{"id":205,"date":"2016-03-06T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=205"},"modified":"2016-03-06T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T19:14:16","slug":"this-week-as-an-artivist-3516-haircut-nina-simone-native-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/this-week-as-an-artivist-3516-haircut-nina-simone-native-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week as an Artivist 3\/5\/16: Haircut, Nina Simone, Native Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3mnq98kXbpM?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><strong>TRANSCRIPT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>0:00:00.000,0:00:06.029<br \/>\nHappy <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistorymonth.gov\/\">Women&#8217;s History Month<\/a>! Yay! DO it<br \/>\nwomen. Let&#8217;s DO it! All right.<\/p>\n<p>0:00:06.029,0:00:13.870<br \/>\nOh my goodness did you see this? Check it<br \/>\nout. Yeah I got a hair cut. Yeah. My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/erinatheyhair.com\/\">Erin Athey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:00:13.870,0:00:20.789<br \/>\ndoes my hair and she&#8217;s so great at it<br \/>\nand she loves CURLS, which is more and<\/p>\n<p>0:00:20.789,0:00:24.580<br \/>\nmore common, but it&#8217;s been a<br \/>\nreally hard time finding somebody who<\/p>\n<p>0:00:24.580,0:00:29.460<br \/>\nactually enjoys doing my hair and she does<br \/>\nand I love her, so links to her, of course<\/p>\n<p>0:00:29.460,0:00:35.090<br \/>\nbelow (<a href=\"http:\/\/erinatheyhair.com\/\">http:\/\/erinatheyhair.com\/<\/a>). So first of all I saw a play &#8211; you know I like to go see my shows the<\/p>\n<p>0:00:35.090,0:00:39.290<br \/>\nfirst one was &#8220;Colony Collapse&#8221; at the<br \/>\nBoston Court Theatre. The other play<\/p>\n<p>0:00:39.290,0:00:44.750<br \/>\nI saw is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1L1QUgU\">They Don&#8217;t Talk Back<\/a>&#8221; and this<br \/>\nis part of Native Voices at the Autry<\/p>\n<p>0:00:44.750,0:00:52.690<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just&#8230;I just sit and watch and think &#8211;<br \/>\nit is so sad to me that I only get to<\/p>\n<p>0:00:52.690,0:00:58.949<br \/>\nsee something like this once or twice a<br \/>\nyear. This was beautiful and unique and<\/p>\n<p>0:00:58.949,0:01:03.640<br \/>\nthey incorporated movement, incorporated<br \/>\nmasks. So if you&#8217;re in Los Angeles I<\/p>\n<p>0:01:03.640,0:01:07.930<br \/>\nthink it&#8217;s a short run, it&#8217;s just<br \/>\nplaying through the end of March but<\/p>\n<p>0:01:07.930,0:01:12.670<br \/>\nthen it&#8217;s going to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lajollaplayhouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> La Jolla Playhouse<\/a> and it&#8217;s<br \/>\nalso going to be in <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QA8KZ1\" target=\"_blank\">Anchorage, Alaska<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:01:12.670,0:01:17.400<br \/>\nwhich is where the writer is from. So<br \/>\ncheck it out, Native Voices that the<\/p>\n<p>0:01:17.400,0:01:23.939<br \/>\nAutry. Alright tonight I&#8217;m going to my<br \/>\nschool. Cal State LA. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve<\/p>\n<p>0:01:23.939,0:01:27.590<br \/>\ntalked to you about where I got my MFA,<br \/>\nso I got my<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calstatela.edu\/academic\/tvft\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"> MFA at California State<\/a><br \/>\n0:01:27.590,0:01:33.180<br \/>\nUniversity Los Angeles. It is the<br \/>\ncheapest MFA in the entire country, so<\/p>\n<p>0:01:33.180,0:01:36.909<br \/>\nthat makes it unique in and of itself;<br \/>\nthe other great thing is that Cal State<\/p>\n<p>0:01:36.909,0:01:44.640<br \/>\nLA is very, very diverse and an inclusive<br \/>\nenvironment socioeconomically, racially<\/p>\n<p>0:01:44.640,0:01:50.630<br \/>\nand culturally, age-wise it&#8217;s a<br \/>\nwonderful campus and tonight they&#8217;re<\/p>\n<p>0:01:50.630,0:01:55.070<br \/>\ndoing their MFA alumni awards and<br \/>\nso I&#8217;m going to that and I&#8217;m always down<\/p>\n<p>0:01:55.070,0:02:00.719<br \/>\nfor supporting my school, so I&#8217;m excited<br \/>\nto go to that. I just&#8230;I&#8217;m&#8230;so many<\/p>\n<p>0:02:00.719,0:02:04.750<br \/>\npeople have talked about this already,<br \/>\nand I just want to kind of like, leave<\/p>\n<p>0:02:04.750,0:02:08.569<br \/>\nit here for posterity, and also to see if<br \/>\nI change my mind<\/p>\n<p>0:02:09.179,0:02:13.450<br \/>\non this later on because I think it&#8217;s a<br \/>\ngood healthy thing to grow and<\/p>\n<p>0:02:13.450,0:02:19.530<br \/>\nevolve &#8211; but it makes me really sad that<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1LCy6VL\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Saldana was cast as Nina Simone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>0:02:19.530,0:02:24.920<br \/>\nNow I know how this business works. I<br \/>\nknow it so well and I know that this is<\/p>\n<p>0:02:24.920,0:02:30.019<br \/>\nnot entirely of Zoe Saldana&#8217;s doing,<br \/>\nand that there was lots of pressure to<\/p>\n<p>0:02:30.019,0:02:34.430<br \/>\ndo the role and also that she felt like<br \/>\nshe could do that role. And I never<\/p>\n<p>0:02:34.430,0:02:38.109<br \/>\nwant to take away from another actor &#8211;<br \/>\nbecause I know what it feels like to<\/p>\n<p>0:02:38.109,0:02:43.250<br \/>\nhave somebody not believe in you to be<br \/>\nable to deliver on a performance &#8211; but<\/p>\n<p>0:02:43.250,0:02:50.220<br \/>\nunfortunately they made the really bad<br \/>\ndecision to\u00a0 put black face on her. I mean I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:02:50.220,0:02:54.549<br \/>\nlike, look &#8211; if you&#8217;re confident that you<br \/>\ncan play this role? Don&#8217;t put blackface,<\/p>\n<p>0:02:54.549,0:03:00.290<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t put on prosthetics, like, let<br \/>\nNina Simone&#8217;s essence come out of you.<\/p>\n<p>0:03:00.290,0:03:08.329<br \/>\nBut more importantly, Nina Simone fought<br \/>\nagainst racism and colorism and shadeism<\/p>\n<p>0:03:08.329,0:03:15.169<br \/>\nand that was an important part of who she was as a<br \/>\nperson and her activism, so to cast<\/p>\n<p>0:03:15.169,0:03:21.909<br \/>\nsomebody who is representative of the<br \/>\nsystem that the lighter you are, the<\/p>\n<p>0:03:21.909,0:03:26.139<br \/>\ncloser you are to white, the more<br \/>\nattractive you are, the more acceptable<\/p>\n<p>0:03:26.139,0:03:30.849<br \/>\nyou are, the more you can sell tickets &#8211; it<br \/>\njust is wrong. Obviously I don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>0:03:30.849,0:03:36.150<br \/>\nNina Simone personally, but her family<br \/>\nhas spoken out against it and it&#8217;s just<\/p>\n<p>0:03:36.150,0:03:41.930<br \/>\na really unfortunate situation, and it<br \/>\njust felt like an insensitive response.<\/p>\n<p>0:03:41.930,0:03:48.060<br \/>\nI think for me, one of the most<br \/>\nheartbreaking things about racism is a<\/p>\n<p>0:03:48.060,0:03:55.099<br \/>\nlack of sensitivity, and Nina Simone<br \/>\nherself couldn&#8217;t have wouldn&#8217;t have been<\/p>\n<p>0:03:55.099,0:04:00.310<br \/>\ncast or paid the amount of money<br \/>\nthat Zoe Saldana got paid, like not even<\/p>\n<p>0:04:00.310,0:04:06.790<br \/>\ntoday. It was just really unfortunate and<br \/>\nI support Zoe Saldana in other roles, and<\/p>\n<p>0:04:06.790,0:04:11.540<br \/>\nthe work she does, she&#8217;s a great actor &#8211;<br \/>\nbut this was a bad choice and a painful<\/p>\n<p>0:04:11.540,0:04:12.160<br \/>\none<\/p>\n<p>0:04:12.160,0:04:19.019<br \/>\nand insensitive. Let&#8217;s all be more<br \/>\nsensitive to each other. I published a<\/p>\n<p>0:04:19.019,0:04:24.600<br \/>\nQ&amp;A session with my very good friend<br \/>\nTanya McRae this week on <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/21Q9Hn8\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Presidential<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/21Q9Hn8\" target=\"_blank\">Mixedness&#8221;<\/a> check that out, it&#8217;s under the<br \/>\nOne Drop of Love playlist here on the<\/p>\n<p>0:04:30.000,0:04:35.460<br \/>\nchannel. I backed a<a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/21O0Yyl\" target=\"_blank\"> Kickstarter project<\/a>.<br \/>\nCheck it out in the links. So this young<\/p>\n<p>0:04:35.460,0:04:41.490<br \/>\nwoman Nijla Mu&#8217;min &#8211; I hope I&#8217;m saying<br \/>\nher last name correctly &#8211; Nijla Mu&#8217;min &#8211; and<\/p>\n<p>0:04:41.490,0:04:47.500<br \/>\nhomegirl works, like she&#8217;s making her own<br \/>\nopportunities and she&#8217;s already raised<\/p>\n<p>0:04:47.500,0:04:52.090<br \/>\nlots of funds for the movie, but YOU can<br \/>\nhelp out too. We talk about the<\/p>\n<p>0:04:52.090,0:04:57.310<br \/>\nproblems, here is a solution. When a<br \/>\nfilmmaker is sharing their own story,<\/p>\n<p>0:04:57.310,0:05:03.940<br \/>\nmost importantly she&#8217;s telling her truth,<br \/>\ntelling her story &#8211; and not letting<\/p>\n<p>0:05:03.940,0:05:08.660<br \/>\nsomebody else tell it for her. So please<br \/>\nback her project called Jinn and there<\/p>\n<p>0:05:08.660,0:05:14.060<br \/>\nare links to that below, or if you don&#8217;t<br \/>\nhave the funds, then please share it and<\/p>\n<p>0:05:14.060,0:05:16.590<br \/>\nencourage your friends and family to<br \/>\nsupport it.<\/p>\n<p>0:05:16.590,0:05:21.740<br \/>\nOK this was week two of my new job Head of<br \/>\nEquity and Inclusion of Pearl Street<\/p>\n<p>0:05:21.740,0:05:27.790<br \/>\nProductions, and this was a good week.<br \/>\nSo I had a good phone call with Matt an<\/p>\n<p>0:05:27.790,0:05:32.830<br \/>\nBen and got approval on the things that<br \/>\nI laid out, that I want to get done in this<\/p>\n<p>0:05:32.830,0:05:37.320<br \/>\nfirst year. And I&#8217;ll talk about that a<br \/>\nlittle bit more because one of the<\/p>\n<p>0:05:37.320,0:05:41.000<br \/>\nthings that I want to do is make our<br \/>\ncommitment to equity and inclusion<\/p>\n<p>0:05:41.000,0:05:46.260<br \/>\ntransparent to everybody, so one of the<br \/>\nthings I&#8217;m working on is giving us an<\/p>\n<p>0:05:46.260,0:05:50.820<br \/>\nonline presence that is specifically<br \/>\nabout this commitment we&#8217;re making and<\/p>\n<p>0:05:50.820,0:05:55.030<br \/>\nso we&#8217;ll have a place where people can go &#8211; it<br \/>\nis not about being congratulated or<\/p>\n<p>0:05:55.030,0:05:58.770<br \/>\nrewarded for the work, but, I<br \/>\nwant there to be a place where people<\/p>\n<p>0:05:58.770,0:06:02.070<br \/>\ncan go and look at our numbers and look<br \/>\nat our data and say,<\/p>\n<p>0:06:02.070,0:06:06.350<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;re not doing very well in this area,&#8221;<br \/>\nor &#8220;Hey this is great!&#8221; I had a couple of<\/p>\n<p>0:06:06.350,0:06:11.330<br \/>\ngood phone calls with friends to<br \/>\ninitiate some other things that I want to<\/p>\n<p>0:06:11.330,0:06:15.870<br \/>\nget done and also I made a list of<br \/>\nfestivals and conferences that I want to<\/p>\n<p>0:06:15.870,0:06:19.700<br \/>\nattend, so of course I&#8217;ll vlog a<br \/>\nlittle bit from those conferences and<\/p>\n<p>0:06:19.700,0:06:24.190<br \/>\nevents. And I&#8217;m so excited about the job. I feel really good about it and I feel like I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:06:24.190,0:06:25.960<br \/>\ngonna get some good things done.<\/p>\n<p>0:06:25.960,0:06:31.160<br \/>\nAlright you all, this was another This<br \/>\nWeek as an Artist &#8211; thanks for watching.<\/p>\n<p>0:06:31.160,0:06:36.030<br \/>\nShare it if you like it, subscribe to the<br \/>\nchannel or give a thumbs up if you like<\/p>\n<p>0:06:36.030,0:06:36.440<br \/>\nit,<\/p>\n<p>0:06:36.440,0:06:45.290<br \/>\nadd comments if you want to, and you&#8230;YOU&#8230;<br \/>\nyou keep doing your good work.<\/p>\n<p>0:06:45.290,0:06:51.200<br \/>\nTell us if you need support, tell us what<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re up to. Yeah. Kick BUTT. GO Women&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:06:51.200,0:06:55.390<br \/>\nHistory Month! If you&#8217;re a woman,<br \/>\ncelebrate yourself, Sister! If you&#8217;re a<\/p>\n<p>0:06:55.390,0:07:00.600<br \/>\nman, celebrate a woman BIG time. Let her<br \/>\nknow how important she is. Let her know<\/p>\n<p>0:07:00.600,0:07:05.140<br \/>\nthat you support her, and don&#8217;t just say<br \/>\nit DO it. All right you all, have a<\/p>\n<p>0:07:05.140,0:07:09.090<br \/>\nwonderful, wonderful week and I&#8217;ll talk<br \/>\nto you next week. Bye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT: 0:00:00.000,0:00:06.029 Happy Women&#8217;s History Month! Yay! DO it women. Let&#8217;s DO it! All right. 0:00:06.029,0:00:13.870 Oh my goodness did you see this? Check it out. Yeah I got a hair cut. Yeah. 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