{"id":198,"date":"2016-02-28T19:35:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T03:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-02-28T19:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T03:36:49","slug":"this-week-as-an-artivist-22716-new-job-self-care-mixedness-the-mountaintop-black-girl-movement-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/this-week-as-an-artivist-22716-new-job-self-care-mixedness-the-mountaintop-black-girl-movement-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week as an Artivist 2\/27\/16: New Job, Self Care, Mixedness, The Mountaintop, Black Girl Movement Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iWuRWpHAkg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nTRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p>0:00:00.000,0:00:04.960<br \/>\nGood morning Artivists! What&#8217;s up you all? It&#8217;s a little bit late because my birthday<\/p>\n<p>0:00:04.960,0:00:10.530<br \/>\nwas on Friday and so I didn&#8217;t make a<br \/>\nvideo on Friday or &#8211; usually I make them<\/p>\n<p>0:00:10.530,0:00:16.260<br \/>\non Friday nights and then I upload them<br \/>\non Saturday, but I was relaxing with my<\/p>\n<p>0:00:16.260,0:00:22.460<br \/>\nhusband, so I am uploading this one today on Sunday. But it&#8217;s still &#8220;This Week as an<\/p>\n<p>0:00:22.460,0:00:25.180<br \/>\nArtivist&#8221; I&#8217;m still gonna go through<br \/>\neverything I did this week. So first of<\/p>\n<p>0:00:25.180,0:00:31.910<br \/>\nall: I started my job on Monday &#8211; my brand<br \/>\nnew job &#8211; and I am Head of Equity and<\/p>\n<p>0:00:31.910,0:00:36.559<br \/>\nInclusion for Pearl Street Productions.<br \/>\nPearl Street is the production company<\/p>\n<p>0:00:36.559,0:00:42.230<br \/>\nowned by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. It&#8217;s<br \/>\ngoing to be an interesting ride y&#8217;all. The good<\/p>\n<p>0:00:42.230,0:00:46.829<br \/>\nnews is I&#8217;ve known Matt and Ben since we<br \/>\nwere &#8211; let&#8217;s see&#8230;I met Matt when I was<\/p>\n<p>0:00:46.829,0:00:52.989<br \/>\nabout nine years old, so the good news is<br \/>\nthey know me, they know my politics, they know my<\/p>\n<p>0:00:52.989,0:00:59.750<br \/>\npassions, they know what I stand for and<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ve agreed to bring me on in this<\/p>\n<p>0:00:59.750,0:01:04.250<br \/>\nposition to help make change in the<br \/>\nentertainment industry. I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re<\/p>\n<p>0:01:04.250,0:01:10.799<br \/>\ncoming along for this ride with us and<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll keep these videos going and let you<\/p>\n<p>0:01:10.799,0:01:14.090<br \/>\nknow how it goes. Speaking of which,<br \/>\nliterally the day that I signed my<\/p>\n<p>0:01:14.090,0:01:18.840<br \/>\ncontract this came out. If you haven&#8217;t<br \/>\nread <a href=\"http:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/pages\/~\/media\/MDSCI\/CARDReport%20FINAL%2022216.ashx\" target=\"_blank\">this study<\/a> it&#8217;s incredibly<\/p>\n<p>0:01:18.840,0:01:22.710<br \/>\nimportant if you&#8217;re in the<br \/>\nentertainment industry or interested in<\/p>\n<p>0:01:22.710,0:01:29.290<br \/>\nbeing in the entertainment industry. It is breaking down &#8211; with clear data &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>0:01:29.290,0:01:40.079<br \/>\nthe numbers of women, women over 40, LGBTQ<br \/>\nrepresentations, representations by race<\/p>\n<p>0:01:40.079,0:01:47.689<br \/>\n\/ ethnicity and it&#8217;s really well done,<br \/>\nvery clear. What I really appreciate<\/p>\n<p>0:01:47.689,0:01:53.310<br \/>\nis that at the end they provide a bullet<br \/>\nlist for solutions.<\/p>\n<p>0:01:53.310,0:02:00.119<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s really going to be helpful to<br \/>\nme &#8211; here we go &#8211; &#8220;Solutions for Change&#8221; and<\/p>\n<p>0:02:00.119,0:02:05.789<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s awesome because it&#8217;s important to<br \/>\ntalk about the disparities and the<\/p>\n<p>0:02:05.789,0:02:09.259<br \/>\nproblems, but it&#8217;s also important to talk<br \/>\nabout what we&#8217;re gonna do to change that.<\/p>\n<p>0:02:09.259,0:02:12.360<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ll be using this quite a bit in my<br \/>\nnew job.<\/p>\n<p>0:02:12.360,0:02:17.550<br \/>\nAlso this week I had a meeting for Mixed<br \/>\nRoots Stories &#8211; the LA site committee for<\/p>\n<p>0:02:17.550,0:02:20.459<br \/>\nthe Critical Mixed Race Studies<br \/>\nconference. So Critical Mixed Race<\/p>\n<p>0:02:20.459,0:02:27.870<br \/>\nStudies is a nonprofit that really<br \/>\nencourages the academic study and a<\/p>\n<p>0:02:27.870,0:02:32.930<br \/>\ncritical lens on mixedness. If<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t know me well, this is really<\/p>\n<p>0:02:32.930,0:02:41.080<br \/>\nimportant to me that we absolutely<br \/>\nacknowledge who we are as mixed folks. So<\/p>\n<p>0:02:41.080,0:02:48.500<br \/>\nmy mom is White. She identifies as<br \/>\nCherokee, Danish and Blackfoot Indian. My<\/p>\n<p>0:02:48.500,0:02:55.980<br \/>\ndad is Jamaican &#8211; he&#8217;s Black, and I&#8217;m mixed<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m Black and I&#8217;ve got White in me<\/p>\n<p>0:02:55.980,0:03:01.239<br \/>\nand I think that&#8217;s an<br \/>\nimportant experience to talk about, but<\/p>\n<p>0:03:01.239,0:03:07.670<br \/>\nwith a critical, &#8217;cause I think<br \/>\nsometimes when we talk about it we don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:03:07.670,0:03:13.980<br \/>\nsee how we see ourselves only in our own<br \/>\npersonal bubble &#8211; and it&#8217;s important to<\/p>\n<p>0:03:13.980,0:03:18.840<br \/>\nunderstand the context of race and<br \/>\nculture and the things that have<\/p>\n<p>0:03:18.840,0:03:23.940<br \/>\nhappened in this country (if that&#8217;s where<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re living) and across the world that<\/p>\n<p>0:03:23.940,0:03:27.769<br \/>\naffect the choices we make around<br \/>\nidentity. So anyway: the Critical<\/p>\n<p>0:03:27.769,0:03:35.130<br \/>\nMixed Race Studies conference is going<br \/>\nto be in in LA in 2017, and the<\/p>\n<p>0:03:35.130,0:03:41.260<br \/>\nnonprofit that I co-direct called<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Stories<\/a> is doing the arts<\/p>\n<p>0:03:41.260,0:03:45.019<br \/>\nand cultural programming for the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/criticalmixedracestudies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed Race Studies<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n<p>0:03:45.019,0:03:51.400<br \/>\n2017 in February. I&#8217;ll talk about it<br \/>\na lot as it comes up &#8211; so we had an LA<\/p>\n<p>0:03:51.400,0:03:56.340<br \/>\nsite committee meeting on Monday at USC,<br \/>\nand it was great. We&#8217;re starting to talk<\/p>\n<p>0:03:56.340,0:04:00.299<br \/>\nabout who should be invited, Keynote<br \/>\nspeakers, how can we really spread the<\/p>\n<p>0:04:00.299,0:04:04.740<br \/>\nword and get the word out more about the<br \/>\nconference. So if you&#8230;check it out, there<\/p>\n<p>0:04:04.740,0:04:09.050<br \/>\nare links there if you&#8217;re interested, if you want<br \/>\nto hear more about it, let me know and we<\/p>\n<p>0:04:09.050,0:04:13.030<br \/>\nwill bring you on board &#8211; we&#8217;re looking for<br \/>\nvolunteers, we&#8217;re looking for people who<\/p>\n<p>0:04:13.030,0:04:16.820<br \/>\nare excited about it and I&#8217;ll tell you<br \/>\nmore later. OK I want to talk a little<\/p>\n<p>0:04:16.820,0:04:23.670<br \/>\nbit about self-care, because I&#8217;m not<br \/>\ngreat at it, but I intend to be, and<\/p>\n<p>0:04:23.670,0:04:27.230<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s important. For me<\/p>\n<p>0:04:27.230,0:04:36.730<br \/>\nself-care is nutrition, exercise and<br \/>\nspiritual health, and so I started at a gym<\/p>\n<p>0:04:36.730,0:04:44.440<br \/>\nLast Monday. Well, I definitely hurt myself<\/p>\n<p>0:04:44.440,0:04:49.890<br \/>\nafter the first couple of days, and then<br \/>\nhad to take a few days off, but it&#8217;s great<\/p>\n<p>0:04:49.890,0:04:53.520<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s a women&#8217;s gym and I really<br \/>\nappreciate that everyone really<\/p>\n<p>0:04:53.520,0:04:58.290<br \/>\nkind of pushes each other. It&#8217;s called<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkiron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pink Iron <\/a>here, if you&#8217;re in LA check it out and then<\/p>\n<p>0:04:58.290,0:05:04.660<br \/>\nalso I&#8217;ve got this thing where ok during<br \/>\nthe week I am eating healthy meals which<\/p>\n<p>0:05:04.660,0:05:12.060<br \/>\nfor me a good balance for me are: a good<br \/>\namount of protein, lots of vegetables,<\/p>\n<p>0:05:12.060,0:05:19.130<br \/>\nand a tiny bit of grains &#8211; a tiny bit of<br \/>\ncarbs, so that&#8217;s gonna be during<\/p>\n<p>0:05:19.130,0:05:23.940<br \/>\nthe week. And then on the weekend I let<br \/>\nmyself enjoy myself so I&#8217;ll get a mocha,<\/p>\n<p>0:05:23.940,0:05:28.020<br \/>\nwhich I try not to drink a lot of<br \/>\ncaffeine, will get a mocha, have a glass<\/p>\n<p>0:05:28.020,0:05:32.120<br \/>\nof wine, some sweets and enjoy myself.<br \/>\nChocolate. Chocolate is always a good<\/p>\n<p>0:05:32.120,0:05:37.540<br \/>\nthing. So anyways SELF CARE. What do you<br \/>\ndo for self care? I&#8217;d love to hear. OK you<\/p>\n<p>0:05:37.540,0:05:41.050<br \/>\nknow I like to go see theater as much as<br \/>\npossible,<\/p>\n<p>0:05:41.050,0:05:48.090<br \/>\nand I saw The Mountaintop. It&#8217;s playing<br \/>\nat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixtheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matrix theater<\/a> until April 10 here<\/p>\n<p>0:05:48.090,0:05:53.330<br \/>\nin LA. So if you&#8217;re in LA please go see<br \/>\nit. It&#8217;s by Katori Hall. It takes place<\/p>\n<p>0:05:53.330,0:06:00.039<br \/>\nthe last evening before Martin Luther<br \/>\nKing Junior is assassinated, and he gets<\/p>\n<p>0:06:00.039,0:06:05.560<br \/>\na visit from a woman &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell you<br \/>\nmuch more about it to not spoil it, but<\/p>\n<p>0:06:05.560,0:06:12.509<br \/>\nthe woman &#8211; the character is incredible. I<br \/>\nthink she&#8217;s one of the strongest, most<\/p>\n<p>0:06:12.509,0:06:20.120<br \/>\ncomplex and beautifully developed Black<br \/>\nwomen in theater &#8211; who&#8217;s specifically<\/p>\n<p>0:06:20.120,0:06:27.199<br \/>\nwritten as a Black woman &#8211; and this woman:<br \/>\nDanielle Truitt plays Ca&#8217;Mae and she&#8217;s just<\/p>\n<p>0:06:27.199,0:06:32.800<br \/>\nincredible and Larry Bates is also great. He<br \/>\nplays Martin Luther King Jr. Without<\/p>\n<p>0:06:32.800,0:06:37.259<br \/>\nquestion, though, Daniel Truitt steals<br \/>\nthe show. This production is also<\/p>\n<p>0:06:37.259,0:06:40.940<br \/>\ndirected by Roger Guenvere Smith. There were not enough people in the<\/p>\n<p>0:06:40.940,0:06:46.069<br \/>\ntheater when we went, so PLEASE go see<br \/>\nthis. Support them. Spread the word. If<\/p>\n<p>0:06:46.069,0:06:50.000<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re not in LA, see if anybody&#8217;s doing<br \/>\nthis show. They&#8217;re doing it at the<\/p>\n<p>0:06:50.000,0:06:53.490<br \/>\nMatrix for Black History Month &#8211; you don&#8217;t<br \/>\nneed to only see it on Black History Month,<\/p>\n<p>0:06:53.490,0:06:59.969<br \/>\nyou should see it anytime. It&#8217;s so good. Oh<br \/>\nmy gosh! April 7 through 9, 2016 I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:06:59.969,0:07:04.270<br \/>\nlooking at my phone &#8217;cause I want to<br \/>\nread this to you. There is the<a href=\"http:\/\/iraas.columbia.edu\/Event\/black\" target=\"_blank\"> Black Girl\u00a0Movement Conference<\/a> in New York. It&#8217;s<br \/>\nbeing held at Columbia University &#8211; which<\/p>\n<p>0:07:10.250,0:07:15.240<br \/>\nis my school!!! I went to Teachers College &#8211; yayyy! So, &#8220;Black Girl Movement &#8211; a national<\/p>\n<p>0:07:15.240,0:07:19.569<br \/>\nconference is a three-day gathering at<br \/>\nColumbia University in New York City to<\/p>\n<p>0:07:19.569,0:07:24.750<br \/>\nfocus on Black girls, cis, queer and<br \/>\ntrans girls in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>0:07:24.750,0:07:32.990<br \/>\nBringing together, artists, activists &#8211; ARTIVISTS! &#8211;<br \/>\neducators, policymakers and Black girl<\/p>\n<p>0:07:32.990,0:07:37.029<br \/>\nleaders themselves. This first national<br \/>\nconference on Black girls seeks to<\/p>\n<p>0:07:37.029,0:07:42.520<br \/>\naddress the disadvantages that Black<br \/>\ngirls in the United States face while<\/p>\n<p>0:07:42.520,0:07:47.139<br \/>\ncreating the political will to publicly<br \/>\nacknowledge their achievements,<\/p>\n<p>0:07:47.139,0:07:52.420<br \/>\ncontributions and leadership.&#8221; Alright I<br \/>\nknow you can read yourselves, but I just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>0:07:52.420,0:07:58.730<br \/>\nI read that and I get excited every time I<br \/>\nread that. So links for everything down<\/p>\n<p>0:07:58.730,0:08:04.590<br \/>\nbelow. What are your goals? What&#8217;s going<br \/>\non? What have you achieved as Artivists?<\/p>\n<p>0:08:04.590,0:08:11.230<br \/>\nKeep up this great, great, incredible, important<br \/>\nwork we do &#8211; and wish me luck on this new job.<\/p>\n<p>0:08:11.230,0:08:18.420<br \/>\nand on staying in shape &#8211; staying FIT and I&#8217;ll talk<br \/>\nto you next week. Bye bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT: 0:00:00.000,0:00:04.960 Good morning Artivists! What&#8217;s up you all? 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