About

Statement Of Mission And Policies For WLRN, Women’s Liberation Radio News

WLRN seeks to provide the unique and under-represented voices of girls and women with a national and international grassroots venue to break the sound barrier women are blocked by under the status quo rule of men. We are a non-commercial, member-operated news and cultural information team strictly guided by the principles of radical feminism. We promote access to media production equipment and tools so that silenced women can “be the media.”

Our staff maintains a policy of women-only membership to our organization and will only air the voices of boys and men in rare situations. This is to ensure we create and surround ourselves with a woman-centric culture.

We are YOUR community radio station in the Femisphere. Email us at info@wlrnmedia.com with news tips, announcements, and story ideas.

Thistle Pettersen

Founder, Volunteers Coordinator, Interviews, Commentary & Board President

Thistle Pettersen is the founding member of WLRN, an eco-feminist, and a singer/songwriter in her home state of Wisconsin.  Her focus is on arts and culture and the role they play in building liberation and justice movements. You can learn more about Thistle and hear her original music at ThistlePettersen.com

Sekhmet She Owl

Commentary & Interviews

Sekhmet She Owl is a writer living in the Southwestern United States. She is a female separatist, radical feminist, and Far Leftist who is constantly learning more about politics and growing in her feminist consciousness. Her primary areas of feminist interest are female friendship, female-only spaces, developing strategies for mitigating male violence against women and girls, and theories of matriarchal civilization. She is most grateful to African and lesbian radical feminists, for their incalculable contributions to feminist thought and progress and the example they set in being revolutionary women.

Ann Castille

Sound Engineer & Producer 

Ann Castile was born and raised in Texas. She is a radical feminist interested in female-only spaces, consciousness raising, and history. When not producing WLRN, she enjoys long walks and reading.

 
 
 
April Neault
 
Consultant & Fills in where needed / Board Secretary
 
 
 
April was born and raised in the deep woods of Northern Ontario. Her educational background is in environmental science and she has spent many years working as a front-line crisis worker at a women’s shelter. She loves growing and eating food and spends most of her time talking to dogs and trees. When she isn’t taking herself too seriously, she reads fantasy and watches Golden Girls. “Men’s free speech requires women’s silence”
 

aurora linnea

Book Reviews, Reporting & Poetic Philosophical Essays

aurora linnea is a radical ecofeminist writer committed to poetic dissidence and uncompromising disloyalty to male dominion. In the past, she has served women as a shelter worker and rape crisis advocate. She is the author of Man Against Being: Body Horror and the Death of Life (Spinifex Press, 2024). aurora lives at the ocean’s edge in the North American bioregion colonially known as Maine.

Margaret

WLRN Graphic Design Artist / Board Treasurer

Margaret is an artist, designer, radical-eco-feminist & grandmother. Recognizing that women’s history and contributions have been largely overlooked, she seeks out art, music, literature, and philosophy by women. She herself enjoys creating with many types of media including limestone, pixels, paint, fabric, sound, and dirt. After working as a designer / Illustrator and getting a Master of Fine Arts degree, she taught drawing, design, and art history at several colleges and universities. Working with the earth, she replaced acres of grass with wildflowers and has planted hundreds of trees. For fun, she likes to kayak at the edge of the wilderness. 

Freda Bear 

Commentary and Interviews

Freda is a radical feminist organizer, activist, and button maker. Though she was raised with liberal feminism she more recently discovered radical feminism and found that it deeply aligned with many thoughts and values she has had since girlhood. She cares deeply about female autonomy, female only spaces, reproductive autonomy, and lesbian specific spaces. She is continually learning about activism strategies and approaches with the goal of nothing less than female liberation.

Lola Bessis

YouTube Channel Manager, Interviews, World News Reporter & Commentary

Lola Bessis is a French citizen raised in Dubai. As a postcolonial radical feminist, she dedicates her time to the fight for women’s liberation internationally. Her main areas of interest are the abolishment of the sex trade, the harms of pornography, and keeping the youth safe online. When she’s not reading, Lola is huge foodie and can be found enjoying a meal with her friends and family.