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Bay Area Book Festival Podcast“Writing as an Other”“What is the relationship between the role of the outsider and literary writing?” Pulitzer Prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen poses this question in his new book To Save and To Destroy, which is based on a series of six lectures at Harvard. Having escaped from the Vietnam War to a refugee camp in Pennsylvania when he was four, Nguyen is no stranger to being an outsider who carries both the burdens and pleasures of being the “minor” writer. In this event, he’ll be joined by two other brilliant literary outsiders: Greg Sarris, Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria...2025-07-251h 18
Sarah's Bookshelves LiveEp. 191: Winter 2025 Circle Back with Catherine (@GIlmoreGuide)In Episode 191, Sarah and Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books catch up on the 16 new releases they shared in the Winter 2025 Book Preview. They share their reading stats, chat about what they liked, and what didn’t work out. This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). CLICK HERE for the full episode Show Notes on the blog. Highlights For the first time ever, Sarah’s Preview selections resulted in a 100% success rate! Catherine’s reading was also successful a...2025-03-2656 min
KPFA - Womens MagazineAll About Occupation: From Palestine to KashmirKate Raphael talks to Shireen Zeidan, Administrative Coordinator of the Women’s Support Center in Nablus, Occupied Palestine. The Women’s Support Center works to empower and protect women while struggling for liberation for all the Palestinian people. Then Kate sits down with Tara Dorabji, long-time host of KPFA’s APEX Express, to discuss Tara’s debut novel, Call Her Freedom, a multigenerational novel of female strength and relationship, set in a fictional country very much like Indian-occupied Kashmir.
With music by George Lammam Ensemble and Tracy Chapman
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Memoir NationWhy Scope Matters, featuring Tara DorabjiThis week we’re focusing on a little celebrated but much important aspect of storytelling: your story’s scope. How much ground are you trying to cover and how do you execute the pacing? These are the questions you must answer if you know and understand your scope. This week’s guest, Tara Dorabji, has a new novel, Call Her Freedom, that spans more than five decades, and yet, it’s a relatively short book. And so, it packs a punch. Books can cover a single day or a hundred years, and consideration for how to unfold stories of such ext...2025-02-0949 min
KPFA - FlashpointsAIM Co–Founder Bill Means On The Clemency Granted to Leonard Peltier
Today on the show: American Indian Movement founder, Bill Means speaks out on the impending release of Indigenous leader and long time political prisoner, Lenoard Peltier. We’ll also be joined by Len Foster, spiritual adviser to Lenorad and Flashpoints senior producer, Miguel Gavilan Molina. And Call Her Freedom, a new novel based around the struggles in Kashmir by activist, filmmaker and former Flashpoints contributor, Tara Dorabji
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Download Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Call Her Freedom by Tara DorabjiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788829to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Call Her Freedom
Author: Tara Dorabji
Narrator: Soneela Nankani
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Release date: January 21, 2025
Genres: LGBTQ+
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A sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation. In the foothills of the Himalayas, the picturesque mountain village of Poshkarbal is home to lush cherry and apple orchards and a thriving community—one divided by a patrolled border. Aisha and her mother Noorjahan live on the outskirts—two women alone in a world...2025-01-219h 26Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalCall Her Freedom by Tara DorabjiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788829to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Call Her Freedom
Author: Tara Dorabji
Narrator: Soneela Nankani
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Release date: January 21, 2025
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation. In the foothills of the Himalayas, the picturesque mountain village of Poshkarbal is home to lush cherry and apple orchards and a thriving community—one divided by a patrolled border. Aisha and her mother Noorjahan live on the outskirts—two women alone in a world...2025-01-219h 26
Friends & FictionFriends & Fiction with Tara DorabjiOn this episode, the Fab Four — Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry — gather to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, debut novelist Tara Dorabji, to discuss our January 2025 Pick of the Month, Call Her Freedom, a sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation. Tara Dorabji is the daughter of Parsi-Indian and German-Italian migrants. Her documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the US. Her writing...2025-01-1748 min
The Academic LifeTara Dorabji, "Call Her Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)In this episode, we explore one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.Our book is: Call Her Freedom (Simon and Schuster, 2025), by Tara Dorabji, which is set in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the picturesque mountain village of Poshkarbal is home to lush cherry and apple orchards and a thriving community—one divided by a patrolled border. Aisha and her mother Noorjahan live on the outskirts—two women alone in a world dominated by men. As the village midwife, Noorjahan teaches Aisha how to heal using lo...2025-01-1645 min
New Books in LiteratureTara Dorabji, "Call Her Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)In this episode, we explore one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.Our book is: Call Her Freedom (Simon and Schuster, 2025), by Tara Dorabji, which is set in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the picturesque mountain village of Poshkarbal is home to lush cherry and apple orchards and a thriving community—one divided by a patrolled border. Aisha and her mother Noorjahan live on the outskirts—two women alone in a world dominated by men. As the village midwife, Noorjahan teaches Aisha how to heal using lo...2025-01-1645 min
Literary ProspectsInterview with Author Tara DorabjiAuthor Tara Dorabji talks with Kelley Vick about her debut novel, Call Her Freedom, how researching her first novel led to an award-winning documentary series on human rights defenders in Kashmir, how her work as an activist and journalist informs her fiction and vice versa, her unique road to publication as the winner of the Simon and Schuster Books Like Us Grand Prize, and much more. *For literary shirts, totes and gifts, and other tools for writers, check out our new Literary Prospects Shop.*For books featured on the podcast and other curated boo...2025-01-1445 min
Nonprofit Lowdown#253 - Joy in Storytelling with Tara DorabjiWe all know storytelling is a powerful way to move people and effect change on the important issues of today. But in the fundraising world, storytelling has gotten a bad rap. Poverty porn, sensationalism, and negative storytelling practices have left a bad taste in our mouths and, at times, exposed the very people we want to help.
So how can we use the powerful language of storytelling to unify and empower communities rather than divide and conquer?
Join me today as I talk to Tara Dorabji, Vice President and C...2023-09-1136 min
Let’s Hear ItTara Dorabji on the Power of Art and the Art of PowerAs long as there has been art, there have been artists using their creativity to try to transform society for the better.
On the latest episode of Let’s Hear It, Eric speaks with Tara Dorabji, Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at the Center for Cultural Power, an organization dedicated to harnessing the power of creativity.
Tara Dorabji and her colleagues Erin Potts and Dr. Melanie Meinzer have crafted an extraordinary new report – Building Narratives of Joy: Experimenting with Transformational Narratives – that digs into the intricacies of shifting mindsets and fostering belonging through art.
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KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – 6.4.20 API and BLM Solidarity
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
Tonight Hosts Tracy Nguyen and Miko Lee join our AACRE colleagues to discuss how we as Asian Americans stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and recognize the anti-Black racism within our own communities. Guests include Nate Tan from Asian Prisoner Support Committee, Fatima Zehra Ladha from Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, Mykhou Vue from Hmong Innovating Politics, and Bianca Mabute-Louie from N...2020-06-0459 minKPFA - Womens MagazineSeptember 2, 2019 – Brooke Warner on Writing with Courage; Athar Zia and Maneja Jehan on Women’s Resistance in KashmirCourage takes many forms. For some it’s telling our truths and denying those who tell us to shut up. For others, it’s organizing to resist the densest military occupation in the world.
This Labor Day, September 2, on KPFA Women’s Magazine, Preeti Shekar and Tara Dorabji speak with scholar Athar Zia, author of the book They Gave Us Blood: Normalcy, Sacrifice, and Terror in Kashmir, and Menaja Jehan, a local organizer with Stand with Kashmir, about how women are organizing to oppose the Indian military occupation in Kashmir in the wake of the Indian government’s surprise announcement rescinding...2019-09-0259 min
KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – 8.22.19 – #StandWithKashmirTonight on APEX Express, learn about the resistance to the occupation of Kashmir. Kashmir is the most densely militarized land on earth, with over 700,000 Indian military personnel deployed in Indian administered Kashmir. On August 5th, India inflicted an unprecedented curfew and media ban on Kashmir when it dissolved Article 370 of its constitution, stripping Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status, which only allowed Kashmiris to own land in the Valley.
Kashmir is a UN recognized disputed region. Over 100,000 Kashmiris have lost their lives in the decades-old resistance movement. We will talk with Anuradha Bhasin, a Jammu based j...2019-08-2229 min
KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – May 3, 2018: Kirthi Nath on CAAMFest36, Incarcerated 6×9, Paper Sons Tonight, we will be in conversation with Alleluia Panis, Director and Choreographer of Incarcerated 6×9, which runs on May 4-13. Alleluia Panis is a legendary elder and the driving force behind Kularts.Then, we’ll be talking with bay area filmmaker Kirthi Nath about her new feminist documentary, 98 Years and Counting (co-directed with Zel Anders), and will screen at the upcoming CAAMFest36. Also, we’ll be in conversation with local author, Dickson Lam, about his new memoir, Paper Sons, winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Award. Tune in and catch up with your host: Tara Dorabji.
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KPFA - Making ContactWe Got Next: Youth Poets Changing the WorldOn this edition of Making Contact, we’ll examine how young people are using spoken word as a mechanism for social change. The show also will explore how Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam has challenged mainstream culture and created spaces that welcome and encourage marginalized communities to speak up about their life experiences – all through poetry.
Featuring:
Kayla Kitchen; Aleah Bradshaw; Victor Masony; Quinton Campbell-Rod; Aurelle Marie; Aisha June; Tish Jones the Founder & Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks and Brave New Voices leadership fellow; James Kass, the Founder & Executive Director o...2018-01-0508 min
KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – November 2, 2017Tara Dorabji and shivani narang feature Asian and Asian American filmmakers.
APEX Express interviews directors from the 15th annual 3rd i South Asian Film Festival. In addition hear from independent filmmaker, Iffat Fatima, about her recent documentary: Blood Leaves its Trail, which explores issues of violence and memory in Kashmir. We’ll also be in conversation with scholar and Kashmiri human rights activist, Huma Dar to discuss how she’s been targeted by Twitter and Facebook for exposing human rights violations in Kashmir. Listen here.
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US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize w...2017-11-0217 minKPFA - Womens MagazineWomens Magazine – October 10, 2016Kate Schatz, author of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z, and Tara Dorabji, contributor to Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion, discuss their work.
We also talk with Marilyn Langlois of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund about the situation following Hurricane Matthew and how to help.
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KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – October 6, 2016
Kashmiri Human Rights activist Khurram Parvez was taken into custody on his way to 33rd UN Human Rights Council Session in Geneva to brief UN bodies, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and foreign governments on the atrocities committed by Indian state forces in Jammu and Kashmir. Khurram’s detention comes amidst widespread protests in Kashmir. Since July 2016, 82 civilians have been killed and 11,000 wounded. As international scholars and activists call to Free Khurram, we listen to him in conversation with APEX producer Tara Dorabji, discussing how he began his work for human rights.
We also talk...2016-10-0608 min
KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express with Tara Dorabji – August 18, 2016A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
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KPFA - Project CensoredProject Censored – September 4, 2015
Authors Mark Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree discuss their new book, “The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits From Global Violence and War.” They contend that organized violence is not an inescapable part of human existence, but is organized and carried out by the dominant social order to enhance its own power.
In the second half of the program, Tara Dorabji joins in to explain how violence and social control are wielded in two of the world’s occupied lands, Palestine and Kashmir, and the role women play in preserving life and culture in those areas, despite the occupiers’ brutalit...2015-09-0408 min
La Raza ChroniclesLa Raza Chronicles 8 25 2015Tonight we hear the thoughts, politics, and songs of San Francisco mayoral candidate, Francisco Herrera speaking about the “Francisco for Mayor” campaign; Sagnicthe Salazar, of the Xican@ Moratorium Coalition discusses the upcoming historic celebration of the Xican@ Moratorium against the Vietnam War and how now, 44 years later, we are fighting a war at home; Tara Dorabji interviews author Juan Alvarado Valdivia about his coming of age and surviving cancer memoir, “Cancerlandia.” As always, we offer listeners the best of Latin music.
Produced by Julieta Kusnir, Vanessa Bohm, Nina Serrano and Vylma V.2015-09-021h 01KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – June 18, 2015This Thursday on APEX Express we’ll delve into the controversy surrounding California’s proposed Bill SB277 that would force parents to home school their children if they do not follow rigid vaccine guidelines. We’ll get an API parent and pediatrician perspective about how this bill limits parents’ rights to make medical decisions for their children. During the hour, we’ll also be in conversation with Dr. Shiv Chopra and Dr. Sin Hang Lee about vaccine safety and discuss how different nations around the world approach safeguarding public health.
Want to join the conversation? During the show, we’l...2015-06-1846 min
KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express: Purvi Patel, Mauna Kea, and Marshall Islands – April 9, 2015
Tonight we’ll hear an eclectic line-up taking us all over the globe:
First we’ll cover the stunning Indiana verdict that sentenced Purvi Patel to decades in prison after she sought medical help after suffering a miscarriage.
Then, we’ll hear about action the Republic of the Marshall Island took today in United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, demanding that the U.S. adhere to its commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This David and Goliath lawsuit calls on the U.S. to immediately take action to disarm.
We’ll then go to the Big...2015-04-0944 min
KPFA - APEX ExpressApex Express – March 12, 2015Tara Dorabji interviews Leslee Udwin director of the documentary film, India’s Daughter. The film documents the story based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of a 23 year old woman. The film has generated a great deal of controversy in both India and worldwide.
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2015-03-1245 minKPFA - Womens MagazineWomen’s Magazine – June 23, 2014Raising Resilient Children: Tara Dorabji talks with Dr. Shimi Kang, author of The Dolphin Way, and Dr. Ernest Swihart, author of The Manipulative Child: How to Regain Control and Raise Resilient, Resourceful and Independent Kids.
And Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her memoir, Living With a Wild God, with Alicia Sierra.
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2014-06-2308 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – May 15, 2014
Tune into APEX Express on KPFA (94.1 or www.kpfa.org) on May 15 at 7pm, as we bring you an Asian and Pacific Islander view from the bay and around the world.
KPFA is in fund drive and we will be asking you to support our programming tonight. We’ll be in conversation with contributors of the new anthologyDismantle—writing from the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. The VONA workshop was founded by and for writers of color—it was conceived of as a revolution. Through anthologies like Dismantle, writers of color are starting to fill in America’s...2014-05-1545 minKPFA - Womens MagazineWomen’s Magazine – April 14, 2014Art as transformation: Kate Raphael talks with filmmaker and novelist Lucia Puenzo, whose film THE GERMAN DOCTOR (WAKOLDA), adapted from her novel, opens next week. Tara Dorabji talks with Shailja Patel, whose one-woman show Migritude, is now a book published by Kaya Press, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week with a reading at City Lights. And filmmaker and activist Tracey Quezada talks about what’s wrong with the criminal justice approach to child sexual assault and what we can do to address this public health problem as a community.
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We’ll start out with Asha Kowtal—an Indian organizer that is raising the voice of Dalit women across India and around the world. Dalit, meaning broken people, are on the bottom of India’s caste system and face brutal discrimination. Asha Kowtal will be speaking at UC Berkeley on April 19.
Then, we’ll be in conversation with Shailja Patel, poet, playwright and author of Migritude, a book, which weaves together family history, colonization and love. Migritude is the portrait of a woman in the boot print of Empire...2014-04-1043 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – March 13, 2014
Three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster started thousands of Japanese take to the street demanding an end to nuclear power. On this week’s show, we’ll go to Japan where the Fukushima plant continues to spew tons of radioactive water. Then we’ll head back to the Bay where the Center for Asian American media presents CAAM Fest 2014. With 120 films, and over 200 film makers and special guests in person, it is the largest Asian American film festival in North America. We’ll also be speaking with Aimee Suzara about her new book, “Souvenir.”
Hosted by Ta...2014-03-1343 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – February 6, 2014
Tonight we’ll be looking at Islamophobia in America — from vandalism of a Sacramento mosque to a recent federal court decision that finds “no-fly lists” are creating second class citizens. We’ll also speak with an editor and contributor of Salaam Love, a new anthology of Muslim American Men on love, sex and intimacy. And it’s winter fund drive! So we’ll be asking for your support by calling in during the APEX hour to donate to KPFA. As an all listener-sponsored radio station, we count on you to help us keep our community voices on air!
Call in numb...2014-02-0644 minKPFA - Womens MagazineWomen’s Magazine: Helping Ourselves, Helping Each Other – January 13, 2014Mickey Eliason discusses Doing It For Ourselves, a health & wellness program for lesbian & bisexual women over 40. How grassroots health educators turned the federal craze for stamping out obesity into an opportunity to promote community, self-love, fun and health at any weight, shape and size.
And Tara Dorabji talks about Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence with editor Lisa Factora-Borchers and contributors Michelle Ovalle and brownfemipower. Dear Sister, a multiethnic anthology by and for survivors, comes out from AK press this week.
The post Women’s Magazine: Helping Ourselves, Helping Each Other – January 13, 2014 appeared first...2014-01-1308 minKPFA - Womens MagazineWomens Magazine – Jehane Noujaim’s THE SQUAREKate Raphael talks with Egyptian filmmaker Jehane Noujaim about her award-winning film THE SQUARE and the role of women in the Egyptian uprising. Noujaim’s previous films include THE CONTROL ROOM and EGYPT, WE ARE WATCHING. Then Tara Dorabji talks with midwife Treesa McLean about how new California laws governing licensing of midwives affect access to home birth and women’s choices about their prenatal care.
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2014-01-0608 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – December 5, 2013On tonight’s show:
First up we’ll be hearing the San Francisco Solidarity Fast for Family, calling for national immigration reform.
Then we go to Minnesota, where a female Professor of color who was reprimanded by her school administration for teaching a lesson on structural racism.
Then back to the Bay where local Muslims are hosting a peace convention this Sunday.
We’ll round out the hour with plans for protests in Kashmir to mark International Human Rights Day.
Tonight’s show starts with a song i...2013-12-0542 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – November 21, 2013On tonight’s show:
We’ll be hearing about Taskforce Haiyan, a local effort to support the 4 million people in the Philippines who were displaced by Typhoon Haiyan.
Taskforce Haiyan
Then we’ll learn about Kearny Street Workshop’s artist reception in Oakland focusing on finding home where the heart is.
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We’ll round out the hour with an interview with Hawaiian slack key guitar icon, Makana. The guitarist, singer, and composer made headlines in 2011 when he played his protest song, “We Are the Many” at...2013-11-2143 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – October 3, 2013
Nayomi Munaweera speaks with Nonogirl and Tara Dorabji about her debut novel, Island of A Thousand Mirrors, which delves into the painful history of Sri Lanka’s civil war with unflinching honesty, compassion, and heart.
We’ll be offering Nayomi Munaweera’s novel as a gift for those of you who support KPFA during this fund drive.
Tune into Apex Express on Thursday, October 3 at 7pm on KPFA (94.1 or www.kpfa.org).
With Hosts Tara and No-No Girl.
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2013-10-0347 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – September 12, 2013
A memoir by journalist Alison Singh Gee
The arts are in the house tonight. First up we’ll be hear from organizers of Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture. Returning to the Bay Area in October, APAture features emerging Asian and Pacific American talent in a multidisciplinary arts festival.
We’ll talk with Alison Gee Singh about her memoir, Where the Peacocks Sing, following her journey from LA to Taiwan to India in her search for home.
With Host Tara Dorabji.
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2013-09-1247 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – August 15, 2013With Host Tara Dorabji.
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2013-08-1532 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – June 13, 2013Hosted by Tara Dorabji.
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2013-06-1332 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – May 2, 2013Nayomi Munaweera speaks with No No Girl and Tara Dorabji about her debut novel, Island of A Thousand Mirrors, which delves into the painful history of Sri Lanka’s civil war with unflinching honesty, compassion, and heart. We’ll be offering Nayomi Munaweera’s novel as a gift for those of you who call in to support KPFA during this fund drive.
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2013-05-0232 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX ExpressNayomi Munaweera speaks with No No Girl and Tara Dorabji about her debut novel, Island of A Thousand Mirrors, which delves into the painful history of Sri Lanka’s civil war with unflinching honesty, compassion, and heart. We’ll be offering Nayomi Munaweera’s novel as a gift for those of you who call in to support KPFA during this fund drive.
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2013-05-0232 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – March 28, 2013
Terry Valen with NAFCON and FCC
Tonight we have Terry Valen, president of NAFCON (National Alliance for Filipino Concerns) and director of the Filipino Community Center in San Francisco to talk about the struggle of migrant Filipino oil workers in New Orleans and the results of a fact-finding mission that was done there in February.
Emcee Bambu
Also, Apex crew member Tara Dorabji brings us an exclusive interview with Pakistani author Bapsi Sidwa, sharing with us the legacy of the 1947 partitioning of India.
A...2013-03-2829 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – January 17, 2013
Peace APEX family! Tonight is a great show, with two feature segments. We’ll also be giving away tickets to this Sunday’s Nickodemus + Spy from Cairo show, so tune in!
We’ll start with a report from the first ever community art show dedicated to queer pacific islanders – it was called Navigating Queer Pacific Waves. We put together a special report of the incredible night, including interviews with the artists, folks who attended and a powerful spoken word piece.
Then we close with a short piece from Apex Contributor Tara Dorabji about a groundbreaking new report re...2013-01-1732 minKPFA - Womens MagazineWomen’s Magazine: Flexing Our Activist Muscles – November 12, 2012Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Laureate Aung Sang Suu Kyi spoke last month at a town hall meeting in San Francisco, home to the largest Burmese community in the United States. Feminist blogger Courtney Martin talks about her book Do It Anyway, exploring the lives and motivations of eight young women activists. And Ariel Julia Brown speaks with Tara Dorabji about the upcoming play “Love Balm for My Spirit Child,” giving voice to the mothers and grandmothers of children killed by police. Hosted by Sharon Sobotta.
The post Women’s Magazine: Flexing Our Activist Muscles – November 12, 2012 appeared first on...2012-11-1208 minKPFA - Womens MagazineWomen’s Magazine – October 15, 2012Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, speaks to Tara Dorabji and Nono Girl from Apex Express about her book and the incidents that inspired it. Then we hear a speech given by Leslie Feinberg on the complex relationship between the Trans and Women’s Liberation Movements.
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2012-10-1508 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – October 4, 2012
Nayomi Munaweera speaks with No No Girl and Tara Dorabji about her debut novel, Island of A Thousand Mirrors, which delves into the painful history of Sri Lanka’s civil war with unflinching honesty, compassion, and heart. We’ll be offering Nayomi Munaweera’s novel as a gift for those of you who call in to support KPFA during this fund drive. Tune into Apex Express on Thursday, October 4 at 7pm on KPFA (94.1 or www.kpfa.org).
With Hosts No-No Girl and Tara.
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2012-10-0435 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – September 27, 2012
KPFA is in Fall fund drive for the next couple of weeks, so please consider donating online, or calling during our show at 1-510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732
Preeti Shekar is in conversation with British Muslim comedian, Shazia Mirza for a taste of her taboo-breaking, button-pressing, smart, sly, deadpan humor.
Salman Rushdie speaks with Tara Dorabji about his new memoir, Joseph Anton. From spies to death threats to deep within government security—Rushdie’s memoir is a real life thriller that delves into the human psyche and the journey towar...2012-09-2734 minKPFA - Womens MagazineWomen’s Magazine – June 25, 2012Tara Dorabji sits down with faculty of the Voices of Our Nations writing workshop, the only multigenre workshop for writers of color in the U.S. Kate Raphael talks with the authors of Queer Injustice: Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. And we get a wrap up on pride events including the annual Dyke March and a mic check at Frameline LGBT film festival.
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2012-06-2508 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – June 14, 2012
APEX Express is proud to announce we are the media sponsor of Vincent Chin 30: Standing Up Then and Now, A Bay Area Conversation.
In 1982, Vincent Chin was the victim of a hate crime murder in Detroit. Thirty years later, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders continue to face discrimination and bullying. In light of recent tragedies like the extreme hazing and subsequent death of Private Danny Chen and the continuing effects of 9/11, what can Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders do to stand up against racism and discrimination?
Join us on June 23rd, at the Ninth S...2012-06-1445 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – May 24, 2012 On this week’s show, the last week of fund drive, call 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732, or donate online at kpfa.org during the 7 to 8PM hour:
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Contributor R.J. Lozada provides a report back on a sliver, but a significant sliver of the numerous activities surrounding 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago this past weekend. Lozada brings us a perspective, and an audio portrait of the Bayan USA 4th Congress, as well as the formation of the US Chapter of the International League of Peoples Struggles (ILPS...2012-05-2435 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – April 26, 2012On this show:
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is at the bargaining table with the City of San Francisco. They have been on a public campaign to demand that San Francisco administrators tax corporations and the wealthy, and stop forcing the burden on city workers and their allies. Contributor Marie Choi gets perspective from SEIU Local 1021 members, Evelyn Curiel, and Jamilah Din.
APEX Contributor R.J. Lozada spent some time at the rally, but also some extra time with Evelyn and Jamilah, view the video below to...2012-04-2633 minKPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – March 22, 2012
Contributor Xonzoi Barbora brings us an interview with Dr. Sein Win, Chairman of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma when Win was in town earlier this month. In their conversation, Win talks about what current progress and struggles have been going on in Mynanmar, otherwise known as Burma.
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Contributors R.J. Lozada, Ellen Choy, and guest contributor Armael Malinis sit down at the breakfast table with Angie Ipong where she shares her experiences as a political prisoner in the...2012-03-2232 min
KPFA - The Morning ShowThe Morning Mix – January 10, 2011A discussion of Saturday’s Tucson tragedy, which killed of 6 people & injured 14 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Renée Saucedo, Director fo the SF Day Laborer Program and Salvador Reza, Coordinator for Arizona’s Puente Movement, talk to Tara Dorabji. www.sfdaylabor.org [1] http://puenteaz.org [2] In response to Governor Jerry Brown’s release of his proposed state budget, coordinated rallies across the state demand a budget that raises revenues as ot protects families and jobs. We talk with Kim Kruckel, mother and organizer, and Deltrina Johnson, mother and childcare provider. Both are part of Parent Voices, Oakland. www.par...2011-01-1029 minKPFA - The Morning ShowThe New KPFA Morning Show – January 3, 2011The Youth Speaks program prepares for Martin Luther King Day. We hear one of the poems from the event. www.youthspeaks.org [1] Recycling: from our garbage to someone else’s pain. Produced by Irene Flores As we start a new year, we read words from our ancestors and the natives of the U.S. Produced by KPFA's Frank Sterling. Tri-Valley Cares files Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests and asks for special counsel to monitor FOIA requests. Adrienne Lauby talks to Scott Yundt. www.trivalleycares.org [2] A montage of public opinion on recent release of government cables and other documents by Wi...2011-01-0329 minKPFA - Terra VerdeTerra Verde – August 4, 2006On the 61st anniversary of the first atomic bombing, Terra Verde interviews Keiji Tsuchiya, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, who served as a rescue worker in the week immediately following the bombing. Now at age 78 he is Vice President of Okayama A-bomb Sufferers Association. We will also be joined by Tara Dorabji of Tri-Valley CAREs who will talk about nuclear testing in the Bay area and the role of companies like Bechtel, which has built more than half of the nuclear facilities in the United States.
Bechtel is partnered with the University of California to manage...2006-08-0408 min