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.
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the show's page by clicking here.
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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.
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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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Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams joins us for Part 1 of Feminism
and Black Lives Matter. She 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.
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/
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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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/
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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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.
, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen 
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