9. Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare

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Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The past several weeks have prompted unprecedented levels of turmoil and unpredictability due to rising alarm over COVID-19. While American society has taken precautionary measures to counter the spread of the virus, those most vulnerable to societal neglect remain most impacted. Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many Americans, but it has made them more strikingly visible than any moment in recent history. Unfortunately, some of the intersectional dimensions of these structural disparities remain undetected and unreported. On Wednesday March 25th, Intersectionality Matters teamed up with the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) to premiere a new virtual conversation series entitled “Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare”. On this episode, you’ll hear a condensed version of that conversation, which featured six incredible speakers and drew an audience of 1,300 people over Zoom. In the coming weeks, we'll continue hosting live events that bring together artists, activists, thought leaders, scholars, service-providers and others on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19. Each Wednesday we’ll bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will be released as an episode of Intersectionality Matters! the following week. With: Eve Ensler — Tony award winning playwright, performer and activist; Founder of V-Day and One Billion Rising Laura Flanders — Author and broadcaster; Founder of GRITtv and host of the Laura Flanders Show Eddie S. Glaude Jr. — Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University Ai-jen Poo — Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance Dorothy Roberts — Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Alvin Starks — Director, Equality Team, Open Society Foundations Music by Blue Dot Sessions Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine Additional support provided by Andrew Sun, Emmett O’Malley, Michael Kramer, Alanna Kane, Janeen Irving Twitter: @IMKC_podcast, IG: @IntersectionalityMatters, Fb: Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw #IntersectionalityMatters

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0:00.0	I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Season 2 of Intersectionality Matters, the podcast that brings intersectionality to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues, from Say Her Name and Me Too to the War on Civil Rights and the Global Rise of Fascism.
0:19.1	This idea travelogue lifts up the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars
0:24.3	and helps listeners understand politics, the law, social movements, and even their own lives
0:30.5	in deeper, more nuanced ways.
0:45.3	COVID-19 has changed everything, halting life as we know it in its tracks.
0:52.1	We're all reeling from death and disease at a level that we've not seen in our lifetimes.
0:57.1	On the other hand, COVID-19 has uncovered conditions that have been there all along.
0:59.6	To respond to this global pandemic
1:01.7	and to adapt to this new way of life,
1:03.9	we're doing things a bit more DIY than usual.
1:08.4	We're not in the studio and we're dispersed all over the country, but we did want to
1:12.8	respond to the urgent need for information, bringing to you the voices of some of the leading
1:18.2	experts to help us grapple with the new and not so new dimensions of this crisis. We are facing this
1:25.1	cataclysmic crisis in ways that are both the same and different.
1:29.8	When we're able to hold these truths simultaneously, we're better equipped to act in ways that
1:35.5	benefit all of us and to prevent the most vulnerable among us from falling through the cracks.
1:42.2	It's in this vein that we're calling the series Under the Black Light
1:46.6	to uncover the conditions that pre-existed the virus and the cracks in our social structure
1:52.6	that the virus can now exploit to wreak maximum havoc. We also want to enhance our social
1:59.4	connections in the face of physical isolation and reimagine what action and organizing looks like given the shape of our new world.
2:08.6	In the coming weeks, we'll be producing live conversations that bring together artists, activists, thought leaders, scholars, service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.
2:21.3	Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released as an episode of intersectionality matters in the following week.
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