Kum-Kum Bhavnani (Producer and Director: bhavnani@soc.ucsb.edu) is a scholar, writer, and cultural critic who has worked periodically with broadcast media in the UK in the 1980s, before coming to the USA in 1991. She created radio programs for her trades union organizations interviewing organizers such as Arthur Scargill (Leader, Mineworkers Union). She was also the initiator and billed as researcher for Resist and Survive (30 minutes: directed by Dee Dee Glass and broadcast on Channel Four on 16th February 1983). That program followed three black women’s groups in Manchester who worked on economic (employment co-operative), health (challenging white-defined notions of sickle cell anemia) and cultural/sexual (hair and sexuality) aspects of black women’s daily lives in the UK.

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