WMC Talks: Time and Power

Who controls our time—and who gets to decide what progress looks like? In this thought-provoking episode of WMC Talks, Soraya Chemaly speaks with acclaimed Black feminist scholar Dr. Brittney Cooper about how race, gender, and power shape our experience of time.

From the relentless speed of social media and Silicon Valley’s obsession with acceleration to the ways political leaders manufacture crises and demand that marginalized communities “wait their turn,” Soraya and Brittney examine how control over time becomes a tool of inequality and oppression. The conversation also examines reproductive rights, voter suppression, and the erosion of democratic deliberation, before turning to a powerful question: Can slowing down, building community, and reclaiming our time become acts of resistance?

Watch Dr. Brittney Cooper's TED Talk "The racial politics of time" here.