{"id":151,"date":"2016-01-17T05:45:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T05:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=151"},"modified":"2016-01-23T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T20:56:02","slug":"this-week-as-an-artivist-oscarssowhite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/this-week-as-an-artivist-oscarssowhite\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week as an Artivist 1\/16\/16: #OscarssoWhite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5SRV2MSthks?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSCRIPT<\/strong><br \/>\nSo did anybody see that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8hSEus9jvHc\">La Guardia\u00a0Cross video<\/a> this week? It&#8230;ahm&#8230;has <em>toddler<\/em> in it.\u00a0This man having a conversation with his\u00a0toddler. I&#8217;m gonna put a link in the\u00a0description box. It&#8217;s freaking amazing and\u00a0so first of all his graphic skills\u00a0are incredible. His editing skills are\u00a0incredible. So I&#8217;m gonna use him as a\u00a0model &#8211; use his videos as a model. Also just<br \/>\nhis baby is so amazing.<\/p>\n<p>So I started looking at some earlier\u00a0videos he did and he started off on Youtube &#8211; one of his <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ReoDonFcHmg\">first videos<\/a> was saying,\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to be a musician and\u00a0I promise you that in a year from now I\u00a0will have had success. It&#8217;s really really\u00a0cool. So I got inspired by that\u00a0and actually at the end of this video today\u00a0I&#8217;m gonna tell you my goals for next\u00a0week. So I&#8217;m not exactly going with the year\u00a0approach &#8211; although in my head I have what I\u00a0want to do in a year &#8211; but with these\u00a0videos I&#8217;ll try to end with my goals for\u00a0the upcoming week and then we can see if\u00a0I actually did them or not.<\/p>\n<p>Okay see? My camera&#8217;s trying to make\u00a0this hard for me today and told you I have these goals; one of them is to do\u00a0these videos once a week and it&#8217;s\u00a0already proving to be a little bit hard, but I&#8217;m going to do it anyway! So I just\u00a0recorded the whole video and then I went\u00a0back and only half of it was recorded because I\u00a0didn&#8217;t have enough space. So now there is\u00a0a whole different\u00a0lighting and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, ANYWAY it&#8217;s not about the lighting is it? It&#8217;s\u00a0about this week as an ARTIVIST. Alright so I&#8217;m gonna get back into it.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday evening I got called &#8211; I think I told you last week &#8211; I got\u00a0called to replace an actor for a reading\u00a0and the reading is at a local theater and it\u00a0was in consideration of doing this play\u00a0there. And I loved the piece. So it&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samuelfrench.com\/p\/16717\/luck-of-the-irish\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The\u00a0Luck of the Irish&#8221;<\/a> by Kirsten I think\u00a0it&#8217;s (Kuhr-stin) might be (Keehr-stin)\u00a0Greenidge Kirsten Greenidge and takes place in the 1950s\u00a0and today. Back in the 1950s\u00a0this Black couple, wealthy Black couple,\u00a0gets this poor Irish couple to buy their\u00a0house for them\u00a0because they were going to be discriminated\u00a0against &#8211; they we&#8217;re going to be able to\u00a0get it so the Black couple pays the Irish couple some\u00a0money and then the Irish couple goes, gets the deed. Once the\u00a0deed is done, it&#8217;s their house and you know\u00a0their neighbors have to deal with that\u00a0then, but at least they own the house. Well in\u00a0present-day, the grand daughter of &#8211; one of\u00a0the granddaughters &#8211; of that Black couple\u00a0is living in the house, raising her\u00a0family there and the old woman now of\u00a0that Irish couple shows up and says, &#8220;We\u00a0never signed the deed over to you. The\u00a0house actually still belongs to us. Now that your\u00a0grandmother died,\u00a0grandparents died, we want my house back. It&#8217;s a really powerful peace and I was happy\u00a0to be a part of it. Of course it&#8217;s the work\u00a0that I do. I love doing work that really\u00a0makes us think and talk about and\u00a0hopefully take action around race and\u00a0racism and discrimination. So this was\u00a0really, really cool and I was very proud to\u00a0be part of that. OK.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Globes and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oscarssowhite?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag\" target=\"_blank\">Academy Awards<\/a>. The\u00a0Golden Globes took place this week and the\u00a0Academy Award nominations came out this\u00a0weekend. I mean I have very little to\u00a0say other than I am so tired of a system\u00a0that does not value and support and even\u00a0acknowledge the stories of anybody who is not White &#8211; and also the people who are making\u00a0those stories are anyone but White men and I&#8217;m tired of it. And I&#8217;m working on some\u00a0solutions because I think that&#8217;s important.\u00a0I also think it&#8217;s important to complain. I have a\u00a0lot of friends &#8211; because I&#8217;m\u00a0vocal about it on social and I have a lot of<br \/>\nfriends who are like, &#8220;You just always talk\u00a0about it.&#8221; And I&#8217;m like, &#8220;No. I also do things, but<br \/>\ntalking about it is important as well.\u00a0See they say that to you so you\u00a0won&#8217;t talk about it; you won&#8217;t complain\u00a0about it. And they get to just hang out\u00a0and be like, &#8220;Everything&#8217;s cool. I don&#8217;t\u00a0hear any complaints about it.&#8221; Oh no. We\u00a0need to get loud about it and we need to\u00a0take action. So I can talk about some of\u00a0the action I&#8217;m taking. I can&#8217;t talk about\u00a0all of it, but when I can, believe me I\u00a0will. Certainly like one of the things I\u00a0do is directly call out the folks that I\u00a0know that are in positions of power that\u00a0can do something about this I call them<br \/>\nout and I also speak to them personally\u00a0and say, &#8220;What are you going to do about<br \/>\nthis?&#8221; and &#8220;Here are some suggestions&#8221; So\u00a0this whole award thing is\u00a0frustrating because I have chosen\u00a0profession that in some ways needs some\u00a0kind of validation from that in order to\u00a0move forward, in order to make a living\u00a0at this. At the same time I am, you know, more and more\u00a0getting to the point where I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Let\u00a0me find ways to work outside the system\u00a0because the system is not meant for\u00a0folks like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monday I applied to a\u00a0screening series that will take place in\u00a0Brooklyn. Applied with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Drop of Love<\/a>\u00a0live theater show that we filmed and I&#8217;m\u00a0really proud of it. And we had ninety\u00a0percent women working on the set.\u00a0And our Editors and pretty much\u00a0everyone who worked on it is a woman and\u00a0it looks good. It looks good.\u00a0My friend Carol was the director and I&#8217;m\u00a0just really proud of it. So wish us\u00a0luck and I&#8217;ll keep you posted on that.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night I watched &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0810819\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Danish Girl<\/a>&#8221; and let me\u00a0tell you one thing that I can watch\u00a0is <em>marginalized<\/em> White people. Because even though on one hand here&#8217;s this\u00a0White man who identifies as a woman &#8211; and\u00a0what she did was amazing in terms of\u00a0being like, &#8220;This is who I am,&#8221; &#8211; but at the\u00a0same time, it&#8217;s not lost on me that when\u00a0you look like that, you are able to&#8230; it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>easier<\/em> for you than it is for other\u00a0folks who don&#8217;t look White and don&#8217;t present\u00a0to the world as White &#8211; it is easier for\u00a0you to say, &#8220;Hey, I was born a\u00a0man &#8211; what the world calls a man &#8211; but that&#8217;s not who I\u00a0am. And it&#8217;s amazing, so I am down with\u00a0watching movies about marginalized White\u00a0people. That&#8217;s why I liked &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3170832\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\">Room<\/a>&#8221; too.\u00a0If you saw &#8220;Room&#8221; &#8211; same thing. Like, &#8220;Ok, I can watch this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK so I got some good news and some\u00a0bad news.<\/p>\n<p>One of the shows in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesaartscenter.com\/index.php\/shows\/performing-live\/one-drop-of-love\" target=\"_blank\">Mesa<\/a> got canceled\u00a0due to low sales and I told you already\u00a0the last time there was practically no one in the audience &#8211; and\u00a0this time they are keeping two of the shows:\u00a0a morning and night show on Friday, but\u00a0they did cancel the Saturday show and the good news is: this time I&#8217;m not blaming myself.\u00a0I&#8217;m not blaming the show. I know I have a good show I&#8217;m confident about the show.<\/p>\n<p>And also I am ending the relationship with\u00a0my agents. I&#8217;ve been represented by one of the top agencies in LA &#8211; well, not &#8216;I&#8217; &#8211; the SHOW &#8211; has\u00a0been represented by one of the top\u00a0agencies in LA for about two and a half\u00a0years and I am so grateful to them. It&#8217;s<br \/>\nbeen great, but I am hopeful and\u00a0feel really good and confident about working <em>without<\/em> them, too. So, we&#8217;ll see.\u00a0It was definitely an ego blow. Like you feel rejected, you feel like, obviously there&#8217;s something\u00a0about this and maybe about me that is\u00a0not working out with you, but at the same\u00a0time I feel\u00a0like this is an opportunity to show me\u00a0and my team what we can accomplish\u00a0together without this powerful agency\u00a0behind us and I feel like we are gonna\u00a0be able to do it.<\/p>\n<p>OK here&#8217;s the not-fun\u00a0part about being an artivist is you do\u00a0have to market yourself and your\u00a0projects because nobody else is gonna do it for you, and\u00a0there&#8217;s no budget for it to be done. So I\u00a0released a One Drop video &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PZzQQks_q5s\" target=\"_blank\">Team One Drop<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0with Dr. Chandra Crudup &#8211;\u00a0released that on Wednesday and then and\u00a0I scheduled it to go out many, many\u00a0times on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onedropoflove\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OneDropofLove\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, on\u00a0Pinterest, on Tumblr. I&#8217;m learning\u00a0through watching YouTube videos watching\u00a0other you to people &#8211; that&#8217;s what you\u00a0have to do to get people to watch the\u00a0videos and if people watch the videos you\u00a0go higher up on the rank on Youtube so then if somebody types in racism or gender\u00a0questions, they&#8217;ll say, Hey\u00a0you should watch this video.&#8221; So it&#8217;s all&#8230;not my favorite part of being an artivist but,\u00a0it is an important part and I&#8217;m ok with\u00a0doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by La Guardia Cross\u00a0and his incredible toddler, I am going to\u00a0make goals &#8211; not for the whole year like\u00a0La Guardia Cross did &#8211; but for the next week.\u00a0So next week when I check in I&#8217;ll\u00a0let you know how I did in terms of\u00a0meeting these goals. So I am going to get<br \/>\nnice and organized now that I am my own\u00a0agent, and now that I have Lilah<br \/>\nworking as a Booking Consultant, we&#8217;re gonna\u00a0get organized and make a calendar for<br \/>\n2016 that will include places that have\u00a0already requested the show and some date<br \/>\npotentials for those as well as: what are\u00a0our dream places? where do we want<br \/>\nto see the show go? We&#8217;re going to get\u00a0those ideas down so I&#8217;m gonna have a list<br \/>\nby next week of like my BIG dream places to\u00a0take the show and then the following<br \/>\nweeks&#8230;well I&#8217;m not going to say the following weeks because I want to make\u00a0this goal realistic and doable so we&#8217;re gonna\u00a0do that. And for the Social Justice\u00a0Theater and Media channel, I&#8217;m going to\u00a0finish my script for Occidental College\u00a0which I&#8217;ll explain when you see the video, but\u00a0Oxy College, so ask me next week, &#8220;Did\u00a0you do your script for Oxy College?&#8221; because I&#8217;ve got to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>OK. What are your goals this week? Do you have goals as an Artivist?\u00a0What are the ways that you&#8217;re going to advance social justice out there in the\u00a0world and also nurture yourself as a\u00a0creative person, as an artist. What are\u00a0you doing this week?\u00a0Tell me in the comments. Ask a question.<\/p>\n<p>Make a video &#8211; and tell me and\u00a0I&#8217;ll put it in the playlist and have a\u00a0great, great, great week.<br \/>\nStrength. Courage. Justice. We GOT this you all. We GOT this. Alright. Talk to you next week. 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