OBP Rewind: Remembering Urvashi Vaid and Creating Liberation

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we re-air an episode from June 2022, featuring a past interview between Farai and the late intersectional activist, lawyer, educator, and author Urvashi Vaid who led movements for a range of progressive issues, including AIDS advocacy, LGBT rights, and prison reform. The pair discuss Vaid’s legacy as a leading figure in social change and what it truly takes to change the lived experience of everyone— to achieve lived equality. Then in our series, “Our Body Politics Presents…” we feature the podcast Truth Be Told with host Tonya Mosley who interviews minister and writer Danté Stewart about how to cultivate “little experiments of liberation” while experiencing and navigating repetitive acts of American violence.

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politic. If you have time,
0:20.1	please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcast.
0:22.7	It helps other listeners find us, and we read them for your feedback.
0:26.7	We're here for you, with you and because of you.
0:29.8	Thank you.
0:34.7	Hi, folks.
0:35.7	This is Our Body Politics.
0:37.1	I'm Farai Chidea.
0:38.7	This week we're bringing you an episode from our archive that's relevant for our times.
0:43.3	One of our body politics missions is to bring context to the news,
0:46.7	and part of that process is drawing lessons from the past.
0:50.0	I hope you enjoy the show.
0:59.0	Activist, author, academic, lawyer, funder, leader. Irvishy Vad was all of these, and she was also my friend.
1:03.0	She died last month of cancer, leaving a legacy of intersectional activism and a reputation for moving mountains.
1:10.0	During this era where attacks on LGBTQ Americans
1:13.6	have become a key battlefront and political culture wars, her work is more relevant than ever.
1:19.6	Vad, an immigrant from India, always made the connections between LGBTQ issues, racial justice, and economic inequality.
1:28.3	VAD authored the influential 1995 book,
1:31.3	Virtual Equality, The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation,
1:35.3	worked as a lawyer for the National Prison Project,
1:38.3	led the organization now known as the National LGBTQ Task Force
1:43.3	and co-founded the Donors of Color Network,
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