over the last year and a half, many of us activists and organizers have felt hopeless, despairing, and angry that we have not been able to stop this genocidal violence being carried out in our names. Sometimes we take these feelings out on each other by being overly critical and unkind, which leads to fractures inside our movements. At this time of rising fascism when the Trump administration is exploiting the fractures on the Left to create division, we can incorporate body-based healing to strengthen our collective power that moves us closer to a liberated world and a free Palestine. Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) is a queer non-binary, disabled, cat- loving Ashkenazi Jewish somatic healer, writer, activist, and visual artist residing on Duwamish and Coast Salish land. One of the founders of the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, they have been active in Palestinian solidarity work for more than two decades. As a politicized healer, Wes works at the intersection of personal and collective healing with individuals, groups, and organizations. They are the creator and facilitator of Ruach, an ongoing anti-Zionist, body-based Jewish healing group. Cecilie Surasky is the Director of Communications and Narrative at the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) at UC Berkeley, a global research and advocacy organization focused on understanding the structures of exclusion and building a world where all people belong. Cecilie’s career spans decades of mobilizing politically marginalized communities, and she’s proud of her role in building a co-liberation movement as the founding communications and later deputy director of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). She draws from her own family’s journey with traumatic grief, belonging and resilience. Penny Rosenwasser, Ph.D., is a lifelong heartfelt rabble-rouser for justice. A queer/lesbian white Jewish intersectional feminist, Penny is author of the award-winning Hope into Practice, Jewish women choosing justice despite our fears. She was a founding Board member and early leader of Jewish Voice for Peace, co-teaches an Antisemitism/Anti-Arabism class with a Palestinian colleague at City College of San Francisco, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. An educator, public speaker, fundraiser and  facilitator, Penny organized events for the Middle East Children’s Alliance for 32 years and is a racial justice leader at Kehilla synagogue.           The post An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: A conversation about the intersection of healing and activism with Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes), Cecilie Surasky, and Penny Rosenwaswer appeared first on KPFA.

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Want to know what feminist and women centered films to watch this June at SF Frameline and Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project film festivals ?       This Monday June 9th at 1-2pm pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine I will be talking about the two most important Queer film festivals in the U.S., the San Francisco Frameline LGBTQI + film festival and QWOCMAP. SF Frameline runs from June 18th to June 28th at venues in San Francisco and here in the east bay as well. Frameline will also have films available online to stream from June 23rd to July 1st. I will talk to SF Frameline’s executive director Allegra Madsen about some of the films that feature queer women. All that info is at Frameline.org. Then we will talk to the directors and producers of two deeply moving standout feature length documentaries showing at Frameline that are both about Queer poets and activists.       I talk to Jessica Hargrave, who is a producer on the must see new feature length documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light” which is about spoken word artist and poet Andrea Gibson and their partner, poet Megan Falley, as they find meaning and love while dealing with Gibson’s terminal cancer diagnosis.       And then we will look at another must see film, the new powerful and touching documentary “A Mother Apart,”about Black lesbian feminist poet and activist Staceyann Chin. That film explores Staceyann Chin’s relationship with her mother and daughter and her search to find her mother who left her scarred when her mom abandoned her at the age of 9 and left Staceyann vulnerable to the violence women so often encounter within patriarchy. “A Mother Apart” follows Staceyann as she explores how her mother was herself impacted by the deeply misogynist and racist world we live in. The film also explores how Staceyann Chin found her own healing and self love and was able to pass on that love to her daughter Zuri, interrupting the cycle of violence that radicalized patriarchy and colonialism inflicts on so many women.      In the second half of the show I talk to Madeline Lim, founder and executive director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project or QWOCMAP. QWOCMAP presents their 21st annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival this year and it is offered for free, and runs from June 13th-15th at San Francisco’s historic Presidio Theatre in the Presidio National Park. And we talk to Kirthi Nath who is an award winning South Asian lesbian filmmaker, whose lushly beautiful and touching film PARAMITA is being featured at QWOCMAP. For more info check out the website at QWOCMAP.org/festival.   The post Celebrate Queer Pride with SF Frameline and QWOCMAP film festivals appeared first on KPFA.

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Today we have an interview with anti zionist JVP activist Dr Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) who will  be talking about their brand new book called “An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: Somatic Practices to Heal Historical Wounds, Unlearn Oppression, and Create a Liberated World to Come” This book is an Unapologetically anti-Zionist book  that is firmly rooted in Jewish spiritual values and a  liberatory model for healing for all activists and in particular  for anti zionists and  Zionist  “An Ani-Zionist path to Embodied Jewish Healing”  provides Body-based tools and faith-based practices for processing trauma, reclaiming our agency, and building a world where “never again” means “never again for anyone” Deftly addressing how  ancestral grief  from colonialism lives on in  all our bodies and keeps us from feeling safe—and how  that fear can become enacted on other people, Somerson also addresses how Israel manipulates its citizens to remain stuck in trauma and fear from the Holocaust and anti semitism and asks how do we reconcile a history of persecution with the state power of Israel today? Somerson’s book  An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing shows us how  thru somatic healing  we can  strengthen our movement to build effective solidarity and purposeful power. They do  this by showing  how oppressive systems that exist outside of us also exist in our own bodies and how somatic healing and healing justice can help us find our aliveness to better understand our relationship to collective power to become better activists rooted in creating solidarities and collective power that will last and not turn against itself.  Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) is a queer non-binary, disabled, Ashkenazi Jewish somatic healer, writer, activist, and visual artist and  One of the founders of the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for  Peace.  They have been active in Palestinian solidarity work for over two decades. As a politicized healer, Wes works at the intersection of personal and collective healing with individuals, groups, and organizations. The post Antizionist healing with Wes Somerson appeared first on KPFA.

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Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer  talks to three Queer farmers of color, Oriana Bolden, Loa Niumeitolu and Kellee Matsushita-Tseng about how we can create alternative spaces to sustain us during this newest round of fascism.  While  Trump is orchestrating a neoliberal collapse  and we weather  the constant barrage of attacks on our lives we need to create alternative communities rooted in the land.   But our capitalist  industrial model of growing and consuming food is contributing to both climate change and social inequity and unfortunately large agro industrial farming is not that  different than plantation farming. industrial capitalism is undermining our ability to build sustainable food systems for all.  98% of Farm Land is controlled by white people and  many  argue that alternative economies—including alternative food networks—continue to benefit middle class white folks, while further marginalizing communities of color and low-income folks.  So today I am going to talk to 3 Queer farmers who are  creating  farms and gardens farming for BIPOC and low income and Queer people which is so important to  creating a truly just movement for food sovereignty and  is so important right now to help create alternative communities that can sustain us when we can not count on government grants or financial support reminding us that  we will need to create   independent grassroots movements rooted in the land  where we can be sustained with food and well being and   where we can create our  own systems for  mutual aid and an alternative non extractive non exploitive economic and eco system.  Today we talk  to 3 farmers who are doing that.   Oriana Bolden  is a Black, queer, filmmaking farmer located in Grass Valley, CA, where Oriana  stewards medicinal herbs, edible flowers and long-celebrated, but “forgotten” herbs, spices and indigenous foods that are local and ecologically and culturally important.  And we talk to Loa Niumeitolu, who  is a Tongan poet, community organizer, educator and urban farmer. She is the director of Planting Oceania, a Pacific Islander collective that plants their ancestral foods and medicine for self determination and to heal from the destructions of colonization.. planting Oceania plants on the unceded territories of Lisjan and Raymatush tribes.”    And lastly we talk to Kellee Matsushita-Tseng who  is a yonsei, 4th generation queer japanese-chinese american, living and farming on unceded territory of the  Uypi-tribe   in Santa Cruz. Kellee joined the Food, What?! team in 2023 with over a decade of both farming and education experience, with special love for connecting people to seed stewardship. In addition to their work with youth at Food What?!, Kellee works to build seed sovereignty movements as a means of cultivating community power and organizes with a collective of AAPI farmers and organizers across the country, called Second Generation Seeds, which preserves, improves, and breeds crops significant to communities of the Asian diaspora.  Kellee is also a founding member of Bitter Cotyledons, a collective of queer and trans asian Americans that cultivates creative resilience through ancestral foodways and community. The post Queers of Color Farmers appeared first on KPFA.

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