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Dear friends,
We have two exciting updates for our “Under The Blacklight” series. First, as with all of our programming at AAPF, we’ve been curating the series as an evergreen project and just got done editing last week’s panel into another episode of Intersectionality Matters: “Under The Blacklight: History Rinsed and Repeated.” You’ll hear extraordinary analysis from David Blight, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, William Darity Jr., Ibram X Kendi, and Kate Manne. We hope that you have a chance to listen before Big Update Number Two, which is that we’ve got another episode coming your way in just over 24 hours...
Mark your calendars for tomorrow night (4/29) at 8 PM EST (5 PM PST), because this week’s live edition of “Under the Blacklight The Intersectional Failures that COVID Lays Bare” features Josie Duffy Rice, Nina Kohn, Marc Lamont Hill, Rebecca Nagle, Ravi Ragbir, and Alyosxa Tudor. Together, we’ll be examining COVID-19’s sweep through confined spaces, specifically in prisons and jails, the home, ICE detention centers, Native Country, and nursing homes. It builds on topics and themes we’ve already started to discuss over the course of this series -- broadly, the lethal intersection of identity-defined pre-existing conditions and an opportunistic virus. You can read more about the panelists, and RSVP, here.
In a time when the literal space we exist within is at the forefront of our collective minds, critically understanding that space -- and the vulnerabilities of those at the margins -- is essential. We trust that this panel can help us do just that.
As we did last week, we’ll be uplifting comments and questions leading up the event. Topically, we pose the following question: “We can and should be staying at home. But some of us are self-isolating voluntarily/unsafely/inequitably. What are the ways that confinement is not a place of safety?” Please share your thoughts by sending us a description, article, or image with #AAPFCovid. You can tweet these at us (preferred!) or email them to emmett.omalley@aapf.org.
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The conversations we have during “Under The Blacklight” continue as a permanent resource in this ever-developing crisis. You can find our first five episodes on YouTube (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five), and on our podcast, “Intersectionality Matters!” We’ll also be logging summaries on our ongoing blog, which can be found here.
We look forward to (virtually) seeing you tomorrow night. Don’t forget to register and “bring” a friend!
Warmly,
The AAPF Team
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