Look at Me
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
By confronting Senator Jeff Flake and telling her story of sexual assault, Ana María Archila has become an icon in the midst of the Kavanaugh nomination debate. Maria and Julio talk to Archila about the behind the scenes of her action in Capitol Hill and discuss her next steps.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Fick. This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:05.2 | And it's a kind of special edition of In The Thick. I'm Marianne Hosa. |
| 0:10.7 | And I'm Holy Hercalo Varela. |
| 0:12.1 | So we're journalists and when news happens and like amazing people make news, we try to get them on our show. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.0 | This kind of happened amazingly, right, Julio? |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | As soon as I got home on Friday and I saw something on CNN about two women confronting Senator Jeff Flake in the elevator. |
| 0:35.4 | On Monday I stood in front of your office with Addie Barken. |
| 0:38.6 | I told the story of my sexual assault. |
| 0:41.2 | I told it because I recognize in Dr. Ford's story that she is telling the truth. |
| 0:46.4 | What you are doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman to sit in the Supreme |
| 0:52.3 | Court. This is not tolerable. You have children in your |
| 0:56.8 | family. Think about them. I have two children. I cannot imagine that for the next 50 years they will have to have someone in the |
| 1:07.0 | Supreme Court who has been accused of violating a young girl. What are you doing? I was like wait a second who is that person who is that |
| 1:16.6 | Latina wait a second it's Anna Maria chila and I immediately got in touch with you and |
| 1:21.8 | I said Anna Maria I'm Maria. |
| 1:23.1 | So welcome to in the thick. |
| 1:25.2 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:26.9 | Thank you, Maria I Julio. |
| 1:28.3 | So people now know you as the person who stood up |
| 1:30.4 | to Jeff Lake in an elevator and potentially well has changed American |
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