The Women's Desk produces programming that explores the issues and perspectives of women with a particular focus on the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality. The Welfare Radio Collaborative is a project of the Women's Desk. This desk also collaborates with the Women Rising Radio Project.
Produces radio programming on a wide spectrum of topics and women's perspectives.
Networks with grassroots women's groups to formulate, appear on, use and evaluate programs.
Amplifies women's voices by advocating for our perspectives to be heard in public forums and classrooms.
Trains women who have little access to technology and communications to record, edit, produce and distribute high impact radio programs.
Supported by independent funding sources, the Women's Desk is free to explore and expose government and corporate roles in issues that affect women. Please support the Women's Desk.
Programs are listed below - click through to descriptions for guest contact information and audio files.
53-08 Women Rising XVIII: Rescuers of Wildlife
52-08 Year in Review 2008
51-08 Born in Flames: Case of the New Jersey 7
41-08 Parental Notification: Protecting Our Youth?
36-08 For Us, By Us. Health Care after Katrina
32-08 When Your Back's Against the Wall, You Gotta Dance:
On the Frontlines of Reproductive Justice
28-08 Women Rising XVII: Climate Change and Water
22-08 A Crisis of Care: A System
on Life Support (Part 3)
14-08 A Crisis
of Care: Gina's Story (Part 2)
13-08 A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part 1)
10-08 Women Rising XVI: Civil Disobedience and Resistance
50-07 Women Rising XV: World Health Activists
48-07 The Color of AIDS: Bringing “Risk” Up to Date
43-07 Women Rising XIV: International Changemakers in the Arts
37-07 Women Rising XIII: Enterprising Women
26-07 Reproductive Justice: Voices from SisterSong
21-07 Women Rising XII: International Changemakers - Journalists in the Crosshairs
19-07 Mothers, Migrants and Maids of Honor
13-07 Many Lines of Fire: Women at War
10-07 Women Rising XI: International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
04-07 Civil War in Burma, Karen Women in Exile
01-07 Lockdown on Life: Stories from Women Behind Bars
51-06 Women Rising X: International Changemakers - Human Rights Advocates
47-06 Women Rising IX: International Changemakers - Honoring Elder Women Activists
43-06 Last Stand for Choice in Mississippi
30-06 Women Rising VIII: International Changemakers Protecting the Environment
25-06 Women Rising VII: International Changemakers in Politics
WomanSpeak - Talking About Our Good Health
Short, original radio pieces about women's health.
09-06 Got Rights? Global Women's Voices for Health and Humanity
01-06 Women Rising VI: International Changemakers - Whistleblowers
40-05 Women Rising V: International Changemakers - Grassroots Activists
33-05 Enduring Choice
25-05 Women Rising IV: International Changemakers - Women as Religious Activists
18-05 Children Denied: Family Cap and Foster Care
(Welfare Radio Collaborative)
09-05 Women's Movements in Palestine
08-05 World Social Forum '05: Fostering Dignity in Africa
47-04 Women Rising III: International Changemakers - Women Writer Activists
46-04 Unreasonable Women in Unreasonable Times
43-04 Regulating Love
(Welfare Radio Collaborative)
11-04 War Against Women, Women Against War: A Report Back From the World Social Forum
10-04 ElectionWatch '04 - Home Economics: Women and Voting
07-04 A Poor System: Welfare Punishing Women
(Welfare Radio Collaborative)
03-04 Women Rising II: International Changemakers - Women in Peace and Antimilitarism
47-03 The Intimate Ecology of Motherhood
46-03 Women and Farming
38-03 The Power of Women's Peacemaking
10-03 Women Rising: International Changemakers
03-03 Reproductive Slights: The Erosion of Abortion Access
24-02 Military Maneuvers: Women Uncovering War
10-02 Viva Las Mujeres: Women Challenge Globalization
07-02 Walking the Talk: Women Fighting Racism Worldwide
02-02 Regulating Motherhood: Race, Class and Policy
51-02 War: An Enemy of the Poor
41-01 Food for Thought: Nutrition and Healthy Kids
Bridges Not Walls: Afghan Women for Peace
(hour-long special)
37-01 Beyond the Burqa: The Taliban, Women and the C.I.A.
30-01 Lessons in Learning: Community Based Education
20-01 Breaking Barriers to Women's Health
12-01 Women and Welfare: Organizing for Survival
09-01 Community Radio: A Tool for Social Change
(featuring a Women's Desk segment)
44-00 Shrinking Supply: Low Income Housing in the U.S.
(featuring a Women's Desk segment)
38-00School Daze: Corporate Involvement in Education
30-00 Women's Rights, Human Rights
19-00 Consuming Classrooms: Private Interests and Public Education, Part Two
(featuring a Women's Desk segment)
11-00 Delta on Fire: Nigerian Women's Resistance
09-00 En La Casa: Domestic Violence in Latin America
49-99 Wired Schools: Education and Technology
35-99 Labor Unions: Boom or Bust?
(featuring a Women's Desk segment)
23-99 Limited Choices: Women and Global Sex Trafficking
22-99 What's for Lunch? Surplus Agriculture and School Meals
08-99 Marketing Menopause
45-98 Cruel and Unusual? Women's Prisons
11-98 Cooperating for a New Economy: Women and Development
01-98 Rising from the Ranks: Women in the Labor Movement
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