Genesis for July 29th, 2009

Join your hosts this week, Hilda Coker and Cassandra Caverhill, as they dissect the following topics starting at 8:30 PM on Wednesday July 29:

* The great trouser debate*
Learn about how police in Seoul, North Korea and Khartoum, Sudan are enforcing that women are only permitted to wear skirts, as they both attempt to clamp down on public morals.

*Violence towards women in the name of family honour*
On June 30, a car filled with four women was found submerged in the Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ontario (three were sisters, one was a relative). Police have been treating the deaths as suspicious, and are now pursuing allegations that the murders were carried out as "honour killings". Are the cultural compents of this crime a growing trend in Canada?

*Finally! A beauty pageant about what's on the inside*
A teenager recently beat out nearly 300 other contestants and was recently crowned "Queen of Beautiful Morals" last week in a beauty competition held in Saudi Arabia. Is this shift towards recognizing women for who they are instead of what they look like a welcome change in the world of feminism?

*Playing hardball*
Last week ESPN reporter Erin Andrews had a video surface of her on the Internet naked in a hotel room, unbenownst to her. Is Andrews the victim of a crime perpetrated by a peeping Tom, or is this news - which was released by ESPN before any other outlet - a way to generate higher ratings? We'll talk about sexism in the sports world.

Listen in live at 91.5 FM, or online at www.cjam.ca! As always, we welcome your comments regarding this week's topics here on the blog!

Playlist for July 27's Milk & Vodka

This week's show was hosted by CJAM Program Director/Volunteer Coordinator Cassandra Caverhill. If you missed it live, it can be downloaded via CJAM's archives for the next thirty days!

ARTIST/SONG

Lily Allen - Back to the Start
Gravy Train!!! - Titties Bounce (Demo version)
Cibo Matto - Spoon
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Nicole Markham - Police & Thieves (live)
Laura Veirs - Pink Light
Blonde Redhead - For the Damaged
Barbara Lynn Ozen - You'll Lose A Good Thing
Isis - Ask A Woman
Masia One - Heaven
Rough Trade - On With The Show
Blondie - Rip Her to Shreds
The Donnas - 40 Boys in 40 Nights
Hot Springs - Cellophane

Genesis for July 22nd, 2009

Tune into CJAM-FM tonight for a special episode of Making Contact starting at 8:30 PM. We'll be listening to a program called "The Intimate Ecology of Motherhood". Here's the description, taken from Making Contact's website.

"Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to reproductive health. Her book, Living Downstream, presents cancer as a human rights issue; her latest book, Having Faith, explores the intimate ecology of motherhood.

On this Women's Desk edition of Making Contact, we'll hear Steingraber's speech at the Women's Environmental Health and Justice Bay Area Summit in San Francisco in October of 2003."

This is a facinating and eye-opening episode about breastfeeding and the health of women and their children. If you can't tune in live, be sure to download it via CJAM's online archives.

Milk and Vodka with Cristina Naccarato and Kate Hargreaves!

ESL - Prove Me Wrong*
The Sick Lipstick - Go To Bed*
Language Arts - Welcome to the Words You Want in Your Life*
Mika Miko - Wild Bore
Matt and Kim - Cinders
Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl
Shapes and Sizes - Alone/Alive*
Tanya Donelly and Dylan in The Movies - The Lovecats
Screaming Females - Starving Dog
Pack A.D. - Pilot's Blues*
Miss Tk and The Revenge - Nowhere to Go
Mirah and Spectratone International - Community
The Unsettlers - No No No Yes*
Teenage Fan Club and Donna Matthews - Personality Crisis
X - Sugarlight
Hole - Jennifer's Body
The Maynards - Dance Fight*
Vivian Girls - No

* Canadian Content

You can download/stream it: here!

Tonight on Genesis!

Hello everyone,

Tonight on Genesis I am going to be chatting to guest co-host Lauren Quinn about a bunch of different topics that are hot topics in pop culture on a lot of feminist blogs.

We hope to hit on:
- Delta Airlines' new airline attendant uniforms
- Ms. magazine's cover controversy
- The purity ring iPhone application
- Twilight and the genre of "abstinence porn"
- GLAAD and Bruno
- The F-Bomb, a new blog from a 16 year old feminist
- The Ukraine banning porn

for more information on these stories, visit www.feministing.com and www.bitchmagazine.org.

Any comments are welcome, we can read them on air if you post them during the show and they are appropriate for us to read!

Check out awesome Phog Phest pictures from Cristina, a regular contributor to the WRC!

Phog Phest took place on Saturday July 11 in downtown Windsor and Cristina Naccarato was on site snapping lots of great pics from the event. CBC Radio 3 hired her to take photos of the performances after coming across her awesome photo blog online. Check out some up close and personal shots of Holy Fuck, The Arkells, Green Go, Yellow Wood and more here. On behalf of the WRC, congratulations Cristina on this amazing opportunity!