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MADISON — November 6, 2025. Edition 115 starts with Freda greeting the listener before handing the mic to Cat Bradfield for WLRN’s World News segment featuring stories from France, Michigan, England, and Australia.
Enjoy the song “Like a Gift” by Samia Malek before listening to Thistle’s commentary and snippets of audio from the FiLia conference, which concludes with the song “Spinning & Weaving.” Thistle’s commentary is followed by Aurora’s take, in which she examines the treatment of war at FiLia and encourages us to look more deeply at what causes conflict in the movement and not avoid it.
Stay tuned to the very end for Margaret’s explanation of the cover image for the month and Lola’s synopsis of the show coming out in December. Thanks, as always, for staying tuned to WLRN! And an especially big warm thank you to all of our friends and family who donated to make it possible for us to travel to the UK for the FiLia conference.
Artist’s statement:
“To create the image for the 115th Edition of WLRN, I used a photo of Freda, aurora and Thistle taken at the FiLia conference. I also included a satellite image of Brighton. I took words from a couple of essays related to the conference and put them into a word cloud generator – playing with the colors and fonts.
Arranging everything, I made sure a few words were prominent, like FiLia, and solidarity. While mostly obscured, Zionism is situated over Gaza. Other words, such as biological, gender, research, influential, bodies, and war showed up more randomly.
I appreciate the texture of the words – and ideas. How they overlap visually and abstractly. How our points of view mingle as well as conflict.”
Our luncheon with feminist legends at our flat in Brighton!
Sorry I did not see you at the Filia “Lesbians want their stuff back” workshop in the Skyline room. Thanks for the reminder of the supreme court position. I laughed proudly that we are winning our rights and our “stuff” back.