{"id":2466,"date":"2019-11-06T11:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:43:07","slug":"the-costs-of-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"The Costs of Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2500\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Barbara-smith_Blackboard.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2500\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Barbara-smith_Blackboard-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Barbara-smith_Blackboard-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Barbara-smith_Blackboard.jpeg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Smith, Black Feminist institution builder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we have been talking abut the labor of printing and digital expression vis-a-vis the Adair\/Nakamura essay, I thought it pertinent to point your attention to the activism around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithcaringcircle.com\/about.html\">creating a retirement fund for black feminist Barbara Smith<\/a>, who was a co:founder both of The Combahee River Collective AND Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a fundraising post, but a reminder that influence and even fame don&#8217;t always put food on the table and that caring for the elders who uplifted us is also feminist\/activist practice. Very successful feminists like Ntozake needed a circle of care and support as they got older and unpaid \/invisible labor isn&#8217;t just theory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have been talking abut the labor of printing and digital expression vis-a-vis the Adair\/Nakamura essay, I thought it pertinent to point your attention to the activism around creating a retirement fund for black feminist Barbara Smith, who was a co:founder both of The Combahee River Collective AND Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,64,463,593,586],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barbara-smith","tag-black-feminism","tag-feminist-history","tag-feminist-legacies","tag-feminist-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}