MADISON, April 3rd, 2025 — Welcome to the 108th edition of WLRN’s monthly podcast! Here it is on YouTube!
First up, hear aurora greet the listener before handing the mic to Mary O’Neill who delivers WLRN’s world news featuring stories from Louisiana, Russia, and Iran.
After the world news, stay tuned for the song “Mother Rage” by Kathy Fire, an anarchist feminist songwriter who released this gem in 1978.
Next, hear the interview Thistle did with Lierre Keith about the significance of Picador’s re-release of Andrea Dworkin’s Right Wing Women in February 2025.
Lierre Keith (www.lierrekeith.com) is a writer, small farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author of six books including, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is also coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet. She’s been arrested six times for acts of political resistance.
Finally, stay tuned ’til the very end for commentary from WLRN member aurora linnea in which she aptly compares Trump to Ronald Reagan and ties it all together regarding the force of right-wing politics in the United States. She also, however, rightly points out, as did Ms. Dworkin, the misogyny and cruelty toward women on the left and how women don’t have a viable option for dignity and respect in general in American life.
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Release date: 3 April 2025
Cover art by Margaret. Her artist’s statement follows the image below.
For Edition 108,
I focused on an image of the new edition of Andrea Dworkin’s book, Right Wing Women. The cover is solid red-orange with a minimalist black-and-white type and a black-and-white photo of a female hand floating below the type, with the index finger pointing to the right. I also featured a capture of the hand.
For the background, I found a clip of text from chapter one and layered that over a color blend I created. I set 2 images of the new edition cover side by side, with an image of an older edition layered on the right – blending the two books over the block of text from the book. The older edition referenced a US flag with the title knocked out of a blue rectangle situated above painted red stripes.
It turns out to be a good time for a re-release of this particular book, as the Trump administration encourages women to take up traditional ‘right wing’ gender roles. A judgmental, but disembodied hand, is an appropriate image for this.
Feminism, as a movement, is going to require attention.