Could This Be the Last Women’s History Month? As Women’s History Month is quietly dismantled under Trump's attacks on history and DEI, a collective feminist refusal is taking shape.

Excellent piece: "We ride at dawn."
msmagazine.com/2026/03/27/w...
I'm saddled up and ready to go.
@msmagazine.com @wingsradio.bsky.social

Jumping with joy for EFF's Cindy Cohn and also for The Babblery — we had such a great conversation about women's online privacy. Watch for it wherever you get your podcasts or on BABBLERY.com and WINGS.org.

Jumping with joy for EFF's Cindy Cohn and also for The Babblery — we had such a great conversation about women's online privacy. Watch for it wherever you get your podcasts or on BABBLERY.com and WINGS.org.

When you're doing an interview for your lil' homegrown podcast and your guest says:
"Just so you know, I have a hard stop at 1:30 because I'm going to be on the Daily Show!"
Watch for Cindy Cohn interview on women's privacy wherever you get your podcasts or on BABBLERY.com and WINGS.org.

Minibabble: The Signs of No Kings - An Audio Montage I walked around my local No Kings 2026 Rally and asked people to do dramatic readings of their signs. Some are more dramatic than others, but all....

At our local No Kings Rally I asked sign holders to do dramatic readings. Check out some fun, inspiring, short audio!
babblery.com/2026/03/mini...

When rely on natural processes, human behavior comes to some sort of balance. But moving everything—including gambling—to our phones is throwing everything out of whack.
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NOW STREAMING on The Babblery: MINIBABBLE EPISODE- She Called to Apologize: A story of exclusion and grace
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Listen to transgender theorist Sandy Stone and musician Nancy Vogl speak about trauma, exclusion, acceptance, and moving forward together. @sandystone.bsky.social

"This is my phone call to you from the future. You will be okay. I know it looks terrible now, but it will pass. What you're seeing is a very small segment of time, a very small segment, and you happen to be right in the middle of it."

NOW STREAMING on The Babblery:
Transgender elder Sandy Stone reflects on the past, present, and future of trans people in the US.
babblery.com/2026/03/an-a...
@sandystone.bsky.social @ksqdfm.bsky.social

Yesterday was a gorgeous day on the Central Coast of California. So why was it harshing my mellow?
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Sandy Stone: A message to transgender youth YouTube video by KSQD

A message from trans icon Sandy Stone to young people:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBYp...
Check out the episode: babblery.com/2026/03/an-a...
@sandystone.bsky.social @ksqdfm.bsky.social

" Women came to those concerts who had never, to their knowledge, known another lesbian. And some of them just wanted to touch the women in the collective as though to say, ‘You are real, and therefore I'm real.’ That was an unrepeatable experience."

NOW STREAMING on The Babblery: Sandy Stone on the power of the 70s women's movement
babblery.com/2026/03/an-a...
@sandystone.bsky.social @ksqdfm.bsky.social

An Amazing Time to be Alive with Sandy Stone - BABBLERY.com: Transgender icon Sandy Stone on TERF hatred, from the 1970s women's communities to today.

NEW on the Babblery: Sandy Stone on intolerance of trans people and hope for the future:
babblery.com/2026/03/an-a...
@ksqdfm.bsky.social

"There was a minute when I said, oh no, this is hopeless—we're doomed. And then I realized, no, this is an amazing time to be alive. When all those things we read in the history books about how the people organized against tyranny, we get to live that, not just read about it!"

TOMORROW on The Babblery:
Sandy Stone on the fight for trans rights. Subscribe: babblery.com/subscribe/
@ksqdfm.bsky.social @sandystone.bsky.social

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I'm really excited that my upcoming episode of The Babblery is with trans icon Sandy Stone. Sandy is a friend, a co-volunteer at KSQD, and a provocative thinker who never stops engaging with people and spreading her message of acceptance and support.
@ksqdfm.bsky.social @sandystone.bsky.social

Chapter 8: The Pages in the Wall — Enid Baxter Ryce This is my great-grandfather’s last manuscript, written while he was incarcerated in the Lvov Ghetto, before the g-ddamn Nazis murdered him. He hid it in a wall, and his son, my grandpa, risked his li...

I interviewed Enid Baxter Ryce last week for The Babblery (episode forthcoming). I wanted to share this amazing piece in progress now. Stunning story. I hope someday it will be on the shelves of a bookstore near you.

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Why are people willing to suffer the consequences of living in California? I think it has something to do with the dream… and with their Dream.
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The beauty of older women On using the mirror to appreciate ourselves

NEW on Substack: We can’t truly see a woman’s beauty until we see her as she is.
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Thanks to KPFA Radio for including the Babblery's feature on the African American Composer Initiative in their 2026 International Women's Day programming:
kpfa.org/episode/not-... @kpfa.org @ksqdfm.bsky.social

Alone with my brain on the Internet Reflections on the World Wide Web of Weirdness

NEW on Substack: When I saw a page on the World Wide Web in 1992 (or was it 93?), I had no idea how weird our lives were about to get.
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The Babblery is being featured on this weekend's International Women's Day Broadcast on @kpfa.org . Check out the schedule! kpfa.org/featured-epi...

NEW on Substack: What do the Epstein files mean to women?
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Our Bodies, Ourselves identified everything I had been conditioned not to see: the way our society accepts abuse of women, even celebrates it, the way young women in most places are taught so little about their bodies, the value of sharing knowledge and support with other people who walk through life in those bodies, the way we relax into social structures that have been designed to keep us from full happiness and comfort.

Decades before the Matrix’s red pill, women had Our Bodies, Ourselves:
babblery.substack.com/p/on-girls-w...

NEW on Substack:
When knowledge is uncoupled from community.
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"My musician friends were like, no men allowed in the house. No men friends, no men. And then that really triggered some soul searching for me because that wasn’t the life I wanted to live. I had male friends that were like my brothers. I had family, I wasn’t about to renounce anybody."

On separatism with Joan Gelfand:
babblery.com/2026/02/two-...

Opinion | What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy

This is the sort of excellent reporting that a good journalist can do: investigate every step in the chain that falls when one link is broken.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

"The internet, for all it gives us, it takes away so much personal connection. People need to go out and be with each other and it's gotten so easy to isolate. So we are in a very, very—a strange moment."
Joan Gelfand
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"  The Women's Movement and the Black Power Movement were the precursor to MeToo and Black Lives Matter because we were cooperating, we were supporting each other. And, that was just really a stellar kind of political-sociological moment."

Two Strange Moments with Writer Joan Gelfand on The Babblery
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Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans

Beautiful, joyous essay about being in the resistance in Minneapolis. (Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Two Strange Moments with Writer Joan Gelfand - Writer Joan Gelfand’s life so far has been bookended by what she refers to as “strange moments.” As a teenager, she left New York City for the allure of the....

I’ve been diving into the way the mid-70s women’s movement has become more relevant than ever. Here’s an interview with author Joan Gelfand on how two “strange moments” bookend her writing career.
babblery.com/2026/02/two-...

NEW on Substack: Some thoughts on the futility of trying to show others what's what.
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