Welcome back sisters to another hour of women’s liberation music on WLRN! I’m Phoenixx and it is the end of January 2019. Someone said the other day that it felt like the 74th of January! In some ways the month has felt interminable–like it’s just not passing quickly enough. And that it’s just been two Januarys of insanity, violence, hate and abuse and still no impeachment!!!!

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Luckily, we still have these airwaves of radical women’s liberation feminist thought, action and music as refuge for us refugees fleeing from the continual onslaught of misogyny and male supremacy.

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A few months ago I put out a call for current women’s music that take on real issues relevant to us as radical feminists and Lesbians.  Songs that include such themes like sexism, male supremacy/violence,  female revolution, the war on women and girls.

Recently I was gifted the album Cronesong released in June 2018 by The River Hags:  Lizzie Yee-Haw, Sally Starflower, Lili Yee and Melanie Gorguny!   I first encountered the River Hags at Ohio Lesbian Music Festival last September. What caught my attention was a comment they made on stage about their anti-pornography position! Later I met one of them  handing out anti-pornography stickers! What a sigh of relief to know there were performers at that festival who openly took that political stance and spoke about it. They earned my immediate respect.  This next hour I feature their radical feminist americana/folk music with teeth.  Enjoy!

Please support these wimmin artists; download their Cronesong album: www.riverhags.bandcamp.com

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Song list:

background music:   To Soestre    VOX 11

River Hags’ song in the following order:

Burn it Down

NAMALT

Motherland

Amazing Amazons

Bring Them HOme

Two Sets of Rules

Outsiders

Flight of the Goddess

Let ‘Em Fly

Yes, We Can

Burn it Down (again)

Reading of Mary Oliver’s poem “A Thousand Mornings” from collection with the same name