COVID-19 has changed everything, halting life as we know it in its tracks.

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. We're not in the studio and we're dispersed all over the country,

but we did want to respond to the urgent need for information,

bringing to you the voices of some of the leading experts to help us grapple with the new

and not so new dimensions of this crisis. It's in this vein that 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.

In the coming weeks, we'll be producing live conversations that bring together artists,

activists, thought leaders, scholars, service providers, and others on the front

lines of the fight against COVID-19.

Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released

as an episode of intersectionality matters in the following week.

Over the past nine weeks, this series has lifted up otherwise overlooked facts and unspoken

conditions of COVID-19's disastrous possibilities.

We talked to activists, journalists, writers, academics, policy analysts, healers, and

sentinels, all to give light to the stories that we were unlikely to see with the dominant frames that shape mainstream news and discourse.

For us, it's not just about offering a different set of facts, but activating critical frames from which to engage these margins.

The work of social justice is the work of narrative reconstruction,

building new stories around facts that are often disregarded, invisible eyes,

and taken for granted as acceptable and unremarkable features of social life.

The struggle at hand is not simply one of survival, but a struggle of interpretation,

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