About

Statement Of Mission And Policies For WLRN, Women’s Liberation Radio News

WLRN seeks to provide the unique and under-represented voices of girls and women with a national and international grassroots venue to break the sound barrier women are blocked by under the status quo rule of men. We are a non-commercial, member-operated news and cultural information team strictly guided by the principles of radical feminism. We promote access to media production equipment and tools so that silenced women can “be the media.”

Our staff maintains a policy of women-only membership to our organization and will only air the voices of boys and men in rare situations. This is to ensure we create and surround ourselves with a woman-centric culture.

We are YOUR community radio station in the Femisphere. Email us at [email protected] with news tips, announcements, and story ideas.

Thistle Pettersen

Founder, Volunteers Coordinator, Interviews, Commentary & Leadership Circle

Thistle Pettersen is the founding member of WLRN, an eco-feminist, and a singer/songwriter in her home state of Wisconsin.  Her focus is on arts and culture and the role they play in building liberation and justice movements. You can learn more about Thistle and hear her original music at ThistlePettersen.com

Sekhmet She Owl

Commentary & Interviews

Sekhmet She Owl is a writer living in the Southwestern United States. She is a female separatist, radical feminist, and Far Leftist who is constantly learning more about politics and growing in her feminist consciousness. Her primary areas of feminist interest are female friendship, female-only spaces, developing strategies for mitigating male violence against women and girls, and theories of matriarchal civilization. She is most grateful to African and lesbian radical feminists, for their incalculable contributions to feminist thought and progress and the example they set in being revolutionary women.

Jenna DiQuarto,

Consultant to Sound Engineer & Producer in Training

Jenna was born in Manhattan and raised in northern NJ.  After a calamitous childhood involving dozens of stitches, she taught herself to play guitar, wrote some songs, finished high school, and got her AS and BA in sound engineering and design. She currently lives in the greater Philadelphia area, waiting tables, slingin’ hooch, and producing WLRN’s various podcasts. Thelma & Louise is her favorite movie. “Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” Jenna is the song doctress who wrote and performed WLRN’s latest opening theme music with the lyrics: I was born woman. Off my knees I do stand for my liberation. Sisters, rise again.

April Neault
 
Consultant & Fills in where needed
 
 
 
April was born and raised in the deep woods of Northern Ontario. Her educational background is in environmental science and she has spent many years working as a front-line crisis worker at a women’s shelter. She loves growing and eating food and spends most of her time talking to dogs and trees. When she isn’t taking herself too seriously, she reads fantasy and watches Golden Girls. “Men’s free speech requires women’s silence”
 

aurora linnea

Book Reviews, Reporting & Leadership Circle

aurora linnea is a radical lesbian (eco)feminist writer living at the ocean’s edge in the region of North America colonizers dubbed “Maine.” She strives to contribute to the global feminist struggle to end male dominion through poetic dissidence and uncompromising disloyalty to the necrophilic patriarchal empire presently destroying life on earth.

Margaret

WLRN Graphic Design Artist

Margaret is an artist, designer, radical-eco-feminist & grandmother. Recognizing that women’s history and contributions have been largely overlooked, she seeks out art, music, literature, and philosophy by women. She herself enjoys creating with many types of media including limestone, pixels, paint, fabric, sound, and dirt. After working as a designer / Illustrator and getting a Master of Fine Arts degree, she taught drawing, design, and art history at several colleges and universities. Working with the earth, she replaced acres of grass with wildflowers and has planted hundreds of trees. For fun, she likes to kayak at the edge of the wilderness. 

Emily Faye

WLRN Reporter

Emily Faye is a lesbian radical feminist and artist. She spent her 20s pursuing a comedy career in New York City and is happy to be spending her 30s revitalizing womyn’s lands and using her media skills to amplify women’s voices. In her free time, she enjoys needlework, baking, and napping in hammocks. Her artwork can be viewed at radicallybedazzled.com

Mary O’Neill

WLRN World News Reporter & Leadership Circle

Mary is a radical feminist from New England, though she has lived in Europe for the last several years, where she has been fortunate to meet women from around the world. With a background in science, she is especially concerned with climate change and the disproportionate suffering of women and girls as a result. When not working, she can often be found hiking after a long, quiet morning of baking or reading.

Lola Bessis

YouTube Channel Manager, Interviews, World News Reporter & Commentary

Lola Bessis is a French citizen raised in Dubai. As a postcolonial radical feminist, she dedicates her time to the fight for women’s liberation internationally. Her main areas of interest are the abolishment of the sex trade, the harms of pornography, and keeping the youth safe online. When she’s not reading, Lola is huge foodie and can be found enjoying a meal with her friends and family.