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How do you go from baking cakes to organizing one of the largest protests in history? On this episode of RadioAMB, Patty Schmucker’s guest Breanne Butler is the person who did just that. They will be discussing how opportunity gave Breanne a start as a pastry chef in a top tier restaurant and at Facebook NY which created the pathway to becoming the frontwoman of a movement that has swept the country.
Breanne talks about how a chance to cook for Hilary Clinton at numerous events busted her out of her bubble about the world. She witnessed the passion and pain of people around the country, changing her perception of her own place in society, as both a white female and one working in a male-dominated industry.
Listen in as Patty and Breanne discuss what it means to stand in support of such a monumental movement and how current US politics is just a small part of a global need to stand up for equality. We think that is pretty important in all things in beauty.
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that celebrates Mother’s I’m delighted
by our topic today my mother born in
1932 was an inspired woman of her era
who did not acquiesce to the mores of
the time for went for how women should
behave or what they wanted from their
life my mother taught me I could achieve
anything I wanted in the world my
options were far greater than just
marriage and children
and that and to that end she encouraged
me to show up in the world strong
confident hard-working and to expect
that I could achieve all that I set to
accomplish as I look back over the last
40 years of my adult life I’m delighted
to say that I listen to my mom and
almost everything she taught me was
spot-on
what shocks me is that the one part of
her lesson that left me ill-prepared to
interact with others was showing up in
the world as a strong and confident
woman if there has been one thing that
has caused me more difficulty and
resistance has been my unwillingness to
act like a lady needless to say I am
delighted by the growing social movement
where women’s roles are changing
tremendously the period when a woman’s
contribution to society was limited to
and controlled by men is coming to an
end women are standing tall redefining
what acting like a lady means and are
playing a major role in many important
areas of society my guest today was
inspired at an early age by her
grandmother in baking and also by
fashion she’s turned these two passions
to a into a method of leadership on how
to show up as a strong and confident
woman today whether she is highlighting
a different designer a full for a
fashion cake working on her new candy
jewelry line or leading hundreds of
women in a March to find their voice you
can be sure she’s creating a concoction
from from what inspires her allow me to
introduce you to Brianna Butler a chef
in New York City and the CEO of buy
Brianna a fashion and food concept that
specializes in candy jewelry born and
raised in Detroit Michigan
Brianna received a scholarship to attend
McCobb Culinary Institute during her
senior year in high school and graduated
from the program at just 20 years old
she moved to New York City in 2011 and
began working with the Michelin star
rogue tomato and became
the pastry sous-chef 18 months later she
then became the executive pastry chef at
Facebook New York becoming widely known
in the company for her innovative and
unique desserts when Brianna isn’t in
her kitchen she loves to put stamps in
her passport traveling from South Africa
to France to expand her food knowledge
she loves to advocate for women and
diversity in the restaurant engines
industry and has mentored many cooks
through their career she is also the
director of capacity and build capacity
building and a board member for women’s
March where she has been able to use her
strengths and experience in organizing
kitchens to help organize almost 400
marches around the world welcome Brianna
we’re delighted to have you with us
hi I’m happy to be here thank you so
much well so I told the audience a
little bit about your background on peso
pastry chefs and fashion tell us how
those two things sort of came together
my cousin Rachel who actually passed
away god it’s been like seven years at
this point but he and I always would
talk about fashion we watch the Project
Runway together and we follow all the
blogs and all of that and in 2011
make-a-wish actually granted her wish to
go to Fashion Week rachel has been being
called Omen syndrome so she was
basically immune suppressed Wow
yeah so he ended up I just was New York
and she came for Fashion Week and we
went to a couple stones together she met
designers and whatnot and two weeks
after Fashion Week sanded up passing
away oh my goodness for me it was just
like okay so this is like he was like my
best friend her life list was to go to
Fashion Week like how can I somehow be
part of Fashion Week like every
right I do something for that just on
behalf of her and her spirit her memory
so it was really the main inspiration
for me trying to be sixties together and
I mean I can’t even sew a button on so I
was like I can’t actually be a fashion
designer but I was a pastry stuff and
that’s a very artistic thing so I
started to explore you know I said
couldn’t make a dress wife makes cake so
to make the cake look like a dress so it
sort of started this is really bouncing
her concept was now and seeing more of
in that trend it was full speed and
fashion but seven years ago people would
not doing anything like that so it’s
been quite a journey and you know got
evolved into my candy jewelry line which
is really cool I did that for almost a
year by saying like the whole purpose of
this car and this energy was like how on
earth does a piece of stuff from Detroit
organized one of the largest protests in
history and it’s just quite a journey a
story I never get tired of telling and I
really just think it’s so important to
share that you don’t have to have
experience in politics and you don’t
have to have you know all of this you
know all these boxes tax in order to be
an organizer or in order to make any
kind of a difference whether it’s in
your work or your neighborhood or your
school or your industry whatever or if
it’s like on a bigger national global
level which is what we ended up doing
but yeah so I was was a piece of stuff
at
Facebook for two years and hat and how
did that happen us oh so you two you’ve
started the business and you did your
your candy which is another interesting
piece you’ve all got all of these
various different pieces but you ended
up at Facebook being a pastry chef and
is that’s where you sort of got the
opportunity of to be more involved in
the New York scene in the political
environment well actually with it so I
was working at Ruth Tomas I’m not a
famous a Michelin star wrestler and then
one day when I was walking to work
I got a Facebook message from Facebook
saying that they were opening kitchens
in New York and they wanted me to be the
pizza shop so I thought it was a scam at
first I was like this is the star and I
put the job I started that in let’s see
it was August of 2015
yeah that’s right no no it’s 2014 anyway
so I was working there for almost two
years and then I ended up starting my
business and with that was the gen Julie
and I Hardy to doing the
fashion with cakes and stuff while I was
at Facebook but then I ended up
transitioning that a see more just a
full-time business for myself I was
still able to work with a lot of tech
companies work with different fashion
brands such as ours and Olivia for
instance and that was really cool so
yeah I was in the middle of doing that
and you know if you have your own
business you’re a one-woman show right
he says and I was doing everything from
rolling cookie dough out at 3 in the
morning to making deliveries in the back
of our yellow taxi cab
so knees are like five grocery stores in
one day to get the cheapest ingredients
I could find like butter was on sale at
this place I’d get my butter there’s and
eggs on sale there and all of those
things with this quite obsessed from
within a restaurant when you just called
her delivery guy and say hey I need this
right
the next day like absolutely happy so
like go around and being in New York
where I don’t have a card that was also
difficult because it was oftentimes me
swapping like all kinds of groceries on
the train or taking ubers or
what-have-you but I was doing I was
doing that and then in April of 2016 I
was asked to see cookie for Hillary
Clinton from Eva ten who works at
Instagram and she asked me cookies for
Hillary for a fundraiser she was
throwing with Diane von Furstenberg so I
was like I remember exactly where I was
I had a batch of cookies in the oven it
was almost midnight and I got that email
and I need it really like called my mom
like oh my god how exciting a really
cool moment for me but what I didn’t
expect was to go to the event and just
be so moved by the stories and hearing
just people standing up and literally
being like you have to win like I
remember there was one day man that was
there and he was like you have to win
like my husband and I just got the right
to get married and now you have to leave
a doctor suitcase and like we’re family
and now all that’s going to be in
jeopardy if you don’t win and you know
all these things and it was just like oh
my god this is so including man I had
just been in my bubble
I had this been worried about my next
order I was not paying attention to
anything political and but it was also a
really big moment for me because as a
woman and a young woman with that being
in a very male-dominated industry and
having to deal with sexism and
harassment and having to deal with even
things like equal pay you know finding
out I was making $10,000 less than
somebody else in a lower position than
me here male in another department like
all of those things of having to fight
for that constantly and representation
in the kitchen and trying to get more
women and just thinking you know if we
have a woman in our highest office then
maybe things will get better for us and
you know I think that a lot of us
especially in big cities we were in our
bubble we thought that it was like in
the bags right and in November we found
out that wasn’t the case hmm I had left
Javits Center which is where Hillary
party was and I just had to get off the
train to grow up because I was so sad
and three other women were throwing up –
just like a moment where we all had been
cried around his craft and on 42nd oh my
goodness this is this can’t be our life
for the next four years I mean people in
New York were like nine eleven and
eleven nine vera pin drop in New York
like it I’ve never felt such energy like
it was such silence
Wow yeah and you know for me as I said
like I’m a problem solver so I was just
like what next like how I’m going to get
through this this is Apple this is
horrible but what are we going to do and
so I went out Facebook that I was you
know reading all the posts of my friends
and things and I thought an event that a
woman in Hawaii
by the name of Teresa trucks had created
calling for months on Washington the day
after the inauguration and I just
reached out immediately what do you mean
what can I do to the page and you know
on Facebook it says your name and where
he works
well I still had on the by name Facebook
so I think that the team thought I was
an engineer and they were like oh you
get to make all the pieces get to DC for
the Mars and then within hours I had
women from Switzerland and London and
Australia Canada everything else do you
think I want to have a piece because we
want to have a large and women and also
women in Australia were like please
don’t seems to date because we already
bought 10 clean tickets oh my goodness
and it’s just like it became so real as
it’s so fast like all of it just
escalated so quickly and all so exciting
but it was also a little daunting
because you’re in it you’re in the thick
of it and you’re like watching this
thing go completely viral right I’m just
thinking to yourself like oh my god like
I is this like really happening like am
i really like doing this am I really on
a call with the New York Times right now
and so am i doing talking to people like
you know like we had one woman Theresa
heard who’s the vice president at Intel
for their creative agency and she was
like one of the first people to reach
out she’s like I’ve got people like you
could help you with your branding your
logo your commercial csa all this thing
and I’m just like how isn’t like I’m
supposed to be making the food right
fast that’s making the commercial not
healthy for Duisburg like this is crazy
but that’s what was so powerful about
our move
and I mean this was everything people
stepping up and taking action and saying
here’s what I can do and you know
whether with people like me that was
sheriff or fashion designers you know
mom yoga teachers I mean people like
police’ with her skill that’s just the
creative visionary like helping make our
logo that’s just like so iconic at this
way mm-hmm everybody lending their
skills in whatever path ii just helped
make this happen and we did it and we
did it he was like less than three
months with three major holidays between
like state I remember being I cook
Thanksgiving every year my grandma’s
kitchen like you know I was holding a
conference call for 200 people that I’ve
ever talked to in my life
when I was prepping Thanksgiving dinner
Wow putting myself on you when I was
talking and trying to do all the
toppings of sauteing and all the loud
stuff not like I was in I was in the
Dominican Republic for Christmas and I
was like waking up at 5:00 in the
morning to get on state calls with folks
in Europe and fearlessness it was not so
I mean and all of us were dealing with
that with our family and our friends
being like what is going on and for me
as a small business owner I really have
to make a choice and say am I going to
give up the time of year where I make a
third of my income for the whole years
between November and January am I going
to give that helped put this mark on and
you did you yeah you absolutely did and
before we break from this first segment
tell us what the results are what was
the numbers of people that showed up on
that day after the inauguration Wow I
mean
thank you an exact number I know DC
they’re estimating like 1.2 million we
had about five million people register
as they marched around the world but I
can tell you right now that that number
was probably closer to six maybe even
seven and I’ll tell you right now patty
like I was getting emails women all
around the world women in Russia women
in Sahai not even saying I couldn’t
register my Mars but on Mars
like I wrapped my dog around the block
in the basement I mean we tackle but
it’s not a new writing I’m like this is
real like these women literally and you
look at right now what’s happening to
folks in China like the government is
basically scoring them in a sense that
if you attend some sort of protest like
that like you’re you’re knocked down
ratings based on the government anybody
that is affiliated with you also just
stock down I mean this is crazy time
we’re living them but women’s rights are
under his half and I’ll tell you right
now we do not have five million people
marching around the world because of our
current President of the United States
like that was also really small thinking
right so that feels so many issues women
around the world are dealing with when
we’re talking about gender violence or
clean water or weeks of freedom
representation like all these issues
climate change I mean we had those
scientists and Antarctica marching like
they can see climate change happening in
front of their eyes right that’s why
they must I mean it was so powerful
right so powerful and it just so that
when women come together with
absolutely in it and that’s the beauty
of this is is that this there’s there’s
a whole shift that has taken place so
when we come back we’re going to talk
more about this amazing time and the
role that you’ve continued to play in it
so stay with us we’ll be right back
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patty Schmucker you’re listening to
radio am beyond healthy life net
I’m here with Brianne Butler of the
director of capacity building and board
member for women’s March and we’ve been
talking about the women’s March that
took place after the inauguration and
has now become a movement brand tell us
a little bit about what’s happened since
since January of this year and and this
uh this amazing movement that’s taking
place sure I mean yeah I think it’s safe
to say that we haven’t really had a
problem finding reasons to either hit
the streets or do any kind of organizing
was just everything that’s happening
around the world especially here in the
United States I mean it really felt like
as soon as the March was done it was
like then I think it was the next week
the Muslim ban happened and so everybody
was heading to JFK and LAX and all the
major airports lawyers going and
spending
complete nights on the floors of Airport
trying to work with folks that were
worried about getting detained since
then too we also had a huge today for
International Women’s Day we had a huge
strike that we ended up doing a
nationwide strike where we called on
women to not go to work or school if
they could and if they couldn’t afford
to do that for whatever reason then at
least to wear red in solidarity or help
support
just unkind of women-owned business that
maybe couldn’t close for the day so we
found that our day without a women I was
really powerful because a lot of men hit
me out the more like oh my god I had no
idea how much y’all did like I had a
tough day today not everybody here like
I can’t believe that all of my female
co-workers do so much every day like the
office didn’t feel the same without them
I’m where we’re trying to make a point
of yeah like exactly you need to think
about what it’s like without us and what
we do and then and talk about things
like equal pay and represent
representation and what that means for
us when did you think that was the first
time the United States had a really
strong presence for International
Women’s Day and you mentioned right and
you said in the earlier segment which I
thought is really powerful is that this
this whole momentum is not just about
who’s sitting in the White House but
about so many issues around the world
that affect the quality of life for
women and as a result the quality of
life for humankind
exactly I mean it’s really big so
eye-opening when you again talk to women
especially outside of the US and the
issues they’re dealing with and some of
it is a bit of foreshadowing and saying
like this this person in the u.s. don’t
be blind or things that we’re above it I
mean especially it breaks my heart you
look at what’s happening the women in
Venezuela right now I mean it’s
absolutely devastating but we’ve seen
just their entire country just crumble
in a lot of ways our entire economy and
the governance of all of it it’s just
collapsing and of course women are
disproportionately affected by that I
mean every issue really and that’s why
one of the reasons why it was
women’s Mars it certainly wasn’t
excluding men or people that didn’t
identify it either gender but we wanted
to say that like love women are the most
marginalized community in the world
right and you want to take that step
further and talk about black women are
in business women are Muslim women like
then way worse but women in general
needs to be leading and we need to be
representing ourselves and our issues
we’re sick of having folks these on
behalf of us as sometimes sometimes we
want to be able to talk about our own
issues and really just have a strong
presence women make up half of this
world like we should have equality is
crazy but I mean it’s also been exciting
because – January 2016
I’m definitely seeing shifts and women
you know just happen they want to talk
about what is running for office I mean
oh my god in the US alone I mean and
it’s been really cool because even one
of our organizers for women’s marks
Florida she’s also on her national team
he’s running for office in Florida her
district and it’s a flippable district
like he’s going to turn that red from
red to blue and that’s powerful and we
just see all of that happening and this
wave of women really stepping up you
want to talk about times up and the me –
movement what’s happening there I mean
women are really starting to finally
understand that when we come together we
support each other and when we support
the most marginalized among us then we
argue equality I mean again if we
liberate the rights of an indigenous
woman and we liberate the rights of a
white woman like obviously those two are
just this is kind of intersectionality
and things it’s been really good having
these conversations – from Abby’s
educational moment when we’re on the
ground talking to a lot of women
especially white women
I mean I think it’s important to note
that a lot of people that either
organized or embark on women’s March
that was the first time they March and
myself included but another day there’s
nothing wrong with eyes but we need to
stop and recognize and say that we
especially as white women one late to
the game like this might be new to us
but this is a new like civil rights is a
new battle this is something that women
of color particularly have been battling
a long time and that’s Anna and you’re
taught you one of the one of the main
initiatives of this organization is
education and just that you’re you being
able to really convey some of these
important concepts to people and you
have a program specifically called
challenging the white woman tell us a
little bit about that yeah we have a
program a workshop we do called
confronting white womanhood and talk
exactly about these issues in a sense
that it’s really feeling the layers and
believe me this is a very like deep
wound that needs to be filled
not only the US or the country but
particularly between women of color and
weight women deep wound especially since
let’s not forget about the percentage of
women that voted for white women that
voted for Donald Trump it was like I
know I know personally like coming from
Detroit I know that there was a lot of
women of color that did not want to vote
for Hillary but they did because they’re
like we cannot have Trump and I don’t
want to get into like the whole politics
of you know Hillary and Bernie and
whatnot but what I’m saying is women of
color knew what was that risk and guess
what like guess he the first people this
administration was going to go after and
it proves true like the Muslim women
black women black men too
I mean all of those movies were the
first to be affected by the Trump
administration but yeah I think that
that was just a shock for all of us and
again all women like women do that was
for the first time a lot of a lot of
white women women were scared for the
first time when Trump was elected and
again myself included and there’s
nothing wrong with us emphasizing and
recognizing that fear and knowing that
you know a lot of us are seized but in
in that feeling but again we have to
take a pause and recognize that we are
late to the fight and that women of
color have been in this fight and
whether you’re talking about standing
rocks or if you’re talking about
Baltimore oh right right this thing’s
have been happening so much longer than
it since November of 2016 right all
right well we’re going to take another
break and when we’ll come when we come
back we’ll talk about becoming an
activist and what are some of the things
that the women’s March is doing to get
out the votes stay with us we’ll be
right back
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listening to radio a and B on healthy
life net I’m here with Brianne Butler
she is the director of capacity building
and a board member for women’s March and
we’ve been talking about all of the
things that have happened in this last
18 months and the development of the
women’s March Brianne tell us a little
bit about what are the in the
educational component what are you
teaching people about how to become an
activist
so right now the big campaign were
currently working on a cane city tour
where we’re going around the country and
you’re talking with not only our pastors
but I see different partners and
different folks on the ground about a
lot of these I see during work doing
workshops and panels using and then also
doing rallies and just trying to boost
morale time to get people Pumped up and
also talking about getting out to vote
this November for the midterm elections
I know that I’ve had a lot of people
tell me I have never even voted in a
midterm election and I don’t even know I
only vote every four years and that’s
okay it that was your past but moving
forward every single person especially
women
need to be I suppose every election
cycle but the midterm elections are
super important this year a lot of
people don’t understand that midterm
elections often see who is in our center
and our Congress that our representative
on a local level statewide level
regional level and it really does build
up to the presidential election every
four years but especially as women you
know we can’t forget that our
grandmothers voted for our grandmother’s
fought for our right to vote so it’s
really important for us to be using our
vote to shape the way our country is
going so while working on this tour
we’ve already assumed you see past
weekend we went to North Carolina which
was really powerful we’ve been to Ohio
we started the tour off in Las Vegas
with a big rally on our anniversary so
it’s been really exciting and it’s
really great to be going to these red
states where that are often overlooked
and oftentimes are disregarded
especially from folks living in more
urban area so it’s been a really
powerful and helpful to be traveling
around and talking to folks directly on
the ground the issues that they are
challenged them issues are important to
them what have you but as far as as far
as you know talking to people about
getting involved I think it’s important
to recognize that step one is again
understanding that everybody can make a
difference and whether your difference
is something small whether even if it’s
in your home just talking to you know a
racist uncle or whatever like that that
right there is something that everybody
can do but as far as making a difference
on a bigger level that is also something
that everybody has the power and the
fire inside of them to do
so it’s important to be inspiring and
just making sure to meet people where
they’re at is saying like look what are
the skills you have like how that can
defy to activism I mean for me as it
sounds like I’m not a tech person I’m
not a computer person like and the
thought of even making a spreadsheet is
like talking to me even having women
during the March planning or what have
you say hey like I can do this I can
make this spreadsheet that will organize
the buses or I can do XYZ I mean all of
those are skills that you wouldn’t think
it but those are all places where people
can even plug into that might be doing
that on on the daily for their job or
whatever their business so we really
focus really focusing on on what your
particular skill set is and being able
to come together with other people and
figure out how you can lean in and make
a contribution sounds like it is the
first place again talking about in the
last segment how people of color have
been in the civil rights the hello for a
long long long time decades like there’s
a lot of community meetings that happen
on a weekly bi-weekly monthly basis that
folks can definitely attend and even
just sit there observe listen and say
I’m here to help if you need me and I
love that that’s and have such an
important thing because I I joined a
group at the beginning of the year
called the nasty church ladies and
actually the the real emphasis of this
group is let’s listen let’s hear one
another and and and one of the biggest
things I one of my very very best best
friends as a very strong devout
Republican and we actually have been
able to come to a point of talking and
listening to one another and I’ve
learned things from her but she’s also
learned from me and I think that’s
probably one of the biggest parts of
this this piece about showing up and
being able to learn that
skill set absolutely and also I should
say this is another layer of it a still
up but be be mindful of how you show up
mm-hmm it’s really too I’ve seen that
happens where people come to these
meetings and they don’t know anybody or
anything and they might be sort of a
Type A personality and that’s great like
again a lot of the women that are in the
leaders two goals and women’s March are
type a they’re very strong-willed and
that’s good so we need that energy and
of course you know people Butthead
you’re not going to agree on everything
but it’s really important that when you
go to these meetings again to show up as
an ally and say what do you need to help
don’t throw up thinking that you’re
going to save the world and you’re gonna
like you know with this event in the
safe or what-have-you like I mean you’re
guests in these meetings especially when
you want to talk about community
meetings that have been happening a long
time you are there as a guest and it’s
really important to to show up just to
show up and say what do you need what do
you need help length and not so up to
say oh well we need you to come to our
events or we need you to do X or we need
you to come to this like I think that
that’s another mistake I’ve seen happen
and that oftentimes is a very naive
mistake or coming from a place of oh I
just thought that whatever but it’s
again important because right now we
really especially between white people
and people of color there needs to be a
trust that’s built again and we need to
be filling up in their spaces saying hey
we are allies like we are here to use
whatever skills you need or any kind of
privilege we can offer to help make this
event but we’re I do you know whatever
we’ve and your efforts or kind of like
barge in and do it better and bigger
like all those things are you know just
missing the point completely it’s
important to respect the work that has
been done and the work that is going to
continue
would be done yes and that and I and I
love that and on that note we’ll take
another break but I love the idea that
respect the work that’s already been
done because there’s a lot of movement
that’s already taken place when we come
back we’ll talk about some of the
partners that the women’s mark March is
looking for and what some of their plans
are for moving forward stay with us
we’ll be right back
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hi there it’s Patti Schmucker and you’re
listening to radio a and B on healthy
life net
I’m here with bran Butler she is the
director of capacity building and a
board member for the women’s March and
we have been talking about the things
that have happened since the women’s
March came together bran tell us a
little bit about some of the partners
that that you are working with and that
you would like to be working with to
continue some of your efforts because we
have hundreds of centers but it’s really
exciting because you’ve got folks from
national initiative to folks from
grasses in essence what was the name of
the ladies you meet with the nasty
church ladies I mean a lot a lot of just
really really grasses local
organizations have financed a partner
for whether it’s our convention or the
power to the cold campaign were working
on or any kind of March and it’s really
exciting I mean I think that one of the
powerful things about women’s March and
we are a semester and it’s been cool
because a lot of our partners even were
like you know work we’ve never actually
worked with this person
we’ve never even heard of this
organization even though we’re all in
alignment I’m working on the same get
together so it was really cool to be
able to see that happening as a
relationship building that happened as a
result of women’s March because it truly
was an umbrella and bringing a lot of
these people from different sectors
together and it was also cool to see
like you know organizations that might
be in the fight for reproductive freedom
tacking and interact
with folks and the fight for racial
justice or climate change and so that
was also really cool to be able to
assist lots of transformation of
activists and organizers that might be
just so focused on one issue and really
see those conversations happening about
other people and there it seems that
they’re fighting on and working around
it was really just beautiful to us and
see and we have our unity principles
which we created during the March
planning and it’s they’re really just
really beautiful I encourage everyone to
look at them on our website but we
talked about reproductive rights LGBT
rights workers rights civil rights
disability rights immigrant rights etc
so to really just bring partners from
all of those different backgrounds
together for womens Marge and I also
have even people in those faces help us
create our strategy around the unity
principle was also really powerful to
have a different perspective and those
voices and really trying to make us as
inclusive and as intersectional as
possible what are some of the things
that you did for you personally what are
some of the things that I’ll have been
the greatest
OHA’s I mean I think that I’ve already
talked about Rena ban was just like
watching again and these women of color
that have been in the spice for so long
I mean I’ve even just recently had an
aha moment I was watching the
documentary on a field also back more
rising and just watching these black
women and men doing the exact same pants
that we’ve been doing the past year and
a half and the same mark cries and rally
cut ties and watching them
completely like you know tase or
whatever like by the police and having
all of this just chaos around them and
the tension being felt from them doing
that and literally fearing for their
lives and their safety and it was a
little bit humbling to see like just a
year and a half later you know we have
people going to rallies and marches over
the weekend and shouting out these this
amazing historical chance and they don’t
have that fear and they don’t have you
know the worry of oh my god am I going
to get am I going to get shot or am I
going to get hurt or am I going to get
beat up or am I gonna be thrown in jail
like that fear is not there so it’s
definitely it’s important to again just
respect the work that’s been happening
and the sacrifices that have been made
and to really brush up on history I mean
and to be honest I I’m excited I
actually am taking a summer course at
Cornell this summer around diversity and
inclusion just to try to understand and
learn more about it but I learn everyday
even just reading articles or reading
books listening to podcasts or shows
like this one and just just a few
different women that have been in these
spaces and different ages to like
talking to older women and listening
about their struggles if they had and
just the evolution of feminism in
general has been really powerful but I
think that every day it’s important to
just listen and really listen with your
heart and absorb this knowledge and
absorb our history and respect and honor
what the women before us have done and
how we can carry that porch moving
forward one of my favorite moments of
planning the March was when elder
Bernice King dr. king’s daughter got on
the call with all of us and said you all
are picking up the courts but my father
left behind when he was assassinated and
it’s so important that you don’t drop
that torch because
and drops the past 50 years and we can’t
let it drop again it’s our duty to make
sure that we keep parents carrying that
baton and pass it along to the next
people and you don’t know who who the
next war is dying on Angela Davis is in
a room and again that’s why it’s so
important to not look at people’s
credentials or what they’ve done or the
hive and done just be a passionate open
mind somebody that wants to contribute
and help because you don’t know when you
light some is inner fire you don’t know
what that flame could turn out to be and
the effect that could have and the lives
that could be impacted and changed from
that so it’s so important to not
disregard people or you know suspend
judgment or try to try to just really
see the human soul for what it is and
not have the big buzz and stereotypes
around it bran thank you it’s really
delightful to listen to you and you know
some of the things that you touched me
today with you know really listen with
your heart and learning about history
because you know history is not that
long ago I’m just barely 60 and I
remember the day that the Anita Hill and
Clarence Thomas a trial took place and I
remember how it was a water moment it
was a watershed moment and my career
went in a different direction as a
result of this so thank you thank you
for the work that you’re doing thank you
for sharing your time today
and thanks for being with us and telling
you great all right well that’s going to
do it for us today get out and vote one
way or another no matter what it’s
important and next week join me as we
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