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Faith and Sexuality; and Dean Spade on Movement Building and Criticism (Part 2)
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Tuesday, 8-13-18, at 9pm on Out-FM on WBAI/NY 99.5FM and streaming at www.wbai.org
2nd Biannual Black Lesbian Conference
Dr. Pei Desrosiers
Kyndra Frazier
Naomi Brussel brings us exerpts from a panel at the 2nd Biannual Black Lesbian Conference, called Faith and Sexuality: Overcoming Harm, Hurt and Exclusion. Panelists include Kyndra Frazier who is Associate Pastor of Pastorial Care and Counciling at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem and Dr. Pei Desrosiers, social worker and ordained minister.
Dean Spade
Queer Radical Past Conference
In Part 2 of Professor Dean Spade's keynote address at the Queer Radical Past Conference Feb 2018, he discusses the institutional forces that push movements for social change towards meaningless or even harmful reforms as they become mainstreamized. His experience as a long-time activist and organizer with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and various movements is very practical. The phenomena of the system offering fake reforms affects not just in the LGBT movement, but also the Left. He stresses the need for discernment as we approach organizing to avoid falling into the traps the system sets and proproses some criteria for evaluating which struggles to take up and how to decide whether reforms the system is willing to make are sufficient. Click HERE for the video version of Part 2, the full video of the keynote is at the end of this article. Below is the audio version which can be streamed or downloaded.
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Rehabilitation of Workplace Sexual Harrassers
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We encourage you to listen to or read an excellent editorial by Joy of Resistance on the quick "rehabilitation" of famous and notable figures accused of sexual harrassment, a topic of special interest and relevance this week at WBAI. Joy of Resistance is an excellent feminist radio show broadcast 6pm Sunday evenings on WBAI/NY. (We also post their whole show which includes news about the Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court, and an interview with one of the founders of the first abortion clinic in New York State.)
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Transcript (w/links to articles quoted from) of editorial read by Fran Luck (who wrote it) on WBAI's Joy of Resistance on Sunday, July 15, 2018
Forty percent of women experience sexual harassment in their place of work and of those, eighty percent leave their jobs within two years because of it--an ongoing attrition rate that has a huge impact on the lives, jobs and careers of women. Women who report harassment are frequently labeled "liabilities" and blackballed within their industries--even if they are believed.
And there are other consequences: Journalist Bryce Covert in an article in The Cut last Fall, https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/sexual-harassment-affects-women-career.html
quoted one woman she interviewed as asking "Can I put some sort of asterisk on my résumé like, ‘I left because of the creepy boss who was making people uncomfortable?'" (in order to explain the gap in my work history?).
Ever since last October, when