Feminist Peace Network

See below for an exciting opportunity to help support expanded airtime for WBAI’s Joy of Resistance feminist radio show. I am very excited about this because I have appeared as a guest on this program and also because they have used content from our blog on their news segments. By supporting this show, it will help show that there IS support for feminist radio and make continuing expanded airtime a reality!

This Thursday, July 26, between 3 and 6 PM, Joy of Resistance: Multicultural
Feminist Radio @ WBAI (99.5 FM) will offer a 5-CD set of recordings from The
SisterSong Conference: Let’s Talk About Sex, as part of the WBAI Summer
Fundraiser. The program will be hosted by Maretta Short and Fran Luck.

In June, the largest gathering ever of Women of Color coming together to
organize around sexuality and reproductive issues, took place in Chicago:
the SisterSong Conference: Let’s Talk About Sex. According to Loretta Ross,
National Coordinator for SisterSong: This was the largest women of color
gathering in reproductive justice history; women of color and our allies
came to this conference to formulate a plan for a pro-sex, pro-choice,
pro-family reproductive justice movement that is organized by women of color
and based on our needs.

We are proud to announce that Joy of Resistance was able to locate a
complete set of recordings of this historic conference (the next best thing
to having been there) and for a $100. pledge of support for the station,
listeners will receive a gift of this 5-CD package that includes:

1) Major speeches by:

Dr. Jocelyn Elders, the first African American female Surgeon General of the
US; fired by the Clinton Administration for saying that masturbation is a
natural part of human sexuality,

Professor Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: Race,
Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty and Shattered Bonds: The Color of
Child Welfare speaking on the history of negative stereotyping of Black
women’s sexuality and reproduction and the future of genetic selection as it
will affect Women of Color,

Byllye Avery, founder of the Black Women’s Health movement, speaking on
organizing that movement

Loretta Ross, SisterSong National Coordinator, speaking on the meaning of:
Reproductive Justice

2) More than 20 speakers on the intersections of reproductive and sexual
rights (or the lack of them) with issues vital to a number of communities,
including: immigrant, incarcerated women, LGBTQ, disabled women, HIV/AIDS,
Asian Pacific, Native American and Latina, as well as speakers addressing
issues facing young women today.

3) Important medical and scientific information on Birth Control,
Microbicides, the new cervical cancer vaccine, reproductive technologies,
and more,

4) Performances that convey the fun and sexiness of the conference;
including the poetry and music of Hip Hop Feminist Nation and the raunchy
All Hail the Coochie!.

We are asking you to pledge for this amazing package not only because it
contains so much of importance, not only because your pledge will support
the precious and always endangered existence of listener-sponsored
progressive radio, but in order to show your support for Joy of Resistance,
the only feminist space at WBAI! With all of the recent major attacks on the
gains of women, there is more than ever a need for feminist media to
inspire, inform, and to help our still growing and revolutionary movement to
reach its full potential.

If you will not be able to listen this Thursday, we urge you to still
contribute during our fundraising time (so that it can be added to our
tally) by phoning (212) 209-2950 between 3 and 6 pm on Thursday. Any amount
you contribute will be appreciated. If you are not in the Tri-State area and
cannot listen on the radio, you can stream WBAI live on the web by going to
www.wbai.com and clicking on the tab at the top of the page. (You will also
be able to hear the program after it is broadcast by going to the WBAI
archives at the same website.)

Thank you so much, dear feminist friends and allies for your very valued
support!

Fran Luck
Executive Producer,
Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio
@ WBAI, 99.5 FM, NYC

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