Jovelyn Richards interviews New York  Times film critic Alisa Wilkinson in a new book, We Tell Ourselves Stories. Wilkinson discusses how Joan Didion’s cultural influence through the lens of American mythmaking in Hollywood and Didion’s writings spanning decades illustrated Hollywood’s addictive grasp on American identity.

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This Monday December 9th at 1pm  on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to scholar Dr. Katie Gaddini who is an expert on young conservative evangelical women in the U.S. and the UK in order to try and find out why so many young conservative christian women supported Trump,  what gender politics have to do with their conservative beliefs and politics and what the  Democrats and the left may have gotten wrong  about the Christian Right.   Dr Gaddini is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the  University College London and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Her debut book, “The Struggle to Stay”, was based on over four years of in-depth ethnographic research with single evangelical women in the US and the UK. She is currently writing a book on Christian women and conservative politics from 1970 to present.
And we talk to Deborah Craig the director of the new documentary called “Sally” about charismatic and important local  lesbian feminist  activist Sally Gerhardt which is going to be showing at the Rialto  Elmwood theater on December 18th at 6:30 PM for one night only.  This showing is sponsored by the Bay Area Lesbian Archives (BALA)  and after the showing there will be a Q&A with Deborah Craig about her documentary and info about BALA available.

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Today on  KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine  Kate Raphael and Rae Abileah  who will talk to Jewish Feminist Queer  author, scholar  and activist  Judith Butler about two topics she has become famous for reshaping and making part of everyday discourse, that is  gender and anti-zionism . 

If  somehow you are one of the few people who  haven’t heard of  American philosopher,  gender studies scholar and anti zionist and Queer feminist activist Judith Butler  they have written over a dozen books including their seminal book “Gender Trouble” which came out in 1990 and which shook up the academic and political world with her redefinition of gender.  And they have been have been a major  influence on  political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory ,and literary theory, and if that wasn’t impactful enough  they  are also are  a huge force in support of Palestinian rights.  For Butler’s  concept of gender as having  been constructed they have been seen as a threat throughout the modern world — to national security in Russia; to civilization, according to the Vatican; to the American traditional family; to protecting children from pedophilia and grooming, according to some conservatives and by Zionist they are excoriated as a defender of Hamas terrorism and banned from Israel.
So we thought it would be important to talk to UC Berkeley Professor Judith Butler about her views on gender and zionism for fund drive and offer her newest book on gender as a thank you gift for your contribution to our fund drive. 

And to interview Judith  Butler we are very lucky to have two experienced Queer activists,  novelist, journalist, anarcha/feminist and queer activist and a long-time producer with  KPFA’s  Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael is  co housing with social change strategist and ordained  Jewish faith leader Rae Abileah  and they will be leading  our  conversation with Judith Butler today .  In the first half of the interview  Kate Raphael will talk to  Butler about their  newest book on gender  and in the second half of the show Rae will talk  with  Butler about her  book “Parting Ways Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism” that came out in 2013  as well as  her thoughts about anti-zionism today.

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