Monday, March 21, 2022

This would be such an interesting film, too...

"‘Feminista Frequencies’ explores how female radio producers built community — and a powerful support system — at Spanish-speaking KDNA in the Yakima Valley" | The Seattle Times

https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/feminista-frequencies-explores-how-female-radio-producers-built-community-and-a-powerful-support-system-at-spanish-speaking-kdna-in-the-yakima-valley/

"There was the element of having women say, 'You know, we don’t want to listen to music that’s gonna degrade us,' then the men saying, 'That makes sense — and you’re right; our music is pretty sexist sometimes.' So music director Estella Del Villar would sit there, listen to records as they came in and filter out all the sexist music.

And they asked: 'What do women want to talk about?' Anything and everything, right? We want to talk about cooking and have recipes on air, we want to have music, but we also want to be serious and acknowledge things like domestic violence and incest — I don’t think that would’ve happened in an only-male-run station, to be honest. Because those situations intimately affect women in a particular way."

~ Monica De La Torre to Brendan Kiley

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