Alicia Garza is joined by the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, and the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters!, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw. Crenshaw breaks down “Intersectionality”, a term she coined in 1989. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of everything good and awful. 

Kimberlé Crenshaw on Twitter & Instagram.

The #TruthBeTold campaign

African American Policy Forum

Intersectionality Matters! Podcast

Lady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

This pod is supported by the Black Futures Lab

Production by Phil Surkis

Theme music: "Lady Don't Tek No" by Latyrx

Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Garza serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. Alicia was recently named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, alongside her BLM co-founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House),  and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.