In this interview, WLRN producer Jenna talks with Maria Klemperer-Johnson, founder of Hammerstone Carpentry and School for Women. Having grown up with a woodworking father and grandfather, Maria found
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In this interview, WLRN producer Jenna talks with Maria Klemperer-Johnson, founder of Hammerstone Carpentry and School for Women. Having grown up with a woodworking father and grandfather, Maria found her way back to carpentry after going to college for computer science, and later starting a PhD program in geology. She talks about the the empowerment of being physical; using your body to create; knowing your strengths and limits. Being part of a small percentage of wimmin in the trades, and specifically carpentry, she has a unique perspective on the way we work, the baggage associated with being a woman doing "men's work", and the limits we place on ourselves. Ms. Klemperer-Johnson also spent time is Puerto Rico in March of 2018, holding construction workshops for local residents, and doing crucial renovations on one home that had been without a roof since hurricane Maria. Working with her team of women, and the recovery group Rogues on Roofs, Maria made extensive repairs - and also important connections - and is planning her return to the Island to continue this necessary work.
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Thanks to Anonymous for sending WLRN this sound file from 2014 when Thistle Pettersen interviewed Sheila Jeffreys, Elizabeth Hungerford and Jane Doe on the Access Hour at Madison's community radio sta
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Thanks to Anonymous for sending WLRN this sound file from 2014 when Thistle Pettersen interviewed Sheila Jeffreys, Elizabeth Hungerford and Jane Doe on the Access Hour at Madison's community radio station WORT 89.9 FM. The lead-up to this show and the aftermath were notable since trans activists and proponents complained to the station that this show was "trans misogynistic" and full of "hate speech."
On September 13th, at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park in London, transactivists swarmed a group of women meeting to discuss the meaning of the word "gender" and the Gender Recognition Act that is gettin
Hour-long interview with Trixie & Ruby, two organizers of the What Is Gender conference that took place in London on September 13th and Julia Long, a speaker at the conference.
On September 13th, at Speakersâ Corner in Hyde Park in London, trans activists swarmed a group of women meeting to discuss the meaning of the word âgenderâ and the Gender Recognition Act that is getting support from both the left and the right in the UK.
A 60 year old woman was beaten by several of the male activists and police were called to Speakersâ Corner before the conference took place. The women were determined to hold it despite the attacks and some managed to make it to a secret venue located near Hyde Park.
Our featured picture is by Venice Allen and is of conference participants listening to one of the talks.
In this interview, WLRNâs Thistle Pettersen speaks with Julia Long, one of the speakers at the conference, and with Ruby & Trixie, two of the conference organizers. They talked about what motivated them to organize the conference and give a play-by-play account of what happened before it took place, during the conference, and in the aftermath.
Dr Julia Long is a lesbian feminist, committed to building lesbian feminist community and politics. She currently works for a womenâs sector charity, supporting women who have experienced male violence. Until recently she was working in academia, and is the author of Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism. London: Zed Books. She is a long-time feminist activist, and has been involved in groups including the London Feminist Network, Reclaim the Night and OBJECT. She has organised and participated in numerous national and international feminist conferences and seminars.
Trixie is a 29 year old feminist artist, activist and general provocateur living in London. Her band, Daughters of God, are currently recording new material. She got interested in learning more about gender politics via informal discussions with friends and through research online. She and her friends volunteered to organize the What Is Gender conference and contacted over 20 trans activists to participate as speakers but none of them, in the end, accepted the invitation.
Ruby was also an organizer for the conference and is new to radical feminism. The experience of co-organizing the What Is Gender conference has made her aware of just how contentious gender politics can be in 2017. She, along with the other organizers, has not given up. She is a novelist and this experience has made her think her next novel will be about trans activism and feminism.
Only two short weeks after the violence at Speakersâ Corner, these organizers have put together another event called Debate Not Hate: We Need To Talk About Gender. It is scheduled to happen this coming Wednesday, September 27th.
Anya Robyak has worked in Early Childhood Education for almost 20 years as a classroom teacher, researcher, consultant, and college instructor. She shares ideas on how teachers and parents can work to
This month, WLRNâs Julia had the pleasure of interviewing Anya Robyak, a feminist educator from North Carolina, about how teachers and parents can work together to enhance the equity of our childrenâs lives. She brings up key questions about the F-word, especially concerning when and where to say it.
Anya has worked in Early Childhood Education for almost 20 years as a classroom teacher, researcher, consultant, and college instructor. She holds graduate degrees in Early Childhood Special Ed, Fiction Writing, and Instructional Technology. By bringing radical feminist analysis to the theory and practice of Early Education, she hopes to open up conversations about the ways in which sexism shapes childrenâs lives. She is currently working on a book with the working title: Using the F-word in the Classroom: A Feminist Approach to Early Childhood Education.
WLRN's Julia Beck traveled to Bloodroot Vegetarian Restaurant and Feminist Bookstore in Bridgeport Connecticut in March of 2018. Surrounded by the laughter and ambient sounds of women listening live t
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WLRN's Julia Beck traveled to Bloodroot Vegetarian Restaurant and Feminist Bookstore in Bridgeport Connecticut in March of 2018. Surrounded by the laughter and ambient sounds of women listening live to this interview, Selma Miriam and Noel Furie tell the story of how they came to be business owners and also share their own personal stories as feminist women and lesbians. www.bloodroot.com/
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After two years, Thistle Pettersen went back into the studios of WORT 89.9 FM, the community radio station in Madison, to interview Meghan Murphy LIVE on the Access Hour and to play a pre-recorded âŚ
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On Monday, March 19th, WLRN's Thistle Pettersen will venture back into WORT 89.9 FM's studios in beautiful downtown Madison to play a pre-recorded interview that she did this week with Julie Bindel an
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WLRN's Thistle Pettersen got to sit down with Riane Eisler, a prominent scholar who influenced Ms. Pettersen's thinking greatly in her youth. Dr. Eisler contributes much to conversations past and pres
WLRNâs Thistle Pettersen got to sit down with Riane Eisler, a prominent scholar who influenced Ms. Pettersenâs thinking greatly in her youth. Dr. Eisler contributes much to conversations past and present about the status of women and how radical and lesbian feminists are on the cutting edge of the movement for a more humanitarian and just society. She is especially well-versed in knowledge of prehistoric goddess-centered societies that are important to be aware of to understand that dominance and subordination are not inevitable in relating to one another.
Riane Eisler is an eminent social scientist, attorney, and womenâs human rights activist who pioneered the recognition of womenâs rights as human rights. She is best known for her writings, including the international bestseller, The Chalice and The Blade, translated into 26 languages and now in its 57th US printing, with a new epilogue. She founded the first center on women and the law in the United States, wrote the Equal Rights Handbook on the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, and is the author of other award winning books as well as hundreds of articles and book chapters.
Dr. Eisler is president of the Center for Partnership Studies and editor in chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies housed at the University of Minnesota. Her book The Real Wealth of Nations was hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as âa template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,â by Gloria Steinem as ârevolutionary,â and inspired the Center for Partnership Studiesâ Caring Economy Campaign  which offers online leadership training and has developed new Social Wealth Economic Indicators that demonstrate the enormous economic value of the work of care still largely performed by women worldwide.
She consults to business and government about the partnership model introduced by her work, keynotes conferences worldwide, and teaches online courses about cultural and economic transformation. She shows that the womenâs movement is the leading edge of the partnership movement, and, as summarized in the title of talks she gave at platforms such as the US Department of State, that whatâs good for women is good for the world. She has received many honors for her work for womenâs and childrenâs rights and peace, and is the only woman among 20 great thinkers, including Hegel, Adam Smith, and Marx, included in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting importance of her work. Contacts: www.centerforpartnership.org; www.rianeeisler.com; [email protected]
Some of her pertinent works include:
Riane Eisler. (2015). âPreventing Violence against Women: Four Strategies.â In Women, War, and Violence: Typography, Resistance, and Hope, Volume 1. Mariam Kurtz and Lester Kurtz, editors. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Riane Eisler. (2015). âCan International Law Protect Half of Humanity? A New Strategy to Stop Violence against Women.â Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research, 7(2), 88 â 100.
