Winnie Byanyima's Lifelong Fight for Equality

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Winnie Byanyima has devoted her life to public service, fighting for gender equality and racial justice. She joins us this week to discuss growing up in Uganda under a brutal dictatorship (2:30), eventually fleeing to gain an education in England (8:36), finding joy in student organizing (16:47) and connecting with young, like-minded activists (25:37). She also shares her experiences spearheading women leadership within the Parliament of Uganda (30:30), challenging income and healthcare inequalities (38:56), and the importance of collective action (47:32). Finally, she reflects on her childhood peers (56:14), on being a survivor (59:12), and her optimism about the future (1:02:45).

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:06.0	This is talking.
0:07.0	This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so welcome to the chill. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello everyone. Thank you for being here. Today I'm joined by Winnie B and Eva.
0:47.0	She's the executive director of UN AIDS where she spearheads the ongoing battle with HIV.
0:55.0	Her plan, working with the United Nations,
0:58.0	is to end this 40-year-long epidemic by 2030. But Winnie's work has always extended beyond the AIDS
1:07.1	epidemic. For four decades she's been a global leader on issues around social justice and gender inequality.
1:16.2	She served 11 years in the Parliament of Uganda, where she created her country's first women's
1:21.7	caucus. From politics she turned to activism as part of the World Bank's Advisory Council on gender and development.
1:31.0	She spent six years as the executive director at Oxfam International, where she focused on poverty and injustice through advocacy programs, developmental programs, and emergency response.
1:45.0	In truth, she's done so much more than what I've just described.
1:49.0	But as you'll hear,
1:52.0	Winnie has devoted herself to public service in ways I had not exactly heard on this show before.
2:00.0	There's a lot in this episode that I had not heard before.
2:05.0	Born in the throes of the brutal Idiamine dictatorship in Uganda,
2:10.0	her life is one of great tragedy and triumph.
2:15.0	As a result, what she shares in this talk is at times very painful.
2:24.0	graphic imagery that tells the complicated story of her life,
2:30.0	a story of survival, a story of survival of unimaginable warfare
2:35.0	and a story I think
2:38.0	of improbable but very real hope. Hope.
2:43.0	You may not have been familiar with Winnie prior to this conversation,
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