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  Talk a little bit about the significance of that social and historical context?  I spent a lot of time talking about intersectionality which is the idea that was developed first by Kimberle Crenshaw, who is at Columbia, and is really grounded in Black feminist studies. The whole idea is that there are multiple, interlocking systems of oppression. It’s not additive, it’s multiplicative, right? You can’t can’t separate somebody’s race from their sex, right? So thinking about racism and sexism and the interacting effects of that is different than just racism or sexism. The joint impacts of racism and sexism actually have a long-lasting influence on practices around feminine care, for lack of a better word. And a lot of that also goes back to the time of slavery. Odors around the vagina. They’re considered dirty or bad for everybody, right? So there’s a lot of misogyny. When white slave owners were creating racial categories—which are arbitrary—they were totally created as ...

 In the last months, some farm and construction workers have moved out the state because of fears around the law. Before Idalia made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend on Wednesday morning, Latino and immigrant rights organizations in the state worried about the law potentially limiting their ability to help immigrant families prepare for the storm. Twenty-five of these organizations sent a letter to DeSantis asking him to "issue a public statement suspending immigration enforcement by state and local authorities" in areas where a state of emergency has been declared and where residents are evacuating, sheltering or returning to their homes after the storm. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the actions of immigration enforcement agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, released a statement Tuesday reminding the public that "ICE and CBP do not conduct immigration enforcement activities at protected areas...