In September of 2020, Standpoints hosts Trichia Cadette and Andrea Baldwin spoke with Nana Brantuo and Jaimee Swift about love among and between black women during times of crises. 

Nana Brantuo is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park, an educator, researcher, and writer who has  published work in The Hill, PBS Newshour, Black Perspectives, Black Women Radicals, OkayAfrica, Brittle Paper, and AYO Magazine.

Jaimee Swift (she/her) is the executive director, founder, and creator of Black Women Radicals, a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting Black women and gender non-conforming and non-binary people’s radical activism in Africa and in the African Diaspora. She is a Ph.D candidate at Howard University in the Department of Political Science, where her research focuses on Black LGBT feminists resistance and organizing against state, structural, and symbolic violence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. 

The conversation was recorded remotely during a Zoom meeting.