Podcast appearances and mentions of Margaret Randall

Che on My MindAug 22, 2021Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains a part of me." Randall participated in the Mexican student movement of 1968 and eventually was forced to leave the country. She arrived in Cuba in 1969, less than two years after Che's death, and lived there until 1980. She became friends with several of Che's family members, friends, and compatriots. In Che on My Mind she reflects on his relationships with his family and fellow insurgents, including Fidel Castro. She is deeply admiring of Che's integrity and charisma and frank about what she sees as his strategic errors. Randall concludes by reflecting on the inspiration and lessons that Che's struggles might offer early twenty-first-century social justice activists and freedom fighters.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Che on My MindChe on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains a part of me." Randall participated in the Mexican student movement of 1968 and eventually was forced to leave the country. She arrived in Cuba in 1969, less than two years after Che's death, and lived there until 1980. She became friends with several of Che's family members, friends, and compatriots. In Che on My Mind she reflects on his relationships with his family and fellow insurgents, including Fidel Castro. She is deeply admiring of Che's integrity and charisma and frank about what she sees as his strategic errors. Randall concludes by reflecting on the inspiration and lessons that Che's struggles might offer early twenty-first-century social justice activists and freedom fighters.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Leer Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures es como estar invitada a una cena íntima con las personas que han tenido un impacto enorme en tu forma de ver y analizar el mundo y con quienes has pasado muchísimo tiempo – en tu cerebro. Pero además de inspirar momentos profundos de crecimiento intelectual, lo que te sorprende es el acercamiento emocional que produce Emmelhainz, productora de esta situación. En este sentido, la autora sigue lo que se espera de un discurso feminista, romper la expectativa de que un texto intelectual te ponga en la situación pasiva de sólo recibir información. El impacto de leer desde esta perspectiva analítica, emocional y empoderada, es imprescindible. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures entra en discurso con una combinación de escritoras feministas y creadores para después crear un mapa del momento actual en crisis global, ambiental y política que se fomenta a través de un desprecio tanto de la vida humana como las relaciones interpersonales. En un mundo en el cual la voz de la mujer existe en cuerpos que supuestamente se deben ocupar puestos importantes en corporaciones, el gobierno, además de institutos culturales y académicos, y también trabajar en fábricas y participar en el ejército – estos mismos cuerpos sistemáticamente convertidos en cuerpos vulnerables por la violencia de género y la responsabilidad doble que se les impone por exigir labor productivo y reproductivo – Emmelhainz pregunta: ¿Cuál es el trabajo de los pensamientos y las materias contemporáneos situados en conocimiento feminista? Este libro es una colección de ensayos en los cuales se propone re-pensar asuntos feministas en este momento lleno de producción de poblaciones superfluas, la omnipresencia de la esfera tecnológica y desastre ambiental, relaciones tóxicas, nacionalismos tóxicos y mas. Son diálogos en los cuales las voces de mujeres como bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Grunerque proponen la necesidad uberurgente de resistir el presente. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures avanza el discurso de cómo deshacer la misoginia, además de derribar las trampas denigrantes y sublimatorias contra las mujeres perpetuadas por el sistema heteropatriarcal, trampas que se entrelazan íntimamente con el colonialismo y la violencia contra la Tierra. Entrevista por Candance Skibba profesora en la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon en Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Leer Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures es como estar invitada a una cena íntima con las personas que han tenido un impacto enorme en tu forma de ver y analizar el mundo y con quienes has pasado muchísimo tiempo – en tu cerebro. Pero además de inspirar momentos profundos de crecimiento intelectual, lo que te sorprende es el acercamiento emocional que produce Emmelhainz, productora de esta situación. En este sentido, la autora sigue lo que se espera de un discurso feminista, romper la expectativa de que un texto intelectual te ponga en la situación pasiva de sólo recibir información. El impacto de leer desde esta perspectiva analítica, emocional y empoderada, es imprescindible. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures entra en discurso con una combinación de escritoras feministas y creadores para después crear un mapa del momento actual en crisis global, ambiental y política que se fomenta a través de un desprecio tanto de la vida humana como las relaciones interpersonales. En un mundo en el cual la voz de la mujer existe en cuerpos que supuestamente se deben ocupar puestos importantes en corporaciones, el gobierno, además de institutos culturales y académicos, y también trabajar en fábricas y participar en el ejército – estos mismos cuerpos sistemáticamente convertidos en cuerpos vulnerables por la violencia de género y la responsabilidad doble que se les impone por exigir labor productivo y reproductivo – Emmelhainz pregunta: ¿Cuál es el trabajo de los pensamientos y las materias contemporáneos situados en conocimiento feminista? Este libro es una colección de ensayos en los cuales se propone re-pensar asuntos feministas en este momento lleno de producción de poblaciones superfluas, la omnipresencia de la esfera tecnológica y desastre ambiental, relaciones tóxicas, nacionalismos tóxicos y mas. Son diálogos en los cuales las voces de mujeres como bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Grunerque proponen la necesidad uberurgente de resistir el presente. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures avanza el discurso de cómo deshacer la misoginia, además de derribar las trampas denigrantes y sublimatorias contra las mujeres perpetuadas por el sistema heteropatriarcal, trampas que se entrelazan íntimamente con el colonialismo y la violencia contra la Tierra. Entrevista por Candance Skibba profesora en la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon en Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Leer Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022) es como estar invitada a una cena íntima con las personas que han tenido un impacto enorme en tu forma de ver y analizar el mundo y con quienes has pasado muchísimo tiempo –en tu cerebro. Pero, además de inspirar momentos profundos de crecimiento intelectual, lo que te sorprende es el acercamiento emocional que produce Emmelhainz, productora de esta situación. En este sentido, la autora sigue lo que se espera de un discurso feminista: romper la expectativa de que un texto intelectual te ponga en la situación pasiva de sólo recibir información. El impacto de leer desde esta perspectiva analítica, emocional y empoderada, es imprescindible. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures entra en discurso con una combinación de escritoras feministas y creadores para después crear un mapa del momento actual en crisis global, ambiental y política que se fomenta a través de un desprecio tanto de la vida humana como las relaciones interpersonales. En un mundo en el cual la voz de la mujer existe en cuerpos que supuestamente se deben ocupar puestos importantes en corporaciones, el gobierno, además de institutos culturales y académicos y también trabajar en fábricas y participar en el ejército –estos mismos cuerpos sistemáticamente convertidos en cuerpos vulnerables por la violencia de género y la responsabilidad doble que se les impone por exigir labor productivo y reproductivo– Emmelhainz pregunta: ¿Cuál es el trabajo de los pensamientos y las materias contemporáneos situados en conocimiento feminista? Este libro es una colección de ensayos en los cuales se propone repensar asuntos feministas en este momento lleno de producción de poblaciones superfluas, la omnipresencia de la esfera tecnológica y desastre ambiental, relaciones tóxicas, nacionalismos tóxicos y más. Son diálogos en los cuales las voces de mujeres como bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen y Silvia Grunerque proponen la necesidad muy urgente de resistir el presente. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures avanza el discurso de cómo deshacer la misoginia, además de derribar las trampas denigrantes y sublimatorias contra las mujeres perpetuadas por el sistema heteropatriarcal, trampas que se entrelazan íntimamente con el colonialismo y la violencia contra la Tierra. Entrevista por Candance Skibba profesora en la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon en Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Leer Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures es como estar invitada a una cena íntima con las personas que han tenido un impacto enorme en tu forma de ver y analizar el mundo y con quienes has pasado muchísimo tiempo – en tu cerebro. Pero además de inspirar momentos profundos de crecimiento intelectual, lo que te sorprende es el acercamiento emocional que produce Emmelhainz, productora de esta situación. En este sentido, la autora sigue lo que se espera de un discurso feminista, romper la expectativa de que un texto intelectual te ponga en la situación pasiva de sólo recibir información. El impacto de leer desde esta perspectiva analítica, emocional y empoderada, es imprescindible. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures entra en discurso con una combinación de escritoras feministas y creadores para después crear un mapa del momento actual en crisis global, ambiental y política que se fomenta a través de un desprecio tanto de la vida humana como las relaciones interpersonales. En un mundo en el cual la voz de la mujer existe en cuerpos que supuestamente se deben ocupar puestos importantes en corporaciones, el gobierno, además de institutos culturales y académicos, y también trabajar en fábricas y participar en el ejército – estos mismos cuerpos sistemáticamente convertidos en cuerpos vulnerables por la violencia de género y la responsabilidad doble que se les impone por exigir labor productivo y reproductivo – Emmelhainz pregunta: ¿Cuál es el trabajo de los pensamientos y las materias contemporáneos situados en conocimiento feminista? Este libro es una colección de ensayos en los cuales se propone re-pensar asuntos feministas en este momento lleno de producción de poblaciones superfluas, la omnipresencia de la esfera tecnológica y desastre ambiental, relaciones tóxicas, nacionalismos tóxicos y mas. Son diálogos en los cuales las voces de mujeres como bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Grunerque proponen la necesidad uberurgente de resistir el presente. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures avanza el discurso de cómo deshacer la misoginia, además de derribar las trampas denigrantes y sublimatorias contra las mujeres perpetuadas por el sistema heteropatriarcal, trampas que se entrelazan íntimamente con el colonialismo y la violencia contra la Tierra. Entrevista por Candance Skibba profesora en la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon en Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Leer Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures es como estar invitada a una cena íntima con las personas que han tenido un impacto enorme en tu forma de ver y analizar el mundo y con quienes has pasado muchísimo tiempo – en tu cerebro. Pero además de inspirar momentos profundos de crecimiento intelectual, lo que te sorprende es el acercamiento emocional que produce Emmelhainz, productora de esta situación. En este sentido, la autora sigue lo que se espera de un discurso feminista, romper la expectativa de que un texto intelectual te ponga en la situación pasiva de sólo recibir información. El impacto de leer desde esta perspectiva analítica, emocional y empoderada, es imprescindible. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures entra en discurso con una combinación de escritoras feministas y creadores para después crear un mapa del momento actual en crisis global, ambiental y política que se fomenta a través de un desprecio tanto de la vida humana como las relaciones interpersonales. En un mundo en el cual la voz de la mujer existe en cuerpos que supuestamente se deben ocupar puestos importantes en corporaciones, el gobierno, además de institutos culturales y académicos, y también trabajar en fábricas y participar en el ejército – estos mismos cuerpos sistemáticamente convertidos en cuerpos vulnerables por la violencia de género y la responsabilidad doble que se les impone por exigir labor productivo y reproductivo – Emmelhainz pregunta: ¿Cuál es el trabajo de los pensamientos y las materias contemporáneos situados en conocimiento feminista? Este libro es una colección de ensayos en los cuales se propone re-pensar asuntos feministas en este momento lleno de producción de poblaciones superfluas, la omnipresencia de la esfera tecnológica y desastre ambiental, relaciones tóxicas, nacionalismos tóxicos y mas. Son diálogos en los cuales las voces de mujeres como bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Grunerque proponen la necesidad uberurgente de resistir el presente. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures avanza el discurso de cómo deshacer la misoginia, además de derribar las trampas denigrantes y sublimatorias contra las mujeres perpetuadas por el sistema heteropatriarcal, trampas que se entrelazan íntimamente con el colonialismo y la violencia contra la Tierra. Entrevista por Candance Skibba profesora en la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon en Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which "a woman's voice" exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the army—but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the double burden imposed on them to perform both productive and reproductive labor—Emmelhainz asks: What is the task of thought and form in contemporary feminist-situated knowledge?  Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the current context of the production of redundant populations, the omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation, toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Gruner. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchy's sublimating and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which "a woman's voice" exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the army—but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the double burden imposed on them to perform both productive and reproductive labor—Emmelhainz asks: What is the task of thought and form in contemporary feminist-situated knowledge?  Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the current context of the production of redundant populations, the omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation, toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Gruner. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchy's sublimating and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which "a woman's voice" exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the army—but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the double burden imposed on them to perform both productive and reproductive labor—Emmelhainz asks: What is the task of thought and form in contemporary feminist-situated knowledge?  Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the current context of the production of redundant populations, the omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation, toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Gruner. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchy's sublimating and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which "a woman's voice" exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the army—but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the double burden imposed on them to perform both productive and reproductive labor—Emmelhainz asks: What is the task of thought and form in contemporary feminist-situated knowledge?  Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the current context of the production of redundant populations, the omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation, toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Gruner. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchy's sublimating and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world in which "a woman's voice" exists in bodies called on to occupy important positions in corporations, government, and cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories, and to join the army—but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the double burden imposed on them to perform both productive and reproductive labor—Emmelhainz asks: What is the task of thought and form in contemporary feminist-situated knowledge?  Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is a collection of essays rethinking feminist issues in the current context of the production of redundant populations, the omnipresence of the technosphere and environmental devastation, toxic relationships, toxic nationalisms, and more. These reflections and dialogues are an urgent attempt to resist the present in the company of the voices of women like bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Simone Weil, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Paul B. Preciado, Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sara Eliassen, and Silvia Gruner. Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures continues the discussion on how to undo misogyny and dismantle heteropatriarchy's sublimating and denigrating tricks against women, which are intrinsically linked to colonialism and violence against the Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

En el séptimo episodio de este podcast converso con Chely Lima (La Habana, 1957), poeta, narrador, dramaturgo, guionista de cine y TV. Aunque a Lima se le conoce mayormente por sus aportes a la ciencia ficción cubana (Espacio abierto, 1983; Violente, 1987; Shiralad o el regreso de los dioses, 1990), es también una voz poética singular de la poesía cubana. Su más reciente libro es la antología bilingüe lo que les dijo el licantropo / what the werewolf told them (Nueva York: The Operating System, 2017) con traducciones de Margaret Randall. En esta entrevista conversamos acerca de cómo su búsqueda interna por la autodefinición le lleva a escribir y fotografiar, cuáles son las obras poéticas que más lo han impresionado, de cómo su relación de veintidós años con Alberto Serret (1947-2000) influyó e influye en su obra. Para Chely, la poesía solo surge a partir de estados alterados de la consciencia, pero luego puede ser pulida y ese trabajo debe ser metódico, cuidadoso. Al mismo tiempo, Chely es un promotor absoluto de vivir intensamente, solo con experiencias vitales se puede tener algo que decir, argumenta. Hay tiempo en la conversación para leer tres poemas, tres poemas de amores que no temen decir sus nombres y para que cuente qué prepara ahora este animal nocturno, perfeccionista y discreto. Disfruten. Chely Lima (@LimaChely) es un escritor, dramaturgo, periodista, fotógrafo, guionista y libretista de radio y TV queer cubano-americano, que ha publicado numerosos libros en diferentes países, en los géneros de poesía, novela, cuento, teatro y literatura para niños. En 1992 dejó Cuba para radicarse en Quito (Ecuador), donde trabajó principalmente como guionista, editor y articulista e impartió incontables talleres de literatura. Con posterioridad se trasladaría a Buenos Aires (Argentina), en donde estuvo alrededor de cuatro años, escribiendo guiones para la TV y dando clases de guión. A finales de 1996 se mudó a California (allí empezó su labor fotográfica) y dos años más tarde se movió a Miami, en donde se desempeñó como crítico de teatro en el Nuevo Herald e impartió talleres en el Miami-Dade College. En la actualidad continúa viviendo entre California y Florida y dedica todo su tiempo a varios proyectos literarios. Otros de sus libros son: Abuela Trina y Marrasquina van a la ciudad (cuento para niños y jóvenes, Bogotá: Editorial Panamericana,  2006); Discurso de la amante (poesía, Imagine Clouds Editions, 2013), Memorias del Tiempo Circular (cuatro novelas breves, Miami: Eriginal Books, 2014) y Triángulos mágicos (novela, Miami: Eriginal Books, 2014 y Ediciones Capiro, 2016). Presenta Yasmín Portales-Machado, escritora de ciencia ficción, activista LGBTQ, curiosa sobre las relaciones entre consumo cultural y política en Cuba.

En el séptimo episodio de este podcast converso con Chely Lima (La Habana, 1957), poeta, narrador, dramaturgo, guionista de cine y TV. Aunque a Lima se le conoce mayormente por sus aportes a la ciencia ficción cubana (Espacio abierto, 1983; Violente, 1987; Shiralad o el regreso de los dioses, 1990), es también una voz poética singular de la poesía cubana. Su más reciente libro es la antología bilingüe lo que les dijo el licantropo / what the werewolf told them (The Operating System, 2017) con traducciones de Margaret Randall. En esta entrevista conversamos acerca de cómo su búsqueda interna por la autodefinición le lleva a escribir y fotografiar, cuáles son las obras poéticas que más lo han impresionado, de cómo su relación de veintidós años con Alberto Serret (1947-2000) influyó e influye en su obra. Para Chely, la poesía solo surge a partir de estados alterados de la consciencia, pero luego puede ser pulida, y ese trabajo debe ser metódico, cuidadoso. Al mismo tiempo, Chely es un promotor absoluto de vivir intensamente, solo con experiencias vitales se puede tener algo que decir, argumenta. Hay tiempo en la conversación para leer tres poemas, tres poemas de amores que no temen decir sus nombres, y para que cuente qué prepara ahora este animal nocturno, perfeccionista y discreto. Disfruten. Chely Lima (https://twitter.com/LimaChely) es un escritor, dramaturgo, periodista, fotógrafo, guionista y libretista de radio y TV queer cubano-americano, que ha publicado numerosos libros en diferentes países, en los géneros de poesía, novela, cuento, teatro y literatura para niños. En 1992 dejó Cuba para radicarse en Quito (Ecuador), donde trabajó principalmente como guionista, editor y articulista, e impartió incontables talleres de literatura. Con posterioridad se trasladaría a Buenos Aires (Argentina), en donde estuvo alrededor de cuatro años, escribiendo guiones para la TV y dando clases de guión. A finales de 1996 se mudó a California (allí empezó su labor fotográfica), y dos años más tarde se movió a Miami, en donde se desempeñó como crítico de teatro en el Nuevo Herald e impartió talleres en el Miami-Dade College. En la actualidad continúa viviendo entre California y Florida, y dedica todo su tiempo a varios proyectos literarios. Otros de sus libros son: Abuela Trina y Marrasquina van a la ciudad (cuento para niños y jóvenes, Editorial Panamericana, Bogotá, 2006); Discurso de la amante (poesía, Imagine Clouds Editions, 2013), Memorias del Tiempo Circular (cuatro novelas breves, Eriginal Books, 2014) y Triángulos mágicos (novela, Eriginal Books, 2014 y Ediciones Capiro, 2016). Presenta Yasmín Portales-Machado, escritora de ciencia ficción, activista LGBTQ, curiosa sobre las relaciones entre consumo cultural y política en Cuba.

En el séptimo episodio de este podcast converso con Chely Lima (La Habana, 1957), poeta, narrador, dramaturgo, guionista de cine y TV. Aunque a Lima se le conoce mayormente por sus aportes a la ciencia ficción cubana (Espacio abierto, 1983; Violente, 1987; Shiralad o el regreso de los dioses, 1990), es también una voz poética singular de la poesía cubana. Su más reciente libro es la antología bilingüe lo que les dijo el licantropo / what the werewolf told them (The Operating System, 2017) con traducciones de Margaret Randall. En esta entrevista conversamos acerca de cómo su búsqueda interna por la autodefinición le lleva a escribir y fotografiar, cuáles son las obras poéticas que más lo han impresionado, de cómo su relación de veintidós años con Alberto Serret (1947-2000) influyó e influye en su obra. Para Chely, la poesía solo surge a partir de estados alterados de la consciencia, pero luego puede ser pulida, y ese trabajo debe ser metódico, cuidadoso. Al mismo tiempo, Chely es un promotor absoluto de vivir intensamente, solo con experiencias vitales se puede tener algo que decir, argumenta. Hay tiempo en la conversación para leer tres poemas, tres poemas de amores que no temen decir sus nombres, y para que cuente qué prepara ahora este animal nocturno, perfeccionista y discreto. Disfruten. Chely Lima (https://twitter.com/LimaChely) es un escritor, dramaturgo, periodista, fotógrafo, guionista y libretista de radio y TV queer cubano-americano, que ha publicado numerosos libros en diferentes países, en los géneros de poesía, novela, cuento, teatro y literatura para niños. En 1992 dejó Cuba para radicarse en Quito (Ecuador), donde trabajó principalmente como guionista, editor y articulista, e impartió incontables talleres de literatura. Con posterioridad se trasladaría a Buenos Aires (Argentina), en donde estuvo alrededor de cuatro años, escribiendo guiones para la TV y dando clases de guión. A finales de 1996 se mudó a California (allí empezó su labor fotográfica), y dos años más tarde se movió a Miami, en donde se desempeñó como crítico de teatro en el Nuevo Herald e impartió talleres en el Miami-Dade College. En la actualidad continúa viviendo entre California y Florida, y dedica todo su tiempo a varios proyectos literarios. Otros de sus libros son: Abuela Trina y Marrasquina van a la ciudad (cuento para niños y jóvenes, Editorial Panamericana, Bogotá, 2006); Discurso de la amante (poesía, Imagine Clouds Editions, 2013), Memorias del Tiempo Circular (cuatro novelas breves, Eriginal Books, 2014) y Triángulos mágicos (novela, Eriginal Books, 2014 y Ediciones Capiro, 2016). Presenta Yasmín Portales-Machado, escritora de ciencia ficción, activista LGBTQ, curiosa sobre las relaciones entre consumo cultural y política en Cuba.

A memorial tribute to Michael McClure with readings and remembrances by Russ Tamblyn, CAConrad, Margaret Randall, Forrest Gander, George Herms, Henry Kaiser, Jerome Rothenberg, Cedar Sigo, Garrett Caples, Paul Nelson, Lyn Hejinian, Andrew Schelling, Amy McClure, Jane McClure, and Joanna McClure. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis. Michael McClure (1932-2020) was an award-winning American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he was one of the five poets who participated in the Six Gallery reading that featured the public debut of Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem "Howl." A key figure of the Beat Generation, McClure is immortalized as Pat McLear in Jack Kerouac's novels The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He also participated in the 60s counterculture alongside musicians like Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. He taught for many years at California College of the Arts and lived with his wife, Amy, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sponsored by the City Lights Foundation.

María Vázquez Valdez nació en Zacatecas. Es poeta, escritora, editora y fotógrafa. Estudió la licenciatura en periodismo y comunicación, la maestría en diseño y producción editorial y actualmente cursa el doctorado en teoría crítica. Se ha desempeñado en diversos medios como fotógrafa, periodista y editora, y textos, fotografías y poemas suyos se han incluido en libros y antologías de México y otros países. Es cofundadora de Arcilla Roja Editores y ha ejercido, entre otras, las siguientes funciones: directora editorial de la revista Arcilla Roja; jefa de publicaciones de la Unión de Universidades de América Latina (UDUAL); editora de la revista GPMX de Greenpeace y editora en Grupo Editorial Santillana. Participó en el consejo editorial de Alforja, Revista de Poesía desde su fundación. Ha recibido varios apoyos del FONCA así como del Fideicomiso para la Cultura México-Estados Unidos. Es autora de los libros Caldero (poemario, 1999); Estancias (poemario, 2004); Voces desdobladas / Unfolded voices (libro bilingüe de entrevistas, 2004); Rayuela de Museos (libro sobre museos de arte en el mundo, 2005); Estaciones del Albatros (ensayos, 2008); y coautora de La educación por la boca empieza (libro para niños, 2011). También tradujo dos poemarios de la poeta estadounidense Margaret Randall (publicados en México): Dentro de otro tiempo: reflejos del Gran Cañón (2006) y Testigo de Piedra (2011). Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz fue la más importante figura literaria novohispana, al punto de haber sido llamada la “Décima Musa” por sus contemporáneos. Dicho período estuvo signado por un orden estamental con amplias desigualdades, que provocó diversas rebeliones indígenas en tiempos de Sor Juana. Ahora bien, ¿Qué conocemos de su vida? ¿Cuáles fueron los aportes de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz? ¿En qué consistió su defensa a la mujer? https://www.facebook.com/aquiles.j.cantarell/videos/10159024053859590/

Text:"Mysterium liberationis"https://www.orbisbooks.com/mysterium-liberationis.htmlMagnificast episode on Margaret Randall: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicaragua-and-cuba-w-margaret-randall/id1214644619?i=1000521683859Music:"Los molinos" by Adam Drake and Tom Jenkins"Azure Sky" by Terry Devine-King and Adam DrakeObtained via subscription to Audio Network

This week on the show, we talk with Margaret Randall. Margaret Randall is a legendary poet, activist, and many other things! In addition to plenty of poems, she's written a ton of books, including Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution, which is a series of interviews she did with Christian Sandinistas, and Exporting Revolution (just to name a few). She spent her life in revolutionary moments, from Mexico in 1968 to Cuba's most prosperous period to working in the Sandinista government. She even knew Ernesto Cardenal before he was a priest! In the interview, we get to hear about her relationship to liberation theology, her life in Cuba, and her experience making socialist media in Nicaragua. You can find more of her work at margaretrandall.org, which we'll link in the show notes. And you should, because she's written a ton of great stuff! You can find the poetry archives El Corno Emplumado that we talk about briefly here: http://opendoor.northwestern.edu/archive/ Also, be sure to take a look at Margaret's personal website here: http://www.margaretrandall.org/

On this week's 51%, we spend time with feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall, she has advice for activists today and a Native American poet says working on her latest volume brought some pain to the surface. Whether it is one object or several, we all have touchstones. Things that we consider crucial to our […]

On this week’s 51%, we spend time with feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall, she has advice for activists today and a Native American poet says working on her latest volume brought some pain to the surface. Whether it is one object or several, we all have touchstones. Things that we consider crucial to our […]

Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Randall.A Poem A Day by Sudhanva Deshpande.Read on October 21, 2020.Art by Virkein Dhar.Signature tune by M.D. Pallavi.

La poeta, escritora, activista, feminista y revolucionaria Margaret Randall pronto publicará la entrega más reciente del libro "Starfish on a Beach. The Pandemic Poems". En conversación con Julio García Murillo y Elva Peniche Montfort, Randall platica sobre estos poemas que fueron publicados primero en redes sociales. La conversación también gira entorno a dos publicaciones, una reciente y otra próxima: "I Never Left Home" y "My Life in 100 Objects". En clave narrativa y visual, los dos libros resultan revisiones autobiográficas de una vida que ha perseguido revoluciones en México, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam y el sudoeste norteamericano. Este episodio se desarrolla de manera bilingüe: conversamos con Randall en español y leyó algunos poemas y narraciones en inglés. Puede acceder de manera directa a ambas versiones de los textos en este enlace: https://muac.unam.mx/programa/podcasts. “Nunca salí de casa” se inserta en nuestro dossier “Teorías de la pandemia” y es parte de la programación 2020 de la Cátedra Extraordinaria Helen Escobedo, gracias al apoyo de Fundación BBVA.Poet, writer, activist, feminist, and revolutionary Margaret Randall will soon publish her latest work the book Starfish on a Beach. The Pandemic Poems. In conversation with Julio García Murillo and Elva Peniche Montfort, Randall comments on these poems that were first published on social networks. The conversation also revolves around two publications, one recent and one upcoming: I Never Left Home and My Life in 100 Objects. In narrative and visual terms, the two books are autobiographical reviews of a life that pursued revolutions in Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, and the American Southwest. This episode will develop in a bilingual way: we talked to Randall in Spanish and she read some poems and narrations in English. You can access directly to both versions in the following link: https://muac.unam.mx/programa/podcasts. “I Never Left Home” is inserted in our dossier “Teorías de la pandemia” and is part of the 2020 schedule of the Cátedra Extraordinaria Helen Escobedo and thanks to the support of the BBVA Foundation.

Margaret Randall’s new memoir, I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary was published by Duke University Press in March 2020. Randall, born in New York City in 1936, lived in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua as an adult, where she was involved in both creative movements and political activism. Known as a writer and oral historian, Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close. In the interview, she speaks about her work founding and editing the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado in 1960s Mexico, her experiences connecting with artists and revolutionaries in 1970s Cuba, and her perspective on the 1979 Sandinista revolution from her years living in Nicaragua. Randall talks about the nature of memory and shares some details of her everyday life in extraordinary times and places. Rachel Grace Newman is Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Smith College. She has a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and she writes about elite migration, education, transnationalism, and youth in twentieth-century Mexico. She is also the author of a book on a binational program for Mexican migrant children. She is on Twitter (@rachelgnew). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Margaret Randall’s new memoir, I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary was published by Duke University Press in March 2020. Randall, born in New York City in 1936, lived in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua as an adult, where she was involved in both creative movements and political activism. Known as a writer and oral historian, Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close. In the interview, she speaks about her work founding and editing the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado in 1960s Mexico, her experiences connecting with artists and revolutionaries in 1970s Cuba, and her perspective on the 1979 Sandinista revolution from her years living in Nicaragua. Randall talks about the nature of memory and shares some details of her everyday life in extraordinary times and places. Rachel Grace Newman is Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Smith College. She has a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and she writes about elite migration, education, transnationalism, and youth in twentieth-century Mexico. She is also the author of a book on a binational program for Mexican migrant children. She is on Twitter (@rachelgnew). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Margaret Randall’s new memoir, I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary was published by Duke University Press in March 2020. Randall, born in New York City in 1936, lived in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua as an adult, where she was involved in both creative movements and political activism. Known as a writer and oral historian, Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close. In the interview, she speaks about her work founding and editing the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado in 1960s Mexico, her experiences connecting with artists and revolutionaries in 1970s Cuba, and her perspective on the 1979 Sandinista revolution from her years living in Nicaragua. Randall talks about the nature of memory and shares some details of her everyday life in extraordinary times and places. Rachel Grace Newman is Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Smith College. She has a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and she writes about elite migration, education, transnationalism, and youth in twentieth-century Mexico. She is also the author of a book on a binational program for Mexican migrant children. She is on Twitter (@rachelgnew). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Margaret Randall’s new memoir, I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary was published by Duke University Press in March 2020. Randall, born in New York City in 1936, lived in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua as an adult, where she was involved in both creative movements and political activism. Known as a writer and oral historian, Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close. In the interview, she speaks about her work founding and editing the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado in 1960s Mexico, her experiences connecting with artists and revolutionaries in 1970s Cuba, and her perspective on the 1979 Sandinista revolution from her years living in Nicaragua. Randall talks about the nature of memory and shares some details of her everyday life in extraordinary times and places. Rachel Grace Newman is Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Smith College. She has a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and she writes about elite migration, education, transnationalism, and youth in twentieth-century Mexico. She is also the author of a book on a binational program for Mexican migrant children. She is on Twitter (@rachelgnew). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Margaret Randall’s new memoir, I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary was published by Duke University Press in March 2020. Randall, born in New York City in 1936, lived in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua as an adult, where she was involved in both creative movements and political activism. Known as a writer and oral historian, Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close. In the interview, she speaks about her work founding and editing the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado in 1960s Mexico, her experiences connecting with artists and revolutionaries in 1970s Cuba, and her perspective on the 1979 Sandinista revolution from her years living in Nicaragua. Randall talks about the nature of memory and shares some details of her everyday life in extraordinary times and places. Rachel Grace Newman is Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Smith College. She has a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and she writes about elite migration, education, transnationalism, and youth in twentieth-century Mexico. She is also the author of a book on a binational program for Mexican migrant children. She is on Twitter (@rachelgnew). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Margaret Randall’s new memoir, I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary was published by Duke University Press in March 2020. Randall, born in New York City in 1936, lived in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua as an adult, where she was involved in both creative movements and political activism. Known as a writer and oral historian, Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close. In the interview, she speaks about her work founding and editing the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado in 1960s Mexico, her experiences connecting with artists and revolutionaries in 1970s Cuba, and her perspective on the 1979 Sandinista revolution from her years living in Nicaragua. Randall talks about the nature of memory and shares some details of her everyday life in extraordinary times and places. Rachel Grace Newman is Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Smith College. She has a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and she writes about elite migration, education, transnationalism, and youth in twentieth-century Mexico. She is also the author of a book on a binational program for Mexican migrant children. She is on Twitter (@rachelgnew). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This past week we learned that Ernesto Cardenal, one of the big heroes of The Magnificast had passed away. While we had just done an episode on some of his poetry, we thought it's a good time to celebrate his life. In this episode, we talk a bit about Ernesto Cardenal based off of Margaret Randall's book "Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution." Intro Music by Amaryah Armstrong Outro music by theillogicalspoon https://theillalogicalspoon.bandcamp.com/track/hoods-up-the-low-down-technified-blues *Support The Magnificast on Patreon* http://patreon.com/themagnificast *Get Magnificast Merch* https://www.redbubble.com/people/themagnificast/og-shop?asc=u

Su poete iš JAV Margaret Randall susitikome rugsėjo pradžioje, Bogotoje. Šiandienos laidoje išskirtinės biografijos rašytoja, Beat generation atstovė, žymi feministė, pasakoja apie metus, praleistus Meksikoje, Kuboje, Nikaragvoje ir Ispanijoje, apmąsto literatūros bei visuomenės santykį, dalijasi kontrastingais įspūdžiais apie Kolumbiją ir skaito eilėraščius. Ved. Dovilė Kuzminskaitė.

Michael McRay's intro to Tenx9 storytelling and the podcast. Elly Haddad, Mary Margaret Randall, and Alexandra Bacchus are the storytellers in this first part of "Regrets," the July 2018 event of Tenx9 Nashville. For more information about Tenx9 Nashville Storytelling events, please visit: https://tenx9nashville.com.

This month I got to speak with Chely Lima and Margaret Randall, the translator for his new collection of poetry What the Werewolf Told Them/ Le que los dijo el licantropo. Chely Lima is a queer Cuban-American writer who has published numerous books (poetry, novel, short story, theater, literature for children) in his country of origin, and also in Spain, United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Some of these books are the novels Lucrecia quiere decir perfidia (2015), Triángulos mágicos (2014) and Confesiones nocturnas (1994), as well as the poetry books Zona de silencio (2004), Discurso de la amante (2013), and Lo que les dijo el licántropo / What the Werewolf told them (2017). His texts have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Czech and Esperanto, and numerous selections and anthologies of literature from various parts of the world collect samples of his work.  ** Listeners can use the code WAVES for a 20% on ANY *OS* book directly through our online store, here: https://squareup.com/store/the-operating-system/ **  Books, authors, and ideas mentioned in this episode: Chely Lima's blog What the Werewolf Told Them/ Lo que los dijo el licantropo Margaret Randall's website The Operating System Jungian concept of the shadow   An article about androgyny and shamanism, though I would exercise caution around its terminology, which might be harmful for non-binary POC folks in its use of the term "third gender"   Viracocha and Dionysus   Alberto Serret   Editing and Social Media Management mangaed by none other than Mitchel Davidovitz   Sound of Waves Breaking: Wolves in Finland

Clandestine Occupations (PM Press) A radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba’s collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind a sensitive envelope that is being safeguarded by a friend. When the FBI come looking for Luba, the friend must decide whether to cooperate in the search for the woman she loves. Ten years later, when Luba emerges from clandestinity, she discovers that the FBI sting was orchestrated by another activist friend who had become an FBI informant. In the changed era of the 1990s, Luba must decide whether to forgive the woman who betrayed her. Told from the points of view of five different women who cross paths with Luba over four decades, Clandestine Occupationsexplores the difficult decisions that activists confront about the boundaries of legality and speculates about the scope of clandestine action in the future. It is a thought-provoking reflection on the risks and sacrifices of political activism as well as the damaging reverberations of disaffection and cynicism. Praise for Clandestine Occupations: “Clandestine Occupations is a triumph of passion and force. A number of memoirs and other nonfiction works by revolutionaries from the 1970s and ‘80s, including one by Block herself, have given us partial pictures of what a committed life, sometimes lived underground, was like. But there are times when only fiction can really take us there. A marvelous novel that moves beyond all preconceived categories.” —Margaret Randall, author of Che on My Mind “Diana Block creates a vivid and engaging tapestry of how political passion interweaves with the intricacies of personal relationships. Clandestine Occupations takes us into the thoughts and feelings of six different women as each, in her own way, grapples with choices about how to live and act in a world rife with oppression but also brightened by rays of humanity and hope.”—David Gilbert, political prisoner, author of Love and Struggle “Through this fascinating novel, Diana Block brings to life stories about radical history that will educate and engage today’s activists. Her portrayal of a woman in solitary confinement rings true to experience, offering a raw view of the struggle for resilience under daunting circumstances. Through flights of imagination, the novel gives us hope for political transformations in the future.” —Sarah Shourd, author of A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran “Diana Block once again challenges our understanding of the ethical essence of revolution. Beyond political theory and practice, the moral dilemmas and turmoils are constant and consistent. Where does your loyalty lie, how does your dedication confront obstacles? These are the questions found in these pages as Diana searches for a just balance in human relationships and politics. Clandestine Occupations captures and occupies the heart and spirit, teaching us what it means to be genuine and sincere in revolutionary life and love.”—Jalil Muntaqim, political prisoner, author We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings Diana Block was a founding member of San Francisco Women Against Rape and the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. She spent thirteen years living underground with a political collective committed to supporting the Puerto Rican independence and Black liberation movements. Since returning voluntarily from clandestinity in 1994, Diana has committed herself to anti-prison work, becoming a founding member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Jericho Movement. Previous writings include her memoir Arm the Spirit and she is a member of the editorial collective of The Fire Inside newsletter, which has been giving voice to women and transgender prisoners since 1996. She lives in San Francisco with her life partner, former political prisoner Claude Marks.

Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque, New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities and college, including Trinity College. Margaret was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968, share important years of the Cuban revolution (1969-1980), the first four years of Nicaragua’s Sandinista project (1980-1984), and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974). Her four children—Gregory, Sarah, Ximena and Ana—have given her ten grandchildren: Lia, Martin, Daniel, Richi, Sebastian, Juan, Luis Rodrigo, Mariana, Eli, and Tolo. She has lived with her life companion, the painter and teacher Barbara Byers, for almost a quarter century. Among Margaret’s more than 80 published books, some titles still in print are CUBAN WOMEN NOW, SANDINO’S DAUGHTERS, SANDINO’S DAUGHTER REVISITED, CHRISTIANS IN THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION, RISKING A SOMERSAULT IN THE AIR, THE SHAPE OF RED (with Ruth Hubbard), DANCING WITH THE DOE, THIS IS ABOUT INCEST, WALKING TO THE EDGE: ESSAYS OF RESISTANCE, HUNGER’S TABLE: WOMEN, POLITICS & FOOD, THE PRICE YOU PAY: THE HIDDEN COST OF WOMEN’S RELATIONSHIP TO MONEY, WHEN I LOOK INTO THE MIRROR AND SEE YOU: WOMEN, TERROR & RESISTANCE, NARRATIVE OF POWER: ESSAYS FOR AN ENDANGERED CENTURY, WHERE THEY LEFT YOU FOR DEAD / HALFWAY HOME, INTO ANOTHER TIME: GRAND CANYON REFLECTIONS, STONES WITNESS, TO CHANGE THE WORLD: MY YEARS IN CUBA, THEIR BACKS TO THE SEA and MY TOWN. AS IF THE EMPTY CHAIR / COMO SI LA SILLA VACIA (bilingual poetry, Wings Press) and FIRST LAUGH (essays, University of Nebraska Press) will be out in Spring 2011, RUINS (poems, University of New Mexico Press), SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH THE CORNFIELDS (poems, Skylight Press), MORE THAN THINGS (essays, University of Nebraska Press), CHE ON MY MIND (Duke University Press), THE RHIZOME AS A FIELD OF BROKEN BONES (poems, Wings Press), and DAUGHTER OF LADY JAGUAR SHARK (poem, Wings Press). Ask for them at your local bookstore, or order through Amazon.com. In 1984, Margaret came home to the United States, only to be ordered deported when the government invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act, judging opinions expressed in some of her books to be "against the good order and happiness of the United States." The Center for Constitutional Rights defended her and many writers and others joined in an almost five-year battle for reinstatement of citizenship. She won her case in 1989. In 1990 she was awarded the Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett grant for writers victimized by political repression; and in 2004 was the first recipient of PEN New Mexico’s Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and Human Rights Activism. In 2009 two of her photographs were accepted into the Capitol Arts Foundation permanent collection of work by New Mexican artists on display at the State capitol. For more, visit: www.margaretrandall.org

Margaret Randall, feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social acitivist, discusses living and working in Cuba in the 1970s and Nicaragua in the 80s. She also talks about Ben Linder and his work in Nicaragua. He was murdered by the U.S.-backed Contras in 1987. UO Today, the Oregon Humanities Center’s half-hour television interview program, provides a glimpse into the heart of the University of Oregon. Each episode offers viewers a conversation with UO faculty and administrators as well as visiting scholars, authors, and artists whose groundbreaking work is shaping our world.

Women and children are disproportionately susceptible to the dangers of radiation, but what are the dangers and which women are at risk?  And how do we protect ourselves?We talk with Dr. Helen Caldicott, the world's leading antinuclear advocate, along with Patrice Sutton of the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Enrivonment, and Dr. Robert Gould, local president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.  Don't miss Dr. Caldicott's analysis of how testosterone causes radiation. And Kate Raphael has an extended conversation with author/activist Margaret Randall, whose 80 books include Sandino's Daughters: Women in the Nicaraguan Revolution, To Change the World: My Life in Cuba, and Hunger's Table: Women, Politics and Food. Randall talks about her life in Cuba and Nicaragua, the importance of second wave feminism, and women's participation in revolutionary movements. After broadcast segments are available at http://kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com. The post Women's Magazine – March 21, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

On this week's 51%, we spend time with feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall, she has advice for activists today and a Native American poet says working on her latest volume brought some pain to the surface. Whether it is one object or several, we all have touchstones. Things that we consider crucial to our life story. My Life in 100 Objects is a personal reflection on the events and moments that shaped the life and work of Margaret Randall. She is a feminist, activist and internationally renowned poet. Through each “object,” in her new book Randall uncovers another part of herself. She begins in a museum in Amman, Jordan, and ends in the Latin American Studies Association in Boston. Interwoven throughout are her most precious relationships, her growth as an artist, and her brave, revolutionary spirit. Randall spoke with 51%'s Elizabeth Hill about what inspired her to tell her life story using a collection of objects. My Life in 100 Objects is published by NYU Press. Poet Heid E. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. She has authored several volumes of poetry. Her latest is called Little Big Bully. KFAI's Sheila Regan has more. That's our show for this week. Thanks to Tina Renick for production assistance. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock. Our theme music is Glow in the Dark by Kevin Bartlett. This show is a national production of Northeast Public Radio. If you'd like to hear this show again, sign up for our podcast, or visit the 51% archives on our web site at wamc.org. And follow us on Twitter @51PercentRadio This week's show is #1641. Photo Courtesy of NYU Press/ Credit Pascual Borzelli.