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War Against Gaza and Its Impact on the 2024 Presidential Election; & Ong Keng Sen on Queering Singaporean Theater & Nanette Kazaoka Obituary
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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., October 15, 2024 from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY
or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/
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War Against Gaza and Its Impact on the 2024 Presidential Election
Pauline Park and Naomi Brussel Discuss Effect of War on Gaza and Lebanon on US Election
Out-FM's Naomi Brussel and Pauline Park discuss the ongoing Gaza genocide and Apartheid Israel's invasion of Lebanon and the possible impact on the 2024 presidential election.
(Due to Hurricane Helene's aftermath Pauline Park and Naomi Brussel can't speak with the noted peace and human rights activist Mandy Carter tonight, on North Carolina's crucial role in the 2024 presidential election and on the Black and white lesbians who founded Southerners on New Ground to challenge homophobia and white supremacy. (see bio here). Come back to this website for the new broadcast date.)
Song:
Sweet Honey in the Rock: "In the Morning When I Rise"
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Trojan Women Play Set in Greece
Ong Keng Sen on Queering Singaporean Theater
Pauline Park talks with renowned theater director Ong Keng Sen about being LGBTQ and doing theater in Singapore that challenges the sex/gender binary. Ong Keng discusses how a Greek play set in modern Korea still can have current relevance and yet be difficult to censor. He will be speaking at 6TH SINGAPORE LITERATURE FESTIVAL IN NYC this coming weekend.
Song:
Henry Purcell, "When I Am Laid in Earth" from "Dido & Aeneas" (sung by Jessye Norman)
Renowned Theater Director Ong Keng Sen
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Longtime AIDS Activist Nanette Kazaoka Dies
Nanette Kazaoka, former ACT UP Treasurer and direct action activist, has died at age 82. We'll play the obituary of Nanette aired by Gay USA on Free Speech TV. Her 2014 interview with the ACT UP Oral History Project is here.
Pictured above left to right: Maxine Wolfe, Nanette Kazaoka (center), and Eustascia Smith at ACT UP's 1997 Crash the Market March and mass civil disobedience on Wall Street). At the Crash the Market Demonstration, the 3 women were followed by other activists carrying a coffin behind them, protesting the sky-high prices of AIDS drugs which were causing many to die because of lack of affordability, as well as demanding the pharmaceutical Industry test AIDS drugs in women, which wasn't happening at the time.
In the photo below, in 2004 AIDS activists were pressuring the George W. Bush Administration to enable affordable access to AIDS drugs to Africa and the developing world by fully funding the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and by dropping the odious debt burden imposed by the IMF and World Bank on poor and middle-income countries.
Five ACT UP members protest outside the 2004 Republican National Convention. Nanette Kazaoka is furthest to the left with back to the camera.
#NorthCarolina #MarkRobinson #MandyCarter #OngKengSen #Singapore #theater #LGBTQ
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Queer Palestinian and Lebanese Responses to the Gaza Genocide and the Lebanon War; & a Jewish Anti-Zionist Perspective on Repression by Universities
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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., October 8, 2024 from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY
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Pauline Park & Mohammad Hamad
Queer Palestinian and Lebanese Responses to the Gaza Genocide and the Lebanon War
Apartheid Israel is currently pursuing genocide in Gaza and has launched a new war in Lebanon yet mainstream media rarely include authentic Palestinian perspectives let alone center the perspectives of LGBT/queer Palestinians or Jewish Americans who support justice for Palestine. On today's show, we speak with Mohammad Hamad, an openly gay Palestinian activist based in New York City; and with Afeef Nassouli, an openly gay Lebanese American who has family in Beirut.
Emmaia Gelman of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Queer activist and scholar Emmaia Gelman talks about university "leaders'" suppression of student campaigns for Palestine and of faculty discussion exposing Israel's genocidal intentions toward Palestinians. Dr. Gelman is a founder of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.
About Out-FM
Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show by and for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, gender non-conforming, intersex, queer, and questioning communities. Our program originates from listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio in New York, 99.5 FM and wbai.org. It’s also heard on Pacifica station KPFK in Los Angeles, 90.7 FM and kpfk.org. Our programs are archived at outfm.org. You can also follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram.
We STRONGLY urge you to become a WBAI Buddy (sustainer) at $10/month or more. The program is the premium! That’s right, no special giveaways or preemptions—just the incredible, thought-provoking content you’ve been working hard to deliver. It’s all about highlighting the value of our show and seeing if our listeners have truly been tuning in and supporting us. Management will be watching.
To make your donation online, go to wbai.org, click on the donate tile, or WBAI Buddy (sustaining member) tile, and in the drop-down menu, click on Out-FM as your favorite show. Or send a check made out to WBAI/Pacifica via USPS mail to:
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