Ayanna Pressley: “You can’t poll transformation.”
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of women in politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible people changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog last year and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
This episode of The Brown Girls Guide was produced by Jenny Kaplan, Andi Kristins, and Alli Lindenberg. Original music was composed by Elisheba Ittoop.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Welcome back, Brown Girls. I'm Ashanti Golar, the founder of the Brown |
| 0:54.0 | Girls Guide and the political director for Emerge America. |
| 0:57.0 | Today, I'm so excited to be talking to Congresswoman Ayanna Presley. |
| 1:01.0 | In 2018, Congresswoman Presley broke the glass ceiling when she became the first woman of color to represent Massachusetts in Congress. Before that, she broke barriers when she became the first woman of color to represent Massachusetts in Congress. |
| 1:12.1 | Before that, she broke barriers when she became the first woman of color to serve on the |
| 1:16.3 | Boston City Council. |
| 1:18.1 | A few weeks ago, Darren Sands from BuzzFeed News reached out to me because he was writing an |
| 1:23.1 | article on the congresswoman and he wanted my thoughts. The first thing that came on my mouth was, well, she's a real one. |
| 1:32.0 | He asked me, well, what do you mean by that? |
| 1:35.0 | I reminded him, she was the first woman of color to serve on the Boston City Council. |
| 1:40.2 | She is now the first woman of color to represent Massachusetts and Congress. |
| 1:45.6 | That is not an easy feat. |
| 1:47.8 | You have naysayers, you have doubters, but the fact is she did it. |
| 1:52.6 | And we as women of color know that for her to achieve that, that there was a lot of sacrifice. |
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