Women's Liberation Radio News

This week's music hour features music by Barbara Higbie, Teresa Trull and Cris Williamson in honor of their Reunion Tour. They've been gracing various venues along the east coast these last several weeks. I saw them this past weekend! It was great fun to witness powerful women sharing power so reminiscent of how things were done at MichFest and other womyn's music festivals. They really set the bar for that particular Feminist value! I'm so grateful for continued modeling of that Gyn/affection wherever possible, so I offer a musical version of it here in the next hour. Hope you enjoy! Playlist: In background to intro: Playtime Teresa Trull & Barbara Higbie Playtime Tip the Canoe Barbara Higbie Hills to Hollers Flow Teresa Trull Flow Hieroglyphics Cris Williamson The Essential Cris Williamson Sway of Her Hips Teresa Trull & Barbara Higbie Playtime Signs of Life Barbara Higbie Alive in Berkeley Songbird Cris Williamson The Essential Cris Wings Teresa Trull & Barbara Higbie Playtime Woman Loving Women Teresa Trull Lesbian Concentrate Azulao Cris Williamson The Essential Cris Why Wait Teresa and Barbara Playtime San Francisco Bay Blues Barbara Higbie, Linda Tillery, Laurie Lewis Shine Cris Williamson Pray Tell Getting Some Fun Out of Life Teresa and Barbara Playtime True Story Barbara Higbie Variations on a Happy Ending Lullabye Cris Williamson The Essential Cris

Shortly after holding up a sign at the women's march in Madison on January 21st 2017, Thistle Pettersen was defamed by hundreds of peers and colleagues in her community to the point of losing her regular music show at a neighborhood bar and almost losing her employment. This song was written during that period of backlash that lasted for about 10 weeks after the women's march. It is about taking care of yourself, soothing and guiding yourself towards the default setting of the universe which is love-of-existence and joy-in-being. Thistle's battlefield is media work/songwriting and her sword is the pen she uses to create feminist culture that aims for fierce & compassionate sisterhood and human rights for all. Resting from the battle and from the war on women is essential to our success. Thanks to all of the women who battle our oppressors to the point of needing to take deep pensive time to rest before wielding the sword again. Blessed Be.

After two years, Thistle Pettersen went back into the studios of WORT 89.9 FM, the community radio station in Madison, to interview Meghan Murphy LIVE on the Access Hour and to play a pre-recorded interview she did with Julie Bindel. Thanks to WORT's Access Hour for allowing these interviews to be broadcast from the station. Ms. Pettersen was banned from the station's premises in January 2016 due to transactivist complaints about her previous LIVE interview with Sheila Jeffreys in 2014 and the broadcasting of Ms. Pettersen's radio documentary of the Last Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in 2015. The ban was lifted in February 2016, but she did not feel comfortable going back to the station until 2018. Even now, there are staff and volunteers at the station who believe that what you will hear in this program, and in any of the programs that Ms. Pettersen produces is "hate speech." Thankfully, the mission of the Access Hour slot in particular, allows for differing points of view on women's liberation politics to be aired on Madison's community radio station, WORT 89.9 FM In these two interviews with Murphy & Bindel, learn more about Ms. Bindel's book, the Pimping of Prostitution and why taking a stand for abolishing prostitution and sex trafficking is the most feminist stance one can take. In addition, hear what Meghan Murphy of Feminist Current has to say about current gender identity legislation and why she testified before the Canadian Senate against it. To learn more about Ms. Pettersen's ban from the station visit https://bannedbytrans.wordpress.com/ and click on "Censored by Transpolitics: A Master Post" and scroll down to Tiers 3 & 4. To hear Ms. Pettersen's radio documentary of the Last Michigan Womyn's Music Festival go here: https://soundcloud.com/wlrn-media/the-sounds-of-michfest-2015-a-radio-documentary-on-the-last-michigan-womyns-music-festival

This week I invite you closer into my personal life to walk through a remembering/honoring of the violent murder of my dog companion, Phoenix, eight years ago to the day. Gun violence is perpetual under male supremacy and this experience brought it to my hearth as it has come to so many women around the world, maybe even yours. I hope that this personal sharing touches and strengthens you and the entire Liberation Movement on the planet. If you want to read more of my personal walk through this experience, I invite you to gently read it at: http://phxlabyrinth.blogspot.com. Thank you for your kind ears. Play List: Wild Wolf (in background) Solitudes Manaus Tellu As Cold as it Gets Patti Griffin Stop Killing Us Lenelle Moise If it were up to me Cheryl Wheeler The Women Gather Sweet Honey in the Rock Howl at the Moon Cheryl Wheeler House of Bones Cris Williamson Song For Mia Liz Wright The Water is Wide Lucie Blue Tremblay Little Room Cris Williamson Heavenly Day Patti Griffin The Crazies Cris Williamson If you have requests and/or sharing of music for future music shows, please be in touch with me via this website: www.feministwimmin11@gmail.com

On Monday, March 19th, WLRN's Thistle Pettersen will venture back into WORT 89.9 FM's studios in beautiful downtown Madison to play a pre-recorded interview that she did this week with Julie Bindel and to interview Meghan Murphy LIVE! This short clip contains a Feminism 2.0 question generated by a group of radical feminists following the build-up for the show. It will not be included on Monday night's LIVE broadcast. The show on Monday is meant to be a Feminism 101 introduction to what two leading feminists are thinking and doing as we continue on in this journey of the year 2018.

This is a one minute promo Thistle Pettersen recorded at the studios of WORT 89,9 FM in beautiful downtown Madison to get the word out about her interview with Meghan Murphy & Julie Bindel on March 19th, 2018.

In this engaging discussion, Jyssica Schwartz, a writer and author of "You Are Not Alone," shares insights from her new book on sexual abuse survivors and healing inspired by the #MeToo movement. Shelly Ruzicka from Arise Chicago dives into the struggles faced by immigrant workers and the prevalence of workplace harassment. They tackle the power dynamics and systemic issues surrounding sexual violence, emphasizing the importance of solidarity among women and the need to amplify unheard voices. A call to action for women everywhere to unite against the pervasive culture of rape wraps up this powerful conversation.

Playlist: Cradle song Kitka (In background) Ten Mile Stilts Wailing Jennys Lullaby Dixie Chicks Ooo Child Beth Orton Sweet Wonder Carolyn Hillyer Diamond in the Rough Shawn Colvin Nature Song Sweet Honey in the Rock I Love to Laugh Sweet Honey Bird Song Heather Masse Tuwe Tuwe Sweet Honey Oh My Goodness Look at this Mess Sweet Honey Spring Tracey Chapman Be Careful Cris Williamson Feral Children Beth Orton Motherland Cris Williamson This week on the Music Hour, we'll be celebrating the Divine Girl-Child. While living in rape culture is dangerous for all females, it is especially perilous for our girl babies, toddlers and children, so I wanted to remember them this next hour. Those of us who have survived girlhood and those who are still fighting to survive all over the planet: may these songs move you and radiate out through time and space to protect and comfort all girls, past present and future until male supremacy is eradicated. Blessed be.

You are in for a special treat! Start off the hour with the musical selection “Dandelion” by Heather Maloney and then be intrigued & inspired by the first interview clip featuring Linda Conroy, conference founder, speaking with Thistle Pettersen. After a brief musical interlude of “The Spirit of the Plants” by Lisa Thiel, you’ll hear how YOU CAN WIN A FREE TICKET to the conference followed by interview excerpts with conference keynote speaker, Isla Burgess from New Zealand and author of “Weeds Heal: A Working Herbal” and “Notes from a Biophilic Garden: Reconnecting People, Plants and Inscape” released in 2017. After the excerpt with Ms. Burgess, enjoy Thistle’s song “We Are More” before being reminded again of how to win a free ticket to the conference. After that, hear an interview excerpt with Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, world-renowned doctor & herbalist, in which she talks about her offerings at the conference as another keynote speaker. Then hear the song “Corn Mother” by Lisa Thiel before enjoying the final interview excerpt with intensive workshop presenter, Whapio, an elder Midwife and Educator who talks about her workshop on sexuality as a path to the divine. Finally, round off the hour with Sekhmet SheOwl’s commentary on the importance of women gathering to study and co-create woman-centered culture amidst and surrounded by the natural world. Thanks for staying tuned to WLRN! Learn more about the conference here: www.midwestwomensherbal.com/. Listen carefully to this special edition on the Midwest Women’s Herbal conference for your chance to WIN a FREE TICKET to gather with amazing women healers, herbalists and creatives in the beautiful woods of central Wisconsin June 1st-3rd 2018.

This week, we're keeping things simple, streamlined, for our women's liberation music hour. Simple and streamlined, yet elegant and deep. Featuring talented composer Mary Watkins and readings from the classic novel, The Wanderground, by Sally Miller Gearheart, we will take a journey with sound and story guided by these two sisters of the revolution. Here is an introduction to these two women of power: Ms. Watkins is the recipient of several granting foundations such as Meet the Composer, National Endowment for the Arts, Gerbodi Foundation, Zellerbach Family Fund and Calfornia Council for the Arts. She is an eclectic composer. She is also a pianist, arranger, recording artist and record producer. Much of her music reflects a love for many styles of music whether jazz, gospel, Latin, country, rock, classical or pop. She has composed for solo piano for both adults and children, wind ensembles, string quartet, chamber and full symphony orchestra. She has also composed for theater, dance and film, songs for solo vocalists, vocal ensembles and large choruses. In 2015 she was commissioned by Women in Music to write a 22 minute symphonic work for the National Women's Music Festival which was premeired in July, 2016 in Middleton Wisconsin. She has completed three operas, Queen Clara, with Lance Belville as librettist, and her second opera, Dark River, in which she composed both music and libretto, commissioned by and premiered at the Oakland Opera Theater and later premiered on the east coast at Mt. Holyoke College. The production of her latest opera, Emmett Till, created with Clara Coss as librettist, is currently in the planning stages with The Harlem Lyric Opera Theatre Company for the 2018-2019 performance season. Play List: All music from Mary Watkins' album, SpiritSong: 1. Comin' Home 2. Mirrors 3. Playground 4.Manhattan Mist 5. Spirit Song 6. Moonlight Chapel 7. Changing Seasons While continuing her work as a composer, Mary Watkins continues to perform both solo piano and as part of her ensemble group. She conducts improvisation workshops, and teaches piano and music theory privately in Oakland, CA. She will be performing on the 45th anniversary tour with Olivia Cruises in early April! Sally Miller Gearhart is an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973 she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist. Enjoy these two treasures, combined into one hour! Blessed be. Phoenixx