December 2001

~ Dec 1st ** Rowan & Gae interview Dr Stephanie Rixecker on HIV/AIDS and human rights for lesbians, gay and queer people.

Featured music:

Jess Hawk Oakenstar — "They're coming for you"

Cris Williamson — "In the best interest of the children"

Toni Childs — "House of hope"

~ Dec 8th ** Karen and Cheryl interview Heather Smyth on experiences in a fundamentalist church, the journey leaving it and healing from it. For more information on the support group, phone Heather on 358-4500

Featured music:

Sue Boland — "Lefthander"

Strumpet — "Amazon Song (for Kay)"

~ Dec 15th ** Emma reviews a book or two and reads a story by Emma Donaghue called Kissing the Witch

Featured music:

PJ Harvey — "My Beautiful Lair" and "Electric Light"

Ani Di Franco — "Pulse"

~ Dec 22nd ** Maya presents the 2001 Lesbian Radio Retrospective, lesbian holiday songs and comedy.

Featured music:

Venus Envy — "Myth in Genesis"

Charlotte Yates — "Everest"

Venus Envy — "What's it to ya?"

Venus Envy — "Lesbians we have hard on high"

Karen Hunter — "Little by little"

Woody Simmons — "Ashtavakra's Tune" (under the community notices)

Taboo — "I Do Believe"

Mahinarangi Tocker — "A Christmas Sale"

Karen Williams — "Opposites" (comedy)

Dos Fallopia — "Camp Song"

Venus Envy — "Silent Dyke"

Lucie Blue Tremblay — "Le Vent du Sud"

Holly Near — "You Bet"

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November 2001

~ Nov 3rd ** Emma — Reading from Barrie Jean Borich's new novel My Lesbian Husband. Plus music from Ani DiFranco

Featured music:

Ani DiFranco—"The Whole Night," "In or Out," "Two Little Girls"

~ Nov 10th ** Ann — Interviews with Kathryn Whitehead of Qtopia and Doon Oxford of Out Now Otautahi

Featured music:

Indigo Girls —"Closer to fine"

Woody Simmons— "Trolley Car"

~ Nov 17th ** Maya — New music by Tyree Robertson, Hinemoana Baker, Dykeappella, Holly Near, Cris Williamson, and Magdalen Hsu-Li

Featured music:

Dykeappella—"Lesbian Picnic"

Tyree Robertson— "Be Alone"

Hinemoana Baker— "Nga Wehenga"

Holly Near—"1000 Grandmothers"

Cris Williamson—"Little Room"

Magdalen Hsu-Li— "Aiko and I"

Sarah McLachlan.—"Angel"

~ Nov 24th ** Karen & Cheryl — Interview with Noreen Penny, co-founder of a local coven, C.O.O.L., and The Kate Sheppard Book Shop. Her book is "Women's Rites."

Featured music:

Taboo —"I do believe" and "The Story"

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October 2001

~ 6th ** Karen—Mental Health Awareness Week. Karen explores the issue of lesbians and addiction with Rachael whose doctoral thesis is this subject. Plus an interview with Jules, a Maori lesbian and her experiences as a mental health consumer.

Featured music:

Mahinarangi Tocker—"These Tears Wasted"

~ 13th ** Maya —International Coming Out Day and World Book Day Aotearoa! A show on lesbian fiction writers and coming out. Our giveaways will be Sarah Waters' book "Tipping the Velvet" plus a set of 3 fertilisers (brand new!) for your indoor and outdoor plants. You can find all of books mentioned in the show and more at the Christchurch City Library.

Featured books:

"Spiral 7" (a collection)

"The Exploding Frangipani" (collection)

"Car maintenance, Explosives, and Love and Other Stories" (collection)

"Eat These Sweet Words" (NZ poetry)

"Washing Up in Parrot Bay"

Works by Renee (plays and fiction)

"Eugenia" by Lorae Parry (a play)

Heather MacPherson (poet) in a collection called "Big Smoke"

"The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction"

"The Penguin Collection of Lesbian Short Stories"

"Romantic Naiad" (a collection)

"Circa 2000" (a collection)

"Stir Fry", "Hood", and "Kissing the Witch" all by Emma Donoghue

"Tipping the Velvet" by Sarah Waters

"Paxton Court" by Diane Salvatore

"The Well of Loneliness" by Radcliffe Hall

"Letters of Fire" by Anais Nin

Kathryn Mansfield

Ethan Mordan

"Hot Check" by Peggy Herring

Many books by Rita Mae Brown

"Range of Light" by Valerie Minor.

Featured books on coming out:

"A woman like that : lesbian and bisexual writers tell their coming out stories"

"Inside out: an Australian collection of coming out stories" / edited by Erin Shale

"Redefining the self : coming out as lesbian"

"Coming out to parents : a two-way survival guide for lesbians and gay men and their parents"

"Now that I'm out, what do I do?"

"Another Mother Tongue" by Judy Grahn

Featured books for young adult lesbians:

At the library, search for 'lesbians, young adult fiction' or check out the Reading Guide in the Young Adult section called "Stories About Us: Queer Reads..."

Featured music:

Charlotte Yates—"The Summer and the Snow"

Big Belly Woman—"Whakaroko Mai" (not on the web recording);

Mahinarangi Tocker—"First Love"

Margie Adam—"Would you like to tap dance on the moon?"

~ 20th ** Karen & Cheryl—Interview with Margaret Mayman, Presbysterian minister. Margie mentions these websites on the show: Alternet and Z Mag

Featured music:

Melissa Etheridge—"Mama, I'm Strange"

Sarah McLachlan—"Witness"

~ 27th ** Rowan & Gae — Genetic engineering — what it means for queer people. Interview with Stefanie Rixecker PhD from Lincoln University who has researched and published in this area. You can email Stephanie by clicking here: Stephanie's email.

Physicians & Scientists for Responsible Genetics are sending an open letter to the government supporting GE Free. You can sign this letter at PSRG.

Stephanie will be a new co-editor of the The Women's Studies Journal (NZ) in 2002. The second issue of WSJ in 2002 (18:1) will be dedicated to Genetic Engineering and Feminism. She'll have an article in that, alongside a number of other women who have perspectives on the topic.

Websites on GE:
GE Free New Zealand (RAGE inc.)
Greenpeace New Zealand
NZ Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Physicians & Scientists for Responsible Genetics
RAFI: Rural Advancement Foundation International (now ETC Group)

Books and readings on GE:
(On the whole, these are more "popular" than academic (in writing), but still use informed and verified sources)

Ho, Mae-Wan. 1998. Genetic Engineering, Dream or Nightmare?: The Brave New World of Bad Science and Big Business. Bath, UK: Gateway Books.

Kimbrell, Andrew. 1997. 2nd ed. The Human Body Shop: The Cloning, Engineering and Marketing of Life. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc.

Prebble, R (ed), Designer Genes: A guide on GM for all New Zealanders, Dark Horse Press, Wellington.

Rifkin, Jeremy. 1998. The Biotech Century: Harnessing the gene and remaking the world, Penguin Putnam Inc, New York

Shiva, Vandana. 1997. Biopiracy: The plunder of nature and knowledge, Between the Lines, Toronto

Silver, Lee M. 1998. Remaking Eden: Cloning, Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humankind? London: Phoenix/Orion Books.

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September 2001

~ 1st** Rowan & Gae—Coming out to parents and family.

Featured music:

A Family of Friends Compilation—"A Family of Friends"

Indigo Girls—"I Don't Want to Talk About It"

Melissa Etheridge—"Heal Me"

June & Jean Millington—"Family"

~ 8th**Maya plays an excerpt from The Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage and gives away one of her books.

Featured music:

Paula Barnett Castillo"Silver Thread" and "Big World"

Ferron—"It Wont Take Long"

Charlotte Yates—"Everest"

~ 15th**Karen & Cass—Interview with Shelly Wright of the band Taboo. They have a new CD coming out.

Featured music:

Taboo—"The Story," "I Do Believe," "Incest," and "Never Understand"

~ 22nd**Ann & Tighe— Alternative views on the disaster of 11 Sept and the U.S. response to terrorism. Plus helpful information on being more inclusive of deaf people. It is deaf awareness weak.

Featured music:

Shona Lang—"America"

Judy Small—"You Don't Speak For Me" and "Mothers, Daughters, Wives"

~ 29th**Tighe—Continuation of last week's show.

Featured music:

Bluehouse—"One of those things"

Judy Small—"Homefront"

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August 2001

~ 4th** Cheryl will be interviewing Beppie Vaags on counseling and Feng Shui

~ 11th**Tighe—Interview with Alison Laurie, lesbian activist and academic, on the edition of the Lesbian Studies Journal that she has just edited. Its is the first international collection of lesbian studies articles from Aotearoa/NZ and it has just been released by the Haworth Press in New York.

Featured music:

Melissa Etheridge—"Bring Me Some Water"

Jamie Anderson—"The Wedding Song"

Jamie Anderson—"Love Song"

Margie Adam—"Waves"

~ 18th**Maya—New CDs from Melissa Etheridge and Karen Hunter. Apologies for this show...I recorded midway through so it isn't a complete recording.

Featured music:

Melissa Etheridge—"Lover Please," "The Prison," and "I Want to be in Love"

Karen Hunter—"Little by Little" and "Shine Down"

~ 25th**Maya—The latest CD by kd lang called "Live by Request" recorded in Dec 2000, NY. Also, music from Paula Barnett Castillo. Regretfully, this show did not record properly and so is not available for the web.

Featured music:

Paula Barnett Castillo—"Give it Back," "Silver Thread,"

kd lang—"Miss Chatelaine," "Crying," "Simple," and "Extraordinary Thing"

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July 2001

~ 7th** Rachael interviews a woman who does massage and talks about how to look after ourselves healthwise.

Featured music:

M People—"Venus Returns" (?)

Indigo Girls—"Least Complicated"

~ 14th**Rowan and Gae—The internet!

Featured music:

Joan Armatrading—"Visionary Mountains"

Carole King—"I Feel the Earth Move"

Natalie Merchant—"One Fine Day"

~ 21st**Karen—Francis Anderson discusses public health issues for lesbians

Featured music:

Topp Twins—"Room in my heart"

Charlotte Yates—"Remember"

Mahinarangi Tocker—"Boundaries of Safety"

~ 28th**Rachael and Emma—Spiritual healing for dykes. Interview with Jill, spiritual healer.

Featured music:

Madonna—"Ray of light"

song by Sporty Spice.

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June

~ 2nd**Karen interviews Kate McCleary, a medical herbalist

Featured music:

Emma Shapplin—"Vedi, Maria"

~ 9th**Rachael—Interview with Jill, art & fashion guru.

Featured music:

Queen—"Friends Will Be Friends"

"I am Sailing"

~ 16th**Tighe—Interviews Robin and Annette of the Women's Centre.

Featured music:

Mahinarangi Tocker—"No lines on my face"

Janis Ian—"No one else like you"

~ 23rd**Maya—New music from Charlotte Yates and Margie Adam

Featured music:

Charlotte Yates—"Religion," "Skin," and "Everest"

Margie Adam—"Avalon"

~ 30th**Ann & Tighe—Discussion of Tim Barnett's proposed Civil Union Bill. Tune in and get informed!

Featured music:

Zrazy—"Come out everybody"

The Best of Lesbian Comedy—"Definition of equal rights"

Zrazy—"Permanent Happiness"

Jamie Fota—"Treasure our moments together"

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May

~ 5th**Ann interviews Alison Kagen on the Women's Studies Conference which is on Queen's birthday weekend. Contact her at 03-389-2095 or email at aj_kagen@xtra.co.nz. Also Tighe interviews Alison Laurie, founder of Lesbian Studies at WEA and Victoria University.

~ 12th**What's Rachael got cookin'?—Gardening with native plants.

Featured music:

Topp Twins—"Big Ole Moon"

Tracy Chapman—"She's Got Her Ticket"

~ 19th**Karen & Cheryl—Interview with Jools Topp.

Featured music:

Topp Twins—"Fire in the Barn" and "Baby, I think I love you"

~ 26th**Rowan, Gae, Natalie—International lesbian activism.

Featured music:

Music by Chavela Vargas, the lesbian mariachi singer who just came out at age 81 last year.

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April

~ 7th ** Host: Rowan & Gae; Topic: Lesbians in films, Part 1.

Featured music:

Tata Vega—"Miss Celie's Blues - Sista!" (from The Color Purple soundtrack)

Whoopi Goldberg—"You Got It" (from Boys on the Side soundtrack)

Marlene Dietrich—"Falling in Love Again"

Sarah McLachlan—"Ice Cream"

Marlene Dietrich—"You Go to My Head"

~ 14th ** Host: Maya & Rachael; Topic: Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Woody Simmons!

Featured music:

Woody Simmons—"Who'll Save the Animals," "Trolley Car," "Firefly," "Ashtavakra's Tune," and "Fare Thee Well"

~ 21st ** Host: Karen & Cheryl; Topic: Interview with Mahina Kaui, singer of Big Belly Woman; plus they will be giving away a Big Belly Woman CD!

Featured music:

Big Belly Woman—"Dance with the Wind" and "Papatuanuku"

~ 28th ** Host: Rowan & Natalie; Topic: Lesbians in films, Part 2; interview with Tilly, lesbian filmmaker.

Featured music:

Toni Childs—"I Want to Walk with You"

Shakespeare's Sister—"I Don't Care"

kd lang—"Big Boned Gal"

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March

~ 3rd ** Host: Rowan & Gae; Topic: The Gay Games which will be in Sydney in 2002. They will never be so close again so let's get some teams together! Find out more at the Gay Games website or email women@gaygamesvi.org.au

Featured music:

Michelle Shocked—"Anchorage"

Nancy Griffith—"Wimaweh"

Melissa Etheridge—"Sleep"

~ 10th ** Host: Ann & Tighe; Topic: Reflections on the origins of the Sydney Mardi Gras and the Auckland Hero parade.

Featured music:

Lynn Lavner—"I've been a lesbian too long"

Judy Small—"Love is a fearsome thing"

~ 17th ** Host: Ann & Maya; Topic: Interview with actor Helen Moulder of the "Vita and Virginia" production.

Featured music:

Lucie Blue Tremblay—"When you can't hear the music inside"

~ 24th ** Host: Karen & Cheryl; Topic: Interview with Ursula Klein, ordained priest of the Independant Church and psychotherapist at Avenue Counseling Center (3795-165). Video mentioned by Cheryl is "If These Walls Could Talk 2" starring Ellen DeGeneres, Vanessa Redgrave, and Sharon Stone.

Featured music:

Bessie Smith—"Nobody knows you when you're down and out"

Tracy Chapman—"If not now"

song by Edith Piaf.

~ 31st ** Host: Rachael; Topic: Bikes and stuff!

Featured music:

Aretha Franklin—"Natural Woman"

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February 2001

~ 3rd ** Host: Maya & Rachael; Topic: women's music.

Featured music:

Les Cliches—"I'm a Lesbian"

kd lang—"Only Love"

Lucie Blue Tremblay—"Le Vent du Sud"

Janis Ian—"Murdering Stravinsky"

Catie Curtis—"The Wolf"

~ 10th ** Host: Rachael & Lisa; Topic: Being a lesbian Quaker; alternatives to violence.

Featured music:

"Out of the Closet"

Aretha Franklin—"Natural Woman"

~ 17th ** Host: Maya; Topic: Lesbian Theatre; the work of Lesbian feminist playwright Carolyn Gage featuring an excerpt of her performing her one-woman show "The Second coming of Joan of Arc". Her books, plays, and tapes are available through her website. Also check out a live interview with her from Gaybc.com. You need RealPlayer (freeware) to hear it.

Featured music:

Meg Christian—"The Valentine Song" and "Joanna"

Margie Adam—"Melo" and "Whimsy Salad"

~ 24th ** Host: Karen and Cheryl; Topic: Interview with beneficiary advocate.

Featured music:

Diana Krall—"Let's fall in love"

Big Belly Woman—"Mana Wahine" and "Dance with the wind"

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