Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Maya Khosla on Sonoma County Climate Activists’ Community Summit Invitation has been uploaded to the web archive.

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Activism, Climate Change by Humans, Green New Deal, Networking

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Maya Khosla on Sonoma County Climate Activists’ Community Summit Invitation 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 12/28/2020 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 12/30/2020 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/ArchiveWSA20/WSA201228.html

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Sonoma County Climate Activists’ Community Summit Invitation

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New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

Featuring Guest

1. Maya Khosla, Wildlife Biologist, Spokesperson, Sonoma County Climate Activists’ Community Summit via Zoom on January 10, 2021

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Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz

The last show of the month always features the Women’s Spaces Pledge. Elaine makes a special tribute to Helen Reddy who passed away in 2020 during the Centennial Year of Women’s Suffrage, by playing her song I Am Woman, released in 1975, that greatly influenced the Women’s Liberation Movement.

Discussion with Featured Guest:

1. Maya Khosla, a wildlife biologist, one of 3 selected as Sonoma County Conservation Council (SCCC) Environmentalist of the Year 2020, and Poet Laureate of Sonoma County 2018-2020, announces the Sonoma County Climate Activists’ Community Summit: It’s Up To Us!, to be held via Zoom on January 10, 2021. Maya invites you to take part in this coalition of organizations’ Sonoma County Climate Activists Network (SCCAN) event, whom she mentions during the interview and who are listed at the event website. Maya talks about the wildfires and floods that have plagued our county, nation and planet and their relation to a common cause, human induced climate change. Learn to get to know the various coalition organizations’ missions with the special lineup of speakers in this 3-hour event and how you can be involved. The event is free, and donations are welcome. From recognizing the value of traditional indigenous practices, to becoming aware of the dangers of relying on biomass, that includes felling Old Growth Trees, for energy generation, and to learn about regenerative agriculture, the danger of placing Gas Stations in sensitive zones, the Green New Deal, climate justice, racial and social justice all playing a part. In 2021 Sonoma County will review and change the General Plan, and informed activists are needed to lobby for vital changes.

About our Guest: Maya Khosla is a wildlife biologist and writer. Sonoma County Conservation Council (SCCC) has selected her as one of the three 2020 Environmentalists of the Year. Maya served as the Poet Laureate of Sonoma County (2018-2020), organizing a series of filmed readings to bring Sonoma’s communities together after the 2017 fires. Her poetry books include All the Fires of Wind and Light (Sixteen Rivers Press; 2020 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award), Keel Bone (Bear Star Press; Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize), and Heart of the Tearing (Red Dust Press).
Maya has directed Searching for the Gold Spot, a short film about natural rejuvenation after wildfire in forests of the Sierra Nevada and Cascades Regions, supported by organizations including Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Environment Now, Patagonia and From the Heart Productions. She was born in the United Kingdom, raised there and in India, Bhutan, and Myanmar, places that continue to inform her work.

Guest Links: 

SCCAN Summit It’s Up To Us website for description, donations, and RSVP for the Zoom Event on January 10, 2021 from 2 to 5 PM https://www.sonomacountycan.org/

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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 Birthdays:

December 28, 1894 (1988) – Burnita Matthews, suffragist, as a young law student in the District of Columbia learned that she could carry a banner outside the White House but would be arrested for not having a permit if she spoke, stayed silent and avoided arrest, gained admission to the bar in 1920, worked for the National Woman’s Party, chosen as Federal District Court Judge by President Truman in 1949.

December 31, 1900 (1995) – Selma Burke, sculptor, part of the Black Renaissance under Augusta Savage, created the artwork for the “Roosevelt dime,” established the Selma Burke Art Center in the early 1970s.

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Annnouncements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

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January 10, 2021, 2 – 6 PM via Zoom, Sonoma County Climate Activists’ Community Summit: It’s Up to Us! Free Event, RSVP, Description, List of Speakers, Donations welcome at the website: https://www.sonomacountycan.org/

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 Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 – November 8, 2020 online video available, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

I Am Woman, sung by Helen Reddy from the album Helen Reddy’s Greatest (1987 Capitol Records).

The Times They Are A Changing, sung by Odetta from the album Odetta Sings Dylan (2016 Revolver Records).

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For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Vesta Copestakes on Retiring from Sonoma County Gazette, has been uploaded to the web archive.

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Women Media Producers

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Vesta Copestakes on Retiring from Sonoma County Gazette, 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 12/7/2020 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 12/9/2020 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/ArchiveWSA20/WSA201207.html

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Founder Vesta Copestakes on Retiring
from the Sonoma County Gazette

New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

Featuring Guest

1. Vesta Copestakes, Founder, Former Publisher, Sonoma County Gazette

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Discussion with Featured Guest:

1. Vesta Copestakes recalls how she started from publishing an elementary school newsletter to transforming the Forestville Chamber of Commerce newsletter into the Sonoma County Gazette in 2001. She learned from her marketing background the value of building relationships, and for the first years of the Gazette she herself promoted and delivered the monthly Gazette. The Gazette was founded just before the terror attack on 9/11/2001 and Vesta immediately set the format as a reader contributed news format, since so many opinions were being expressed about the event and its relation to the County of Sonoma. Vesta saw the value of constructive criticism and informed opinion which were solution-minded. Vesta believed in citizen journalism and selected volunteers of different communities in Sonoma County as regular contributors to keep the readers informed on each part of our county for a sense of unity in living and working together. Vesta helped with the choice of the new publisher, Amie Windsor, when Sonoma Media Investment took over the Gazette in January 2020, whom we interviewed on Women’s Spaces on November 16, 2020. Since Covid-19 pandemic struck our county in March 2020, the ad revenue plummeted, so it was fortunate that Sonoma Media Investment bought the Gazette, as it is large enough financially to carry the Gazette through these trying months for small businesses. Vesta followed her passion and with the Gazette her feet felt like they were finally on her Path. And this is Vesta’s advice to aspiring writers and publishers, “Follow your passion!” Vesta is now on to further her dreams with Vesta Publishing.

About our Guest: Vesta Copestakes  is the former publisher of the Sonoma County Gazette, a community-building publication both in print at local newstands and online at SonomaCountyGazette.com. Her mission was to connect people to share knowledge, experiences, and love of our home. In 2020 Vesta realized her retirement dream to sell the Gazette so she can head into her next adventure, exploring creative pursuits. Sonoma Media Investments purchased the Gazette and by 2021 will be carrying on the tradition of citizen journalism the gives readers a vehicle to share their ideas, opinions, and passions.

Guest Links: 

SonomaCountyGazette.com

Gazette Article Link: VESTA: Intelligence, Charm, Laughter, & Undying Commitment to Equity and Community By Ceylan Karasapan Crow (and their are other tributes to Vesta presented in the December Issue of the Gazette, available at local newstands for free)

Vesta Copestakes fb page: https://www.facebook.com/vesta.copestakes

Vesta Publishing LLC
@VestaPublishing · Media/News Company https://www.facebook.com/VestaPublishing

Vesta Copestakes Email Vesta@sonic.net

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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: December 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person; her arrest sparks the modern civil rights movement in the US.

December 5, 1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National Council of Negro Women.

December 7, 1941 – Capt. Annie Fox receives the first Purple Heart awarded to a woman for her service while under attack at Pearl Harbor.

December 9, 2002 – Award-winning ABC News journalist, Michele Norris, becomes the first African American female regular co-host of National Public Radio’s news magazine, All Things Considered, she stepped down in 2012.

Herstory Birthdays:

December 6, 1815 (1884) – Jane Swiss helm, suffragist, wrote articles for local papers against slavery, for women’s rights, and against legal inequities, led to close friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln.

December 6, 1927 (2002) – Patsy Mink, first Japanese-American Congresswoman (D-HI), wrote the Women’s Educational Equity Act, played a key role in the enactment of Title IX, which was renamed posthumously as the “Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act”.

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Annnouncements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

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 Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 – November 8, 2020 online video available, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

She Rises Like the Dolphin, sung by Kate Wolf from the album Live in Mendocino (2018 Owl Records).

It’s A Good Day, sung by Anna Marie Kaufmanfrom the album It’s A Good Day (2012 Anna Marie Kaufman).

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For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and co-producer Ken Norton presenting Commentary and Inspirational Readings, has been uploaded to the web archive.

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and co-producer Ken Norton presenting Commentary and Inspirational Readings, 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 11/23/2020 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 11/25/2020 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/ArchiveWSA20/WSA201123.html

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Featuring

Commentary and Inspirational Readings by Elaine B. Holtz, Host and Co-Producer, Women’s Spaces; with Ken Norton, Co-Producer and Technical Director of Women Spaces. 

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Commentary and Inspirational Readings

by Host Elaine B. Holtz and Ken Norton

The producers of Women’s Spaces, Elaine Holtz and her partner Ken Norton, share some of what they are grateful for as we approach Thanksgiving in the midst of the pandemic and after a contested election this month. Amidst the traditional day of family gatherings, now restrained due to the pandemic precautions, the holiday Thanksgiving awakens the history of colonization and ensuing genocide the over 500 native nations experienced.
Interspersed with the music selections Elaine presents 3 of her poems:

• Friends of the Garden,
• Reflections After Watching the News Late at Night ,
• and A Meditation.

Ken follows with a reading of The Seven Laws Governing the Evolution of Man’s Spiritual Nucleus by William Hermanns (1895-1990), and Elaine reads Dr. Hermanns’ Ten Words to the Creative Spirit.

Inspirational Readings:

Note: Elaine’s Poems that have been read during the show are collected at the Poetry:  I Am Woman page (also accessible from the top menu bar).

Ken follows with a reading of The Seven Laws Governing the Evolution of Man’s Spiritual Nucleus by William Hermanns (1895-1990). Ken helped his mentor with the writing of the book manuscript: Vibrations of Heaven and Hell, at the end of the 1980’s when Dr. Hermanns was 90 years old.  The manuscript is yet to be published.

Elaine then went on to read Ten Words to the Creative Spirit by William Hermanns, which he composed around 1980. Ken thinks of these 10 words as his Soulcraft control panel, and begins his day with contemplating these 10 Words so they more easily come to the fore of consciousness during the day:

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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:

November 20,1910 (1985) – Pauli Murray, civil rights lawyer, Episcopal priest,  first black person to earn a doctorate at Yale Law School, 1965 http://paulimurrayproiect.org/ .

 November 24, 1910 (1982) – Lucy Covington, with her heritage of many chiefs, was tribal leader who saved the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State and made the federal government fulfill its treaty responsibilities to Indians, supported higher education and training for tribal members.

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Annnouncements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

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 Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentations at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 – November 8, 2020 online video available, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/ and at http://lwvsonoma.org/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Please Peace by LInda Ferro from the single Please Peace (2009 Linda Ferro).

We have come a Long Way Ladies, sung by Earth Mama from the album Herstory ((Released March 4, 2019 Rhm).

The House I Live In sung by Maxine Linehan fromt the album An American Journey – Live (2014 Honey Bun Records)
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For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Astrid Harper on her just published memoir “From Hitler to Trump – an Immigrant’s Story”, has been uploaded to the web archive.

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Author, Immigrants, War Casualties

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Astrid Harper on her just published memoir “From Hitler to Trump – an Immigrant’s Story”, 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 11/2/2020 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 11/4/2020 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/ArchiveWSA20/WSA201102.html

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Interview with the author Astrid Harper on her just published memoir
From Hitler to Trump – An Immigrant’s Story

New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

Featuring Guest

1. Astrid Harper, Author, From Hitler to Trump – An Immigrant’s Story

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Featured Guest:

1.  Astrid Harper recounts her growing up under Hitler’s regime and post war Germany. Astrid was born during Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. This pogrom against Jews on November 9 and 10 of 1938 by SA paramilitary and civilians destroyed Jewish storefronts and synagogues while deporting 30,000 Jewish men to Concentration Camps. Astrid chose the title From Hitler to Trump because of the national leaders who ruled at the beginning and end of her memoir, and the similarities between these two are not lost on Astrid who lists 9 in her book and mentions some of them for our listeners. Astrid conveys a picture during this moving interview of the hard struggle to survive the terror of the bombings during the war, and after the defeat of the Nazis as the Russian troops occupied her home’s region she as a 7 year old experienced the terror of hunger and homelessness for a couple of months. After 9 months of living with her grandmother in East Germany (DDR) her father arranged for her to be smuggled to West Germany over the border watched by armed soldiers. In 1960, having just been schooled in bilingual (German and English) secretarial work, her father arranged with the German tire manufacturer Continental to hire her for their New York City office, and a couple of years later she was able to be transferred to the San Francisco office, where a few years later she became a naturalized citizen. The memoir includes her 60 years in the USA which was not the focus of this interview. Astrid writes this memoir to serve as a warning on the lure of authoritarians, and as a recognition of talent, experience and economic contribution that immigrants bring to this nation.

About our Guest:  Astrid Harper was born in 1938 in Germany, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1960 and became a naturalized citizen in 1967. She has lived in New York, San Francisco, Long Beach, California, Windsor, and Santa Rosa. Most of her career was spent as a marketing and advertising manager. She has also developed significant export business for several employers. Astrid continues to work as a freelance copywriter and translator on the Upwork platform where she is top-rated. She also works now as a book editor for McCaa Books of Santa Rosa. Her memoir entitled FROM HITLER TO TRUMP was published by McCaa Books and is available on Amazon

Guest Links: 

From Hitler to Trump – an Immigrant’s Story is published by McCaa Books of Santa Rosa http://mccaabooks.com/fhtt.html
and is available at Amazon

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Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance

Herstory Birthdays:

November 2, 1936 (1999) – Rose Elizabeth Bird, attorney, first woman in California to hold a cabinet position (Secretary of Agriculture), allowed workers to unionize, appointed Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court in 1977, defeated in 1987 by conservatives because she opposed the death penalty.

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Annnouncements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

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 Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, the link will be posted October 8th at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with live online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 – November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/ and at http://lwvsonoma.org/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Happy Birthday sung by the Countdown Kids from the album 100 All Time Childrens Favorites (Countdown Kids Media, a Division of BMG Rights Management USA LLC).

By My Silence, sung by Sonja and Disappear Fear from the album Splash (2008 Disappear Records).

Sound of Silence, sung by Susan Wong from the album Step Into My Dreams (Released 2010 Evolution Media LTD)

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For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Jessica Litwak on Creating the Play: 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story for the Petalulma Museum, available for viewing October 8th, has been uploaded to the web archive.

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women in theatre, women's rights, Women's Suffrage Centennial

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Jessica Litwak on Creating the Play: 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story for the Petalulma Museum, available for viewing October 8th, 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 10/5/2020 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 10/7/2020 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/ArchiveWSA20/WSA201005.html

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New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

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Featuring Guest

1. Jessica Litwak, RDT, PhD, Writer/Actor/Educator, Artistic Director of The H.E.A.T. Collective

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Featured Guest:

1. Jessica Litwak was commissioned by the Petaluma Museum to create a stage production of the life of a pioneering Petaluman Suffragist Selena Solomons for the Centennial of the 19th Amendment.  Solomons was active in moving California on October 10, 1911 to become the 6th state to give women the right to vote. The play will be available as an online presentation beginning October 8, 2020, since the pandemic has restricted in person theater. Jessica shares her path to theater and the challenges she had to overcome. She discovered her love for acting and theater and returned to school after failing high school to eventually achieved her doctorate and a Fullbright Scholarship. She tells the story of a teacher who recommended she smoke and drink a lot to age more quickly as she was not pretty enough for younger roles, but had the self-esteem to then proceed to write plays for herself to act. She became a leading advocate of socially Engaged Theater for Healing of soul and society with Activism, and formed The H.E.A.T. Collective.   Jessica treats us with a reading from her play: 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story. She lets us know why she chose this title, so be sure and listen.

About our Guest: Jessica Litwak, RDT, PhD is an award-winning playwright, an actor, a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT), an educator, a coach, a puppet builder, and an International leader in the field of socially engaged theatre. She is the Artistic Director of The H.E.A.T. Collective (www.theheatcollective.org), the founder of Artists Rise Up New York, and The New Generation Theatre Ensemble, a core member of Theatre Without Borders and a Fulbright Scholar. She has taught theatre at universities around the world. Her work has been published by TCG, Applause Books, Smith and Krause, No Passport Press, Amazon, and The New York Times. Her plays have been produced in Europe, South America, the Middle East, India, the UK and throughout the U.S. She is currently working on an international production of The FEAR Project (based on verbatim interviews) a UK tour of My Heart is in the East (a play about Muslim and Jewish relations), and 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story which was commissioned as a one woman play for the centennial of the 19th Amendment and is being produced by The Marsh Theatre.

Guest Link:

The H.E.A.T. Collective
www.theheatcollective.org

Event Link:
Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, the link will be posted October 8th at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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 Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance

Herstory Events:

October 3, 1904 – Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida.

October 4, 1976 – Barbara Walters becomes the first woman co-anchor of the evening news (at ABC).

October 4, 1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman Justice.

October 8, 1993 – Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

Herstory Birthdays:

October 3, 1897 (1982) – Ruth Bronson, Bureau of Indian Affairs official who got loans for Indian students, National Congress of American Indians forced authorities to honor treaties (1944), wrote Indians are People, Too.

October 4, 1908 (1995) – Eleanor Flexner, influential author, and historian, wrote Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States (1950) and Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography (1972).

October 5, 1959 – Maya Lin, artist, and architect of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. (1980-82) and other public sculptures, author of Boundaries (2000).

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Annnouncements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

 Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, the link will be posted October 8th at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with live online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 – November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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January 25 through (extended!) January 24, 2021,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/ and at http://lwvsonoma.org/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

I Am Woman sung by Helen Reddy from the album Helen Reddy’s Greatest Hits (And More)  (Released 1975 – This compilation @ 1087 Capitol Records).

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For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Resisting Male Supremacy has been uploaded to the web archive.

Tags

Abusive behavior of men, Male dominance, women in politics, Women's Suffrage Centennial

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz  and guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Resisting Male Supremacy 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 8/31/2020 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 9/2/2020 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/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200831.html

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Resisting Male Superiority

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New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

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Featuring Guest

1. Dr. Harriet Fraad, Mental health counselor and Hypnotherapist in practice in New York City, Author.

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Featured Guest

1. .Dr. Harriet Fraad and Elaine talk about 100 years of Women having the right to vote and the recent Republican Convention featuring an anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, who favored Head of Household voting and tweeted that “In a Godly household, the husband would get the final say”.  Dr. Fraad pointed out that 42% of women are head of household as a single parent.  Elaine then plays  4 minutes of the speech in the House of Representatives of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday morning, July 22, 2020, in which she delivered a candid rebuke of sexism in Congress and beyond in response to comments from Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., who had reportedly called her a vulgar insult. Dr. Fraad noted that sexual innuendos are used to humiliate women, but since the Me-Too movement has laid bare the abuse which women have experienced, this is no longer acceptable. Rep. Ted Yoho tried portray himself as a good husband and father of a daughter, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, noted that she was a daughter of loving parents and  countered, “Having a daughter does not make a man decent.”  Dr. Fraad notes that one out of three women have been beaten up by their husband or boyfriend. Observing the good record of women leaders in dealing with the Corona Virus, it appears that more women are needed in political leadership.

About our Guest: Dr. Harriet Fraad is a mental health Counselor and Hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She speaks regularly and writes about the intersecting crises in US relationships personal life, politics and economics. She was a founding member of the Second Wave women’s movement and has remained an activist for her entire life. She appears regularly on the radio for Economic Update, The Julianna Forlano Morning show, MK Mendoza, and Women’s Spaces. Her very latest written work appears in Knowledge, Class and Economics: Marxism, Without Guarantees (Routledge, 2019).

Guest Links:

 www.harrietfraad.com

Subscribe to Dr. Harriet Fraad’s Capitalism Hits Home podcast on iTunes at:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/capitalism-hits-home/id1435939485 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Speech in House of Representatives, July 22, 2020, YouTube video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZcdMCHn2o

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 Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance

August 28, 1963 – More than 250,000 gathers for a march on Washington, DC, and listen to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

August 30, 1984 – Judith A. Resnick is the second U.S. woman in space, traveling on the first flight of the space shuttle Discovery.

Herstory Birthdays:

August 30, 1907 (1992) – Luisa Moreno, labor leader and Mexican-American civil rights activist, emigrated from Guatemala, helped organize “El Congress del Pueblo de Habla Espanola” (Spanish-Speaking People’s Congress) in 1938, worked for the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA)

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occurred with live online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ 

 

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The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 – November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. This postponement has provided the opportunity to coordinate the exhibit’s opening reception with the national celebration of “Women’s Equality Day”. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 26th, 5 to 8 pm! The exhibit will be dedicated to our former Congresswoman, Lynn Woolsey, and our former Mayor, Helen Putnam, and we are delighted to report that Mayor Barrett will be attending the opening to bestow the honors. Participate via
this livestream which will be available on Zoom, YouTube and Facebook. For details visit

https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/suffrage-exhibit-opening-dedication/

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January 25 through September 20, 2020,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/ and at http://sonco.ca.lwvnet.org/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

 

 

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Shed a Little Light sung by Diana Jarkuff from the album All Around the World in One Bloody Night (2006 ATS – Records).

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz with guests Sydni Davenport on her song Black Lives Matter and Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams Part 3 Feminism and Black Lives Matter has been uploaded to the web archive.

Tags

Black Lives Matter, Feminism, Human Rights, Me-Too, poetry

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz  with guests Sydni Davenport on her song Black Lives Matter and Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams on Feminism and Black Lives Matter, Part 3: Early Feminists Were Abolitionists has been uploaded to the web archive.  The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 7/6/2020 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 7/8/2020 at 11 AM.

Listen to the show on its archive page at:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200706.html

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New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

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Local Sonoma County Black Lives Matter Song

Feminism and Black Lives Matter,  Part 3: Early Feminists Were Abolitionists

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Featuring

1. Sydni Davenport,  Composer, Black Lives Matter song; Music Director, Prayer Chapel Singers

2. Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams, Professor, African American Literature, Sonoma State University; Author

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Our Featured Guests

1. Sydni Davenport talks of her family’s beginnings in Santa Rosa and the composing of the song Black Lives Matter, which she sung with her granddaughters accompanying her in order to mentor them in history and the possibility of a better world. Sydni’s first experience of racism began in grammar school.

About our Guest: Sydni Davenport is a board of the Juneteenth Festival and member of the Sonoma County NAACP and the Sonoma County CHANCE horse rescue. A native of Sonoma County she is the first Grand Child of Evangelist Marteal Perry. She is a member of the Gospel Group, The Prayer Chapel Singers, The group just released their first Single called, “God’s got it which Sydni wrote. She describes herself as a country girl at heart and love cowboy boots. She is a mother, grandmother and wife and has been married for 30 years to a wonderful partner she loves to be outdoors and garden. For the past 20 years she has been a foster parent for the mentally ill.

Guest Link:

Black Lives Matter song on Youtube: https://youtu.be/KjH6VfjvLL4

Related Link:

Press Democrat article of June 19, 2020 on Sydni Davenport and her grandmother Evangelist Marteal Perry, founder of the Prayer Chapel Outreach Mission Church in west Santa Rosa https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-juneteenth-celebrates-50th-year-amid-growing-recognition-nati/?gallery=8763D7A7-3800-4F1E-97D4-8ED1206FB2FF

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2.  Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returns for a 3rd interview on Feminism and Black Lives Matter. She mentions how much the poet Lucille Clifton influenced her with her poem homage to my hips as tribute to blackness and celebrations of women in her poetry book Two-Headed Woman. Lucille Clifton was the first author to be twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the same year 1988, one for her book of poems Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir: 1969–1980, and the second for Next: New Poems. Dr. Bettina Aptheker was another feminist who made a mark on Dr. Williams while studying at University of Santa Cruz. Feminists are primarily interested in human life and the early feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1906) were abolitionists. Dr. Williams goes more into depth on intersectionalism that was first written about by Dr. Kimberly Crenshaw in the 1980s in recognizing the multifacets of inequality such as in economics relegating peoples to poor and polluted neighborhoods, social life, judicial, educational opportunities and media portrayals of stereotypes, Black Live Matter is a movement of insisting “no more messing around!”, to put it politely by Dr. Williams. The Me-Too movement was a similar cry of “enough is enough.” Now with the pandemic, Me-too and Black LIve Matter have the time to reflect and to protest for a better nation and world. Dr.William’s favorite science fiction author Octavia Butler stresses community in her writings, which is enabled by compassion, empathy, and care for one another to survive.

About our Guest: Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams is a Professor of English and American Multicultural Studies (AMCS) at Sonoma State University. She currently serves as Chair of American Multicultural Studies in addition to teaching nineteenth-century American literature, African American literature and culture. And is an affiliate faculty in Film Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. She is co-editor, with LeiLani Nishime, of Racial Ecologies, a book collection of interdisciplinary essays on race and environment, published by the University of Washington Press in 2018. Her poetry is grounded in the long tradition of African American Womanist poetics. She is also currently an active member of the American Canyon Soroptimist Association, an organization that supports the economic empowerment and vitality of all women through education, training, and solidarity. Dr. Hester Williams takes great pride in merging her teaching, scholarship, and research about racial and gender equality with her commitment to community service, social justice, and enacting an equitable, sustainable society—in both personal and communal practice.

Guest Links:

https://english.sonoma.edu/faculty-staff/kim-d-hester-williams

Email:  kim.hester.williams at sonoma.edu

Racial Ecologies, Edited by Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams (University of Washington Press 2018) https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295743738/racial-ecologies/

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Related Links:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1906) biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe

Lucille Clifton biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Clifton#Two-Headed_Woman:_%22homage_to_my_hips%22

Octavia E. Butler biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler

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Other Women’s Spaces Shows with Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams:

Feminism and Black Lives Matter, Part 1: Octavia Butler and Modern Feminism on May 11, 2020,  hhttp://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200511.html

Feminism and Black Lives Matter, Part 2: Historical and Feminist Perspective on June 8, 2020,  http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200608.html

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 Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance

July 4,1876 – Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration in Independence Hall to present the Vice President with the Declaration of the Rights of Women written by Matilda Joselyn Gage.

The following description is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Woman_and_of_the_Female_Citizen

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (French: Declaration des droits de lafemme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 5 September in 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. By publishing this document, de Gouges hoped to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of gender equality, but failed to create any lasting impact on the direction of the Revolution. As a result of her writings (including The Declaration
of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen), de Gouges was accused, tried and convicted of treason, resulting in her immediate execution, along with the Girondists in the Reign of Terror (one of only three women beheaded during the Reign of Terror – and the only executed for her political writings). The Declaration Of the Rights ofWoman is significant because it brought attention to a set of feminist concerns that collectively reflected and influenced the aims of many French Revolution activists.

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

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August 26 – November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. This postponement has provided the opportunity to coordinate the exhibit’s opening reception with the national celebration of “Women’s Equality Day”. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 26th, 5 to 8 pm! The exhibit will be dedicated to our former Congresswoman, Lynn Woolsey, and our former Mayor, Helen Putnam, and we are delighted to report that Mayor Barrett will be attending the opening to bestow the honors. 
https://www.petalumamuseum.com/2020/04/18/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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January 25 through September 13, 2020,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Black Lives Matter, written and sung by Syndi Locke Davenport   and her Granddaughters from the single Black Lives Matter (2020 Syndi Locke Davenport). YouTube Link to music video

Welcome to the Circle, sung by Betsy Rose and The Women’s Chorus from the album Welcome to the Circle (2006 Paper Crane Music)

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Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz with guest Gloria Allred on aka Jane Roe and Women’s Rights has been uploaded to the web archive.

Tags

Jane Roe, Pro-choice, Women in history, women's rights

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz  with guest Gloria Allred on aka Jane Roe and Women’s Rights has been uploaded to the web archive.  The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 6/15/2020 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 6/17/2020 at 11 AM.

Listen to the show on its archive page at:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200615.html

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New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

Featuring

 

1. Gloria Allred, Women’s Rights Attorney, Founding Partner of the firm Allred, Maroko & Goldberg

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Our Featured Guests

1.  Gloria Allred shares her passion for justice for women with as she calls it “45 years of fighting for #MeToo justice.”  Ms. Allred has taken on very powerful and rich men who have abused women. She talks of her friend and client Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” whose unwanted pregnancy led to the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide, Roe v. Wade, who is portrayed with her “deathbed confession” in the FX film aka Jane Roe, of switching from the volunteer and unpaid poster child of the Pro-Choice movement to become the paid-with-over-$450,000 poster child of the Pro-Life of Fetus movement Operation Rescue. Ms. Allred asserts, as does Norma in her confession that she was always Pro-Choice.  Gloria Allred also comments on the Netflix documentary on her life, Seeing Allred, that has won film acclaim.

About our Guest: Gloria Allred was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. with honors in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her M.A. from New York University and her J.D. cum laude from Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles. She was also awarded an honorary J.D. from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law.
Ms. Allred is a founding partner of the law firm Allred, Maroko & Goldberg(AM&G). Her firm handles more women’s rights cases than any other private firm in the nation and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for victims. Ms. Allred also founded and is currently president of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund (WERLDEF).
in 2017 Netflix announced Seeing Allred an original documentary about Ms. Allred and her battles for justice which launched globally on Netflix in February 2018 after its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
In addition to being an attorney, Ms. Allred holds California life credentials in secondary school education and supervision. She taught in public schools for 6½ years and was a lecturer at the University of Southern California for several years.
Ms. Allred is the author of Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Injustice — And How You Can Win Your Own Battles.  Gloria Allred was iInducted into National Women’s Hall of Fame – 2019.

Guest Links:

www.gloriaallred.com

Seeing Allred the film: www.netflix.com/Title/80174367

aka Jane Roe the film:  www.fxnetworks.com/shows/aka-jane-roe

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 Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

June 20, 2020, Juneteenth Celebration in Santa Rosa marks its 50th Year of family gathering. Usually this occurs at Martin Luther King, jr, Park but this year due to the COVID-19 precautions the event will be a free Zoom online event. Register to participate at https://www.sonomacountyjuneteenth.com/

Sonoma County Juneteenth celebrates 50th year amid growing recognition nationwide, Press Democrat article of June 19, 2020:    www.pressdemocrat.com/news/11036649-181/sonoma-county-juneteenth-celebrates-50th

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August 26 – November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. This postponement has provided the opportunity to coordinate the exhibit’s opening reception with the national celebration of “Women’s Equality Day”. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 26th, 5 to 8 pm! The exhibit will be dedicated to our former Congresswoman, Lynn Woolsey, and our former Mayor, Helen Putnam, and we are delighted to report that Mayor Barrett will be attending the opening to bestow the honors.
https://www.petalumamuseum.com/2020/04/18/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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January 25 through September 13, 2020,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Yes We Can Can, sung by The Pointer Sisters from the album Favorites (Released March 2013 @ 2013 Sabrina Steczko)

I Believe I can Fly sung by Etta James from the album All The Way (RCA Victor)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz with guests Susan Lamont on Petition for Effective Citizen Oversight of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams on Black Lives Matter: Historical and Feminist Perspective has been uploaded to the web archive.

Tags

Black History, Black Lives Matter, Intersectionality, Law enforcement

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz  with guests Susan Lamont on Petition for Effective Citizen Oversight of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams on Black Lives Matter: Historical and Feminist Perspective has been uploaded to the web archive.  The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 6/8/2020 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 6/10/2020 at 11 AM.

Women’s Spaces Radio Show of 6/8/2020 with guests Susan Lamont on Petition for Effective Citizen Oversight of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams on Black Lives Matter: Historical and Feminist Perspective – Show ID: WSA200608

Listen to the show on its archive page at:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200608.html

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Citizen Oversight of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office

Black Lives Matter: Historical and Feminist Perspective

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New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

Featuring

1. Susan Lamont,  Member, Evelyn Cheatham Committee To Support An Effective Iolero; Local Activist on Police Accountability

2. Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams, Professor, African American Literature, Sonoma State University; Author

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 Our Featured Guests

 

1.  Susan Lamont  shares reasons why the Evelyn Cheatham Ordinance to Support An Effective IOLERO (The Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach), is necessary in our county for more accountability of the Sheriff’s Office. An online petition on Change.org has been started last Tuesday to encourage the County Board of Supervisors to pass the amendment to the ordinance for IOLERO or place it on the ballot in November, By the time of this show already 5,000 have signed the petition. Passage of this new ordinance for the County will give suppoena power to IOLERO to force the Sheriff to comply with requests for information and records. This is the time to act as protests against police brutality and racism continue for the 10th day in our county and around the nation and world. Listeners are urged to sign the online petition and also call their county supervisor to voice their support at (707) 565-2241. The history of IOLERO, the changes to make it more effective, and the link to the online petition can be found on the Committee’s website at https://socoeffectiveoversight.org/

About our Guest: Susan Lamont is a longtime peace and social justice activist, who is currently affiliated with Sonoma County’s Green Party, Police Brutality Coalition and Veterans for Peace. She is also a writer, poet and photographer.

Guest Links:

 Evelyn Cheatham Committee To Support An Effective IOLERO link, information on the proposesd ordinance amendment and link to the online petition:
https://socoeffectiveoversight.org/

Making IOLERO Stronger Petition Link to Save Direct Democracy: Place Stronger Community Oversight of Law Enforcement on the Ballot  Petition to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors at this link:
Change.org Petition .

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2.  Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returns to share how the the 9 -minute strangulation of George Floyd by a police officer as 3 police officers assisting him affected her as a Black woman, mother and educator.  She draws our attention to the fact that the officer who kept applying his knee to George Floyd’s neck kept his hands in his pockets, as if this just another casual killing of a Black person, encouraged by historical racism in the USA and even the Supreme Court.. She reminds us of the Dred Scott decison in 1857, which in the majority opinion of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Taney stated:

“They [people of African ancestry] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery.”

Given the 400 year history of this White Supremacy attitude, and the laws to support it,  Dr. Williams wonders if ten years from now we are not still addressing this divide among the people of this nation.  She calls for a united front of black, white and all colors of skin together,  against racism, and is hopeful at the response of white people in showing up and supporting the protests these last 10 days. She recommends some books about women of color feminism which we list below to further our education in this regard.

About our Guest: Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams is a Professor of English and American Multicultural Studies (AMCS) at Sonoma State University. She currently serves as Chair of American Multicultural Studies in addition to teaching nineteenth-century American literature, African American literature and culture. And is an affiliate faculty in Film Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. She is co-editor, with LeiLani Nishime, of Racial Ecologies – a book collection of interdisciplinary essays on race and environment, published by the University of Washington Press in 2018. Her poetry is grounded in the long tradition of African American Womanist poetics. She is also currently an active member of the American Canyon So optimist Association, an organization that supports the economic empowerment and vitality of all women through education, training, and solidarity. Dr. Hester Williams takes great pride in merging her teaching, scholarship, and research about racial and gender equality with her commitment to community service, social justice, and enacting an equitable, sustainable society—in both personal and communal practice.

Guest Links:

https://english.sonoma.edu/faculty-staff/kim-d-hester-williams

Book recommended by our Guest:

This Bridge Called my Back; But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies, an anthology of feminist studies. Co-edited by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith, 1982, Feminist Press. Wikipedia link

Dred Scott v. Sanford case of 1857, Majority Opinion by Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/865

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 Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions.

August 26 – November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. This postponement has provided the opportunity to coordinate the exhibit’s opening reception with the national celebration of “Women’s Equality Day”. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 26th, 5 to 8 pm! The exhibit will be dedicated to our former Congresswoman, Lynn Woolsey, and our former Mayor, Helen Putnam, and we are delighted to report that Mayor Barrett will be attending the opening to bestow the honors.
https://www.petalumamuseum.com/2020/04/18/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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January 25 through September 13, 2020,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

Black Lives Matter by Lovely Hoffman from the Single Black Lives Matter (Release 2017 – 100 Decibels Music Group)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams on the author Octavia Butler and Modern Feminism has been uploaded to the web archive.

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Feminism, Intersectionality

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz  and guest Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams on the author Octavia Butler and Modern Feminism has been uploaded to the web archive.  The show was recorded, broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM  on Monday 5/11/2020 at 11 AM (repeats at 11 PM on KBBF) and repeat broadcast in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on Wednesday 5/13/2020 at 11 AM.

Listen to the show at:

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200511.html

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 Octavia Butler and Modern Feminism

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New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via  this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com

Featuring

1. Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams, Professor, African American Literature, Sonoma State University; Author

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Our Featured Presentations

 

1.  Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams shares her path to profess expertise on African American Literature and Multicultural Studies from Black sharecropping grandparents to being bused as a student in the 1970’s to integrate schools in Los Angeles County through hour-long rides from L.A. to San Fernando Valley, which enabled her to make friends with students with different backgrounds. The sacrifice of Dr. Hester Williams’ ancestors and the history of racism in this country drew her to study English Literature and the contributions of authors from different ethnic backgrounds. Kim talks about the impact on American Literature of Octavia Butler, considered to be the Grand Dame of American Science Fiction and a beacon in other literature realms, as well, who imagined worlds where African American women were heroes and helped build just communities. Dr. Hester Williams discusses Feminism and Intersectionality, which expands the mission of the Women’s Movement, embracing everyone in the community. Feminism addresses power and the fact that self-interest, possessive individualism and extractive capitalism belie the fact that we are interconnected.

About our Guest:  Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams is a Professor of English and American Multicultural Studies (AMCS) at Sonoma State University. She currently serves as Chair of American Multicultural Studies in addition to teaching nineteenth-century American literature, African American literature and culture. And is an affiliate faculty in Film Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. She is co-editor, with LeiLani Nishime, of Racial Ecologies—a book collection of interdisciplinary essays on race and environment, published by the University of Washington Press in 2018. Her poetry is grounded in the long tradition of African American Womanist poetics. She is also currently an active member of the American Canyon So optimist Association, an organization that supports the economic empowerment and vitality of all women through education, training, and solidarity. Dr. Hester Williams takes great pride in merging her teaching, scholarship, and research about racial and gender equality with her commitment to community service, social justice, and enacting an equitable, sustainable society—in both personal and communal practice.

Guest Links: 

Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams, SSU site:  https://english.sonoma.edu/faculty-staff/kim-d-hester-williams

Racial Ecologies (2018) – The book collection includes a chapter Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams authored titled, “Earthseeds of Change: Post-Apocalyptic Mythmaking, Race, and Ecology in The Book of Eli and Octavia Butler’s Womanist Parables.”  https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295743738/racial-ecologies/

Octavia Butler site:  https://www.octaviabutler.com/

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 Herstory

A larger Compilation is at the National Women’s History Alliance

May 10, 1872 – Victoria Woodhull is nominated as the first woman candidate for U.S. president for the Equal Rights Party

May 12, 1968 – A 12-block Mother’s Day march of “welfare mothers” is held in Washington, D.C., led by Coretta Scott King accompanied by Ethel Kennedy

May 15, 1970 – Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so

Her Birthdays This Week

May 10, 1958 – Ellen Ochoa, engineer, former astronaut and the current Director of the Johnson Space Center, the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space when she served aboard the shuttle Discovery

May 11, 1875 (1912) – Harriet Quimby, first American woman to become a licensed airplane pilot (1911), first woman to fly across the English Channel (1912)

May 11, 1894 (1991) – Martha Graham, modern dance innovator and choreographer, first dancer to perform at the White House

May 11, 1906 (1975) – Ethel Weed, military officer in the Women’s Army Corp., promoted women’s rights and suffrage in Japan

May 12, 1900 (1994) – Mildred H. McAfee, first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy during World War II, first woman commissioned in the U.S. Naval Reserve and the first woman to receive the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, first woman to serve on the boards of New York Life Insurance, the New York Public Library, and RCA, she served as president of Wellesley College, a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and co-chair of President John F. Kennedy’s Women’s Committee for Civil Rights

May 12, 1907 (2003) – Katharine Hepburn, actor, performed for more than 60 years, won four Academy Awards for best actress including The Philadelphia Story and On Golden Pond, named top American screen legend of all time by American Film Institute (1999)

May 14, 1890 (1983) – Margaret Naumburg, progressive educator, founded the Walden School in New York, early pioneer of art therapy, developed Dynamically Oriented Art Therapy

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponements or cancellations due to pandemic precautions.

August 26 – November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. This postponement has provided the opportunity to coordinate the exhibit’s opening reception with the national celebration of “Women’s Equality Day”. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 26th, 5 to 8 pm! The exhibit will be dedicated to our former Congresswoman, Lynn Woolsey, and our former Mayor, Helen Putnam, and we are delighted to report that Mayor Barrett will be attending the opening to bestow the honors.
https://www.petalumamuseum.com/2020/04/18/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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January 25 through September 13, 2020,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/

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Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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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 (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

For The Mothers, sung by Betsey Rose and the Women’s Choir from the Album Welcome to the Circle (2006 Paper Crane Music)

Sending you Light sung by Betsy Rose and the Women’s Chorusfrom the album Welcome to the Circle (2006 Paper Crane Music)

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For music purchasing opportunity:

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women’s Spaces Show