Women of Color Mobilizing Before the Midterms and The Passing of Queen Elizabeth II

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

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

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Farai interviews Dr. Sayu Bhojwani, civic entrepreneur and founder of Women’s Democracy Lab, about what it takes to create a more inclusive democracy and what current intraparty tensions reveal about the election field ahead of the midterms. Then, we re-air a conversation from “One With Farai” featuring Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry and her 2011 book “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.” And in this week’s segment of ‘Sippin’ the Political Tea’, Farai interviews Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering foreign affairs and Hagar Chemali, foreign policy expert and host of “Oh My World!” on YouTube, about the death of Queen Elizabeth II amidst the United Kingdom’s energy crisis.

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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,
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0:30.4	You can find out more at ourbodypolitic.com slash donate.
0:34.3	We're here for you, with you, and because of you.
0:37.3	Thank you.
0:41.9	This is our body politic. I'm Faraijada. Young women of color are the most likely to talk
0:49.0	politics, participate in elections, and fight racism. That's a finding from a study conducted by Tufts
0:55.3	University's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in 2020.
1:01.5	In 2021, the number of women of color who served in Congress reached a record high of 52,
1:07.7	and over 600 women of color are serving as state legislators.
1:11.6	Today we're approaching the halfway mark of Kamala Harris' historic first term as vice president and drawing nearer to the 2022 midterm elections.
1:21.6	Women of color continue to lead civic engagement and make their bids for office.
1:26.6	But what happens both during elections and once these candidates are voted in,
1:30.3	my next guest is civic entrepreneur and democracy futurist Dr. Sayu Bajw Bajw.
1:36.3	Her work over the past three decades has paved pathways to political power for immigrants and women of color in the U.S.
1:43.3	I reached out to Sayu to talk about what a more inclusive democracy could look like
1:47.2	and what we could learn from current intra-party tensions and their impact on the election ahead of November.
1:54.1	Hi, Sayu.
1:55.1	Hi, Farai.
1:56.2	It's great to be with you.
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