Ai-jen Poo and Tarana Burke — The Future of Hope 5

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The visionary, next-generation organizer Ai-jen Poo says this of Tarana Burke: “There are just so many layers of hope that she brings to the world and to people like me, to survivors, to all kinds of communities.” Ai-jen and Tarana are the conversation partners for this episode of The Future of Hope. And what a conversation it is. We listen in on a brilliant friendship that has powered and sustained two extraordinary women who are leading defining movements of this generation that call us to our highest humanity. Ai-jen has been long ahead of a cultural curve we are all on now — of seeing the urgent calling to update and transform not just how we value the caregiving workforce of millions, but how we value care itself as a society. Tarana founded the ‘me too.’ Movement. What you are about to hear is intimate, revelatory, and rooted in trust and care. It’s also an invitation to all of us, to imagine and build a more graceful way to remake the world.

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0:00.0	On being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.8	Spiritual Foundation for a loving world. Fetzer's sharing Spiritual Heritage Report asks,
0:10.8	how will we reimagine our spiritual infrastructure for today's time? Learn more at Fetzer.org.
0:18.0	The visionary Aijan Poo said this to me of Tarana Burke. There are just so many layers of hope
0:24.8	that she brings to the world and to people like me, to survivors, to all kinds of communities.
0:31.2	Aijan and Tarana are the conversation partners for this episode in our series The Future of Hope.
0:37.6	And what a conversation it is. We listen in on a brilliant friendship, a friendship that has
0:43.2	powered and sustained two extraordinary women who are leading defining movements of this generation
0:50.0	in time that call us to our highest humanity. Aijan, as you might remember from my conversation
0:56.9	with her in early 2020, has been long ahead of a cultural curve we are all on now, of seeing the
1:03.8	urgent calling to update and transform not just how we value the caregiving workforce of millions,
1:11.7	but how we value care itself as a society. She co-founded and leads the National Domestic Workers
1:19.4	Alliance. She and Tarana first intersected in 2018, a year after the quiet beginnings of Me Too
1:27.5	got very loud as the revelations about Harvey Weinstein and others burst into public view.
1:34.3	Me Too in its fullness, as Tarana has said, is a statement that I'm not ashamed
1:40.5	and I'm not alone. And from survivor to survivor, I see you, I hear you, I'm here for you,
1:47.8	and I get it. What you are about to hear is intimate, revelatory, and rooted in trust and in care.
1:56.8	It's an invitation too, asking all of us to imagine and build a more graceful way to remake the world.
2:09.2	I'm Christa Tupid and this is on being. This conversation came together as things do now over Zoom
2:16.4	with Igen and Chicago and Tarana in Baltimore.
2:23.7	All right, it's just me and you, Keith. It's just me and you. What I've been waiting for.
2:32.0	Okay, so how are you, by the way? I'm okay. I have become one of those people that I
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