Ep 335. Why It’s Different This Time with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca TraisterActivists, writers, and organizers – Brittney Cooper and Rebecca Traister – join us to talk about the political landscape, the Kamala Harris campaign, and the state of Democracy. Discover: -The danger of looking for certainty – and what we should cultivate instead;-Why we need to acknowledge our identity and bring joy back in politics;-The types of attacks to anticipate for VP Harris as a Black woman and for other Black women in this country; and-The way patriarchy responds to progress: what we’ve seen and what to look out for.On Brittney and Rebecca: Brittney Cooper is Professor of Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University and author of the New York Times bestseller Eloquent Rage. Rebecca Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and the author of New York Times bestsellers All the Single Ladies and Good and Mad, as well as the award winning Big Girls Don't Cry, about gender race and class in the 2008 elections.
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