Intersectionality Matters!

After perhaps the most important election of our lifetimes, the real work begins. On this episode, Kimberlé sits down with a brilliant group of political thinkers and leaders to analyze the 2020 election and the challenges that remain. The discussion includes insights as to how local organizers turned Georgia blue for the first time in a generation, what strategies progressives might employ to keep pressure on President-elect Biden, and why in 2020, President Trump appears to have made electoral inroads with every demographic but white men. The panelists also discuss Kamala Harris’ historic ascension to the nation's second highest office, despite facing unparalleled levels of misogynoir.

With:

ALICIA GARZA - Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter; Principal, Black Futures Lab

EDDIE GLAUDE JR. - Professor, Princeton; Author of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

JANINE JACKSON - Program Director, FAIR; Producer/Host of CounterSpin


REP BARBARA LEE - U.S. Representative for California's 13th congressional district

KATE MANNE - Professor, Cornell; Author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

VIET THANH NGUYEN - Professor, USC; Pulitzer Prize author, The Sympathizer

KIRSTEN WEST SAVALI - Executive Producer, Essence Magazine

EMERY WRIGHT - Co-director, Project South; Organizer and political educator

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)

Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine

Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine and Rebecca Scheckman

Additional support provided by the African American Policy Forum

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

In this “barbershop edition” of Intersectionality Matters, which was recorded live on October 28th, Kimberlé is joined by a panel of activists, scholars, and writers to discuss, patriarchy, misogynoir, and why a small but meaningful minority of Black men, including prominent celebrities like 50 Cent and Ice Cube, are choosing to support President Trump this election. Led by AAPF Co-Founder Luke Charles Harris, this roundtable conversation explores what genuine self-love looks like for Black men, the relationship between racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia in the Black community, and how we can imagine different, more empowering futures for ourselves and our communities.

With:


WADE DAVIS - Former player and first LGBT inclusion consultant at the NFL

LUKE CHARLES HARRIS - Co-founder, African American Policy Forum; Associate Professor, Vassar College

KIESE LAYMON - Author of Heavy and Long Division; Professor, the University of Mississippi


MARLON PETERSON - Host of DEcarcerated Podcast; Author of Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song (upcoming)

ALVIN STARKS - Director of the Equality Team, Open Society Foundations

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine

Edited by Asal Ehsanipour, Rebecca Scheckman, and Julia Sharpe-Levine


Additional support provided by the African American Policy Forum


Music by Blue Dot Sessions


Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

On this Black Girl Roundtable, Kimberlé is joined by Rep. Barbara Lee, Alicia Garza, Kirsten West Savali, and Barbara Arnwine for a dynamic conversation about the Vice Presidential debate, vote suppression, Trump's increased popularity with men of color, and the gentrification of the Democratic Party.

With:

BARBARA ARNWINE - President and Founder, Transformative Justice Coalition


ALICIA GARZA - Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter; Principal, Black Futures Lab


REP BARBARA LEE - U.S. Representative for California's 13th congressional district


KIRSTEN WEST SAVALI - Executive Producer, Essence Magazine

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Produced and edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine


Additional support provided by Rebecca Scheckman, Andrew Sun, Darci Crager, and the African American Policy Forum


Music by Blue Dot Sessions


Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

In this episode, Kimberlé speaks with six leading scholars about the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court’s largely undersung role in the battle for our democracy, and the profound consequences of the Left’s failure to prioritize the courts over the last several decades.

With:


DEVON CARBADO - Professor of Law, UCLA; Author, Acting White? Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial” America


ERWIN CHEMERINSKY - Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law; Author, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century


SUZANNE GOLDBERG - Professor of Law, Columbia; Founding Director, Sexuality & Gender Law Clinic at Columbia 


CHERYL HARRIS - Professor of Law, UCLA; Author, “Whiteness as Property”


SHERRILYN IFILL - President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

MELISSA MURRAY - Professor of Law, NYU, Author, “The Equal Rights Amendment: A Century in the Making"

Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-race-sex-stereotyping/

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine


Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine and Rebecca Scheckman 


Additional support provided by the African American Policy Forum


Music by Blue Dot Sessions


Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

On this episode, Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by Dina Wright Joseph, director of AAPF’s Young Scholars Program, a leadership pilot program designed to develop a new generation of intersectional researchers and to build community. Featuring the voices of 12 Black women from universities around the country, this episode explores the profound impact that COVID-19 has had on young Black women and their communities, and AAPF’s efforts to build a virtual community to address it.

Featuring Dina Wright Joseph and members of AAPF’s Young Scholars Program (Full bios & more information: aapf.org/ysp)

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw


Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine

This episode was co-produced by Alexandra Moore & Whitney Thomas

Additional support provided by the African American Policy Forum 


Music by Blue Dot Sessions

On this episode, six leading politicians, cultural critics, and political activists come together to discuss politics, Kamala Harris' historic vice presidential candidacy, and the intersection of racism and sexism in the 2020 election.

With:

BARBARA ARNWINE - President and Founder, Transformative Justice Coalition

DONNA BRAZILE - Veteran Democratic political strategist

STATE'S ATTY. KIM FOXX - State's Attorney for Cook County, Illinois


REP. MAXINE WATERS - U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district

KIRSTEN WEST SAVALI - Executive Producer, Essence Magazine

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine


Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine and Sarah Ventre


Additional support provided by the African American Policy Forum

Music by Blue Dot Sessions


Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

On this episode, Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by the revolutionary and genre-defying writers N.K Jemisin and Saidiya Hartman, whose work demands a radical reimagination of our present by archiving and writing the violence of the past into imaginations of a limitless future. By inserting Black women into narrative spaces that they have largely been written out of, these women illustrate first hand how we can resist narrative erasure and become the authors of our own stories.

With:


SAIDIYA HARTMAN - Professor and scholar of African American literature and history, Columbia University; Author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments; 2019 MacArthur Fellow


N.K. JEMISIN - Science fiction and fantasy writer; Author of the Broken Earth series, the Inheritance Trilogy, and the Dreamblood Duology; Winner of 3 Hugo Awards

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine


Additional support provided by the African American Policy Forum 


Music by Blue Dot Sessions


Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

On this installment of Under the Blacklight, Kimberlé Crenshaw sits down with Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Barbara Lee, and State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to discuss their experiences at the intersection of grassroots activism and electoral politics. Together, they speak about the mothers who raised them, the work they're doing to combat the twin pandemics of COVID and racial inequity, and the dynamic tensions that lie between their progressive values and the political institutions they've chosen to work within. By pulling back the curtain to hear their stories and heed their calls, we all have the opportunity to become better partners, constituents, and torchbearers for those in the struggle.

With:

STATE'S ATTY. KIM FOXX - State's Attorney for Cook County, Illinois


REP. BARBARA LEE - U.S. Representative for California's 13th congressional district

REP. AYANNA PRESSLEY - U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine


Additional support provided by Loulou Batta, Alexandra Moore, Whitney Thomas, and the African American Policy Forum 


Music by Blue Dot Sessions


Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

As the vicious spike in COVID’s case count rocks the nation, this installment of “Under the Blacklight” focuses on the off-staging of race after weeks of protests about racial injustice. We ask: What has become of the supposed reckoning with white supremacy since George Floyd’s death? After weeks of uncovering the legacies of racism, are we at the bottom of a Sisyphusian hill again in insisting that race is as newsworthy in the disproportionate deaths of African Americans to COVID as it has been in the weeks of protest over police violence? And why has it been so difficult to connect the two?  

With:

BARBARA ARNWINE - President and Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition; President Emeritus of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

CAMARA PHYLLIS JONES -  Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard; Senior Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine

JONATHAN METZL - Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt; Author, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland

KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR - Assistant professor of African American studies, Princeton University; Author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine

Additional support provided by Awoye Timpo, Emmett O’Malley, Michael Kramer, Gregory Bernstein Alanna Kane, Ricardo Guthrie


Music by Blue Dot Sessions


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On this installment of "Under the Blacklight," the mothers and sisters of the #SayHerName Movement -- Fran Garrett, Rhanda Dormeus, Maria Moore, Sharon Cooper, Gina Best, and Sharon Wilkerson -- join Kimberlé Crenshaw for a very special episode. Through telling the stories of their loved ones, the women weave together the experiences that bring them together in a sisterhood of both sorrow and strength.

Support the #SayHerName Campaign: aapf.org/supportshn

Support Say Her Name: The Lives That Should Have Been (Original Play): http://bit.ly/shnplay

Speakers:

GINA BEST - Mother of India Kager, killed by Virginia Beach police in 2015

SHARON COOPER - Sister of Sandra Bland, killed in custody in Waller County TX in 2015

RHANDA DORMEUS - Mother of Korryn Gaines, killed by Baltimore police in 2016

FRAN GARRETT - Mother of Michelle Cusseaux, killed by Phoenix police in 2014

MARIA MOORE - Sister of Kayla Moore, killed by Berkeley police in 2013

SHARON WILKERSON - Mother of Shelly Frey, killed by Houston police in 2012

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Produced and Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine

Additional support provided by Jade Allen, Loulou Batta, Ivory Fu, Alexandra Moore, Whitney Thomas, and the African American Policy Forum


Music by Blue Dot Sessions


Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast