I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Season 2 of Intersectionality Matters, the podcast that brings intersectionality to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues, from Say Her Name and Me Too to the War on Civil Rights and the Global Rise of Fascism.

This idea travelogue lifts up the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars and helps

listeners understand politics, the law, social movements, and even their own lives in deeper,

more nuanced ways. What would you all say to the next mother who finds herself entering this sisterhood of sorrow?

Dear sister, I want you to know, I see you.

I hate that we have to meet under these circumstances. Now you're facing something,

you're dealing with something that you never could even begin to plan for or account for.

And that is the murder of your beautiful daughter. We're caring it all and still trying to be

strong for everybody else.

They don't want to hear about black women being killed by police at all.

We are an organization here that support each other and we extend our arms or extend the olive branch to you.

Because this is just deep. It's life altering shattering.

You don't know which way to turn.

Family members don't understand because they never been through it.

Understand this.

You feel though you're by yourself, and you're going to feel that way many, many times.

That feeling is never going to go away.

But what will never go

away also is the love you have for your daughter the same way that each one of

us have experienced the murder of our daughter we keep fighting because of that

you birthed that baby you birthed your daughter and you birth her continued

legacy as well.

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