Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

12 Jan 2024
In this episode, host Kimberlé Crenshaw and African American Policy Forum present the Story of Us (Part 3) panel, recorded live from the Sundance Film Festival in 2023.

As we think about the future of democracy, this instalment of Sundance’s “Big Conversation” series builds on the previous two iterations of Kimberlé W. Crenshaw’s The Story of Us, and explores how cinematic storytelling has long been, and continues to be, critical to shaping the contours of democratic inclusion. Who gets to be a hero or a villain in popular depictions of American life? Who gets written out of the story altogether? And how do Hollywood portrayals influence the amount political power that various demographics of Americans hold in real life?

Featuring W Kamau Bell, the 2023 Sundance Vanguard Award winner, comic, and television host
Holly Cook Macarro, Tribal Advocate & Political Strategist
Jason Stanley, author and Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University
Roger Ross Williams, Academy Award-winning Director, Writer, and Producer

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)
Produced by Sr Producer Nicole Edwards
Mixing by Sean Dunnam
Support provided by the African American Policy Forum
Music by Blue Dot Sessions