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Intersectionality Matters!

32. If Hindsight Is 2020, Why Are We Still Not Saved?

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7814 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kimberlé is joined by a panel of veteran UTB guests to unpack the learnings from a year of pandemic, political revolution, and purported racial reckoning. and to help envision a path forward as our nation reels in the aftermath of a white supremacist insurrection. As the panelists contextualize the events of January 6th through a critical race theory lens, they discuss how a national history of appeasing white supremacist interests and denial of racial terror have laid the groundwork for our present reality. Furthermore, they explore what the new Biden administration must consider in order to truly address white supremacist terror at its root. With:
 CAROL ANDERSON - Professor of African American Studies, Emory; Author, White Rage
 DAVID BLIGHT - Professor, Yale University; Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom ANOA CHANGA - Electoral justice reporter and organizer; Host of “The Way with Anoa” JOE LOWNDES - Professor, University of Oregon; Co-author of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
 Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)
 Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine
 Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine and Rebecca Scheckman
 Additional support provided by Myles Olmsted, Nicole Young and the African American Policy Forum
 Music by Blue Dot Sessions
 Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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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

1:15.8

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

1:22.0

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

1:28.5

This idea travelogue lifts up the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars,

1:33.5

and helps listeners understand politics, the law, social movements,

1:39.1

and even their own lives in deeper, more nuanced ways.

1:45.0

Music lives in deeper, more nuanced ways.

1:56.0

They talked about it in Germany in 1848, that being a time where history failed to turn. And we're going to ask ourselves, is 2020 going to be that moment where history fails to turn,

2:03.4

where this grinding, authoritarian, white supremacist regime embeds itself deeper and further into the

2:12.8

body politic until it has shredded even the remaining vestiges of democracy?

2:19.3

Or is there a place for the people to fight back?

2:24.3

Local and county elections get overlooked generally anyway,

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