THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW is an award-winning , noncommercial , advertising-free half hour TV and radio program that features in-depth investigations and interviews with people – disproportionately BIPOC women – who are engaged in inclusive , equitable and joyful ways of defending and expanding US democracy . Featuring tomorrow ’ s leaders today , the LF Show shows how gender-based violence is connected to , and often predictive of , violence of every other kind , and reports on a weekly basis on the ways creative people and places around the world are preventing , stopping and responding to violence in power-shifting ways so as to transform society , legally , socially economically and even spiritually .
THE PHILISA ABAFAZI EMERGENCY SAFE HOUSES is directed and managed by One Billion Rising South Africa Coordinator Lucinda Evans . PAB is the only emergency safe house ( an 8 bed facility ) which caters specifically for transgender victims of GBVF and gender expansive survivors who are not funded by the government . It is the only gender-expansive-focused emergency safe house in the Western Cape , along with one long term shelter called PRIDE , which has a waiting list for admission as it ’ s always full to capacity . Before PAB opened the first emergency safe house , gender-expansive victims would be referred to homeless shelters for support , which do not cater to extensive injuries or recuperation , and the clients must vacate the shelter from 8am to 5pm . PAB gender expansive safe houses have 24 hour care , hospital transport , followups and house mothers that take care of the clients including providing 3 meals a day . Our second safehouse caters to womxn and their children who are victims of violence and includes rescues from violent situations , including trafficking .
BLACK GIRL MAGIC BALL , hosted by Mahogany L . Browne , is an intergenerational celebration of Black girls and women through poetry , music , networking and empowerment . This year ’ s honorees included Ilyasah Shabazz , Sonya Renee Taylor , Elisa Del Valle , Tommi Vincent , and Lindsay Peoples Wagner , with music and live performances by DJ Saige and Be Steadwell .