Bonus: Black Feminism Re-rooted
Sidedoor
Smithsonian Institution
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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We’re hard at work producing the next season of Sidedoor, but just in case you can’t get enough Smithsonian podcasts, we’re sharing a special guest episode of Collected, from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. In this first episode of the series, co-hosts Dr. Crystal Moten and Dr. Krystal Klingenberg discuss the multiple definitions of Black Feminism, joined by guests Dr. Brittney Cooper, Paris Hatcher, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Feminista Jones. You can subscribe to Collected wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there side doorables. We're in between seasons, hard at work reporting news stories to bring to you in season 8. |
| 0:06.0 | But while we're away, we wanted to share an episode of a new podcast from our colleagues at the National Museum of American History. |
| 0:13.0 | It's called Collected, and it highlights the work of black women thinkers across history, and shows how their work is crucial to understanding the times we're living in today. |
| 0:22.0 | The show is hosted by the fantastic Doctors Crystal Moten and Crystal Klingenberg. |
| 0:27.0 | You might recognize Crystal Moten from our season 5 episode, Lena Richard, America's Unknown Celebrity Chef. |
| 0:33.0 | We're just sharing the first episode of Collected in our feed. |
| 0:36.0 | But if you want to hear the rest of the episodes, which I'm sure you will, go and subscribe to the podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | It's called Collected, from the National Museum of American History. And here it is right now. |
| 0:48.0 | When I think about black feminism, I think about deepness, depth, and the fact that the ideas, the concepts, the practices, the meanings, the people, the women, they have deep histories, deep legacies, deep traditions, and we have to keep them connected. |
| 1:09.0 | In other words, we need to re-root them. |
| 1:18.0 | A podcast project of Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. |
| 1:22.0 | My name is Dr. Crystal Moten. My pronouns are she, her, and I'm a curator of African American History. |
| 1:28.0 | And my name is Dr. Crystal Klingenberg. My pronouns are she, her, and I'm a curator of music. And we are members of the African American History Curatorial Collective. |
| 1:37.0 | Collected is a podcast exploring stories of black history. |
| 1:41.0 | This first season of the Collected podcast is about black feminism. |
| 1:45.0 | Over the next six episodes, we're going to give you some historical context so folks can understand black feminist theories, practices, and legacies that are contributing to society today. |
| 1:55.0 | This is black feminism re-rooted. |
| 1:59.0 | Hey there, Side Door listeners. Side Door producer James Morrison here. |
| 2:04.0 | If you love Side Door, then there's another show we think you might like. It's called Science Versus. |
| 2:09.0 | It takes on fads, trends, and the opinionated mob to find out what's fact, what's not, and what's sometimes in between. |
| 2:18.0 | In the new season, they cover things like breath work. There's claims that it can work miracles and even heal trauma. |
| 2:25.0 | So what's the catch? And self-care. Things like ice baths, gratitude journals. |
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