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UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Flattening the Curve of Inequality

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

The Meteor, Collective Media

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Vaccines are here. We can almost, kind of, sort of see the light at the end of the tunnel. But what world will we be coming out into? That’s what we’re exploring this week—from an intersectional feminist point of view. Host Brittany Packnett Cunningham hears from Dr. Esther Choo, a professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, about our medical futures; Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, about building a better working world for women; and Imani Barbarin, a disability activist who writes at CrutchesAndSpice.com, about the future of accessibility. Plus, Brittany brings you the latest Untrending News. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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L y-s-t or download the list app on the app store today. Hey y'all, it's Brittany. So this past week a lot of us saw images of FedEx trucks delivering

0:58.7

vials of vaccine across the country and our our hardworking health care workers once again

1:05.6

rolling up their sleeves but this time for the first COVID-19 vaccination shots. I'm

1:11.6

breathing a sigh of relief. It's a glimmer of hope, but at the same time, our

1:16.8

death toll has now officially topped 300,000. So there is absolutely light at the end of the tunnel, but we're still in the tunnel and it's pretty dark.

1:28.0

Our daily death toll tops 2,500. COVID is a public health crisis, and it's also an economic crisis and a social one.

1:38.6

And its devastating effects have only been made worse by our country's pre-existing conditions.

1:45.0

Racism, sexism, poverty, inhumanity, and y'all there is no vaccine for that. Complex problems require complex solutions. So what does an

1:59.7

intersectional feminist response to the pandemic even look like.

2:04.5

That's what we wanted to explore on this week's show.

2:08.2

And I mean, look, women, especially black women and women of color,

2:12.6

we are bearing the brunt of this.

2:14.7

And a better world for us is actually a better world for everyone.

2:19.9

This emergency has exposed and exacerbated so many of the inequalities in our society.

2:27.0

But we cannot wait until this is all over to expand justice. We have to get to work on the healing right now. We are

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