24. Storytelling While Black and Female: Conjuring Beautiful Experiments in Past and Future Worlds

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Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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On this episode, Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by the revolutionary and genre-defying writers N.K Jemisin and Saidiya Hartman, whose work demands a radical reimagination of our present by archiving and writing the violence of the past into imaginations of a limitless future. By inserting Black women into narrative spaces that they have largely been written out of, these women illustrate first hand how we can resist narrative erasure and become the authors of our own stories. With:  SAIDIYA HARTMAN - Professor and scholar of African American literature and history, Columbia University; Author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments; 2019 MacArthur Fellow  N.K. JEMISIN - Science fiction and fantasy writer; Author of the Broken Earth series, the Inheritance Trilogy, and the Dreamblood Duology; Winner of 3 Hugo Awards Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)  Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine  Additional support provided by 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.
1:16.4	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.
1:25.4	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, service
2:01.9	providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19. Each Wednesday will bring
2:08.6	you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released as an episode of intersectionality
2:14.3	matters in the following week. Under the Blacklight began in March 2020 as an
2:21.7	exercise in intersectional storytelling. In those earliest days of the pandemic, we recognized that we
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