“Too Ambitious?” How the press covers women candidates
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
TIME’S UP is a nonpartisan nonprofit aimed at creating a society free of gender-based discrimination in the workplace and beyond.
We Have Her Back is a petition launched by TIME’S UP to demand the media keep bad-faith attacks on women candidates out of election coverage.
Vote For Her is a petition that promises to fight against the racist and sexist attacks against Kamala Harris and support the Biden/Harris ticket on Election Day.
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 politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog in 2018 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. I'm Ashanti Golar, the founder of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics, and this is season five of the podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | I've already voted absentee. With Election Day tomorrow, we already know that we have something to celebrate with a record number of women who ran for office this year. |
| 1:09.0 | But we also wanted to dive in to discuss how they were covered |
| 1:14.2 | by the media. Sexist, racist attacks and misinformation about Senator Kamala Harris started |
| 1:21.3 | circulating within hours after Joe Biden announced that she would be his pick for a running mate. |
| 1:27.0 | President Trump stoked a false conspiracy |
| 1:29.0 | theory that she is not eligible to run for vice president. He also called her, quote, angry and a |
| 1:35.0 | madwoman. Other critics have called her ambitious. We know that the work to have more black, |
| 1:40.3 | brown, and indigenous women in office does not end on election day. So how can we stay |
| 1:46.5 | energized and keep moving forward and hold on to this momentum? We have seen yet again that all |
| 1:54.6 | elections are important from Congress to school board, and our influence as women of color continues to grow every election cycle. |
| 2:03.6 | Today, we interview Tina Chen and Karen Finney. |
| 2:07.6 | Tina serves as president and CEO of Times Up Now and the Times Up Foundation, overseeing the organization's |
| 2:15.6 | strategic plans to change culture, companies, and laws in order to make work safe, fair, and dignified for women of all kinds. |
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