Women's Liberation Radio News

This June 2017 podcast is packed with lesbian music, commentary and interviews. We ask Julie Bindel & Jocelyn Macdonald for their coming out stories & Bev Jo talks about the benefits of lesbianism. This 14th edition explores what it means to choose lesbianism in our male-dominated culture and to live as free women. Sekhmet SheOwl provides WLRN commentary that is guaranteed to make you think and ponder the idea that any woman can choose to be a lesbian. Jocelyn Macdonald will be performing her radical lesbian feminist poetry at WoLF Festival over the weekend of July 21st-24th. http://wolffestival.org/. Stay in touch with us at WLRN and keep on keepin' on! wlrnewscontact@gmail.com. Please like, share and comment widely! Thanks, Womyn!

Natasha Chart is a thinker, writer, and feminist activist and organizer who sits on the board of directors of the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) and writes for Feminist Current. In this interview with Thistle Pettersen on April 27th, 2017, Natasha talks about WoLF as an organization, its goals and structure as well as the outside influences that have shaped WoLF as a major radical feminist organization with hundreds of members. In addition, Ms. Chart addresses head-on the question of WoLF accepting money to fight gender identity legal battles from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing advocacy group that is anti-gay and lesbian and against abortion rights.

Edition 13 deals with the debate among women regarding radical feminists who align with right wing forces, individuals & organizations to reach a narrowly agreed upon goal. It is always hard for us to decide what makes it in to our podcasts and what does not. We usually have far more material to include than we do space. What Ruth adds to this discussion is extremely valuable and we hope that women will listen to this in addition to all of the voices in edition 13. Thanks.

We are proud to present our 13th edition podcast focused on the ethics of coalition-building with both the right & the left as we work as radical feminists to hold and advance the rights of girls and women. In edition 13, WLRN asks hard questions about the ethics and efficacy of WoLF's decision to accept funds from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative organization that is against full abortion rights & homosexuality. This hour-long broadcast features interviews with Kaeley Triller-Haver of the Hands Across the Aisle Coalition, Natasha Chart of the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF) and commentary from Nile Pierce of the WLRN collective. In addition, Sekhmet SheOwl reads statements by Stop Trans Chauvinism & Max Robinson of Re-sisters, both groups that are strongly critical of feminists aligning themselves with the right wing. WLRN headlines are read by our sound tech and engineering goddess Jenna Di Quarto and feature a wide variety of stories including sound clips from a recent School Board meet

WLRN's Thistle Pettersen interviewed Sarah about her experiences as a college student getting involved and grappling with trans politics on her campus.

This was an interview done with Samantha Berg right before US citizens voted for Donald Trump or Hillary Rodham Clinton in November of 2016. Ms. Berg talks about the symbolic nature of voting in addition to what radical feminist women can do to counter the fear and divisions that inevitably come up around US presidential elections.

This is WLRN's 12th Edition! Our anniversary edition focuses on gender identity and anti-feminist actions that both harm individual feminists and our collective feminist movement. We explore how these actions may also be inadvertently creating more feminists and feminist movement because they are so egregiously sexist.

This is WLRN's March 2nd edition covering the women's marches that occurred all over the world on January 21st, 2017. Women took to the streets in the millions. It is a digest edition, a blanket, a weaving of what women do when we get together in our womanhood and sisterhood. Hear coverage of the marches from on-the-ground and in the streets of London, Madison, Seattle and DC. Hear comparisons of experiences at the different locations and analyses of this herstoric moment. Featured music by Alix Dobkin & a women's collective that created the Battle Hymn of the Women. Interviews with radical and lesbian feminists young and old! This is our most grassroots episode yet! Enjoy! And as always, please like, share and comment widely. We are still hoping to get WLRN station shirts! Check out our t-shirt page and make a donation to WLRN today! March On Sisters! https://wlrnmedia.wordpress.com/…/help-wlrn-get-station-sh…/

This month's edition of Women's Liberation Radio News is our tenth so far, focusing on "Conflict, Self-Love & Sisterhood" within the independent women's movement. How can we strategize through the inevitable personal and political conflicts women's organizations face? How can we strengthen our resolve through self-love in a patriarchal world that benefits from women being alienated from themselves and their sisters? Listen on for advice from Ruth Greenberg who hit the ground running in her activism by forming a successful radical feminist collective in the UK soon after becoming radicalized herself, and from our very own Thistle Pettersen, a feminist folk singer from Madison, Wisconsin. In addition, Cathy Brennan talks about the new lesbian group, Bunch of Dykes. Thanks for tuning in to WLRN and be sure to check out our March Edition on the Women's Marches next month!

WLRN's 9th edition podcast is dedicated to the women of the Standing Rock struggle to protect the Missouri River and indigenous land from the Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access oil pipeline. Sekhmet She Owl presents compelling commentary as well as excerpts from her interview with Shannon Kring, creator and producer of End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock, https://www.facebook.com/endofthelinefilm/?ref=page_internal, a documentary featuring the voices of native women fighting against the pipeline. In addition, we hear from Christa Bruhn, mother of three Palestinian children growing up in Madison, WI and water protector activist who recently traveled to Standing Rock to cook in the kitchens and participate in the women's silent prayer march to the front lines where police are protecting the company's progress in building the pipeline. We also hear from CJ, a young radical feminist native woman who felt called to go to Standing Rock to be in solidarity with all of those there fighting for indigen

Interview with Trista Hendren by Staff

Sekhmet She Owl interviews co-editors of the book "Dispatches from Lesbian America": Giovanna Capone, Xequina Berber, and Rome Smith.

The second weekend of September, 2016, Thistle Pettersen traveled to Paducah, Kentucky to attend the first annual Cinema Systers Film Festival produced by Resin Rebel, owner of the beautiful farm where many women gathered throughout the weekend. Pettersen had the opportunity on the last day of the festival to talk with Resin Rebel to find out what her inspiration was for this only all lesbian film festival in the United States. In this interview, you will hear about the many films presented at last year's festival, how the films were submitted and how they were received at the festival. There is mention of Into the Ovid: An Ovella by Tina Brand and Gendercator by Catherine Crouch. The festival will be held for the second time annually over Memorial Day weekend in 2017. For more details about this coming year's festival check out http://www.cinemasysters.com/.

Jill Stein was on the campaign trail for her run for president in the 2016 US presidential elections when Thistle Pettersen met-up with her Madison, WI on April 15th. Ms. Stein agreed to an interview outside on the street in front of the restaurant where she had just given her campaign speech to a group of about 75 people.

WLRN's 8th edition podcast is dedicated to the topic of motherhood with subtopics including childbirth & fertility health, raising children, and lifestyle. Elizabeth McKeown interviewed Mary Lou Singleton, midwife, herbalist and member of WoLF, about her work and analysis of radical feminist maternity health issues. In addition, there are clips from an interview Thistle Pettersen did with Jai Kalidasi, mother of 6 children and radical feminist activist. Have you heard about our t-shirts campaign? https://wlrnmedia.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/help-wlrn-get-station-shirts/ In addition, we are recruiting more volunteer news reporters, script writers, editors, feature commentary writers, visionaries and feminist activists. Please consider becoming a volunteer with us! https://wlrnmedia.wordpress.com/apply-to-work-for-wlrn/ Thanks for tuning in! We rely on your likes, comments and feedback to stay strong as a grassroots media organization so as always, please like, comment and share widely!

WLRN’s Catina Hyman interviewed Maya Dillard Smith on August 2, 2016 via phone. They discussed Dillard’s recent forced resignation as the chief officer of the Georgia ACLU in addition to her project, Finding Middle Ground, a civil rights organization committed to finding solutions to all civil rights concerns. Dillard-Smith is an advocate for the rights of all. She has recently been labeled “hateful” for drawing attention to the rights of girls and women. She holds a Master’s degree from Harvard and a law degree from UC Hastings. http://www.findingmiddleground.org/

Stripe Gandara, a butch lesbian who holds her PhD in Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Nebraska, was a panelist in the discussion called "Between Butches: Maintaining Sisterhood, Survival, and the Specificity of Womanhood in a Post-Trans World." The discussion took place at the first annual Lesbian Film Festival in Paducah, Kentucky in September, 2016. WLRN's Thistle Pettersen starts by asking her what it means to be in a "post-trans" world and is surprised by her answer. You will notice that Gandara, like other butch lesbians on the panel are truly feminist in their choice to embrace their womanhood and sisterhood, yet they are still trying to co-exist with transgenderism. Using a lot of academic language, they make it seem like co-existence and mutual support are possible, which is not the view of radical feminists who understand the violent nature of the take-over of women's spaces and culture by trans activism and ideology. To view the panel discussion in its entirety, click on this l

This interview was done by Elizabeth McKeown on June 30th of 2016. Ruth Barrett is editor of the book 'Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex & Human Rights.'

Pippa Fleming is a butch lesbian performance artist, poet, writer, spiritualist and motivational speaker living and working in the bay area. Catina Hyman interviewed Pippa on October 4th for WLRN’s Black Lives Matter edition to get her perspective on the experience of black lesbians within the women’s liberation movement and civil rights struggles. In the interview, Pippa also discusses her upcoming book.

In late August 2016, WLRN volunteer Sarah spoke with Womens' Liberation Front spokeswoman Kara Dansky. Dansky filled us in on WoLF's legal challenge to the Obama administration's guidance on sex-based spaces for women, which essentially eliminated them. She also spoke about the difference between sex and gender and the risks women face when men (who may or may not "feel" that they are "women") enter female spaces.