On Election Eve, join Joy of Resistance and National Women’s Liberation (NWL) in a Feminist Consciousness Raising (CR) session featuring you, our listeners!

Our question will be: “What is your personal stake in the outcome of this election?"

We’ll be taking your calls, after hearing excerpts from an actual CR conducted recently by NWL, where a group of women answered this question and then tried to draw conclusions based on their answers. Kaylin Kaupish, who led this CR group, will be our guest and will explain how it’s done.

Then we’ll open the phones and you can call into the station at (212) 209-2877 and let us know what this election means to YOU.

Our Feminist News segment will feature stories on: Trump’s openly sexist remarks at his rallies; A new Executive Order targeting anti-sexist/anti-racist education; Female candidates face more obstacles than male candidates; Chile’s new constitution will center women’s equality; massive demonstrations continue n Poland against the government' crackdown on abortion.

About our guest:

Kaylin Kaupish is a Brooklyn-based feminist writer and activist with National Women's Liberation.

About Consciousness Raising

Feminist consciousness-raising groups, or CR groups, began in the 1960s in New York and Chicago and quickly spread across the United States. Feminist leaders called consciousness-raising the backbone of the movement and a chief organizing tool.

New York Radical Women, the group which developed the practice, began sessions by selecting a topic related to women's experience, such as husbands, dating, economic dependence, having children, abortion, or a variety of other issues. The members of the CR group went around the room, each speaking about the chosen topic from her own experience.

The aim of CR was and is to find out the truth about women’s lives from the women themselves, rather than depending on “experts.” It was sometimes used as a basis for actions—for instance the Miss America Beauty Pageant Protest of 1968, came about as a result of women testifying at CR’s about what it was like to live under the constant pressure to be “beautiful”.

CR is sometimes thought to have died out, but it is still being practiced ,as it continues to be a useful tool with which to explore the conditions of women’s lives.