Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory. As part of the podcast Intersectionality Matters! teamed up with the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) for a new series entitled “Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare”.


Episode 23 – Politics, Power, and the Struggle Against Black Precarity

Guests: State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, Rep. Ayanna Presley and Rep. Barbara Lee


Episode 22 – Under the Blacklight: COVID, White Power and the Unseeing of Race Again

Guests: Barbara Arnwine, Camara Phyllis Jones, Jonathan Metzl, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor


Episode 18 – Under the Blacklight: Narrating the Nightmare & (Re)Imagining the Possible

Guests: Kiesse Laymon, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Arundhati Roy


Episode 17 – Under the Blacklight: Virus, Voting & Vigilantism in Georgia

Guests: LaTosha Brown, Anoa Chanaga, Crystal Feimster, Talitha LeFlouria, and Emery Wright


Episode 16 – Under the Blacklight: Mobilizing Whiteness to ‘Re-Open America’

Guests: Carol Anderson, Alex DiBranco, Joseph Lowndes, Mab Segrest, Dorian Warren, and Jason Wilson


Episode 15 – Under the Blacklight: COVID in Confinement

Guests: Josie Duffy Rice, Nina A. Kohn, Marc Lamont Hill, Rebecca Nagle, Ravi Ragbir, and Alyosxa Tudor


Episode 14 – Under the Blacklight: History Rinsed and Repeated

Guests: David Blight, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, William Darity Jr., Ibram X. Kendi, and Kate Manne


Episode 13 – Under the Blacklight: COVID & Disaster White Supremacy

Guests: Paul Butler, Bree Newsome, Barbara Arnwine, Kehinde Andrews, and Jonathan Metzl


Episode 12 – Under the Blacklight: Mapping COVID’s Racial Geography

Guests: Rosa Clemente, Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes, Dallas Goldtooth, Daniel HoSang, Mari Matsuda, and Rinku Sen


Episode 11 – Under the Blacklight: COVID and Disaster Capitalism

Guests: Dara Baldwin, Naomi Klein, Janina Jackson, Saru Jayaraman, and Mily Treviño-Sauceda


Episode 9 – Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare

Guests: Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Ai-jen Poo, Dorothy Roberts, and Alvin Starks