Jess Morales Rocketto: “I'm nobody’s token.”
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 48 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 Tori Taylor. 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 |
| 0:44.6 | get your podcast. Welcome back, Round Girls. Thanks for joining us today. Last episode, I spoke with Madeline Milka, the CEO of Apex, the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. If you missed it, go check it out. |
| 1:08.0 | Today, we are talking with Jess Morales-Frocketto. She is the political director for the National |
| 1:13.8 | Domestic Workers Alliance. If you don't know what a domestic worker is, the fact is you come in |
| 1:19.7 | contact with them. They are elder care workers, they are nannies. They are people that we come |
| 1:26.2 | in contact with constantly in our lives. |
| 1:29.4 | But they are not guaranteed the same rights as other workers in this country. |
| 1:34.3 | I hope you really enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:40.8 | Jess, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:44.0 | We are extremely excited to have you on the podcast. |
| 1:48.2 | Oh, my goodness. I'm so happy to be here. You know, I'll do anything for you, Ashanti. |
| 1:51.8 | Oh, that's how I feel about you. Our first question is, I know you from the political world. |
| 1:58.5 | I just adore you. I admire you. When did you first learn that you |
| 2:03.3 | loved politics? To be honest, I was a really small child. I actually remember I have two |
| 2:11.4 | like early political memories. One is Hillary Clinton giving the speech in Beijing, China in 1995, where she kind of says the famous |
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