Ilia Danner Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Norman Grubbs discuss the intersectionality of Kate Chopin’s works through two of her short stories.

INTRODUCTIONS

KNOWING:

• Working definition and significance of intersectional feminism
  • Kimberlé Crenshaw Article: Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
  • Telegraph Article

• Brief biography of Kate Chopin
  • Bio on the Kate Chopin International Society website: https://www.katechopin.org/biography/ 
  • PBS interviews about her:  https://www.pbs.org/katechopin/interviews.html 

READING:

1. Summary of “La Belle Zoraide”
2. Summary of “Desirée’s Baby”
3. Discussion

PASSING ON:

• Katie: Toni Morrison’s Recitatif
• Victoria: Beyond the Magnolias
• Ilia: Chiminanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk: “We should all be Feminists” 
  • Also KateChopin.org for more information on her and links to her works and many articles and books about them.

POST PRODUCTION NOTE:  We are saddened to hear just a few days after recording this episode that Toni Morrison died at age 88.  Morrison was a trailblazer and a hero to generations of women.  She broke barriers as an editor, a writer, a woman of color, and a teacher.  At the end of her Nobel Prize address, she said, “We die.  That may be the meaning of life.  But we do language.  That may be the measure of our lives.”

Rest in power, Toni Morrison.