28. Having Our Say: Black Women Respond to the Vice Presidential Debate

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Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On this Black Girl Roundtable, Kimberlé is joined by Rep. Barbara Lee, Alicia Garza, Kirsten West Savali, and Barbara Arnwine for a dynamic conversation about the Vice Presidential debate, vote suppression, Trump's increased popularity with men of color, and the gentrification of the Democratic Party. With: BARBARA ARNWINE - President and Founder, Transformative Justice Coalition  ALICIA GARZA - Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter; Principal, Black Futures Lab  REP BARBARA LEE - U.S. Representative for California's 13th congressional district  KIRSTEN WEST SAVALI - Executive Producer, Essence Magazine Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)  Produced and edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine  Additional support provided by Rebecca Scheckman, Andrew Sun, Darci Crager, 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. I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Intersectionality Matters, the podcast that brings
1:15.6	intersectionality to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues,
1:21.3	from say her name and COVID to the war on civil rights and the global rise of neo-nationalism.
1:28.1	This idea travelogue lifts up the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars,
1:32.7	and helps listeners understand politics, the law, social movements,
1:38.0	and even their own lives in deeper, more nuanced ways.
1:49.2	When we decided about two months ago to hold a black woman's roundtable in response to the vice presidential debate, we could not have possibly predicted the
1:55.3	otherworldly events that led up to it. We couldn't have known that the president himself would get infected with COVID.
2:03.9	And we couldn't have predicted that Vice President Mike Pence's potential exposure to the virus
2:09.6	would give a new meaning to the life and death stakes of this election. And who in the world could
2:16.2	have foreseen that the October surprise would show up in this
2:20.3	debate in the form of an uninvited guest that took up residence in Mike Pence's hair?
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