These days, motorcyclists live and die by their Dyno sheets, the ultimate measure of an engine’s power. But when the machines came out in the late 80s, it was a women in Florida who bought one of the first units and helped reshape the world of motorcycling. LISTEN: Fifty years later Pam Brown remembers how… Read more »
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Women Making Waves In Spirits, Beer & Wine on Life Elsewhere
In her travels across the country, Hope Ewing discovers how women are paving the way and creating a more inclusive and sustainable world full of delicious drinks. A veteran bartender, Ewing had grown impatient with the surprisingly outdated perceptions of women in the alcohol industry. Entrepreneurial and ambitious, often the first in their fields, the women… Read more »
Women’s Show 8/16: Red and Green “Monsters;” Kavanagh Hearings
Red and Green “monsters” continue… Who? What? Why? How dangerous? Nutrient enhanced? …300 tons of dead fish and aquatic life… The tragedy is compounded by the fact that when we most need science and epidemiological data, there is none because it was discontinued. In the guise of frugality, the scientists and engineers were dismissed and thus… Read more »
Women’s Show 8/9: Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Red and Green Algae
“Lest we forget”…….. August 6th and August 9th – Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We must not forget a weapon that can vaporize a human being and leave only a shadow. The miraculous new weapon that ended the war? The people of Hiroshima thought they had been spared from bombing because of all their shrines and their… Read more »
Women’s Show 7/26: Arnie Arnesen; Title X; Judge Kavanagh
Did you ever feel that you were at the fulcrum point of a seesaw? Do you look back and try to address and understand that which you should have done, or do you move forward, not sure what you are working with and hope to come to a balance? VERY IMPORTANT ELECTIONS coming up August… Read more »
Funny, With A Message on Life Elsewhere
When Katie Met Cassidy and Blown are two new, clever-funny novels. Both are very much set in the present, each book reels off timely iconic observations and pop-culture references without a hint of self-consciousness. Their fast-pasted comedic well-constructed narratives with believable characters draw the reader in, while almost slyly revealing a deeper, thought-provoking message. In When… Read more »
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Women In Politics & A New Beguiling Voice on Life Elsewhere
While yet another major celebrity is accused of sexual misconduct, the President’s alleged scandalous peccadilloes although continually in the news have so far not impeded his standing. This leads to the question why politicians (of all parties) enable such a misogynistic climate. Our conversation with Lucia Graves from last year provides some answers to an unsettling… Read more »
Andrew Gillum gets the most cheers as the Democratic gubernatorial candidates speak in Tampa
Fighting to lead their party in November and reversing two decades of Republican rule in Tallahassee, the four Democratic candidates for governor in Florida spoke in Tampa on Saturday night in front of several hundred members of the Hillsborough County Democratic Party. Philip Levine, Gwen Graham, Andrew Gillum and Chis King all gave their relatively… Read more »
Women’s Show 4/12 Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival
Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival on From a Woman’s Point of View It’s Springtime… Baseball in the snow, and luckily the beginning of the Stanley Cup playoffs. And it is also film festivals! Through Women’s Eyes 19th Annual International Film Festival – films by and about women takes place in Sarasota at Regal Hollywood Stadium… Read more »
Reproductive rights advocate criticizes Florida’s new pregnancy support centers law
On MidPoint Monday we talked about issues from the recently-completed Florida Legislative session including women’s issues, specifically access to reproductive health. We talked about a new law boosting what are called “pregnancy support centers,” but our guest, a supporter of reproductive rights, calls them #fakeclinics. Last week Governor Rick Scott signed a bill to make them… Read more »
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Women Didn’t Count At All on Life Elsewhere
“When the founders wrote, ‘We the People’ they really meant ‘We the White, Wealthy Men.’ Despite much lofty rhetoric, all men were not created equal and women didn’t count at all” You are just four pages in and Elaine Weiss makes clear her superb new book The Woman’s Hour has an unabashed bias, and, deservedly… Read more »
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Women’s Show 3/8 Happy International Women’s Day
A moment, if you will, to reflect, not only on women, but on the human race – its ongoing efforts to manifest and truly be human. It might seem ironic that women who have birthed every single one of us would have to fight for their rights. It’s pretty arbitrary if you are looking at… Read more »
WMNF Celebrates International Women’s Day on the airwaves
WMNF has some special programming, and we also realize that some of our wonderful regular programming is super special, for International Women’s Day. A little history, or, herstory. International Women’s Day has been celebrated in the United States for more than 100 years. It first began on February 28, 1909 as National Women’s Day, marking the… Read more »
Women’s Show 2/15 Winter Fund Drive and Medea Benjamin on Recent Trip to Palestine and Updates from Florida Legislature
If you have not contributed to this campaign, please make your donation tomorrow! Thanks to all who contributed to WMNF during this Winter Fund Drive – especially those who donated during From a Woman’s Point of View. You hear from us every week bringing you information, guests, critical topics. From a Woman’s Point of View… Read more »
