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.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Milk & Vodka playlist for June 1, 2009

Check it out! Brand new radio collective member Sarah Morris had an excellent first program, chocked full o' goodies! If you missed it, be sure to download it via CJAM's archives.
new plays

ARTIST
SONG
Laura Barrett Wood Between Worlds
Ethel Waters Shake That Thing
Labooze Heavy Metal Love
Julie Doiron Spill Yer Lungs
Zap Mama Wadidyusay?
The Ettes Crown of Age
La Patere Rose PaceMaker
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins The Big Guns
Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss & Gillian Welsh Don't Leave Nobody But The Baby
Jenn Grant Everbody Loves You
The Boswell Sisters We've Got To Put That Sun Back in the Sky
Lioness What You Did Will Come Back to You
Koko Taylor Wang Dang Doodle
The Be Good Tanyas The Littest Birds
Coco Love Alcorn Where Do The Robots Go When They Die
Bat for Lashes What's A Girl To Do?

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!

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Milk & Vodka Wins A Jammy!

The CJAM Women's Collective would like to sincerely thank all of those who voted for our show "Milk and Vodka". It was great to celebrate with the CJAM community. Ultimately it is difficult to award certain shows over others because at CJAM everyone puts their all into programming. Congratulations to all of the volunteers that constantly exhibit excellence in broadcasting and behind the scenes. This organization would not be what it is if it wasn't for all of us putting ourselves into our work. Thanks again!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Milk & Vodka April 20th

As hosted by Kate Hargreaves

Predict the Day - Ladytron
Gold, Guns, Girls - Metric *
Ever Fallen In Love - Nouvelle Vague
Midnight Radio - Cyndi Lauper
Haunted Magick - Lioness *
Living Room (live) - Tegan and Sara *
Over - Eager Heart - Tara Watts *
Lost Time - Maria Taylor
Reading in Bed - Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton *
Anywhere I lay my head - Scarlet Johansson
Fire - The Sounds
Five Year Plan - You Say Party! We Say Die! *
Cast off Crown - Deerhoof

* = Canadian

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Infected Thursday - April 9th



Infected Thursday's invite you to the Loop (156 Chatham Street W) starting at 10 PM to come shake it up 90's style! There is no cover - costumes are encouraged and be prepared for some dance-offs! DJ's are CJAM's own Cassie and Theresa so come out and support their event!

Who doesn't like theme dance parties?