At this week's Round Table, Divya, Eliza, Madeline and Olivia spoke with the stellar Shawnda Chapman, Director of the Girls Fund Initiative at the Ms Foundation. This is the second episode in our series on national identity, inclusion, and belonging. We talked about how the intersection of racism and sexism cooperate to keep the experiences of girls and women of color silenced and “invisibilized”--and why they are important to include in public narratives. We talked about ways in which our national identity and the image of who we are as a people is simultaneously expanding and contracting. We talked about the depression to prison pipeline, and how what gets characterized as “bad” is often resistance. And, importantly, we talked about what it means to build power within social justice movements. Shawnda reminded us that the people closest to problems are closest to solutions, and that our vulnerabilities can be our strength. Thank you for joining us!
