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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stefan

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Speaker 1: Ever told you production? I heart radio?

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Speaker 2: Yes, and welcome to February, the month I have the

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Speaker 2: most problem saying, even with it being a leap year,

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Speaker 2: the shortest one of the year, that was obviously allotted

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Speaker 2: as a Black History month, And yes, that's racist. We're

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Speaker 2: calling that out as it is, as we do every year.

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Speaker 2: So there you go. But moving on, we do love

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Speaker 2: a celebrating activist in the black community and do so

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Speaker 2: all year long, but also we love making sure to

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Speaker 2: fully celebrate this month as it has been set aside

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Speaker 2: I guess designated to highlight and give flowers to those

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Speaker 2: in the black community. So of course we're not going

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Speaker 2: to waiver from that. So today we are talking about

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Speaker 2: activist Paris Hatch. Yeah, and Hatcher is a fierce, active

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Speaker 2: and human rights advocate. She has worked for years advocating

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Speaker 2: for the rights for their black and queer communities, as

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Speaker 2: well as obviously feminist communities, and has led and founded

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Speaker 2: different organizations throughout her life.

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Speaker 1: Here's a bit about her from the Women's March dot

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Speaker 1: com site, where she is serving as a part of

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Speaker 1: the board of directors. Paris Hatcher is a black queer

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Speaker 1: feminist in Love with the South with over ten years

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Speaker 1: of experience on the local, national, and international level. Paris

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Speaker 1: has been working with leading organizations to amplify the leadership

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Speaker 1: of marginalized communities when public policy campaigns and advance reproductive

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Speaker 1: and sexual health in justice, gender justice, and queer liberation. Notably,

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Speaker 1: she co founded and was the executive director of Spark

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Speaker 1: Reproductive Justice, now one of the leading reproductive health and

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Speaker 1: justice organizations in the Southeast. Under her direction, sparkled successful

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Speaker 1: advocacy campaigns, increased the participation of women of color, queer

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Speaker 1: and transuse of color, and young people in the political process,

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Speaker 1: and worked with stakeholders to begin to shift the narrative

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Speaker 1: about reproductive health and justice in the state of Georgia

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Speaker 1: and in the Southeast. She completed her Masters of Arts

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Speaker 1: in Africana Women's Studies at Clerk Atlanta University with a

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Speaker 1: research focus on Caribbean women's activism and social movements.

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Speaker 2: YEAH and another. One of those organizations along with Spark

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Speaker 2: include a Black Feminist Future, which was founded in twenty

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Speaker 2: fourteen or BFF and according to their own site, Blackfeminist

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Speaker 2: Future dot org quote the organization was formed in response

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Speaker 2: to the twenty fourteen uprisings because of the lack of

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Speaker 2: response and outrage over the murders of black women, girls,

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Speaker 2: and gender expensive people, despite those same folks being on

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Speaker 2: the front lines of movements to end the police violence.

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Speaker 1: And when she was asked why she started BFF, she

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Speaker 1: said she wanted to create a unique and important space

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Speaker 1: to amplify the needs as well as the power, of

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Speaker 1: black women, girls, and gender expansive people in the United States,

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Speaker 1: and on the BFF site, they explain the importance of

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Speaker 1: Black feminism and its meaning. Quote BFF defines black feminism

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Speaker 1: as an ideology or belief system that explains how power

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Speaker 1: and systems of oppression are both injured, acted, and systemic,

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Speaker 1: and provides us with a blueprint for individual and collective liberation.

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Speaker 2: Right and they continue, black feminisms explain how systems of

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Speaker 2: oppression and power like white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism,

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Speaker 2: et cetera, are both interconnected and systemic. As Black people,

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Speaker 2: we live lives of multiple identities and experiences that inform

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Speaker 2: how our world is ordered and ultimately impact our daily interactions, thought,

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Speaker 2: and lives. We experience power and oppression and our identities

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Speaker 2: at the same time. This also applies to how we

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Speaker 2: experience our identity as black people. Black feminisms helps us

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Speaker 2: understand that we do not experience our identities singularly. The

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Speaker 2: identities we hold are interconnected in the same way these

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Speaker 2: systems are. For this reason, as black feminists know that

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Speaker 2: in order to win, we cannot prioritize one system or

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Speaker 2: identity over another, but instead use an intersectional or a

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Speaker 2: black feminist approach in our fights for freedom. With this

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Speaker 2: in mind, as black feminists, we believe it is essential

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Speaker 2: that we examine our personal lives as well as the

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Speaker 2: roots of these systems in order to understand how power

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Speaker 2: and oppression work. Black feminisms take shape in many forms.

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Speaker 2: Hence we say black feminisms. The work of black feminists

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Speaker 2: is global, intersectional, pan African, anti capitalist, radical socialists, afrofuturist,

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Speaker 2: and so much more. It is a legacy of liberation

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Speaker 2: work that has come before us and that we continue.

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Speaker 2: And then they go on and say, we invite you

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Speaker 2: to use our definition of black feminisms as a starting

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Speaker 2: blueprint to our collective liberation. Black feminisms is a way

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Speaker 2: to analyze systems of power, especially impacting those of us

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Speaker 2: marginalized by race, gender, class, sexuality, ability, and beyond. This

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Speaker 2: means we do not look at these systems as isolated,

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Speaker 2: but instead interrogate how they all weave together into a

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Speaker 2: larger picture. And y'all, this is a great example of

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Speaker 2: what we mean about intersectional right.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and they have been working with these principles and

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Speaker 1: ideals since the beginning of the founding of the organization.

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Speaker 1: They have worked on the issue of abortion, voting, and

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Speaker 1: collapsing the patriarchy. Hatcher has been working intensely in reproductive

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Speaker 1: rights advocacy as well. As we mentioned earlier, she helped

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Speaker 1: found and was executive director of Spark Reproductive Justice Now.

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Speaker 1: When she announced her decision to step down, she talked

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Speaker 1: as executive director, and some of those things include led

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Speaker 1: a campaign to end the practice of shackling pregnant incarcerated

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Speaker 1: women in Georgia, led a proactive national cultural shift around

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Speaker 1: programming like Legislate This, the Fire Media Camp and Ignite

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, the first LGBTQ Youth of color convening in

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Speaker 1: Black Women and the Third Wave Network, and interjected a

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Speaker 2: Right, So, she's done a lot, and this is just

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Speaker 2: two of the organizations we highlighted that she founded and

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Speaker 2: have done a lot for. Of course, us as Georgians

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Speaker 2: are very grateful for what she has done and it

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Speaker 2: still continues to do because obviously after the Roe v.

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Speaker 2: Wade overturning, she has been very loud and vocal about

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Speaker 2: the need to fight for reproductive justice. Moved to in

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Speaker 2: Violence also did a profile on her and when she

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Speaker 2: was asked what brings her to this work, she said,

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Speaker 2: I have just always felt really called. When I was young,

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Speaker 2: I wanted to make a difference. I think for me,

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Speaker 2: what stands out as a really big moment in my

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Speaker 2: life is when I learned about the sit ins that

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Speaker 2: happened in Greensboro by young people, by the young students

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Speaker 2: and the Greensboro four. I learned about them when I

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Speaker 2: was nine years old. I entered an essay contest about

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Speaker 2: their legacy because by the time it was nineteen ninety,

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Speaker 2: it was thirty years since that sit in, and I

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Speaker 2: just was so amazed that you could do something like

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Speaker 2: that to change the world. And then she kind of

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Speaker 2: goes on to talk about the love of her people.

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Speaker 2: I think of just deep, deep, deep, abiding love of

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Speaker 2: my people, and of what has been possible. I think

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Speaker 2: about the lofgacy of this work and what it has

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Speaker 2: meant for people to just feel called. It does feel

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Speaker 2: like a calling. When people feel like that around different

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Speaker 2: types of calling. It feels definitely like a calling. It's

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Speaker 2: not a job, it's not work anymore. Yeah, she's done

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Speaker 2: some amazing things. We thank her personally. I thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for what you have done for our community

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Speaker 2: in Georgia in itself, because we know she has done

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Speaker 2: a lot to help marginalized people and just people in

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Speaker 2: general care community.

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