{"id":2563,"date":"2019-11-14T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T19:18:47","slug":"blog-prompt-not-required-shange-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Blog Prompt (not required): Shange for the People!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2573\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poetry-for-the-people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2573\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2573\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poetry-for-the-people-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poetry-for-the-people-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poetry-for-the-people.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover to June Jordan &amp; her students&#8217; collection<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some of the Barnard staff involved with the #ShangeMagic project have asked how they can be part of discussions of Shange&#8217;s works given that they don&#8217;t have access to the classes, etc. and have limited time during the day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to compile a selection of some of Shange&#8217;s works for them to have (hopefully we will discuss them over a lunch during the spring). For copyright reasons, I don&#8217;t want to call it a Shange &#8220;reader,&#8221; but maybe it will be a\u00a0 &#8220;Shange mixtape&#8221; in photocopies.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You are welcome to write a blogpost nominating a short excerpt from any of the works we&#8217;ve read this semester.\u00a0 Be as specific as you can, (so not just &#8220;something from <em>for colored girls<\/em>&#8220;), tell me why you think this is a good piece to introduce to people new to Shange&#8217;s work and, maybe, how you would present it to people informally.\u00a0 \u00a0Particularly interested in her writing apart from <em>for colored girls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, don&#8217;t forget about the archive <a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=2347\">Find of the Week!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the Barnard staff involved with the #ShangeMagic project have asked how they can be part of discussions of Shange&#8217;s works given that they don&#8217;t have access to the classes, etc. and have limited time during the day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to compile a selection of some of Shange&#8217;s works for them to have (hopefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,58],"tags":[542,116,428,596],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-assignments","tag-community","tag-june-jordan","tag-liberation","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}