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Intersectionality in the American South

Intersectionality in the American South

22 episodes

1 month ago

In this episode of 'Intersectionality in the American South,' host Dr. Katie Acosta dives into the ways tech is changing how educators and administrators approach their work higher education . Recorded during a symposium in Mainz, Germany, this episode features interviews with Dr. Kameelah Martin and Dr. Karen Jackson Weaver. Dr. Martin talks about her new research project looking at the ways digital platforms connect cultures across the diaspora. Dr. Jackson Weaver shares her views on using ...

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In this episode of 'Intersectionality in the American South,' host Dr. Katie Acosta dives into the ways tech is changing how educators and administrators approach their work higher education . Recorded during a symposium in Mainz, Germany, this episode features interviews with Dr. Kameelah Martin and Dr. Karen Jackson Weaver. Dr. Martin talks about her new research project looking at the ways digital platforms connect cultures across the diaspora. Dr. Jackson Weaver shares her views on using ...

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Episodes (20/22)

Intersectionality in the American South

How Technological Advancements are Reshaping Higher Education

In this episode of 'Intersectionality in the American South,' host Dr. Katie Acosta dives into the ways tech is changing how educators and administrators approach their work higher education . Recorded during a symposium in Mainz, Germany, this episode features interviews with Dr. Kameelah Martin and Dr. Karen Jackson Weaver. Dr. Martin talks about her new research project looking at the ways digital platforms connect cultures across the diaspora. Dr. Jackson Weaver shares her views on using ...

1 month ago

53 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Hope is a Practice: Bearing Witness to Palestinian Humanity

In this episode, We speak with Sig Giordano who offers a first hand account of their time in the West Bank picking olives alongside Palestinians during the annual olive harvest. Giordano candidly takes the listener through their learning journey as the granddaughter of Nazi holocaust survivors and advocate for Palestinian liberation. This episode offers a nuanced analysis of what Palestinian resistance looks like a year and a half into the War in Gaza. To learn more about the Inte...

7 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Living History: Students Uncover An Ancestral Past

In this episode of Intersectionality in the American South, host Dr. Katie Acosta highlights reflections on the Gullah Geechee Immersive Field School taken by students from Georgia State University and the College of Charleston. Students share their thoughts and feelings about visiting historic sites like McLeod Plantation and Sullivan's Island, meeting Gullah Geechee elders, and learning about the harsh realities of slavery. The episode features insights from two students, Tiara Mbonisi and ...

9 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

"We Be Gullah": A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Berry

On this episode of Intersectionality in the American South, guest Dr. Jessica Berry shares a bit on the significance of the Gullah Geechee language for her personally and professionally. She shares experiences about her upbringing, the unspoken rule of code-switching inside and outside the Gullah community, and the challenges she faced in a predominantly white high school. Dr. Jessica Berry goes on to discuss her professional and community efforts to preserve and promote the Gullah Geec...

12 months ago

37 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Visiting the McLeod Plantation

In July 2024, the Intersectionality in the American South Collective had the privilege of visiting the McLeod Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. In this episode, Dr. Katie Acosta speaks with one of the site's preservationists, Reverend Toby Smith, about McLeod's history, the opening of this historic site to the general public, and the intentional efforts to make McLeod a space where the history of slavery is told from the perspective of the enslaved. Follow us on Twitter @interse...

1 year ago

48 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

When Migrants who are Undocumented are Detained

Did you know that there are 6 Detention facilities in the state of Georgia used to house undocumented migrants and asylees? On this episode of Intersectionality in the American South, we hear from Mr. Amilcar Valencia Executive Director of El Refugio a non profit organization that advocates on the behalf of the detained and their families. Interested in learning more about this amazing organization? Check out their website at elrefugiostewart.org Learn more about becomin...

1 year ago

45 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Accessibility Crisis: Advocating for the Disabled

After a life threatening crash left a family member disabled, Dr. Raeda Anderson—Research Scientist and the Lead Statistician for the Crawford Research Institute at the Shepherd Center—devoted her life work to seeking change for the disabled community. Too often, conversations about the disabled community are on “fixing” the disabled, which in turn, shifts focus and policy away from this communities primary need: accessibility. In this episode, Dr. Raeda Anderson demonstrates how the social f...

1 year ago

42 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

We see you, We stand with you: Advocating for the disabled

The systems we have built don’t always work for the people they were built for. The problem is that we too often have systems being built by people, not for people. In this episode, Stephanie Diaz and Dana Lloyd speak on the failure of society to build a system that works well for people with disabilities and their work in the Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO) to address this trend. From individual advocacy, individual legal advocacy, to systematic litigation, on any given day they mi...

1 year ago

54 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Rethinking Healing & Community through Hip Hop Culture (Part 2)

Emile YX? is a Hip Hop activist who reclaims the power of Hip Hop to help the next generation rethink their identity, purpose, and place in their respective communities. A pioneer of beat breaking in his South African cultural context, an educator through his Heal the Hood project, and a survivor of apartheid, Emile YX? channels his experiences to rewrite narratives for the marginalized and recenter Africa for uplift. In the process, he helps us rethink Hip Hop culture as a tool of power thro...

1 year ago

30 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Rethinking Healing & Community through Hip Hop Culture

Emile YX? is a Hip Hop activist who reclaims the power of Hip Hop to help the next generation rethink their identity, purpose, and place in their respective communities. A pioneer of beat breaking in his South African cultural context, an educator through his Heal the Hood project, and a survivor of apartheid, Emile YX? channels his experiences to rewrite narratives for the marginalized and recenter Africa for uplift. In the process, he helps us rethink Hip Hop culture as a tool of power thro...

1 year ago

38 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Black Feminism: Dear Hip Hop ... We're Here

Akua Naru's love for the African diaspora drives her to disrupt and intervene for good through the channel of her Hip Hop music and archival work of The Keeper’s Project. More specifically, the pantheon of black women writers like Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Zora Neal Hurston have provided Naru with a critical black feminist lens and language by which to read the world and retake spaces that push the contributions of black women to Hip Hop to the margins to the center. Living with the words of...

1 year ago

39 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

The Gullah-Geechee People: Restoring Historical Memory

The Gullah-Geechee people are the descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans brought in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century to the United States to work on the rice plantations of the Low Country regions on the Southern Atlantic coastline. The term “Gullah” comes from the Central African connection to Angola and comes to represent people of all African descent particularly from South Carolina. In contrast, the term “Geechee” is derived from the Ogeechee River where the first Georgia...

1 year ago

50 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Episode 8: Reproductive Justice for Black Individuals

On this episode of Intersectionality in the American South, Dr. Katie Acosta interviews Dr. Ashlyn Strozier about the challenges faced by Black folks who are trying to conceive, birthing, or experiencing unwanted pregnancy. Listen as we unpack the health risks this population faces and that structural barriers that impede upon our reproductive rights. Follow us on Twitter @intersectsouth or visit our website at https://sites.gsu.edu/intersectsouth/

1 year ago

49 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Episode 7: Advocating for those incarcerated in the state of Georgia

Imagine being incarcerated during the height of the pandemic and having limited access to information about the virus. Imagine being unable to socially isolated or visit with your loved ones. On this episode, Dr. Katie Acosta interviews civil rights attorney Whitney Knox Lee about her advocacy work with people who are incarcerated in the state of Georgia. Listen to Whitney Knox Lee's new podcast Impostrix here. Follow us on Twitter @intersectsouth or visit our website...

2 years ago

59 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Episode 6 - Exploring educational opportunities for the formerly incarcerated in Georgia

Poor choices led Patrick Rodriguez—Executive Director of a prison education program at Georgia State University—to extensive time in prison. However, his time in prison demythologized conceptions of the incarcerated as hopelessly depraved individuals as he found a community of “mentors” who wanted better for him and even advocated for him, enabling him to understand his choices and see a potential future beyond them. Consequently, that led to his role in prison education, seeking to end the s...

2 years ago

51 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Episode 5: Making Space for Abolitionist Educators in Georgia's K-12 Education

Anthony Downer is an Equity Coordinator for the City Schools of Decatur. In his work, Downer advocates for a curriculum beyond the standards that encourages antiracist, culturally responsive, courageous teaching in the school system that can uplift black students. Recognizing students lack of contact with multicultural narratives and bureaucratic pushback against Critical Race Theory reinforces inequitable educational outcomes, he calls on teachers to not simply wait for systemic change but i...

2 years ago

59 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Ep. 4 What's New with the Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights

Beacon Hill Black Alliance is an organization of committed Decatur residents challenging the racist structures in Decatur, Ga. As Black history is American history, the white-washed monuments and symbols in Decatur say otherwise as Black and indigenous peoples historical presence are rendered absent while their contemporary presence is continually threatened by Decatur as it stands. However, through Beacon Hill’s Art for the People work, educational initiatives, and advocacy, they attempt to ...

2 years ago

42 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Ep. 3 The Healing Work of Reproductive Justice

Charity Woods Barnes—founder of the Reproductive Justice Resilience Project—re-centers women of color as fundamental in building a movement for reproductive justice that champions abortion rights yet goes beyond the abortion legality framework upended by Dobbs v. Jackson. Consequently, reproductive justice and resiliency are shown to go hand in hand among Black women, leading Barnes to call for balancing stories of oppression with stories of Black women’s strength. In this episode, she helps ...

2 years ago

49 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Ep. 2 A Conversation with Joan Morgan

When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost was published in 1999, Joan Morgan used the vehicle of Hip Hop to birth a vision for Black feminism that would render her a “pioneer.” After 23 years, Morgan celebrates Hip-Hop’s formative role yet pushes beyond its bounds for a larger vision of Black feminist thought while continuing the work of conferring liberatory frameworks for black and brown women. In this episode, Morgan unpacks this by reckoning with her cultural impact, negotiating her whole self...

2 years ago

37 minutes

Intersectionality in the American South

Ep. 1 Unpacking Intersectionality with Scholars - Part 2

Welcome to Intersectionality in the American South, where educators, students, activists, and community members come together and unpack current realities for black and indigenous people of color. In each episode, we will discuss the impact of racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and anti-immigrant sentiment on the lives of Atlanta residents and BIPOC individuals throughout the south. Today we're sharing part two of the conversation that I had recently with Dr. Tonya Washington Hicks, Eli...

3 years ago

33 minutes