Back on 7 January of this year, I met with Notre Dame professor Ashley Bohrer to discuss her book, Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality Under Contemporary Capitalism. Given this was the day after the white-supremacist attack on the Capitol, I had a hard time focusing strictly on her book and ended up asking her how her ideas can still be useful in a world that's so completely polarized. At the time, this seemed like a good idea, but as I was editing the conversation for this episode I began to worry that I hadn't done enough to get the ideas from her book into the conversation. As it turns out, I learned more from this conversation than I'd originally suspected, and I hope you all will find it as helpful as I did. You won't learn a ton about her book or about Marxism or intersectionality in particular, but you'll learn a great deal about how an activist navigates what are often tricky political waters, something I hope you'll fine equally as valuable.

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