Sonoma County Gazette February 2022 article on Women's Spaces
Celebrating 10 Years on Radio. Download pdf:
---- Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returned
on
February 12,
2024 discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and in
Music. and previously on
May 11, 2020,
June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
Feminism and Black Lives Matter.
Click here for
the show's page. ---- Marianne Williamson has returned to Women's Spaces for
our show in 9/18/2023
Conversation. Previously she was on our 1/14/2013
and
2/25/2013 shows on Law of DivineCompensation.
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Attorney
Gloria Allred
has returned to Women's Spaces for our
July 11, 2022 show
on the SCOTUS Reversal of Roe v Wade and Next Steps.
She also contributed as a guest on
March 5, 2018, and on
June
15, 2020.
Click the dates above for show's webpage.
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Lynn
Woolsey, Congress-woman (Retired) returned on
10/16/2023
and on 8/162021 to speak on bold
steps for our Nation to take.
---- , Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen returned
on
Monday June
29, 2020 as a guest on Women's Spaces to discuss the Millionth
Circle of women coming together.
Visit
the show's page by clicking here.
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When our representatives are making important
decisions that impact all of our lives I believe it is important to ask
one basic question before making
those decisions, Is this good for
the children? Just imagine what our world would be
like if that question was asked prior to making decisions about going to
war, the environment, education or healthcare.
Click the News tab for updates to the website.
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2/1/2022: Sonoma County Gazette February 2022
article on Women's Spaces
Celebrating 10 Years on Radio.
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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.
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 LIves
Matter we 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.
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 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.
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/
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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Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returned
on
February 12,
2024 discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and in
Music. and previously on
May 11, 2020,
June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
Feminism and Black Lives Matter.
Click here for
the show's page.
Attorney
Gloria Allred
has returned to Women's Spaces for our
July 11, 2022 show
on the SCOTUS Reversal of Roe v Wade and Next Steps.
She also contributed as a guest on
March 5, 2018, and on
June
15, 2020.
Lynn
Woolsey, Congress-woman (Retired) returned on
10/16/2023
and on 8/162021 to speak on bold
steps for our Nation to take.
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