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BOLDERS in the Media
Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause – August 19 Episode
The podcast is an intergenerational space for BIPOC women, especially those over 50. In this episode, our host, BOLDer connects with her inner 12 year old with the inner 12 year old of feminist writer, activist and journalist Mona Eltahawy as they share our journeys around identity, healing, reclamation, power, voice and story. And there is a big shout out to BOLD!
How A New Wave of Black Activists Changed the Conversation
Check out this story by Jenna Wortham in the New York Times, featuring many BOLDERS, including Black Visions Collective and Prentis Hemphill.
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
In these powerful and personal reflections, just released, Alicia Garza shares her personal story and the lessons of the new generation of movement organizers of which she’s played a leading role.
Charlene Carruthers: Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Charlene Carruthers gives us a dose of her radical feminism in this essential testimony and guide for the movement for Black Lives.
What We’re Watching
A film by Isabel Sandoval about a woman who like her, is a transgender Filipina, exploring complicated questions of sexual identity in a perilous time for immigrants in Trump’s America.
When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women’s prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, Belly of the Beast exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons.