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Intersectionality Matters!

27. Why the Court Matters: RBG's Legacy and the Fight She Leaves Behind

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7814 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kimberlé speaks with six leading scholars about the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court’s largely undersung role in the battle for our democracy, and the profound consequences of the Left’s failure to prioritize the courts over the last several decades. With:
 DEVON CARBADO - Professor of Law, UCLA; Author, Acting White? Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial” America 
ERWIN CHEMERINSKY - Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law; Author, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
 SUZANNE GOLDBERG - Professor of Law, Columbia; Founding Director, Sexuality & Gender Law Clinic at Columbia 
 CHERYL HARRIS - Professor of Law, UCLA; Author, “Whiteness as Property”
 SHERRILYN IFILL - President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund MELISSA MURRAY - Professor of Law, NYU, Author, “The Equal Rights Amendment: A Century in the Making" Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-race-sex-stereotyping/ Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)
 Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine
 Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine and Rebecca Scheckman 
 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. I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Intersectionality Matters, the podcast that brings

1:16.0

intersectionality to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues,

1:22.3

from say her name and COVID to the war on civil rights and the global rise of fascism. This idea

1:29.3

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

1:34.8

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

1:41.4

nuanced ways.

1:51.0

We all remember where we were when we heard that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.

1:58.0

For me, it threw me back to a moment, actually when I first met her. It was a few years ago.

2:00.0

We were at a dinner she was hosting at the

2:02.4

Supreme Court. And I was so overwhelmed by her presence that I practically couldn't string a

2:08.6

sentence together. We met each other, I think, as we were walking in the hallway. I said who I was.

2:14.8

And she said, oh, I know you, smiling, shaking my hand. Yes, I've read your

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