{"id":1564,"date":"2009-03-21T15:12:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T20:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2009-03-21T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T20:12:33","slug":"liveblogging-closing-thoughts-from-esther-ai-jen-and-hiphop-artist-toni-blackman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/03\/21\/liveblogging-closing-thoughts-from-esther-ai-jen-and-hiphop-artist-toni-blackman\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblogging: Closing Thoughts from Esther Broner, Ai-jen Poo, and HipHop Artist Toni Blackman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.toniblackman.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/nextgen-gallery\/nggshow.php?pid=23&amp;width=250&amp;height=&amp;mode=\" alt=\"\" \/>With only 15 minutes left, it&#8217;s time to sum up.\u00c2\u00a0 (But how?!)<strong> Esther Broner <\/strong>remarks, &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m with my daughter up here (reaches out to hold Ai-jen Poo&#8217;s hand).\u00c2\u00a0 I was interested in the &#8220;house&#8221; of academe, and you&#8217;re interested in helping those who are breaking down the house&#8230;.&#8221;<strong> Ai-jen Poo&#8217;s <\/strong>closing comment is this: &#8220;Let&#8217;s build a movement, one that&#8217;s strong, and powerful, and has the ability to seize the moment&#8230;!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toniblackman.com\/\">Toni Blackman<\/a><\/strong> (pictured left) &#8212; the first ever hiphop artist to work in an official capacity with the Department of State &#8212; takes the stage, performing a song as she comes on.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;A lot of young artists don&#8217;t realize that you can have a message and not be corny,&#8221; Toni says, and then goes on to prove her point through reciting a poignant poem, &#8220;Invisible Woman,&#8221; in which she ends:<\/p>\n<p><em>I may not be SEEN, but I&#8217;ll be damned if I&#8217;m not heard: The feminine voice in hiphop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Video rolls (MUST SEE! MUST SEE!):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoid=53293574\">Invisible Woman\/Je Suis Une Femme Invisible<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/mediaservices.myspace.com\/services\/media\/embed.aspx\/m=53293574,t=1,mt=video,searchID=,primarycolor=,secondarycolor=\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only 15 minutes left, it&#8217;s time to sum up.\u00c2\u00a0 (But how?!) Esther Broner remarks, &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m with my daughter up here (reaches out to hold Ai-jen Poo&#8217;s hand).\u00c2\u00a0 I was interested in the &#8220;house&#8221; of academe, and you&#8217;re interested in helping those who are breaking down the house&#8230;.&#8221; Ai-jen Poo&#8217;s closing comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveblogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}