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… Episode #01 Intersectionality with Sophie Withaeckx Language of Conversation: English Begin of Recording. Darian : Good morning, Constance. Constance : Good morning, Darian and welcome to our podcast “Woke as Science”. Darian : Thanks. It's nice to see you again after our last … a rhetorical weapon that we have climate science deniers saying that calls for action in response to climate science or in response to predictions about environmental degradation, catastrophe are super woke. And I think we should read that as meaning they're anti-capitalist and at the same time, they're calling wokeness anti-science. They're on the one hand saying that science or calls to act in response to science is woke or are woke. And on the other hand, wokeness is anti-science. So, I think no … of those ideas that is often misunderstood or used easily or lightly, or also hijacked maybe. And this idea is that of intersectionality. Darian : All right, great. Let's get started. Constance : Yes. Intersectionality has become a commonplace term when talking about social justice and D&I efforts in practice. So, plans that try to address anti-racism or gender equality are now also intersectional. An intersectional framing often as a solution to addressing social justice more holistically or …