WINGS #20-22 Apostasy Is a Women's Issue: A movement against the hegemony of religion in public life 

Featured Speakers/Guests: Jiselle Hanna, host, Accent of Women; Sadia Hameed, Spokesperson, Council of Ex Muslims of Britain

 In a recent edition of the Australian program Accent of Women, host Jiselle Hanna very cautiously takes on the topic of apostasy - the act of changing or abandoning one's religion - with her guest Sadia Hameed. Apostasy is not about any one religion. Sadia is an ex-Muslim; Jiselle is an ex-Coptic Christian living in Australia. She sees the risk that criticizing excesses in Islam encourages racism against Muslims, yet finds the right to stand against religious authorities to be essential for both feminism and labour. Credits: Produced by Jiselle Hanna for her weekly series Accent of Women - produced at community radio 3CR in Melbourne. WINGS Series Producer: Frieda Werden

WINGS #12-22 Kenya Politics and Women 
... on the eve of new national elections 

Most outspoken members of Kenya's Parliament. This episode covers several years of her political career, including being expelled from the floor of the Assembly for bringing her baby to work. Issues covered include breastfeeding, gender inclusive politics, and violence against women. Concludes with excerpt from a speech about a crackdown on rogue boda boda drivers. 

Zuleikha Juma Hassan, Women's Representative for Kwale County in Kenya's National Assembly; Uhuru Kenyatta, outgoing President of Kenya 

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Produced by Diana Wanyonyi and Frieda Werden. Additional audio, Citizen TV

WINGS #11-22 The Orgasm Gap  Length: 0:28:49

Why big pharma created Female Sexual Dysfunction

Dr. Leonore Tiefer gave the keynote address at a conference on The Medicalization of Sex, organized by the Simon Fraser University Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies in 2011. She says everyone's sexuality is different, there is no "normal"- that efforts to define a normal and produce it through medication fail, and that "sex belongs with dancing, not digestion." She calls for research on the actual effects of sex drugs, including Viagra, on how couples relate in the real world. Tiefer has doctorates in physiological psychology and in clinical psychology with a specialty in sexology.  She co-founded The New View Campaign against pharmaceutical corruption and cooptation of the sexology field. For more information, visit http://www.newviewcampaign.org/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonore_Tiefer

Listenable link at Canada's community radio Program Exchange. (Canadian and New Zealand stations can create a download password): http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=271132

WINGS#10-22 Wade in the Water, part 2 of 2 
Behind the whitewash of American slavery 

The conclusion of the two-part series Wade in the Water - a story written and read by Marian E. Barnes. Nobody would publish it in the 1990s because it depicts some of the cruel and violent practices and ways of speaking that slaveholders used to control and abuse their captives, throughout what Barnes terms 300 years of holocaust. Part two includes an advisory to listeners 
Storyteller, historian, and child advocate Marian E. Barnes's books include Black Texans: They Overcame; a series of African-American tales; and Twelve Steps to Bringing Out the Best in Every Child. She died in 2012, at age 89.  

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Story recorded by Marian E. Barnes 1996, and copyrighted by her. Used by permission of the author. Recording by Frieda Werden in the studio at WATER (Women's Access To Electronic Resources), a project of Genevieve Vaughan's Foundation for a Compassionate Society.

#09-22 Wade in the Water-Part 1 of 2 

As of 2022 Juneteenth is a US federal holiday.

First celebrated by Black communities in Texas, it marks June 19th, 1865, when Union troops arrived at the port of Galveston, to enforce Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. While Americans celebrate that enslaved people were freed, many refuse to hear the cruel facts of slavery or allow them to be taught. The late Marian E. Barnes was a storyteller, author, historian, child advocate, and Black community leader in Austin, Texas. This week and next you hear her read her story based on historical records - a story nobody would publish because it depicts some of the cruel and violent practices and ways of speaking that slaveholders used to control and abuse their captives, throughout what Barnes terms 300 years of holocaust. Part two (released on audioport next week) includes a warning to listeners. No FCC rules are violated. 
Storyteller, historian, and child advocate Marian E. Barnes's books include Black Texans: They Overcame; a series of African-American tales; and Twelve Steps to Bringing Out the Best in Every Child. She died in 2012, at age 89. 

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Story recorded by Marian E. Barnes 1996, and copyrighted by her. Used by permission of the author. Recording by Frieda Werden in the studio at WATER (Women's Access To Electronic Resources), a project of Genevieve Vaughan's Foundation for a Compassionate Society.

WINGS#08-22 Leymah Gbowee on Peacemaking 
Women must make space for ourselves from the very start of negotiations 

Shortly before she was announced as a Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee was on a book tour in the US. She gave Janie Rezner of Women's Voices a passionate and wide-ranging interview about herself, her children, and how women need to get over our socialization to stay out of politics and not just support the men.

Janie Rezner, host of Women's Voices

Featured Speakers/Guests: Leymah Gbowee [pronounced LAY"mah, BEAU-wee] led the movement of Liberian women to force a peace agreement, which was documented in in Abigail Disney's film Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Gbowee authored the book Mighty Be Our Powers. She continues to work with women to make peace across the African continent and the world. 

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Accounting for Whom? 

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Waring asserts and documents that the UN-prescribed system of international accounts was designed to justify expenditures on war, that it serves weapons manufacturers very well, but has severe deficiencies as a set of decision-making statistics for governance. She gives examples from various countries of the perverse results of using money annually spent as the only measure of value and national success and taking no notice of other human activity or environmental conditions.  

Marilyn Waring formerly chaired the Public Expenditures Committee of New Zealand's Parliament. Her most famous book is If Women Counted. She has a doctorate in Political Economy, and continues to mount international campaigns against the GDP. 

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Audio documentary by Maria Gilardin of TUC Radio, based on the 1996 documentary film Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, produced by Canadian filmmaker Terre Nash and now available to view at nfb.ca - Program adapted for WINGS by Frieda Werden.

Butch Is Not a Dirty Word 
Masculine women claim their stripe in the gender rainbow. 

Women who find themselves "on the masculine side of centre" often experience disapproval, rejection, and pressures to change. Butch Is Not a Dirty Word is a magazine and organization designed to admire, appreciate, and network those who live with butch identity. The guests talk about their experiences in queer and straight settings, including overriding the butch/femme binary as a butch/butch couple; the pressures attendant on butch motherhood; views of butchness in communities of colour in the US and Australia; and the power to be comfortable in one's own preferred self-presentation and identity. Various butch identities are referenced, including trans butch.  
Madelaine Imber and Tandiwe Aebi-Moyo, Butches associated with Butch Is Not A Dirty Word, a publication and organization by and for butches, based in Sydney, Australia, with readership and membership around the world. 

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Interview by Jiselle Hanna, first aired on 3CR community radio, Melbourne, Australia, in the program series Accent of Women. Adapted for WINGS by series producer, Frieda Werden. [Note: both the website butchisnotadirtyword.com and the Facebook page butchisnotadirtyword have beautiful photography.]

WINGS #01-22 Mary Daly Meets 3rd Wave 

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Mary Daly, a Catholic theologian born in 1928, became a fierce feminist critic of patriarchal religion. Her first books were The Church and the Second Sex in 1968, and Beyond God the Father in 1973. Her later works were famously full of outrage and playful language. In 1999, Daly lost her job at Boston College for insisting on teaching a class to women only. The last of her 9 books, released in 2006, is titled Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big. Mara Williams (DJ Cariad), a third wave feminist, reached across the generation gap to talk with Daly about it on campus radio KDVS at University of California, Davis. Sendungen des feministischen Radionetzwerkes und von freien Radios weltweit.

WINGS #01-22 Mary Daly Meets 3rd Wave 
One of the last interviews of the late time traveler, theologian and radical feminist pirate. 

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Mary Daly, a Catholic theologian born in 1928, became a fierce feminist critic of patriarchal religion. Her first books were The Church and the Second Sex in 1968, and Beyond God the Father in 1973. Her later works were famously full of outrage and playful language. In 1999, Daly lost her job at Boston College for insisting on teaching a class to women only. The last of her 9 books, released in 2006, is titled Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big. Mara Williams (DJ Cariad), a third wave feminist, reached across the generation gap to talk with Daly about it on campus radio KDVS at University of California, Davis. 
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Irish Grannies Rage for Peace and for Ireland's neutrality 

Documentary by Margaretta D'Arcy includes songs and lyrics by Galway's Raging Grannies and other granny groups, and an overview of Ireland's neutrality, its erosion - especially in allowing US military to use of Shannon airport - and some Irish public opinion.
Notes: 1. Around 5:26, you are NOT hearing the F-word; the phrase, spoken twice, is "blood-sucking vulture capitalists"
2. WINGS has fact-checked the numbers of US military suicides and deaths in war. This source from Brown University has figures slightly higher than D'Arcy's: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/06/24/suicide-combat-veterans
3. We endeavoured to fact-check the number 5 million deaths in wars led by the US and NATO. No reliable death counts exist for most of these wars, as enemy death numbers were usually not reported - much less the collateral damage from hunger, disease and displacement. However, 5 million may be on the conservative side. A figure of 3 million for the Korean War alone - the first US-NATO joint military venture - is widely cited. This site puts the combined death toll of US wars since WW2 at 12 million: http://www.worldfut

WINGS#52-21Model Matriarchy 
The Iroquois example of women's responsible power 

Barbara Alice Mann describes the inner workings of a long-established North American matriarchal society, where women lead the arrangement of life, including festivals, collective decision-making, management of longhouses, food storage, marriages, childrearing, inheritance, rotating land use, agriculture, food storage, sharing, and gift-giving. And war and peace. Introduction by Bernedette Muthien, a KhoeSan scholar/activist from South Africa. 
Barbara Alice Mann, Ph.D., lives, teaches, researches, and writes in Ohio, the homeland of her Seneca ancestors for the last 1,500 years. She spoke in a virtual event titled Rematriation, around the UN CSW 2022. 
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WINGS #42 & 43-21 Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities

Angela Davis speech

In this 2-part speech to the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London [UK], Angela Davis focuses on often-erased information, e.g., the intent and failings of the Emancipation Proclamation, Black soldiers in the US Civil War, collective action and the leading roles of women in ending slavery and fighting discrimination, the limited concept of rights, the Black Panther movement, and racist terrorism.  

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WINGS #32-21

The 16 Days - November 25 - December 10 

Canadians combatting violence against women 
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November 25-December 10 is recognized worldwide as the 16 Days Against Violence Against Women or now more often the 16 Days Against Gender Violence. But fighting back against such crimes goes on every day. This archival program from Canada covers methods tried, from changing media coverage of the 1989 Montreal Massacre to providing support services and influencing official reports, journalism and police practices.

Featured Speakers/Guests: News report by Laura Yaros and Beth Blackmore of Radio Centreville's Matrix Collective; interview with Montreal Gazette reporter Mary Lamie. Voices from roundtable: Hilla Kerner, Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter; Rosa Elena Arteaga, Mgr. of Direct Services & Programs, Battered Women's Support Services; Darla Goodwin, Coord. of Aboriginal Women's Svces. at Women Against Violence Against Women; Laura Robinson, journalist and athlete; Asia Czapska, advocate and co-director, Justice for Girls; unidentified; Shanie Roy, student activist, feminist, and anarchist from Montreal.

Sendungen des feministischen Radionetzwerkes und von freien Radios weltweit.

In many parts of the world, governments and other actors are attempting to limit or banish Gender Studies and the concepts it explores. On Thursday, July 30, 2020 the US chapter of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television hosted a web-based discussion on this issue, titled Global Attacks on Gender Studies and the Dismantling of Critical Knowledge. Experts from Romania, Hungary, UN women and the USA spoke about reasons and methods behind both the pushback and the pushback against the pushback.

Featured Speakers/Guests: From UN Women, Dr. Purna Sen, Executive Coordinator and Spokesperson on Addressing Sexual Harassment and other forms of Discrimination. Discussing Hungary: Prof. Andrea Peto of Central European Unversity, and sociologist and Assoc. Prof. Aniko Gregor from ELTE (Etvos Lorahnd) University. Discussing Romania: Professor Loredana Ivan, of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration; and Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University, Diana Nastasia. Discussing the US: Dr. Carolyn Byerly, member of the Graduate Faculty of Communication Culture and Media Studies, Howard University.

WINGS 4th World Conference on Women

Pacifica radio reporter Julie Drizin on national propaganda; program host, Frieda Werden; reporter from FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour), Maria Suarez; Director of the UN Population Fund, Dr. Nafis Sadik; Uganda's Vice President and Minister of Community Development, Wandira Specioza Kazibwe; Women's Economic Agenda Project board member, and welfare recipient, Renee Pico; Ellen Diederich, German peace activist and participant in Women's Peace Train; Diane Bailey, UN Radio "Women"; Norway's Minister of Children and Family, Greta Birgit; Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland; Margaretta D'Arcy, Irish campaigner for counting women's unwaged work.

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
Jede ungerade Woche

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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- British journalist Rahila Gupta traveled to Northern Syria to witness the grassroots feminist democracy being built in territory liberated from the Islamic State. She has written extensively about the impressive network of women's cooperatives, political education and legislative accomplishments built in just a few years.
- An Algerian living in France, Helie-Lucas argues in favour of secularism and gives global context to the nearly-successful plan to let Sharia courts do binding arbitration in family law cases in Ontario, and the so-called ban on the veil in France. This is an archival program recorded in November 2005. The issue is ongoing, however, and if anything increased. 
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