Thistle Pettersen interviews Dominique Christina, an award-winning poet and writer, discussing topics such as her journey from being a writer to a performer, the power and reclamation of the term 'bitch', the Say Her Name movement, the complexity of black women's identity, and the intricacies of whiteness and blackness.

This is a short interview Thistle did with a woman attending a feminist breakfast gathering the day of the Fighting the New Misogyny talk that she was also attending at the Seattle Public Library later on, only three blocks away from the location of the breakfast. About 15 women gathered for the event, some from outside of the region and others from the Pacific Northwest and Seattle. What is noteworthy about this woman's testimony is how she does not identify as "conservative" or "right wing" but that because she has an analysis of gender identity that is not in alignment with trans ideology, she was labeled a "TERF" and subsequently "conservative" and "right wing." It is important for major media to hear the voices of the women attending the Seattle Public Library event, and not just continue to point at WoLF's bipartisan attempts to get radical feminist views into the mainstream via associations with conservatives and conservative groups. Please listen to this interview and realize that there are hundreds of thousands of women like the woman featured here, but many of us have been bullied into silence and the media blackout means that many more of us do not even know about the erosion of women's rights taking place in 2020. Thanks for tuning in to WLRN. If you'd like to hear this month's podcast in it's entirety, click on this link. https://soundcloud.com/wlrn-media/the-battle-of-seattle-wlrns-edition-46-podcast

Thanks to our listener sponsors, WLRN was able to send Thistle Pettersen to Seattle the weekend of February 1st to attend the talk "Fighting the New Misogyny" featuring Lierre Keith, Meghan Murphy, Saba Malik and Kara Dansky at the Seattle Public Library. In this edition, you will hear exclusive coverage of events surrounding the main event that drew 350 people to the library to hear women speak about the harms of gender identity legislation and culture. There were supporters and protesters alike captured by the many media activists present though the absence of major media was glaring. First up, you'll hear the world news as written and delivered by WLRN's Dana Vitalosova right before hearing the Cranberries' song "Zombie" which is amazingly perfect for this month's topic. After the Cranberries song, WLRN's April Neault introduces the Seattle sound collage Thistle and Jenna co-created of the many voices of women attending the talk, offering their insights and statements about why they were there woven in between snippets of Thiste's song "Trans." The collage ends with "Song to the Sky" also by WLRN's Thistle Pettersen. Then, it's on to the clips Jenna chose to feature of the speakers, audience and protesters at the event including the "Let Women Speak" chant audience members broke into as transgender activists attempted to disrupt. "Let women speak" became a powerful phrase repeated by the audience as the cops arrested and dragged protesters out of the auditorium. Finally, enjoy stellar WLRN commentary by Sekhmet SheOwl as she reflects on free speech, the lack of media presence and more. Thanks for tuning in to WLRN, feminist community powered media. If you'd like to support this grassroots project, please consider becoming a listener sponsor by clicking on the donate button on our wordpress site and giving a monthly donation of any amount. Every little bit helps to keep us going as a collective of media activist women to bring you the news most media will not touch due to the censoring of feminist voices.

Delving into the ethics of sex robots and child sex dolls, the podcast challenges the objectification of women and children. It explores the link between pedophilia, pornography, and exploitation, advocating for a shift towards empathy and power dynamics. Addressing societal constructs of sexuality, the discussion emphasizes the importance of critical discourse and community engagement.

In this extended WLRN interview, Thistle Pettersen talks with Dawn Smith, organizer with the Michigan Framily Reunion, about this women-only cultural event that remembers and honors the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival that took place near Hart, Michigan for 40 years with the last MichFest happening in August of 2015.

One of WLRN's earliest interviews; In it, then-WLRN member Elizabeth talks with Ms. Hungerford about the Purvi Patel abortion/miscarriage case, among other cases, and their implications for women's reproductive freedoms.

Welcome back, sisters, to the first hour of Women's Liberation Music in 2020. It's been eight months since my last music show when I featured the writings of Andrea Dworkin. I can honestly say that the two deaths of well-known writers who have affected me the most have been Andrea Dworkin (who died April 5, 2005) and Mary Oliver who died a year ago today, January 17, 2019. So it seems appropriate that I return with another edition of my music show with a tribute to Mary Oliver. This month's varied music of international under-represented female artists will accompany my reading of some of Mary's poems, all of which celebrate nature, my most beloved muse. I went to visit Mary's hometown for 40 years, P'town, last Fall for a week and walked the beaches and trails she walked and wrote prolifically about, like around Blackwater Pond and the Pinewoods. It was a significant and magical time there; I felt Mary Oliver close, chiding me, for example, to wake before dawn so as to catch the first glint of the day on Blackwater Pond, to see the world through the awe that moved her. I met a small white maltese (who reminded me of pictures of her beloved dog) on the beach directly in front of the home she and her partner Molly Malone Cook lived and I sat in the corner booth at Fanizzi's restaurant next door where I imagined she sat, marveled at the tides and wrote on days she tired of her desk. I didn't seek these things out, they came to me or, I, to them. It was an honor 'being led' by Spirit in this way. I can't imagine better footsteps to trace. And so, I bring that comfort and awe to you, sisters, through this pairing of entrancing and gentle music with Mary Oliver's poetry. I hope you are nourished by this next hour wherever and however you are this midwinter here in the Northern hemisphere. Song List: Returning Jennifer Berezan Elle Mari Boine Karuna Stellamara Title Unknown Jennifer Kriesberg Lecieli Zurauli Laboratorium Piesni You Never Know Mari Boine Oh Love Ayla Nereo Ahccai Mari Boine Lihkahusat Mari Boine Give Me a Break Mari Boine Sorgblidni Eivor Balu BaDuel Go Vuoittan Mari Boine Kappee Laboratorium Piesni Rise Again (Instrumental) Poetry List What the Body Says, New and Selected Poems, vol 2 Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, ibid Lead, ibid Climbing Pinnacle, ibid Ravens, ibid In Praise of Craziness, of a Certain Kind, ibid The Bleeding-heart, ibid The Best I Could Do, Why I Wake Early Life Story, A Thousand Mornings The Measure, New and Selected Poems, vol 2 Bone, ibid The Sweetness of Dogs, Dog Songs Those Days, Our World I Looked Up, New and Selected Poems, vol 2

Last month, WLRN's Dani Whitaker spoke with Emily Kaht, an athlete and feminist who recently completed a marathon while carrying a flag that read, "Save Women's Sports. Woman = Adult Human Female." As Kaht discusses, this courageous act garnered both support and criticism during and after the event. Kaht is a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a bachelor's degree in biology. She has been involved in sports throughout her life with a current focus on long-distance running, and is committed to protecting the integrity of women's sports so that other women and girls can enjoy the same fulfillment and opportunities that sports have provided her. In this interview, Kaht shares the motivation behind her recent activism as well as the importance of acknowledging biological sex and preserving women's spaces.

In this interview, feminist author Lierre Keith gives us her take on the top stories and developments of 2019 as they impact girls and women and her analysis of the women's movement over the last decade and into the next. Keith gives listeners a fantastic overview of what's going on from her vantage point as an author and speaker with her finger on the pulse of what's changing, shaping up and shifting in the world. Stay tuned for Lierre as moderator of the Q & A after the talk titled "The New Misogyny: A Feminist Analysis of Gender Identity" featuring Meghan Murphy, Saba Malik and Kara Dansky as speakers at Seattle's Public Library, the central location on February 1st. There has been much hype and hoopla around this talk as transactivists gear up to confront the women attending with the aim to either shut it down or disrupt the event. Stay tuned for WLRN's on-the-ground coverage of the February 1st talk in Seattle. Follow our FB page for updates. For more information about the event, click on this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fighting-the-new-misogyny-a-feminist-critique-of-gender-identity-tickets-85012638089

We made it to 2020 without blowing up! Unreal, right sisters? Grab your hats and put on your space suits for a fabulous journey into WLRN's first podcast of the new year and the new decade. First up, be greeted by WLRN's newest member, Dana Vitalosova from Slovakia who also delivers WLRN's January 2nd world news segment before passing off the baton to Thistle who interviews Elizabeth, a radfem from the Midwest and admin for the popular group Radical Feminism Resources. Elizabeth gives Thistle the skinny on her take on the top stories and developments of 2019. Elizabeth and WLRN wanted to make sure all of our listeners have this link to FIST's feminist amendments to the Equality Act, a story to look for in 2020. https://feministstruggle.org/2019/10/19/feminists-in-struggle-fist-launches-campaign-for-feminist-amendments-to-the-equality-act/ After hearing from Elizabeth, enjoy Ani DiFranco's rockin' tune from new year's eve 2008 called Red Letter Year before transitioning to listening to Lierre Keith ring in the new year with her take on the top stories of 2019 and what to look for in 2020.  Lierre Keith is a writer, small farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author of six books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet She’s also been arrested six times. You can read more about Lierre at www.lierrekeith.com. And finally, enjoy Sekhmet SheOwl's lovely commentary about what she sees as the rise of radical feminism in our friendships and our actions as we move into 2020 and the next decade. It is of note that none of the three speakers in today's program spoke to one another before they were recorded for this show, but yet, all three say some of the same things and there is much overlap. Take note and take heart! May we enjoy increased unity in the years to come. Below is a list of links WLRN requested of Lierre after the interview which she provided for us. Thank you Lierre! Wonderful to share our research and stories and to help move real conversations in society forward! Onward and Upward Sisters! Link to info on the Harris case: http://womensliberationfront.org/harris-funeral-homes-v-eeoc-frequently-asked-questions/ Loujain al-Hathloul https://theintercept.com/2019/12/24/loujain-al-hathloul-torture-saudi-arabia/ Japan's #KuToo https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/high-heels-at-work-are-necessary-says-japan-labour-minister Chilean anti-rape song: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/06/chilean-anti-rape-anthem-becomes-international-feminist-phenomenon Sex for Grades scandal in Nigeria and Ghana: https://www.newsweek.com/call-action-response-undercover-sex-grades-university-scandal-1463982 #AmINext in South Africa https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-death-of-uyinene-mrwetyana-and-the-rise-of-south-africas-aminext-movement J.K. Rowling https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/world/europe/jk-rowling-maya-forstater-transgender.html List of legal cases now pending in the UK: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1209418488965672962.html Ohio bill on ectopic pregnancies: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/05/10/sponsor-an-ohio-abortion-bill-thinks-you-can-reimplant-ectopic-pregnancies-you-cant/ Bootleg footage of Jonathan Yaniv's testimony at the Human Rights Tribunal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwJBMapAnrA&list=UUB3MxRIg1Tc3vxvy-2Uluug&index=8 Meghan Murphy in Toronto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIzXSLFeAxQ Feb 1, 2020 Seattle event with Meghan Murphy, Saba Malik, and Kara Dansky https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fighting-the-new-misogyny-a-feminist-critique-of-gender-identity-tickets-85012638089