Remembering Urvashi Vaid and Creating Liberation

This week, Our Body Politic honors politics and pride, featuring a past interview between Farai and the late intersectional activist, lawyer, educator and author Urvashi Vaid who led movements for a range of progressive issues, including AIDS advocacy, LGBT rights and prison reform. The pair discuss Vaid’s legacy as a leading figure in social change and what it truly takes to change the lived experience of everyone— to achieve lived equality. Then in our series, “Our Body Politics Presents…” we feature the podcast Truth Be Told with host Tonya Mosley who interviews minister and writer Danté Stewart about how to cultivate “little experiments of liberation” while experiencing and navigating repetitive acts of American violence.

Our Body Politic · Farai Chideya, Urvashi Vaid, Dante Stewart, Juan Battle, Tonya Mosely, Rebecca Carroll, Toni Morrison, Jonathan Blakely, Bridget McAllister, Traci Caldwell, Emily Daly, Steve Lack, Natyna Bean, Emily Ho, Lauren Schild, Archie Moore, BA Parker, Ishea Brown, Phyllis Fletcher, Enrico Benjamin