26. Black Girls Speak: Creating Community in the Summer of COVID

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Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On this episode, Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by Dina Wright Joseph, director of AAPF’s Young Scholars Program, a leadership pilot program designed to develop a new generation of intersectional researchers and to build community. Featuring the voices of 12 Black women from universities around the country, this episode explores the profound impact that COVID-19 has had on young Black women and their communities, and AAPF’s efforts to build a virtual community to address it. Featuring Dina Wright Joseph and members of AAPF’s Young Scholars Program (Full bios & more information: aapf.org/ysp) Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw  Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine This episode was co-produced by Alexandra Moore & Whitney Thomas Additional support provided by the African American Policy Forum   Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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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. I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Intersectionality Matters, the podcast that brings intersectionality
1:18.3	to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues.
1:23.1	This idea travelogue lists 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.
1:38.7	Today I have a very special guest host on intersectionality matters. My friend, my Shiro, my muse, Dina Wright
1:48.4	Joseph. Now, Dina, in addition to being an extraordinary, talented dancer and educator,
1:56.0	founding member of Pure Elements and Evolution in Dance and faculty at the ALE Fordham and professional
2:02.6	performing arts high school. She's also an artist in residence at AAPF, and she's been an
2:09.8	integral part of our arts and activism work. Most recently, and the topic of our conversation
2:16.2	today, she directed AAPF's Young Scholars Program
2:20.3	this summer, and it was designed to confront what we have called the knowledge desert that
2:26.0	exists relating to black women and COVID.
2:29.9	We wanted to center black women as authorities of their own lived experience in this moment.
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