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Cancer Memoir: "Medical Apartheid & Racism Isn’t Some Far-Off Myth"
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Broadcast on Tues., April 23, 2024
from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on
99.5 FM WBAI/NY or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
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Walela Nehanda (they/them),
30 yrs old, non-gender binary, author, cancer survivor, cultural critic
Interview by Stahimili Mapp
Music: Changes, by Tupac Shakur
We at Out FM are pleased to welcome a young writer, Walela Nehanda. She is here with us to discuss her stunning debute book Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir.
Walela, who was diagnosed with advanced leukemia at aged 23, wrote this memoir to help process her illness, contemplate her own death, document the racism and uncaring nature of the U.S. medical system, and dance with her ancestors. Our conversation covers her response to all of the above and more.
This is a new, young voice who, it has been said, writes in the tradition of Audre Lorde. She does not disappoint.
Bless the Blood
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Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 FM and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. and at a time TBA on KPFK.org
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LGBT Bookstores and the Trans Day of Visibility
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Broadcast on Tues., April 16, 2024
from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on
99.5 FM WBAI/NY or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
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2024 Trans Day of Visibility Flyer
On the Trans Day of Visibility on March 31, the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) of the City University of New York (CUNY) convened a panel of transgender activists for a wide-ranging discussion of transgender and non-binary identity and visibility; we will air excerpts from the panel discussion, which included Out-FM's own Pauline Park.
Pauline Parkwith Greg Newton,of the Bureau of General Services — Queer Division (BGSQD)
In the second half of the show, Pauline Park will speak with Greg Newton, co-proprietor with his partner and life in business Donnie Jochum of the Bureau of General Services — Queer Division (BGSQD) about the challenges and rewards of running New York City's only independent queer bookstore and the wave of state-sponsored book bans and censorship of queer speech. BGSQD is located at the LGBTQ Center at 208 W. 13th St. Find them on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/BGSQD or on Instagram at : https://www.instagram.com/bgsqd/
Meet Out-FM in person Saturday 4-21 from 12-6pm EDT at the Rainbow Book Fair
The annual event will be held at the LGBTQ Center at 208 W. 13th Street in Manhattan from 12-6pm EDT. Out-FM will be on the 2nd floor.
About Out-FM
Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 FM and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. It airs Thu April 18th at 3am PDT (6am EST) on KPFK.org
WE URGE YOU TO CONSIDER DONATING $99.50 TO RECEIVE THE WOMEN'S HISTORY COLLECTION FLASHDRIVE. You can also become a WBAI Buddy (sustainer) at $10/month or more to get this premium, along with our fabulous canvas tote bag. Among the voices on this showcasing of progressive women's voices over the past 3/4 century are these queer women:
* Lorraine Hansberry
* Angela Davis (an entire collection)
* Billie Holiday
* Audre Lorde
* June Jordan
* Alice Walker
* Adrienne Rich