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WLRN's August edition gives the spotlight to Beth Stelzer and Linda Blade of the organization Save Women's Sports. First up, you'll hear our world news segment as written and delivered by WLRN's April Neault before enjoying the song "Y Control" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Then, stay tuned for an interview Dani Whitaker did with Beth Stelzer and Linda Blade of Save Women's Sports to learn about their campaigns to keep males out of women's sports. Finally, keep listening to hear Sekhmet SheOwl's poignant commentary about how female socialization contributes to our need for sex segregated sports and how allowing males to compete with females defeats the purpose of it. Thanks for tuning in to another edition of WLRN's monthly handcrafted podcast. If you like what you're hearing, consider becoming a listener sponsor by signing up to give us a monthly donation of $5 or more. You can do this by clicking on the donate button on our wordpress site here:https://wlrnmedia.wordpress.com/.

Like many feminists, filmmaker Nina Paley has been blacklisted and de-platformed for speaking out in favor of the rights of girls and women. This has happened despite the fact that the content of her work does not overtly challenge trans activism. Recently, however, Paley received a lifetime achievement award from Animikon Fest, an animation festival in Spain, despite them knowing she is blacklisted for her feminist politics. On July 6th, 2020, Thistle sat down with Nina to talk about receiving the award and her experiences of trans activism in her hometown. Ms. Paley makes an important distinction between "trans people" and trans activism in this discussion as well as positing that the best method of dealing with extremists is to ignore them. Nina Paley is the creator of the award-winning animated musical feature films Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism. She is also a moderator of the popular feminist social media platform, Spinster. Spinster.xyz. She has been deplatformed, banned, and blacklisted

On July 1st, WLRN's Danielle Whitaker spoke with author Abigail Shrier about Shrier's career and newly released book called Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. Abigail Shrier is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a B. Phil, from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Shrier interviewed almost 200 trans-identified teenagers, trans activists, doctors and parents for her book. In this interview, you will hear Ms. Shrier talk about her writing career and what inspired her to do research on the topic of transgenderism and how it is impacting teenage girls in our society.

We chose July to focus on climate change since it has the reputation for being one of the hottest months of the year. In this edition of our monthly news program, hear the world news written and delivered by WLRN's April Neult before enjoying the song "Flint" by Aisha Fukushima. Next up. hear an interview WLRN's Sekhmet SheOwl did with eco-feminist activist and author, Lierre Keith in which they discuss the importance of the feminist movement to the environmental movement and what mainstream environmental activism is getting wrong. Finally, this month's program is rounded off with poignant commentary from WLRN's Dana Vitalosova who offers her views on the climate crisis and how she is handling it. Thank you for tuning in to feminist community powered radio, WLRN. If you'd like to support our work, please consider clicking on the donate button on our wordpress site and browsing our merch tab to find a nice gift in exchange. https://wlrnmedia.wordpress.com/merch/ Without your support, we couldn't do this

Welcome to WLRN's 50th edition podcast! First up, hear WLRN's April Neault greet listeners from her natural setting in Canada, then hear the world news written and delivered by Dana Vitalosova followed by the song Far Away by Eivor. Next, stay tuned for excerpts from an interview Thistle did with Vaishnavi Sundar, feminist film maker and social analyst from India before enjoying the song Heal Me by Melissa Ethridge. After that, hear an interview with Diane Fischer, MichFest and Ohio Lesbian Festival sister who spoke with Thistle about her practice of massage therapy and how the pandemic has impacted her business and the lives of her colleagues and womyn's community in Ohio. Finally, don't miss Sekhmet SheOwl's commentary on how the pandemic is impacting women economically and socially during this time, and her message of solidarity and hope for women to begin to come out of isolation with a greater appreciation for our feminist community and how much we need to see each other in person. At the very end

Every month WLRN offers you our world news segment highlighting women's work, health and status from regions all over the globe. Thanks for listening to feminist community powered radio, WLRN.

Hear WLRN's Dana Vitalosova deliver our world news segments for Thursday, May 7th 2020.

This is WLRN's four year anniversary edition! First up, hear Danielle Whitaker introduce the topic for this month's podcast: women's rights in the Green Party USA and in particular, what is happening to the Georgia Green Party because they decided to sign onto the Declaration for Women's Sex-based Rights. https://www.womensdeclaration.com/ Next, hear WLRN's Dana Vitalosova deliver our world news segment right before the song "Tell it Like it Is" by Tracy Chapman. Following the news, hear an excerpt of an interview Thistle did with Georgia Green Party Co-Chair, Denice Traina and then another excerpt with former Green Party member and candidate, Elaine Mastromatteo, pictured in our cover image for this month. Both women talk about their involvement in the Green Party and comment on the status of women's rights. Next, enjoy the song "Sleep to Dream" by Fiona Apple. Finally, don't miss WLRN's Sekhmet SheOwl's scathing commentary on the state of American electoral politics in general as it relates to women, and

Peggy Luhrs is a lesbian feminist and social justice activist from Burlington, Vermont. She recently cancelled a public library discussion scheduled by the group Gender Critical Vermont, due to condemnation and threats by trans activists. She was a key mover and shaker of the early LGB movement in Burlington, is a member of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) and also produces the monthly program Feminist Media Review for the Center for Media & Democracy. Thistle interviewed Ms. Luhrs via skype on April 10, 2020 to ask her about her experiences in her hometown fighting off defamation and attacks by local trans activists. In this interview, you will hear Ms. Luhrs' detailed account of being escorted out by police at an event held by the Peace & Justice Center of Vermont. https://www.pjcvt.org/who-we-are/#board Video coverage of Ms. Luhrs' encounters at the event is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDuO1cwTg5M&feature=youtu.be WLRN is proud to highlight the work of lesbian

Tally's Lullaby Karen Marie Garrett Waiting Karen Marie Garrett Galweyo--We Call You Carolyn Hillyer Track 3 Jennifer Kriesberg Bird Calls The Nones Ancestor Song Carolyn Hillyer Calling All Angels KD Lang and Jane Siberry Light of My Light Ferron Shipwreck Chris Pureka The Whole World is Burning Jennifer Berezan My, My Ferron You are not alone Mavis Staples Love Throw a Line Patty Griffin My Love Is Alive Anastacia Best of My Love The Emotions I'll Be Your Shelter Taylor Dayne You Gotta Believe The Pointer Sisters Ain't No Mountain High Enough Diana Ross Oooh Child Beth Orton Make Sacred Space Shawn Carol Holding Space Crysy Matthews If it wasn't for the women Alix Dobkin Face the Music Meg Christian Track 1 Invocations to Free Women Ruth Barrett Rise Above Your Raising Diona Devincenzi Welcome back, sisters, to another hour of women’s music. I hope you are well and finding ways to stay centered and soothed wherever you are on this troubled planet. I’m Tamia Phoenixx, your DJ, and this time, in these times

Venice Allan is a woman’s rights campaigner who set up a series of talks on gender identity ideology, We Need To Talk, in 2017. She now works with Posie Parker at Standing For Women, a campaign to maintain the dictionary definition of ‘woman’ as an adult, human female. Thistle spoke with Venice last week via skype to get her thoughts on the current British feminist movement and what women are up to in the UK when it comes to women's rights.

In our April 2020 edition, hear timely world news as written and delivered by WLRN's Dana Vitalosova after Jenna's warm greeting to all of our listeners in this time of the virus outbreak. The focus of this show is on British feminists discussing their initiation and involvement in the women's movement, but our guests also talk about the virus outbreak and how it is possibly impacting the ways we think about ourselves, society and how we organize. Venice Allan is a woman’s rights campaigner who set up a series of talks on gender identity ideology, We Need To Talk, in 2017. She now works with Posie Parker at Standing For Women, a campaign to maintain the dictionary definition of ‘woman’ as an adult, human female. Thistle spoke with Venice via skype last week to hear about Venice's work in the UK and to get her take on the current British feminist movement. She speaks in great detail about the last event she helped organize before the lock down called "Women Say on Women's Day" at the historic Speakers' Cor

Vaishnavi Sundar is an independent filmmaker, feminist, writer, and women's rights activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Vaishnavi is known for her work in the field of cinema and activism involving an interplay of feminism and filmmaking. She has written, directed, and produced all her films under her own production company, Lime Soda Films. She is also the founder of Women Making Films, a community known for its effort to break the glass ceiling within the fraternity of domestic and world cinema. To watch her latest film, follow this link: gum.co/bwwsw and read the blog about how your support will help. https://medium.com/@vaishax/heres-how-you-can-watch-but-what-was-she-wearing-9d8a562bfad4 Thistle caught up with Ms. Sundar via skype on March 11th to talk with her about her recent de-platforming by trans activists crying "transphobia." Ms. Sundar worked for three years to produce a film unrelated to transgenderism only to have her debut screening in New York City canceled, not due to the virus outbr

From Thistle: After nearly two years, I ventured back into WORT studios in Madison to record a music show with my friend, Lucy Kilpatrick. From beginning to end, this musical hour features my musical voice and stories of bicycle adventuring. My music is available for purchase here: www.thistlepettersen.com. It was tough getting approval from the station to allow my music to air due to trans activists complaining that I am "transphobic" and "hateful and bigoted." Because of these accusations, WORT leadership would not allow me to do the program live from the studio for fear that I may say something "hateful" or "discriminatory towards marginalized groups." Knowing I was perfectly capable of not "spewing hate" as I am accused of, I agreed to this restriction and recorded my show in the studio on December 28th, 2019 with no incident. Even though the news director told me immediately that I had passed the test and had uttered no wrongspeak during the recording, she also said that the entire board of directo

In this month's edition, we focus on the #SayHerName movement and the legacy of state violence against black women. We begin as always with our world news segment written and read by Dana, followed by Nina Simone's Mississippi Goddamn. Next is an interview segment with award-winning poet Dominique Christina, wherein she talks to Thistle about her experience and perspective as a black woman in America, the intention of #SayHerName, and why the movement exists. Check out the full interview on our soundcloud or wordpress sites. From there Thistle announces this summer's upcoming Dragyn Ride from Hart to Wayland, MI, at the end of July. Listen for information on how to join up! And finally, Sekhmet SheOwl's commentary talks about the unique oppression black women and girls face at the hands of white male authority, and where white women fall short in helping black women achieve equality. As always, thank you for staying tuned to WLRN! https://aapf.org/shn-campaign http://www.dominiquechristina.com/

WLRN's Thistle Pettersen was able to capture an interview with award winning poet and writer, Dominique Christina, to ask her for her take on the feminist movement and #SayHerName. Dominique Christina has performed and conducted workshops for hundreds of colleges/universities, schools, community art spaces, nonprofit organizations, and conferences across the country. She has opened for Cornel West, appeared in Season 3 of Verses and Flow on TV One, performed for the Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till families at the Shiloh Baptist Church, and was a keynote speaker at the Emerging Women Conference, TedxMSU Denver, the LOHAS Conference, and was invited to China to perform her poetry in Chengdu. Dominique’s fourth manuscript “Anarcha Speaks” won the National Poetry Series 2017 Competition and was published Fall 2018 by Beacon Press. Learn more at http://www.dominiquechristina.com/ CORRECTION: WLRN apologizes to Kara Dansky and WoLF for misquoting her saying "WoLF is trying to recruit black women" when what Ms.

This is a short interview Thistle did with a woman attending a feminist breakfast gathering the day of the Fighting the New Misogyny talk that she was also attending at the Seattle Public Library later on, only three blocks away from the location of the breakfast. About 15 women gathered for the event, some from outside of the region and others from the Pacific Northwest and Seattle. What is noteworthy about this woman's testimony is how she does not identify as "conservative" or "right wing" but that because she has an analysis of gender identity that is not in alignment with trans ideology, she was labeled a "TERF" and subsequently "conservative" and "right wing." It is important for major media to hear the voices of the women attending the Seattle Public Library event, and not just continue to point at WoLF's bipartisan attempts to get radical feminist views into the mainstream via associations with conservatives and conservative groups. Please listen to this interview and realize that there are hundre

Thanks to our listener sponsors, WLRN was able to send Thistle Pettersen to Seattle the weekend of February 1st to attend the talk "Fighting the New Misogyny" featuring Lierre Keith, Meghan Murphy, Saba Malik and Kara Dansky at the Seattle Public Library. In this edition, you will hear exclusive coverage of events surrounding the main event that drew 350 people to the library to hear women speak about the harms of gender identity legislation and culture. There were supporters and protesters alike captured by the many media activists present though the absence of major media was glaring. First up, you'll hear the world news as written and delivered by WLRN's Dana Vitalosova right before hearing the Cranberries' song "Zombie" which is amazingly perfect for this month's topic. After the Cranberries song, WLRN's April Neault introduces the Seattle sound collage Thistle and Jenna co-created of the many voices of women attending the talk, offering their insights and statements about why they were there woven

Here is the extended interview Elizabeth McKeown did with Kathleen Richardson about the child sex dolls on the market. How are pedophilia, pornography, and prostitution linked? Will using an object stop men from using women and children as objects, or reaffirm their outlook that women and children are things? Dr. Kathleen Richardson is a robotics ethicist with a background in anthropology who works closely with human connection and relation, particularly as it pertains to autism.

In this extended WLRN interview, Thistle Pettersen talks with Dawn Smith, organizer with the Michigan Framily Reunion, about this women-only cultural event that remembers and honors the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival that took place near Hart, Michigan for 40 years with the last MichFest happening in August of 2015.