Activism: Are We Ready For This Moment? Featuring Charlene Carruthers

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Charlene Carruthers on the challenges faced by activists in today's liberation movements and the importance of community and self-care.

Have you lost your voice? On the sixth episode of Beyond Voting, we dive deep with Charlene Carruthers, community organizer, writer, filmmaker, and Black Studies PhD candidate. Charlene is the founding national director of BYP 100, a Chicago -based social justice organization led by Black youth activists. Her work spans more than 20 years of community organizing across racial, gender,and economic justice movements. She is also the author of the 2018 bestselling book, Unapologetic: a Black, queer, and feminist mandate for radical movements. It provides a vision and a framework for young activists to build power, create a more radical and intersectional movement, and grow into the next generation of leaders and visionaries. We spoke with Charlene today to help us understand what challenges activists face as part of today’s liberation struggles, how we find and build community, how we care for ourselves and others doing the work, and most importantly, how liberation is a global movement that is interconnected with the struggles of oppressed peoples around the world. So tell us, how will you use your voice to fight for change? What action will you take to be a part of the change you…

People in this episode

Host: Emily Williams

Guest: Charlene Carruthers

Topics covered

• activism
• community organizing
• social justice
• liberation struggles
• intersectionality

Keywords

• activism
• social justice
• community organizing
• liberation
• intersectionality
• Charlene Carruthers
• BYP 100
• Unapologetic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BYP 100

Books & works: Unapologetic: a Black, queer, and feminist mandate for radical movements

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