Dixon Diallo's guest appearances

Dixon Diallo

Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan

Radicals & Revolutionaries Lab

Soraya Chemaly

Kate Kelly

Sophia Yen

Linda Kay Klein

Jaclyn Friedman

Mona Eltahawy

Leta Hong Fincher

Rebecca Traister

Katie Goodman

Rachel Simmons

Sally Kohn

Lily Tomlin

Shannon Watts

Gail Collins

Kate Schatz

OwlTail

This week’s radical is Dázon Dixon Diallo, founder of SisterLove, a pioneering organization focusing on women’s sexual health and reproductive justice with a special focus on HIV advocacy for women.We discuss Dázon’s roots in Peach County as the child of scientists, her early brushes with political activism, and how the HIV/AIDS pandemic—and how women were overlooked during the early days—has shaped her career.Some Questions I ask:What are you currently working on? (0:56)What does being “a unique and proud product of the Deep South” mean for you? (7:12)Did your parents’ careers plant the seed for your work in reproductive justice? (19:07)What does it mean to be HIV-affected? (25:09)Did you feel called to the urgency of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when you founded SisterLove in 1989? (27:38)Is it true that heterosexual women are the fastest-growing demographic in HIV/AIDS cases, or is this because they hadn’t been properly counted? (44:50)Tell us about the expansion of SisterLove into South Africa (51:51)In This Episode, You Will Learn:What people don’t realize about running a nonprofit (5:18)What it was like to be part of the first generation of integrated students (12:28)How Dázon’s parents nurtured a deep understanding of sexual health (14:55)Why the term “broken family” is outdated and incorrect (22:45)How losing her first job led Dázon to a career in women’s health (33:47)Why getting funding for black women’s health amidst the AIDS crisis was an uphill battle (36:26)Why women living with AIDS weren’t properly being diagnosed, and how Dázon fought to change that (42:31)Why medical research needs to spend more time dedicated to how infections affect people other than cis men (46:35)﻿﻿Resources:Follow Dázon on TwitterSisterLove’s WebsiteFollow SisterLove on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (oh, and TikTok) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s radical is Dázon Dixon Diallo, founder of SisterLove, a pioneering organization focusing on women’s sexual health and reproductive justice with a special focus on HIV advocacy for women.We discuss Dázon’s roots in Peach County as the child of scientists, her early brushes with political activism, and how the HIV/AIDS pandemic—and how women were overlooked during the early days—has shaped her career.Some Questions I ask:<ul><li>What are you currently working on? (0:56)</li><li>What does being “a unique and proud product of the Deep South” mean for you? (7:12)</li><li>Did your parents’ careers plant the seed for your work in reproductive justice? (19:07)</li><li>What does it mean to be HIV-affected? (25:09)</li><li>Did you feel called to the urgency of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when you founded SisterLove in 1989? (27:38)</li><li>Is it true that heterosexual women are the fastest-growing demographic in HIV/AIDS cases, or is this because they hadn’t been properly counted? (44:50)</li><li>Tell us about the expansion of SisterLove into South Africa (51:51)</li></ul> In This Episode, You Will Learn:<ul><li>What people don’t realize about running a nonprofit (5:18)</li><li>What it was like to be part of the first generation of integrated students (12:28)</li><li>How Dázon’s parents nurtured a deep understanding of sexual health (14:55)</li><li>Why the term “broken family” is outdated and incorrect (22:45)</li><li>How losing her first job led Dázon to a career in women’s health (33:47)</li><li>Why getting funding for black women’s health amidst the AIDS crisis was an uphill battle (36:26)</li><li>Why women living with AIDS weren’t properly being diagnosed, and how Dázon fought to change that (42:31)</li><li>Why medical research needs to spend more time dedicated to how infections affect people other than cis men (46:35)</li></ul> ﻿﻿Resources:Follow Dázon on <a href="https://twitter.com/dazondiallo" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a><a href="https://www.sisterlove.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">SisterLove’s Website</a>Follow SisterLove on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SisterLoveInc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SisterLoveInc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sisterloveinc/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> (oh, and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@sisterloveinc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">TikTok</a>) Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Dázon Dixon Diallo

Dazon Dixon Diallo

Paula Donovan

Ursula K. Le Guin

On World AIDS Day, Robin speaks with Dazon Dixon Diallo of SisterLove, Inc. about the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls in the United States; and with Paula Donovan of AIDS-Free World about its impact internationally. Special Guest: the prolific, much-decorated author Ursula K. Le Guin, on why it is that her literature gets classified as "genre" fiction, the hard work of translation and story selection for an anthology, and the changing definitions of feminism. Robin debunks the spin in right-wing propaganda phrases "death tax" and "tax relief," and asks why there is not more outrage over Saudi restrictions on the free movement of women that exceed some of the Taliban's worst, more publicized, offenses. Can it be oil?

WMC Live #15: Ursula K. Le Guin, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Paula Donovan. (Original Airdate 12/1/2012)