Episode 3 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 Rhaisa Williams, assistant professor of performing arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Williams engages performance studies, black feminism, and political theory to examine the intersections between black motherhood, desire, and freedom in the United States. Her work has been supported by the Ford and Mellon foundations, and has appeared in Callaloo and Transforming Anthropology. Currently, Williams is working on her book manuscript, which examines the social performances of black maternal grief and their mobilizations towards various political and performative ends. Her research interrogates archives within literature, personal family history, social policy, and print media.

You can find all current episodes in season one here.