Join the KPFA Black community on as we guide you through the rituals and spirit of this African American holiday. Learn about this cultural tradition and hear experiences from Black KPFA hosts, producers, administrative staff, volunteers and more.

Join us to celebrate liberation and light as we discuss Anti-Zionist approaches to the Hannukah season and get tips for earthly Hannukah practices to help us heal ourselves and the world.
We also explore the concept of possession in Jewish culture as related to Zionism and a queer version of 1910s Yiddish play “The Dybbuk” that is currently in production.This episode features interviews with Elana June Margolis aka The Priestess of Milk and Honey in the Void, a Queer anti-Zionist Jewish teacher and mystic, and Becca Wolff, queer SF-based Jewish theatre and film director.

Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, we present a holiday fave: Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allies go ahead, ask LGBTQ relatives or friends your burning questions. If you’re queer, she says grin and bear it, even encourage those cringe-worthy questions.

Dees believes that if asking out of love, all questions are opportunities to broaden understanding. So she wrote Queer Questions, Straight Talk: 108 frank & provocative questions it’s okay to ask your lesbian, gay or bisexual loved one. Hear a bunch of them — and how Dees handles them — on this edition of Out in the Bay.

We also hear Dar Williams’ “The Christians and the Pagans,” about the Solstice-celebrating lesbian couple that drops in unexpectedly on a conservative uncle’s family on Christmas Eve.