23. Politics, Power, and the Struggle Against Black Precarity

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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On this installment of Under the Blacklight, Kimberlé Crenshaw sits down with Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Barbara Lee, and State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to discuss their experiences at the intersection of grassroots activism and electoral politics. Together, they speak about the mothers who raised them, the work they're doing to combat the twin pandemics of COVID and racial inequity, and the dynamic tensions that lie between their progressive values and the political institutions they've chosen to work within. By pulling back the curtain to hear their stories and heed their calls, we all have the opportunity to become better partners, constituents, and torchbearers for those in the struggle. With: STATE'S ATTY. KIM FOXX - State's Attorney for Cook County, Illinois  REP. BARBARA LEE - U.S. Representative for California's 13th congressional district REP. AYANNA PRESSLEY - U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)  Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine  Additional support provided by Loulou Batta, Alexandra Moore, Whitney Thomas, and the African American Policy Forum   Music by Blue Dot Sessions  Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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0:00.0	The 2024 presidential election was marked by soaring highs and crushing lows. Black women, 91% of whom turned out for VP Harris, once again proved to be the most engaged, progressive, and resilient voting bloc.
0:16.0	In an election campaign where rampant sexism and racism was directed not only at Harris,
0:22.1	but at black women more broadly, the misogy noir we just witnessed is already being written
0:27.0	out of the analysis of what actually happened.
0:30.0	There seems to be a widening gap between what black women experienced and what the
0:34.1	pundit and political classes choose to talk about.
0:37.3	So join host Kimberly Crenshaw for a virtual under the blacklight conversation on December 3rd at 7 p.m. Eastern.
0:45.7	Black women advocates, activists, and analysts will offer their side of the story about the election
0:50.9	and highlight the risks to our democracy if we continue to erase black women
0:56.2	and their experiences. Register for free at Bitley slash Election 24 Road Ahead. That's Bitley
1:04.5	slash Election 24 Road Ahead. COVID-19 has changed everything, halting life as we know it in its tracks.
1:16.7	To respond to this global pandemic and to adapt to this new way of life, we're doing things
1:21.8	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
1:29.8	respond to the urgent need for information, bringing to you the voices of some of the leading
1:35.2	experts to help us grapple with the new and not so new dimensions of this crisis.
1:40.9	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.
1:55.0	In the coming weeks, we'll be producing live conversations that bring together artists, activists, thought leaders, scholars,
2:01.6	service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.
2:06.6	Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released
2:12.6	as an episode of intersectionality matters in the following week.
2:24.4	When a group of white property-owning men, otherwise known as our founding fathers,
2:30.7	gathered in Philadelphia two and a half centuries ago to create a government of the people,
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