Women's Liberation Radio News

In this interview, WLRN member Robin speaks with Meghan Murphy about her start in radio, her path to Feminist Current, and her recent experiences with online censorship and harassment. Meghan Murphy is a radical feminist writer and journalist who was recently banned from Twitter for posting public information about a man in the news. On January 10th, 2019, Meghan will be appearing at he Vancouver...

Happy New Year! Sisters, let us start the year right. Let's hit the ground running. Let's speak out and stand up. Women will NOT be silenced. Join the revolution, and take a listen to our freshest edition on the misogynist censorship of women. Our 33rd show begins with an introduction by our newest member, Robin. Then Damayanti's world headlines are followed by "Your Revolution" by Sarah Jones. Ju...

Way to the Well Keruna Aye Kerunene Keruna Zamuci se Bozja Majka (Serbian) Kitka Collage of Koleda Carols (Bulgarian) Kitka A gute vokh (Yiddish) Kitka This week I'll continue to read from Sally Miller Gearhart's classic feminist novel The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women while interspersing chapter readings with music from Keruna and Kitka. Hope you are moved to a deep and powerful remembe...

Brought to you directly from Our Feminist Fires, the WLRN collective is happy to release this toasty news program dedicated to Sisterhood & Solidarity this December 2018. In Edition 32, hear the voices of women who attended and participated in the Vancouver Rape Relief Montreal Massacre Remembrance event held on December 1st at the Vancouver Public Library in addition to a recent interview Thistle...

Crackpot Crone: an Outrageous, Be-Laughing woman; one whose laughter melts down the plastic passions and unpots the potted ones. Syn-Crone-icities n: "coincidences" experienced and recognized by Crones as Strangely significant. Examples: too numerous to be Nagnoted here. Crones reading this (book) are invited to draw from their own experiences to illustrate this definition. Please join me for an h...

In this extended interview, April talks with Danielle and Eileen of the Vancouver Lesbian Collective about their experiences at the 2018 Vancouver Dyke March and the climate for lesbians in an (ironically) increasingly sexist and lesbophobic queer culture.

Welcome back, sisters, to another hour of women's liberation music. This week I've gathered songs from my library that lend themselves to uplift. You know when you watch birds take flight and they catch the draft that pulls them effortlessly higher? Or if you watch pelicans over the waves in their V formation, how they lift up together, seemingly as one with the air currents? That's the effect I w...

On October 25th, Thistle spoke with three lesbians by phone about their experiences at the San Francisco Dyke March on June 23rd. The march took place soon after the unveiling of the San Francisco Public Library's "art exhibit" featuring the Degenderettes' baseball bats and hatchets in barbed wire in addition to a red paint-stained t-shirt that said "I punch TERFs." The unveiling of this exhibit p...

This show celebrates the authentic creative expression and powerful voices of womyn, undiluted by male interference. We hear about solidarity between womyn, mental illness and healing, the pure joy of female love and friendship, the pain of isolation that many lesbians experience, black butch life in 1920s America, the charisma of womyn who stand in their power, two luminous songs from womyn who a...

If Halloween wasn't scary enough for you this year, listening to this podcast will send a chill down your spine as it is packed with stories from lesbians who marched in the streets and were met with violent harassment by fellow marchers at Gay Pride and Lesbian events around the world. Edition 31 starts off with Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl", a spooky greeting from Jenna and then WLRN's world news a...

Playlist: I Believe Her (acoustic and electric guitar) Emma's Revolution Cleanin' Out My Closet Trigger Warning! (Explicit rap) Angel Haze *You can read about this brave sister's story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Haze Casualty in My Own House (acoustic folk) Holly Near Abatina (reggae) Calypso Rose Me and A Gun (acoustic) Tori Amos Caleb Meyer (folk) Gillian Welsh Love is Blind **I chose...

On June 23rd, the the afternoon of the San Francisco Dyke March this year, Bay Area author, filmmaker, and lesbian Giovanna Capone led a discussion on the herstory of butch lesbian culture present in the Bay Area in the 90s. On the call are Mel Stapper, Pippa Fleming, and Artemis Passionfire. We open the discussion with a poem written by Ms. Capone, titled Endangered Equals At Risk, read by WLRN's...

This week, Phoenixx features Alix Dobkin in concert! Alix performed a sold out local house concert this past week! Phoenixx tried her skills at recording the concert, as well as interviews with attending dykes who had stories to share about Alix over the years. What a blast it was! Now we have these Lesbian songs, words and stories preserved with this week's Women's Liberation Music Hour! (actuall...

Thanks for your patience. We are one day late so that we could make this WLRN podcast great! Our 30th edition features the world news read by April Neault, Julia's interview with Sheila Jeffreys and Thistle's interview with three young women who attended the Ohio Lesbian Festival last month and hung out at the WLRN table in the marketplace. The team at WLRN gives a special shout-out this October t...

WLRN's Julia Beck had the pleasure of interviewing Otep Shamaya, lead singer and namesake of the band Otep, about her experiences as a woman and out Lesbian in the rock scene. Otep was the first female-fronted band to headline Ozzfest. With politically inspired lyrics and heavy metal riffs, her music sends a message of revolution. You can find Otep's new album, Kult 45, online and in stores now.

A group of lesbians founded the Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft in 2017 to create a spiritual home for women and girls. This Maryland-based Church of female-born women is devoted to the liberation of women and girls from the oppression females face based on sex. The Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft observes earth-based spiritual practices and is made up of diverse congregations of women around...

In honor of all the working women of the world, WLRN's 29th edition is dedicated to women in the labor movement. This month's program starts off with April Neault, the newest member of the WLRN team, introducing herself and the guests on the show. She is followed by WLRN's world news segment as written and presented by Damayanti. Next, enjoy a rousing version of the song "Union Maid" from the New...

Playlist: Background music: More than a Paycheck Sweet Honey in The Rock All songs from The New Harmony Sisterhood Band: "Side one" Sojourner Truth Cotton Mill Girls Ballad Working Class Woman Ella Ellison Draglines "Side two" Union Maid Ballad of Joan Little Two O'Clock Lounge Amelia Earhart's Last Flight Unfinished Business All Our Lives Closing song: Stand Up Heather Mae This music hour feature...

Howdy! This week's Women's Liberation Music Hour features Holly Near's 1978 album: Imagine My Surprise!. I love this album because of her songs about womon-centered realities one hardly hears sung anymore: topics like violence against women, women being locked up in psychiatric hospitals and women/lesbians being disappeared and tortured around the world. I also love the liner notes and photos of H...

Mother Earth is on the brink of destruction. Modern industry fosters ecological degradation through unsustainable habits of pollution and resource depletion. Male-driven civilization and its treatment of the natural world wreaks havoc all around us, but women hold the power to save life on this planet as we know it. Today's podcast features women who dedicate their lives to seeking and spreading k...

WLRN is back on the scene this first Thursday in July with our feminist anti-war news program in response to all of the war machine worship we have seen this 4th of July season. The show starts with the song Wargasm by L7 and then moves into world news headlines by Maya followed by Buffy St. Marie with her song, The War Racket. The first interview segment is with Cynthia Enloe, professor of Politi...

From Phoenixx: "This month of July, I bring to you fury and lullabies, sisters. Fury. Need I say anything of the what and why?! I have been feeling full of my fury these last few weeks, sisters, and I need a break. A break... and some focus on doing some energetic/magic activism to help the children who have been separated from their parents at the border and subsequently put into emotional isolat...

Happy Pride Month to all the wonderful Lesbians out there! Sister my Sister, you are seen. You are loved! WLRN's June podcast is dedicated to you women who defy the mold. Join us as we focus on Butch Womyn! This month we had the pleasure of speaking with Pippa Fleming, Paula Jellis, and several women who attended the Cinema Systers festival in Paducah, Kentucky. We begin with world headlines by Ma...

This month on your Women's Liberation Music Hour, DJ Phoenixx presents songs for your very own Dance Party that include some of her favorite dance music. Being a fan of funk (it's not easy to find female/Feminist funk bands, by the way!), she also likes dancing to Disco. It is hard to find Disco songs that are not misogynist and/or steeped in a male love interest when sung by female artists. Phoen...

New Zealand feminist Renée Gerlich sent WLRN her copy of this interview. She did it on request for Radio New Zealand - before being told it couldn't broadcast, because it had "simply dropped out of the system". Listen carefully to how the interviewer asks Renée questions and how she responds to them to understand why it is likely this interview was censored. WLRN is committed to giving a platform...