From 2019: Ladies First

In The Thick

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News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The next episode of our Best of ITT series is from July 2019, and it gets into the significance of Black feminism. Maria and Julio talk with writer and activist Feminista Jones about her book, “Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets.” They also discuss the influence of hip-hop on women's sexual liberation, the importance of mental and spiritual health, and Black women speaking out on their experiences with sexual abuse in the #MeToo era.

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0:00.0	And we're continuing our best of series here on In The Thick, on ITT, as we call it.
0:20.4	So we're going to be dropping our favorite episodes over the last seven years, all month
0:25.6	long.
0:26.6	That's right, the entire month of March.
0:28.8	So today, we're going back to 2019.
0:33.2	When we talked with Feminista Jones, Feminist writer and activist about her book, reclaiming
0:39.4	our space how Black Feminists are changing the world from the tweets to the streets.
0:45.3	That's one of my favorite titles.
0:47.7	The tweets to the streets.
0:49.5	I love this conversation.
0:51.3	Mariana, I talked with Feminista about the influence of hip-hop on Black Feminism, the
0:56.2	importance of mental and spiritual health and how Black women spoke out during the Me
1:01.3	Two movement.
1:03.5	And we know that Black women are still excluded from White Feminist movements.
1:10.6	We recorded this conversation in 2019.
1:14.4	This was two years after the rise of the Me Two movement, which of course was first started
1:19.0	by Tarana Burke, who's a Black woman and community organizer.
1:23.9	But it wasn't until 2021 that the Me Two movement began uplifting the voices of Black women
1:31.6	when an initiative was launched for Black survivors.
1:35.4	So now more than ever, we need to continue uplifting the voices of Black Feminists who have
1:41.6	been excluded historically, despite constantly being at the forefront of the feminist movement.
1:49.1	Alright, so let's get to this fabulous episode with Feminista Jones from July 30th, 2019.
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