{"id":1778,"date":"2018-10-01T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2018-10-01T13:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:06:43","slug":"shange-and-the-world-wide-feminist-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"Shange and the World Wide Feminist Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\" style=\"line-height: 200%\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family: 'Times',serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1779\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/kFranklin_WorldPeace-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/kFranklin_WorldPeace-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/kFranklin_WorldPeace.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"line-height: 200%\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family: 'Times',serif\">It was hard to re-imagine the legendary, brilliant, and transformative Shange who is more of a symbol than a person to me, to be a human being that exists in the same room that I exist in. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever had the honor of talking to, let alone eating lunch with and asking questions to any other person whose vast creativity shaped a generation. I am deeply shook and grateful to have shared space with Ntozake Shange. Through her bright storytelling, I image she lived the life that every aspiring creative Black radical woman wants to live: running from famous dance class to dance class (being idolized at each), reading poetry to crowds across the country, and celebrating and conversing with other famous and brilliant minds. I\u2019m know I\u2019m idolizing Shange\u2019s life, but it was magical to see a glimpse of that reality and to see a glimpse of her mind, unedited. She didn\u2019t answer questions like I\u2019d expect, she added brilliant twists. When a classmate asked about different feminisms I expected her to go ahead and trash capitalist feminisms as I\u2019ve seen many other radical speakers do before. Instead, while she acknowledged post-question that not all types of feminism are good or actually feminism, she thought of a world in which different people\u2019s feminisms could converse with each other (not become one another), but form a coalition. She said something like this, \u201cIf men get to have the United Nations, we should get to have a feminist coalition.\u201d While she says she can\u2019t imagine a world that without oppression, I would think that a world-wide\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family: 'Times',serif\">feminist coalition would be a part of that world. This is one of many of her thoughts that stuck with me past lunch. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was hard to re-imagine the legendary, brilliant, and transformative Shange who is more of a symbol than a person to me, to be a human being that exists in the same room that I exist in. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever had the honor of talking to, let alone eating lunch with and asking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}