Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Nancy Wang on Chinese Americans in the North Bay and Sandy Tate on Lesbian Visibility Day has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM on Monday 4/26/2021 at 11 AM, repeats at 11 PM on KBBF, and then repeat broadcasts in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on the following Wednesday 4/28/2021 at 11 AM.
Read description of the show and bios of the guests, see links referenced on the show and the playlist, on its archive page at:
http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA21/WSA210426.html
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Chinese Americans in the North Bay
Lesbian Visibility Day
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Featuring
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1. Commentary by host Elaine B. Holtz
2. Nancy Wang, Co-Founder and President of the Redwood Empire Chinese Association (RECA)
3. Sandy Tate, Lesbian Activist for 50 Years
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1. Commentary by host Elaine B. Holtz: On the last show of the month Elaine leads us in reciting and contemplating on the Women’s Spaces Pledge (seen in the right column).
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2. Nancy Wang talks about her concerns over people acting out with abuse to people of Asian descent over anti-Asian rhetoric, especially used during the last Whitehouse Administration under President Trump and right-wing media. Nancy reminds us that there are many second and third generation Asian Americans living among us enriching our neighborhoods, besides those who have recently immigrated. The Redwood Empire Chinese Association helps to preserve the Chinese culture and share it with the community in the form of events and classes. Recently the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors held a joint press conference to address the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans, and Nancy would like to see concrete actions taken. She encourages the school districts to address Asian American contributions to our society, as well as the Sonoma County Museum to feature Asian American exhibits, as ways to inform the public.
About our Guest: Nancy Wang is Chinese American, born in Taiwan, as a US citizen, I settled in California with my husband in 1977, raised three children in Sonoma County and is the grandmother of six grandchildren. Nancy has been part of Redwood Empire Chinese Association (RECA) since it began in a garage in 1988 with the goal of teaching our children Chinese culture and language. She has been president of RECA for many years. She was a member of Santa Rosa’s City Council Advisory Committee for 15 years, plus many other associated civic committees and has won various awards from city, state, federal government. She is proud of all the accomplishments of RECA, and the recognition received from, local, state, and federal governments, local churches, and various organizations. Her oldest grandson is finishing his university education and, we are looking forward to beginning a fourth generation to join RECA as Americans with Chinese ancestry.
Guest Link:
Redwood Empire Chinese Association (RECA) https://www.recacenter.org/
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3. Sandy Tate shareswith us on Lesbian Visibility Day why she is a feminist and lesbian. Sandy relates how she wears feminism like a suit of armor, able to fend off attacks on her way of life. She objects to lesbianism grouped und LGBQ and explains why. Sandy encourages us to read the book The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris and ends the interview with the poem A History of Lesbianism by Judy Grahn.
A History of Lesbianism
by Judy Grahn
How they came into the world,
the women-loving-women
came in three by three
and four by four
the women-loving-women
came in ten by ten
and ten by ten again
until there were more
than you could count
they took care of each other
the best they knew how
and of each other’s children,
if they had any.
How they lived in the world,
the women-loving-women
learned as much as they were allowed
and walked and wore their cloths
the way they liked
whenever they could. They did whatever
they knew to be happy or free
and worked and worked.
The women-loving-women
in America were called dykes
and some liked it
and some did not.
they made love to each other
the best they knew how
and for the best reasons
How they went out of the world,
the women-loving-women
went out one by one
having withstood greater and lesser
trials, and much hatred
from other people, they went out
one by one, each having tried
in her own way to overthrow
the rule of men over women,
they tried it one by one,
and hundred by hundred,
until each came in her own way
to the end of her life
and died.
The subject of lesbianism
is very ordinary; it’s the question
of male domination that makes everybody
angry.
About our Guest: Sandy Tate was born in the Bronx, grew up in Miami, and is a Lesbian Feminist involved in radical politics since 1970, when she became active in the Los Angeles Chapter of The National Organization for Women, (NOW). In NOW she led rap groups, facilitated assertive training for women and was chapter treasurer for two years. Sandy owned a feminist gift store called Feminist Horizons from 1975 until the early 1980s. Living in Sebastopol today, her activism includes getting the senior affordable housing where she lives to go nonsmoking, getting the laundry rooms free of fragranced products, and educating friends and neighbors on the politics of Lesbian Feminism.
Guest Links:
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6263-the-disappearing-l.aspx
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Herstory
Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance
Herstory Events:
April 26, 1777 – American Revolution heroine Sybil Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles on horseback in the middle of the night to warn the American militia that the British were invading.
April 28, 1993 – First “Take Our Daughters to Work” Day, sponsored by the Ms. Foundation, in 2003 it became “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work” Day.
Herstory Birthdays:
April 27, 1927 (2006) – Coretta Scott King, civil rights, human rights, and peace activist.
April 27, 1906 (1993) – Alice Dunnigan, first African-American journalist accredited to cover Congress (1947) and the White House, Supreme Court and State Department, documented Klan actions when no “white” newspaper covered them, first journalist of color to travel with President Truman on his train (1948) but had to pay her own way, appointed to the staff of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (1961).
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Announcements
Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Day of Action campaign of National Sexual Violence Resource Center: www.nsvrc.org
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Music Selections
The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (2010 Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com
Get Together sung by Indigo Girls from the album Strange Fire (CBS Records, inc.)
Ella’s Song sung by Holly Near from the album And Still We Sing – The Out Spoken Collection (2002 Calico Tracks Music)
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