Out-FM is a weekly progressive queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It generally airs at 99.5 and wbai.org on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. Please support us during our pledge drive. Become a member for $25 or a BAI Buddy (sustainer) for $5/month or more. Go to give2wbai.org or call 516-620-3602 and let them know you listen to Out-FM.
Sign up for our Weekly Newsletter with show announcements
Tune into Out-FM on Tue., March 16, 2021 from 8:00-9:00pm, on WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
Remembering Marielle Franco: Solidarity with politically persecuted activists in Brazil and the U.S.
Marielle Franco was a black, queer* woman who was a socialist, feminist elected to be a Rio de Jainero city council member. She was assassinated 3 years ago in March 2018. Glenn Greenwald, a gay journalist, listed what he referred to as the "most important subjects to cover" regarding Franco's assassination stating:
Her relentless and brave activism against the most lawless police battalions, her opposition to military intervention, and, most threateningly of all, her growing power as a black, gay woman from the favela, a Brazilian shanty town, seeking not to join Brazil’s power structure, but to subvert it.[41]
The event was organized by: The People’s Forum & Defend Democracy in Brazil NY chapter. The speakers will review what was behind the brutal and yet unsolved assassination of Councilwoman Franco and discuss the ongoing violent political persecution of activists fighting for social justice in Brazil and in the United States. Click on poster for full video [*Correction Marielle Franco was bisexual not Trans]
Jacqueline Woodson: A Reading and Conversation
Jacqueline Woodson, is an award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming (winner of the National Book Award and a Newbery Honor), Another Brooklyn, and most recently, the New York Times bestseller, Red at the Bone. Woodson, a 2020 MacArthur “genius award” winner, will read from Another Brooklyn and join in a conversation about her work and life with Dána-Ain Davis, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at The Graduate Center and professor of urban studies at Queens College, CUNY. For more on the event: https://gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=59343. For the whole 44 minute interview go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me28stL2Lnk&t=740s