{"id":218,"date":"2016-03-19T13:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=218"},"modified":"2016-03-19T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:07:25","slug":"this-week-as-an-artivist-31916-blackradicalimagination-dark-eye-circles-hollywood-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/this-week-as-an-artivist-31916-blackradicalimagination-dark-eye-circles-hollywood-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week As an Artivist 3\/19\/16: #blackradicalimagination, dark eye circles, Hollywood fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tDhbUElxgZU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>TRANSCRIPT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>0:00:00.000,0:00:09.950<br \/>\nHey what&#8217;s up Artivists! How are you all doing? So I&#8217;m curious<br \/>\nwhat happens to you&#8230;so you know Youtube<\/p>\n<p>0:00:09.950,0:00:18.609<br \/>\nmakes suggested videos and I love how Youtube keeps suggesting this effing video on &#8220;How<\/p>\n<p>0:00:18.609,0:00:24.939<br \/>\nto correct dark circles under your eyes&#8221;<br \/>\nand this is crazy because it&#8217;s not like<\/p>\n<p>0:00:24.939,0:00:31.670<br \/>\nI have keywords of dark circles there<br \/>\nanything else. It&#8217;s literally like the<\/p>\n<p>0:00:31.670,0:00:38.570<br \/>\nvideos reading that I have dark circles<br \/>\nand look I am SO not about shaming<\/p>\n<p>0:00:38.570,0:00:46.120<br \/>\nfolks for appearance. And I&#8217;m cool. My dark circles &#8211; first of all are genetic &#8211; so I<\/p>\n<p>0:00:46.120,0:00:50.550<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t take them away. They come from<br \/>\nmy family and I love my family. And<\/p>\n<p>0:00:50.550,0:00:53.420<br \/>\nsecond of all a lot of times they have<br \/>\nto do with the fact that I&#8217;m utterly<\/p>\n<p>0:00:53.420,0:01:03.309<br \/>\nexhausted &#8211; and I&#8217;m cool with that because<br \/>\nI work really hard and that&#8217;s a sign of my hard<\/p>\n<p>0:01:03.309,0:01:08.570<br \/>\nwork. So anyway: just don&#8217;t let those<br \/>\nfreaking recommended videos shame you in<\/p>\n<p>0:01:08.570,0:01:13.790<br \/>\nany way. I guess I wanna say that. Yeah<br \/>\nthey have NOTHING to do with<\/p>\n<p>0:01:13.790,0:01:18.450<br \/>\nyou. They have to do with an aesthetic<br \/>\nthat people have come to believe is<\/p>\n<p>0:01:18.450,0:01:24.240<br \/>\nbeautiful, and it&#8217;s bullshit. Utter bullshit. OK so this week so I went and met<\/p>\n<p>0:01:24.240,0:01:29.909<br \/>\nwith the president of Pearl Street Films<br \/>\nwho I&#8217;ll be working closely with, as we<\/p>\n<p>0:01:29.909,0:01:33.540<br \/>\nwork out what my job entails, and that was really good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>0:01:34.110,0:01:41.710<br \/>\nhowever, things are moving slowly with<br \/>\nthe job and&#8230;they&#8217;re moving slowly<\/p>\n<p>0:01:41.710,0:01:45.810<br \/>\nbecause there&#8217;s a lot of fear about what<br \/>\nI&#8217;m doing and<\/p>\n<p>0:01:45.810,0:01:50.640<br \/>\nand I think also about how to present it<br \/>\nto the public. And it&#8217;s so ironic. The<\/p>\n<p>0:01:50.640,0:01:57.509<br \/>\nfear of announcing and sharing<br \/>\nwith the public that we are taking<\/p>\n<p>0:01:57.509,0:02:05.220<br \/>\nmeasures to try to make more equity in<br \/>\nthe entertainment industry &#8211; that that&#8217;s a<\/p>\n<p>0:02:05.220,0:02:11.860<br \/>\nscary thing to talk about. And I<br \/>\nunderstand there&#8217;s fear about miss-<\/p>\n<p>0:02:11.860,0:02:19.380<br \/>\nreading the intentions, and it&#8217;s just&#8230;<br \/>\nlook if you&#8217;re doing something good and<\/p>\n<p>0:02:19.380,0:02:24.190<br \/>\npeople question your intentions, then<br \/>\njust keep doing the good. That&#8217;s all<\/p>\n<p>0:02:24.190,0:02:28.769<br \/>\nyou can do is keep doing the good &#8211; and certainly reflect and make sure that<\/p>\n<p>0:02:28.769,0:02:33.459<br \/>\nyou are actually doing the things that<br \/>\nyou want to do, making the positive<\/p>\n<p>0:02:33.459,0:02:37.459<br \/>\nimprovements you want to make. And if you are, keep doing it and don&#8217;t worry about<\/p>\n<p>0:02:37.459,0:02:41.810<br \/>\npeople questioning your intentions. But anyway that&#8217;s been really interesting<\/p>\n<p>0:02:41.810,0:02:46.590<br \/>\nand&#8230;no&#8230;no&#8230;it hasn&#8217;t been interesting.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s been really frustrating and<\/p>\n<p>0:02:46.590,0:02:52.190<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll continue to share updates about it<br \/>\nand hopefully it&#8217;ll get better. So I<\/p>\n<p>0:02:52.190,0:02:56.840<br \/>\ntalked about the Nina Simone film<br \/>\nstarring Zoe Saldana couple weeks<\/p>\n<p>0:02:56.840,0:03:00.000<br \/>\nago and I just wanna tell you about &#8211; if<br \/>\nyou haven&#8217;t read it &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>0:03:00.000,0:03:05.049<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theatln.tc\/1Ue8TUb\" target=\"_blank\">Ta-nahisi Coates wrote a beautiful piece<\/a><br \/>\nabout it and I really like that he<\/p>\n<p>0:03:05.049,0:03:10.459<br \/>\ntalks about growing up as a<br \/>\nyoung kid and the perceptions that<\/p>\n<p>0:03:10.459,0:03:16.389<br \/>\nwe have around dark skin, around<br \/>\nparticular features &#8211; those features that<\/p>\n<p>0:03:16.389,0:03:24.799<br \/>\nNina Simone herself had &#8211; and how she<br \/>\namazingly overcame that to be this<\/p>\n<p>0:03:24.799,0:03:30.680<br \/>\npowerful woman who believes in herself.<br \/>\nAnd that WE are to blame for holding &#8211; it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:03:30.680,0:03:35.730<br \/>\nsimilar to what I was talking about with the dark circles &#8211; we are to blame for<\/p>\n<p>0:03:35.730,0:03:42.389<br \/>\nholding onto this perspective of what<br \/>\nbeauty is and we don&#8217;t need to be<\/p>\n<p>0:03:42.389,0:03:46.609<br \/>\nperpetuating that. So anyway I&#8217;m putting a<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theatln.tc\/1Ue8TUb\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to his article about it. It was<\/p>\n<p>0:03:46.609,0:03:51.530<br \/>\nbeautiful. I posted a new one-drop rule<br \/>\nvideo, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1pAXLVs\" target=\"_blank\">How I learned about the one-drop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:03:51.530,0:03:56.460<br \/>\nrule&#8221; by my good friend Rudy Guevarra.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so proud to have him<\/p>\n<p>0:03:56.460,0:04:01.470<br \/>\nhim as part of the series and I love his<br \/>\nresponse. He identifies as Mexipino<\/p>\n<p>0:04:01.470,0:04:04.960<br \/>\nwhich&#8230;I don&#8217;t have a lot of<br \/>\nknowledge of that culture, although I<\/p>\n<p>0:04:04.960,0:04:09.040<br \/>\nread his great book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Rl01fu\" target=\"_blank\">Becoming Mexipino<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nalso there&#8217;s a link to his book here,<\/p>\n<p>0:04:09.040,0:04:14.050<br \/>\ncheck it out. And please watch his video.<br \/>\nSo: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1LlaPYE\" target=\"_blank\">United Solo Theatre Festival<\/a>! I told<\/p>\n<p>0:04:14.050,0:04:20.060<br \/>\nyou last week that we got in, and our date<br \/>\nis October 13 in New York City. If we do<\/p>\n<p>0:04:20.060,0:04:25.770<br \/>\nwell with that show, they&#8217;ll add other<br \/>\nshows. So I had to this week do a lot<\/p>\n<p>0:04:25.770,0:04:29.850<br \/>\nof work to confirm that we&#8217;ll be doing<br \/>\nthe show. That actually took a couple<\/p>\n<p>0:04:29.850,0:04:34.120<br \/>\nhours to put that all together,<br \/>\nbut it is DONE and we&#8217;re doing that show!<\/p>\n<p>0:04:34.120,0:04:40.790<br \/>\nI went to <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1uRfKRL\" target=\"_blank\">MOCA &#8211; the Museum of<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1uRfKRL\" target=\"_blank\"> Contemporary Art<\/a> &#8211; here in Los Angeles to<\/p>\n<p>0:04:40.790,0:04:48.050<br \/>\nsee <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1XDeIZB\" target=\"_blank\">#BlackRadicalImagination<\/a> and this<br \/>\nis a curated &#8211; right now they&#8217;re a set of<\/p>\n<p>0:04:48.050,0:04:51.650<br \/>\nseven films &#8211; and I think they&#8217;re<br \/>\ntraveling across the country and the<\/p>\n<p>0:04:51.650,0:04:59.900<br \/>\nfilms change, but it was so powerful. So<br \/>\nthese are filmmakers who are doing what<\/p>\n<p>0:04:59.900,0:05:07.530<br \/>\nwe might label &#8220;experimental,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iafrofuturism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afrofuturism<\/a>. And these films were great. There was<\/p>\n<p>0:05:07.530,0:05:10.870<br \/>\nthis huge audience. The good news is<br \/>\nMOCA is now making the films available<\/p>\n<p>0:05:10.870,0:05:16.340<br \/>\nonline, so I&#8217;m putting a link to that.Watch<br \/>\nthe films &#8211; they&#8217;re fantastic and<\/p>\n<p>0:05:16.340,0:05:24.870<br \/>\ninspiring. Black stories, <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed roots<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> stories<\/a>, Latinos stories, Native stories<\/p>\n<p>0:05:24.870,0:05:30.160<br \/>\ndo not have to be in a bubble. We<br \/>\nare not ONE thing. We ARE something. We<\/p>\n<p>0:05:30.160,0:05:35.060<br \/>\nare, we have a culture and we have<br \/>\ntraditions, but we are not just one thing.<\/p>\n<p>0:05:35.060,0:05:43.070<br \/>\nAnd so it&#8217;s&#8230;I just love this representation of Blackness in a way<\/p>\n<p>0:05:43.070,0:05:49.020<br \/>\nthat we don&#8217;t see in movies for certain, in<br \/>\nmovies that are distributed widely.<\/p>\n<p>0:05:49.020,0:05:54.030<br \/>\nPlease watch these films. OK that is it. Have a great week.<\/p>\n<p>0:05:54.030,0:06:00.230<br \/>\nTell me what you&#8217;re up to. Mama Trudy: I know you&#8217;re watching these. Can you&#8230;can you interact? Just, y&#8217;know,<\/p>\n<p>0:06:00.230,0:06:06.640<br \/>\ntell me if you like these videos. Please<br \/>\ngive a thumbs up. Pease <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1UHI7Tp\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>0:06:06.640,0:06:07.950<br \/>\nshare the video,<\/p>\n<p>0:06:07.950,0:06:11.350<br \/>\nespecially the one drop &#8211; &#8220;How I learned<br \/>\nabout the one-drop rule&#8221; video and if<\/p>\n<p>0:06:11.350,0:06:14.460<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re interested in sharing your story,<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1pAXLVs\" target=\"_blank\">How I learned about the one-drop rule<\/a>,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>0:06:14.460,0:06:19.630<br \/>\neven if your response is, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never<br \/>\nheard about the one-drop rule&#8221; or your<\/p>\n<p>0:06:19.630,0:06:26.000<br \/>\nresponse, &#8220;I was born into the one-drop rule,&#8221; whatever it is, share it because we would love<\/p>\n<p>0:06:26.000,0:06:31.140<br \/>\nto share it with lots of people. Alright have a great, great, great week and I&#8217;ll talk to<\/p>\n<p>0:06:31.140,0:06:32.340<br \/>\nyou next week. 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