{"id":55,"date":"2018-06-03T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/death-and-numbers\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=55"},"modified":"2020-07-10T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:16:53","slug":"international-womens-history-a-happy-african-feminist","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/death-and-numbers\/podcast\/international-womens-history-a-happy-african-feminist\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s History: A Happy African Feminist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ways in which feminism can be defined, with a focus on the work of prominent Nigerian feminist and author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.<\/p>\n<p>This episode of part of a series on international women\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ways in which feminism can be defined, with a focus on the work of prominent Nigerian feminist and author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 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When I was in primary<br \/>\nschool, my teachers said at the beginning of term that she would give the class a test<br \/>\nand whoever got the highest call would be the class monitor. Now, class money is always a big deal<br \/>\nif you&#8217;re a custom one. So you got to write down the names of noisemakers,<br \/>\nwhich was heavy enough power and its own boards. My teacher would also give<br \/>\nyou a kid to hold in your hand while you walked around and patrol the classroom. Noisemakers.<br \/>\nNow, of course, you were not actually allowed to use the king, but it was an exciting prospect<br \/>\nfor the 9 year old me. I very much wanted to view the class monitor and I got<br \/>\nthe highest score on the test. Then to my surprise, my teacher said that the monitor had to be a boy.<br \/>\nShe had forgotten to make that clear earlier because she assumed it was obvious<br \/>\na boy had the second highest score on the test and he would be monitored.<br \/>\nNow, what was even more interesting about this is that the boy was a sweet, gentle soul<br \/>\nwho had no interest in controlling the class with a king. While I<br \/>\nwas full of ambition to do so, but I was female and he was male,<br \/>\nand so he became the class. And I&#8217;ve never forgotten that incident.<br \/>\nIn this episode of Death in Numbers, part of a series for International Women&#8217;s Day, we talk about<br \/>\nChima Monda and Gosa, a DC. This clip is from her TEDTalk titled<br \/>\nWe Should All Be Feminists Given in 2012, in which a DC argues that feminism<br \/>\nand gender equality should be topics of conversation.<br \/>\nBorn in 1977 and I knew ggu Nigeria to an Igbo family,<br \/>\na DG splits her time between Nigeria and the United States, having moved the U.S.<br \/>\nat the age of 19 for university. She eventually completed a masters in creative writing<br \/>\nat Johns Hopkins, as well as a Masters in African Studies from Yale.<br \/>\nRaised in an intellectual family, her parents worked at the University of Nigeria. Her mother,<br \/>\nGrace, was the first female registrar, and her father James was a professor of statistics.<br \/>\nAlthough she grew up in this environment, the notion of feminism was not well received in her community<br \/>\nas a D, she explains in her talk. She learned the term from a male friend and embraces it<br \/>\nin spite of its negative cultural connotations. Over time, she recognized<br \/>\nthe stigma attached to the word once her writing career became successful and she openly identified<br \/>\nas a feminist. A She began receiving unsolicited advice, such as the warning by<br \/>\na journalist that feminists are women who are unhappy because they can&#8217;t find husbands.<br \/>\nA fellow Nigerian female academic informed her that feminism was not our culture,<br \/>\nthat it was UN-African and the influence of Western books. Of course, the stigma<br \/>\nis not limited to Nigeria, let alone Africa and the United States. The word feminist<br \/>\nconjures up a variety of images bra burnings, mobs of angry man hating females.<br \/>\nHillary Clinton&#8217;s pantsuits. Beyonce&#8217;s lemonade. Feminist is a polemical term,<br \/>\nwith people positioning themselves as its vehement opponents or ardent supporters. And while no<br \/>\nbras were ever actually burned in the name of feminism, the movement and its supporters have been derided<br \/>\nfor a century. ADC explains in the preface to the printed<br \/>\nedition of her talk that the word feminist and the idea of feminism itself<br \/>\nis limited by stereotypes. So why talk about such an unpopular subject?<br \/>\nBecause she hoped to start a necessary conversation. Adichie&#8217;s writings and speeches<br \/>\ncontribute to ongoing conversations on intersectionality or intersectional feminism,<br \/>\na term coined by legal scholar Kimberly Crenshaw. Intersectional theory studies,<br \/>\nsocial identities and their related systems of oppression, domination or discrimination.<br \/>\nFor example, intersectional feminism considers how the experience of an upper class<br \/>\nblack woman may differ from a lower class white woman. Americana,<br \/>\na novel by a DC published in 2013, explores these intersections through the story<br \/>\nof two lovers who escaped a militarised Nigeria, one moved to<br \/>\nthe United States, where she confronts her black identity for the first time. Meanwhile,<br \/>\nher lover unable to join her following immigration restrictions post 9\/11, moves<br \/>\nto London. This novel, along with others such as Purple Hibiscus<br \/>\nand Half of a Yellow Sun, our Dialogs DC initiates by asking readers<br \/>\nto place themselves in the positions of characters, she forces them to confront the discomforts of sexism<br \/>\nand racism, among other issues. A recognizes the role that literature<br \/>\ncan play in sparking these conversations and eventually and changing culture,<br \/>\nwhich is why she helped found the nonprofit Fera Fino Trust, which promotes a culture<br \/>\nof literary arts in Nigeria through events like writing workshops that she often leads.<br \/>\nIn a talk she gave in 2009, the danger of a single story, a D.C. explains<br \/>\nthat stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories<br \/>\ncan also be used to empower and to humanize. When we reject the single story,<br \/>\nwhen we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.<br \/>\nHer commitment to fundamental human rights for women and men through storytelling<br \/>\nearned a DC, a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship or genius grant in 2008<br \/>\nat the age of 31. Each year, the committee awards over half a million dollars<br \/>\nto recipients over five years celebrating and inspiring their creative potential.<br \/>\nThe foundation recognized the DRC as a writer of great promise, whose powerful rendering<br \/>\nof the Nigerian experience is enlightening audiences both in her homeland and around the<br \/>\nworld. The genius grants remind us that a multiplicity of voices is what makes<br \/>\nthe United States so unique. We are fortunate to be a country built upon the diversity of our indigenous<br \/>\nand immigrant communities. Respecting this diversity not only supports innovation, but more importantly,<br \/>\nprogress towards equality. We have to allow women a multiplicity,<br \/>\nshe explained in an interview with The New York Times in 2016. While she argues that<br \/>\nmen, too, must be afforded this multiplicity of identities, especially as pertains to the connection<br \/>\nof masculinity and male identity, DC models how multiplicity is possible for<br \/>\nwomen. Not only has she chosen to no longer be apologetic for her femaleness<br \/>\nand femininity, but she has embraced them. Adichie&#8217;s the current face of boots make a brand<br \/>\nnumber seven. She&#8217;s a fashion icon, embracing bold patterns and colors and fuzing<br \/>\nelements of her identity into her wardrobe. Mixing African prints with Western cuts<br \/>\nthrough her personal style, she demonstrates that yes, you can wear lipstick and high heels. Still<br \/>\nbe a respected, intellectual and gifted writer and more importantly, a feminist. These<br \/>\ncategories are not mutually exclusive. Feminism welcomes a diversity of expressions,<br \/>\na multiplicity of identities, and a fluidity of gender. Now a<br \/>\nmother and wife, ADC, continues to expand our conversations about gender and equality. Her newest<br \/>\nepistolary book, Deri Jewel or a Feminist Manifesto and 15 Suggestions,<br \/>\nis a response to a childhood friends request for how to raise a feminist daughter<br \/>\nthrough her advice a d, she reminds us of the importance of redefining what it means to be feminist<br \/>\nin the 21st century. In Nigeria, in the United States, in a global<br \/>\ncommunity. A feminist is a man or woman<br \/>\nwho says, yes, there&#8217;s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix<br \/>\nit. We must do better. We<br \/>\nteach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls,<br \/>\nyou can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful.<br \/>\nOtherwise, you will threaten the man. Because I am female. I am expected<br \/>\nto aspire to marriage. I&#8217;m expected to make my life choices. Always keeping<br \/>\nin mind that marriage is the most important. A marriage can be a source of<br \/>\njoy and love and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to<br \/>\nmarriage? And we do not teach boys the same. We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not<br \/>\nfor jobs of accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men.<br \/>\nWe teach girls that they can not be sexual beings in the way that boys are<br \/>\nfeminist, a person who believes in the social, political and economic<br \/>\nequality of the sexes.<br \/>\nThis has been Death in Numbers, a podcast created and produced by the Humanities Media Project and<br \/>\nthe College of Liberal Arts at U.T. Austin and Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services.<br \/>\nWe are Amy Vidar and Caroline Baarda. Notes for the show, including links and photos can be found<br \/>\non our website. Humanity&#8217;s media project doored. Our theme music is Enthusiasts<br \/>\nby Tourre&#8217;s. 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