12. Under the Blacklight: Mapping COVID's Racial Geography

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In the third episode in our new series, “Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare” (originally aired over Zoom April 8th), six incredible change-makers — Rosa Clemente (organizer and journalist; President and Founder of Know Thyself Productions), Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes (Executive Director, Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans), Dallas Goldtooth (Keep It in the Ground Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network), Daniel HoSang (Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University), Mari Matsuda (Professor of Law, University of Hawaii), and Rinku Sen (Racial justice strategist and writer; Co-president, Women’s March board) — join host Kimberlé Crenshaw for a conversation about building collective resistance and power in the time of COVID-19. In the coming weeks, we'll continue hosting live events that bring together artists, activists, thought leaders, scholars, service-providers and others on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19. Each Wednesday we’ll bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will be released as an episode of Intersectionality Matters! the following week. Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)  Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine   Additional support provided by Andrew Sun, Emmett O’Malley, Michael Kramer, Janeen Irving   Music by Blue Dot Sessions  Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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0:00.0	COVID-19 has changed everything, halting life as we know it in its tracks.
0:08.0	To respond to this global pandemic and to adapt to this new way of life, we're doing things a bit more DIY than usual.
0:18.0	We're not in the studio and we're dispersed all over the country, but we did want to
0:22.7	respond to the urgent need for information, bringing to you the voices of some of the leading experts
0:28.6	to help us grapple with the new and not so new dimensions of this crisis. It's in this vein that
0:35.2	we're calling the series Under the Black Light to uncover the conditions that pre-existed the virus and the cracks in our social structure that the virus can now exploit to wreak maximum havoc.
0:49.3	In the coming weeks, we'll be producing live conversations that bring together artists,
0:54.6	activists, thought leaders, scholars, service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight
1:00.0	against COVID-19.
1:02.3	Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released
1:07.1	as an episode of intersectionality matters in the following week. So we warned, we worried,
1:14.7	and we knew. Yet the racialized impact of COVID-19 escaped mainstream media's attention until now.
1:23.0	So today we turn more directly to those racial dimensions that are laid bare, exploring through
1:29.2	a cross-racial lens the many aspects of vulnerability that we are seeing.
1:34.5	We have in past weeks touched on the disproportionate risks and burdens faced by economically
1:40.2	marginalized communities, in particular, workers who are essential but expendable,
1:46.0	those who lack access to work, resources, and housing.
1:50.0	Today, we want to squarely confront the racial dimensions of COVID, those aspects of the crises
1:56.0	that intersect with our distinct racial history, a history defined by race and racism, capitalism,
2:02.6	settler colonialism, and imperialism, none of which operate alone, yet all definitively active in this moment.
2:11.6	Rinku, can you paint a picture for listeners about what's happening there in Queens. Perhaps we might call this at least
2:20.0	one of the epicenters within the epicenter. Yeah, thank you so much for including me in this
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