Bringing equity to the airwaves one member at a time

The Women’s Radio Collective formed in January of 2009 at CJAM 99.1 FM. Our mandate is to attract, train and retain female volunteers to create gender equity in campus-community radio. We offer opportunities for women to learn and develop broadcasting skills to produce their own alternative media. The collective fosters female empowerment on and off the airwaves, and encourages members to assert their feminist perspectives.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Collective Activity Update and Milk&Vodka for May 25th


Members of the CJAM Women's Collective participated in the Walk for a Creative City that occured at the Windsor riverfront on Monday May 18th. We were happy to support endeavour to promote local creative representation and proudly stand for the arts as important to the Windsor community in various ways! Tom Lucier of Phog Lounge pepped up all that came to participate while simultaneously Windsor's birthday was being celebrated also alongside strikers. To see this, check out the previous post and follow up post on Tom Lucier's blog as well as the videos below! The riverfront was a lively place that day and continues to be - the city is buzzing!


This week Kate Hargreaves and Nicole Markham hosted another edition of Milk & Vodka! Tried to keep it somewhat electronically influenced due to DEMF that occurred over the weekend - hope you got a chance to listen to preempted CJAM programming for the event and/or celebrate Movement 2009 in some way or another!

Hercules and Love Affair - Raise Me Up
Le Tigre - Viz
Perilelle - Off Day*
Goldfrapp - Satin Chic

Sydney Blu - Give It Up To Me* (coming to Windsor on June 15th!)

Lesbians on Extacy - Victoria's Secret*

Metric - Satellite Mind* (coming to Detroit on June 15th!)

Ellen Allien

Ladytron - discotraxx

CONTROLLER CONTROLLER - BEATEN, BATTERED, BROKEN*

Pipettes - What Did You Say?

M.I.A. - The Turn

Fiona Apple - Parting Gift

Beast - Finger Prints*


*Canadian
VINYL

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Genesis, May 13th

This week's episode of Genesis was hosted by Nicole Markham, Hilda Coker and Lama Alsafi. Some of our info was taken from the Jezebel website, check it out! The new format of Genesis is open forum and please contact the Women's Collective if you want to discuss issues with us. If you are a member of the collective, please show up for 8:30pm on Wednesdays with your commentary switched "on"! Music featured on the program was Lama's selection the Fort Knox Five.

Topics included:

The Miss California Story
-the gay marriage issue in California
-opinions and representations of women in the media

Plastic Surgury
-breast enlargement surgury
-cosmetic vs. medically oriented
-Windsor star article "Surgically Enhanced" :
"where do we draw the lines between frivolous and justified body modification"?
-self improvement vs. embracing natural form
-feminism and self body image
"I've never seen an ugly woman" - B.B.King

The Japanese Konkatsu Bra
-"too many kinds of rediculous to count"!
-a new spin on the biological clock

Monday, May 4, 2009

CANFEMCON!

Today Nicole and I hosted a special all Canadian Milk and Vodka!

Tracklist:
Bad Flirt - Mad, Mad Madeline
The Barmitzvah Brothers - Thrift Store Owner
Aspirations - Accident Prone
White Lung - Breaking Boxes
Tara Watts - Sunlight
Megan Hamilton - Moth
Immaculate Machine - The Neighbours Don't Mind
The Pack A.D. - June
Crystal Castles - Love and Caring
Lioness - What You Do Will Come Back To You
Dandi Wind - Bang of the Hounds
Mother Mother - Dirty Town
Shapes and Sizes - Island's Gone Bad
Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees - Trust Fund

If you missed out on all the awesome can/femcon, check out the archives at www.cjam.ca - May 4th - 5pm!