{"id":2426,"date":"2019-10-30T11:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:51:50","slug":"this-midnight-oil-rewriting-cherrie-moraga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"this midnight oil \/ Rewriting Cherr\u00ede Moraga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2428\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture.jpg 755w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>we write letters to each other \/ incessantly \/ across a kitchen table \/ third wrld feminist strategy \/ is plotted.<\/p>\n<p>we tlk long hours \/ into the night \/ it is when this midnight oil is burning \/inthoseafterhours \/ that we secretly reclaim our goddesses \/ and our female-identified \/ cultural tradition<\/p>\n<p>\u201ci got myself home, \/ lit me some candles \/ \u2026 \/ put on sum<\/p>\n<p>dinah and \/ aretha\u201d (rushin)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cBetween the Lines: <em>On Culture, Class, and Homophobia<\/em>\u201d in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherr\u00ede Moraga describes the limitations of a strictly racialized reading of a woman\u2019s experience. In this passage, Moraga describes the act of turning towards each other for \u201cstrength and sustenance\u201d (102) as we search for our desire to have \u201call [our] sisters of color actively identified and involved as feminists\u201d (102). Adopting Shange\u2019s poetic style of writing, I chose this passage to emphasize the act of coming together through mediums of letters, music, or the spoken word. By deconstructing the original structure, including the quote by Rushin, I can now read Moraga and Rushin\u2019s writing in the way it makes me feel; the words now dance and move and pause in a way that expresses a collectiveness, a warmth inherent in what we desire \u201cthird wrld feminist strategy\u201d to be. It is \u201cto write letters \/ to tlk long hours \/ put on sum dinah and \/ aretha\u201d that we move past fractured images of the self, where our \u201cwhole\u201d identities can meld into a single movement that acknowledges and is fueled by this \u201cmidnight oil,\u201d this difference, that is learned through these mediums.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we write letters to each other \/ incessantly \/ across a kitchen table \/ third wrld feminist strategy \/ is plotted. we tlk long hours \/ into the night \/ it is when this midnight oil is burning \/inthoseafterhours \/ that we secretly reclaim our goddesses \/ and our female-identified \/ cultural tradition \u201ci got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,8,57],"tags":[315,10,493,572],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments","category-blogposts","category-student-blogpost","tag-cherrie-moraga","tag-shange","tag-third-world-feminism","tag-this-bridge-called-my-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}