Episode 2 of Kitchen Table, a feminist podcast that aims to nourish the soul in troubled times, is now available. In the first season, hosts Michelle McKinley, CSWS director and professor of law at University of Oregon, and Shoniqua Roach, assistant professor of African and African American studies at Brandeis University, talk with feminist researchers on the topic of black feminist ethics in the era of COVID-19.

Episode 2 features Mireille Miller Young, associate professor of Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. Mireille Miller-Young is a former UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow who researches and teaches about race, gender, and sexuality in US history, popular and film cultures, and the sex industries.  Her groundbreaking book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography (Duke University Press, 2014), was awarded the Sara A. Whaley Prize for Best Book on Women and Labor by the National Women’s Studies Association and the John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book by the American Studies Association. Dr. Miller-Young is co-convener of the New Sexualities Research Initiative as well as the Black Sexuality Studies Collective at UC Santa Barbara, and she is a former convener of the Black Sexual Economies Project at Washington University School of Law. Serving on the editorial boards of journals like Porn Studies and Signs, as well as book series like Screening Sex (Edinburgh University Press) and Feminist Media Studies (University of Illinois Press), Miller-Young has won prizes for her research and teaching, including UCSB’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

You can find all current episodes in season one here.