If we look around, our nation is on the cliff right now.

That's right.

And much of it can be traced to the disregard in which black women, our veracity,

our well-being has been treated by our nation and sometimes by our own community.

Hey, y'all.

I will never forget the first time I learned the word intersectionality.

And then when I realized that it had been coined by a black woman legal scholar,

so much in my life made sense.

Understanding why it wasn't just the addition of racism and sexism that I had been dealing with for so long,

but that there were unique pressures, unique ways that systems intersected to challenge people like me that were different from my indigenous sisters or my queer sisters or my Asian sisters.

Yeah.

That was a clarifying inflection point.

And I would dare say that as a country, and most certainly as a people concerned with justice, no matter who you are or

what intersections at which you exist, now, right now, is another inflection point.

We're either going to be determined to become who we should be or we're going to get stuck

being who we've always been. And that's why we got to stay undistracted.

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And welcome to Undistracted.

On the show today, I told y'all, we have the Woman of the Hour, the foremother of this

here intersectional feminist podcast and movement, the Dr. Kimberly Crenshaw.

She's here to talk about her personal memoir, and we have our group chat besties, Dr. David

Johns, and Dr. Brittany Cooper joining us for this week's untrending news.

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