{"id":2284,"date":"2019-09-21T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:40:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T13:40:31","slug":"taylor-post-on-bcrw-discussion-with-cherrie-moraga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Post: On BCRW Discussion with Cherri\u00e9 Moraga"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0During Cherri\u00e9 Moraga\u2019s discussion, Ntozake Shange\u2019s words continued to surface in me:<\/div>\n
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\u201cthat\u2019s what I means that black folks cd dance\/ it don\u2019t mean the slop or the hully gully\u2026.\/it don\u2019t mean just what we do all the time\/<\/em><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s how we remember what cannot be said<\/em><\/div>\n
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That\u2019s why the white folks say it ain\u2019t got no form\/ what was the form\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
of slavery\/ what was the form of Jim Crow\/ & how in the hell<\/em><\/div>\n
wd they know\u2026 “<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In these words, I read that there are forms of knowledge, ways of being and loving and communicating\u2014moving and being moved\u2014 that happen beyond this language\u2014which exist beyond the written word. There is a form beyond.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But in a society whose reason still rests upon enlightenment era conceptions of truth, evidence and thought, it is too easy for people to call these forms of knowledge invalid\u2014if the word is not written it is not considered real. But I know that sometimes the body of evidence most relevant to the debate is my own body. I know to value the knowledge, feelings, memories and truths that surface, I know to call them revelatory and vital.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cherri\u00e9 Moraga brought to bear the ways in which students are often surfacing and sharing wealths of knowledge all of the time and that their institutions at large often cannot or will not support it. That fostering those sites of knowledge production is vital but underperformed. She brought to bear that there are so many ways and forms of being and living and loving and knowing that are \u201ctoo much for this world\u201d, \u201cto queer\u201d, to expansive, colorful\u2014and to me, what this all meant was that there are\u00a0ways of knowing and loving that, as Audre Lorde might say, \u00a0are too full<\/em> for this world.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Or perhaps, Lorde would say that they are too erotic<\/em>.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 Alexis Pauline Gumbs may say they are forms which threaten to spill<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Either way, what I took away from the experience was that it is I\/we must continue to \u201cwrite what [we] keep knowing\u201d as Moraga said that night. That even when I am made to feel so wrong and too wild for the classroom, “we keep writing what we keep knowing\u201d and keep finding ways of communicating those things beyond language. For, as Moraga said those spaces where we feel contradiction\/friction between what we know to be true about this world \u00a0and what other institutions (like the academy, for example) tell us is true, produce consciousness and help us cultivate consciousness and feminist analysis. That consciousness helps us \u201cgo home\u201d,\u00a0explore our origin story and (re)produce knowledges which help us \u201cget free\u201d.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0During Cherri\u00e9 Moraga\u2019s discussion, Ntozake Shange\u2019s words continued to surface in me: \u201cthat\u2019s what I means that black folks cd dance\/ it don\u2019t mean the slop or the hully gully\u2026.\/it don\u2019t mean just what we do all the time\/ It\u2019s how we remember what cannot be said That\u2019s why the white folks say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[528],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-blogpost","tag-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}