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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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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.
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40,000 March with NYC Reclaim Pride for Trans & Repro Rights and Bodily Autonomy
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Jay Walker of Reclaim Pride 2022
We Love Abortion
On Sunday, June 26th The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) organized the 4th annual Queer Liberation March which was titled the Queer Liberation March for Trans and BIPOC Freedom, Reproductive Justice, and Bodily Autonomy. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit Plus (LGBTQIA2S+) people’s march started at Foley Square and ended in Washington Square Park.
The Reclaim Pride Coalition march of 40,000, comes after the release of the Supreme Court ruling repealing Roe v Wade.
Chinyere Ezie from Center for Constitutional Rights
Also Out-FM co-host Naomi Brussel interviews Chinyere Ezie, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and discusses the multiple recent legal attacks on Queer rights and the suppression of educators speech about LGBTIQ people. Chinyere Ezie describes the role of CCR and other organizations in countering these heterosexist campaigns.
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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.