Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee, All the Best. I recently watched a documentary film from 2002 called Radical Harmonies. This film was described as, quote, Woodstock meets women's liberation in a film about a movement that exploded the gender barriers in music, end quote. I learned so much from this film,

and I want to open with a quote from drummer Ubaka Hill.

She said, quote, every single human being came through the womb of a woman,

and therefore every single human being had their first experience with rhythm through the heartbeat of a woman.

Today we're going to talk about women in music and specifically the events of the 1970s and 80s that changed the landscape for women musicians forever.

And to speak about this topic, I am so happy to be joined by my friend, Dr. D. Mossbacher, who was the producer

and director of Radical Harmonies, and Dr. Bowden Sandstrom, who was the co-producer, welcome Dian

Bowden. I'm so excited to have you here today. Thank you very much, Amy. So as usual,

I'm going to read your professional biographies first, and then I'll have you

introduce yourselves a little bit more personally after that. And I'll start with you, D.

D. Mossbacher, MD, Ph.D. is a psychiatrist and an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker.

Dee has been an activist for women's health since the early 1970s. During medical school

and psychiatric residency, she began a second career as a documentary filmmaker, co-producing

closets or health hazards, gay and lesbian physicians come out, and lesbian physicians on

practice, patients, and power. In response to the 1992 election in which the

Republican Party used homophobia as a fundraising tool, while her own father was H.W. Bush's

Secretary of Commerce and then chief fundraiser, she co-produced and directed the film Straight

From the Heart, which received an Academy Award nomination.

D. directed and or produced a total of nine documentaries on homophobia, including Out for a Change,

addressing homophobia in women's sports, all God's children, Decolores, and No Secret anymoremore, the Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lion.

These films have received a total of 46 awards from LGBTQ+, Black, Latina, Latin American,

and aging media film festivals, including Best of Show Awards, Grand Jury Awards, and Audience Awards in the U.S., UK, Australia, Cuba, Mexico, and Italy.

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