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Abortion Rights, Feminism and Lesbians - Then and Now
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Tune into Out-FM on Tuesday July 19 from 8:00-9:00pm, on 99.5FM WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
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Abortion Rights, Feminism and Lesbians - Then and Now
Tune into Out-FM on Tuesday, July 19 at 8 PM EST for “Abortion Rights, Feminism, and Lesbians - Then and Now.” Out-FM producer Bob Lederer and guest co-producer and student intern Cloe Loosz will interview Christine Riddiough, who during second-wave feminism edited the lesbian newspaper for the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, which became a model for socialist-feminist women’s unions around the country. Today Riddiough is a national queer leader of Democratic Socialists of America. We’ll discuss the daring defiance of abortion laws by the Liberation Union’s “Jane Collective,” risking life in prison while performing 12,000 abortions throughout four years, all done with no formal medical training. We’ll also discuss with Christine the role of lesbians in the feminist movement.
We’ll also play clips from the documentary film “Jane: An Abortion Service,” which will also be our gift to those who donate to WBAI at give2wbai.org (type "Jane" in the search engine) or 212-209-2950. The station is urgently raising funds to become current on its $17,000 monthly rent bill for the broadcast transmitter at Times Square. We are asking supporters of Out-FM and WBAI to make a donation in the name of our show (if you're doing it online, use the drop-down menu).
In the wake of the outrageous Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, women and all pregnant people need to look back at models of self-help and mutual aid such as the Jane Collective for guidance in this new, dangerous era. We hope this trip back into history will help shed light on an important path to self-empowerment.
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NYC's Stonewall Era Women's Prison Was a Hothouse for Lesbian/Bi Women's Organizing (2)
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Tune into Out-FM on Tuesday July 12 from 8:00-9:00pm, on 99.5FM WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
If you miss the live show, the sound file for the whole show will be posted by Wednesday evening on https://outfm.org/liberation/ .
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Just outside of Jefferson Market Library, the castle-looking structure on 6th Avenue in Manhattan’s West Village sits a community garden of the same name where a women’s penitentiary of great historical significance once stood. This was the site where dynamics of patriarchy, white supremacy, homophobia, and transphobia created a disturbingly cruel institution and led to organized resistance and mobilization within and beyond the prison for queer liberation, racial justice, and abolitionism. This rich history has been meticulously researched and woven together by writer, teacher, author, historian Hugh Ryan in his new book Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison.
Women's House of Detention - NYC
In this interview, Out-FM’s Stahimili Mapp and Peter Jonas discuss with author Hugh Ryan the process of acquiring stories that have been erased, what makes it a queer story, the criminalization of not being a "proper woman" and how the prison affected Black lesbian activist Mabel Hampton, the abuses and insurrections, the role the facility played in the culture of the West Village and the gay rights movement, the intersection of gay liberation and Black Power at the prison in the late '60s, the organizing Black liberation activists Angela Davis, Afeni Shakur, and Joan Bird during their incarceration in that period, the failures of prison reform, and the push for prison abolitionism.
Plus short excerpts from Angela Davis's audiobook version of her newly updated Autobiography featuring her comments about her time at the Women's House of Detention.
About Out-FM
Out-FM is a weekly progressive queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. Please support us by donating to WBAI. Become a member for $25 or a BAI Buddy (sustainer) for $10/month or more. Go to give2wbai.org or call 212-209-2950 and let WBAI management know you listen to Out-FM by supporting the station with a donation. Be sure and mention us when you donate.