Kat Calvin & Lakshmi Sridaran: “Stay grounded.”
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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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 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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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. Ashanti here, the founder of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics, and today we have another episode in our series highlighting women of color leading progressive organizations. |
| 1:02.8 | Today, we will hear from Kat Calvin, founder of Spread the Vote, and Lakshedin, interim executive director of South Asian Americans leading together. |
| 1:12.9 | First up, we'll hear from Kat. |
| 1:15.2 | Approximately 21 million Americans don't have a voter ID. |
| 1:19.1 | This is why the work of spread the vote is important. |
| 1:22.0 | In addition to helping with voter IDs, Kat and her team help people get registered to vote |
| 1:26.8 | and make voting plans to help ease |
| 1:29.1 | challenges with transportation, child care, voter education, and more to allow people to show |
| 1:35.1 | up on election day. |
| 1:39.0 | We're really pumped to have you on to talk about all the great work that you're doing with |
| 1:43.4 | spread the vote. And when I |
| 1:45.4 | went to your website, what I love is one of the first things you see is the saying, an ID today is |
| 1:52.2 | a vote tomorrow. So tell us a little bit more about the critical work you're doing to make sure that |
| 1:57.6 | people have what they need to vote. Sure. So at Spread the Vote, we help people |
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