{"id":9955,"date":"2019-04-12T00:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T05:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2019-10-15T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T19:52:52","slug":"slam-poet-talks-feminism-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9955","title":{"rendered":"Slam Poet Talks Feminism, Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Lindsey Smith&#8211;<\/strong>It was a pretty silent room Thursday night as slam poet Gabriela Garcia Medina took the stage to talk about her activism as a feminist and her empowerment as a woman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event was her first since Medina gave birth a month ago, yet her performance was smooth. She went from talking about growing up as a poor Cuban immigrant to being a magician fixing the world\u2019s problems to self-empowered love songs to a poem about women suffering at the hands of abusive men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her delivery was fast\npaced and the poems were longer than a typical slam poet, but she still engaged\nthe audience, asking them after each poem what they thought or if they wanted\nto ask her something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freshman Summer Kramer\nthought the event was great, her favorite poem being one where Medina talked\nabout how lingerie doesn\u2019t make a woman any less of a feminist. She said, \u201cI think\nit was excellent. She tackled hard hitting issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MAC president, junior\nSydney Palmer, also thought the show went well. She said, \u201cIt was a really good\ncloser. I\u2019m happy with how many people came out. It was a great end to this\nseries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About halfway through the\nset, Medina took some time to draw attention to her other talents, like writing\ncommercial bits for brands. She would read her pieces to the audience and have\nthem guess which brand she wrote it for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing that made\nMedina different is her asking for consent from the audience when she had swear\nwords in her poems. She has only performed in front of smaller audiences,\naround thirty people, so Thursday night was a new experience for her. She told everyone\nthat she felt safe in this space and she wanted everyone else to as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medina ended the night\nwith a poem inspired by some of her stalkers. In it, she shares things that she\nused to be embarrassed by, things people wouldn\u2019t know about her from her stage\nperformance. She said, \u201cI\u2019m not an extension of my poetry, my poetry is an\nextension of me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to know\nmore about Medina or her poetry, you can visit her website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gabrielagarciamedina.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lindsey Smith&#8211;It was a pretty silent room Thursday night as slam poet Gabriela Garcia Medina took the stage to talk about her activism as a feminist and her empowerment as a woman. This event was her first since Medina gave birth a month ago, yet her performance was smooth. She went from talking about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[53877,46880,53875,20,6119],"class_list":["post-9955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","tag-gabrielagarciamedina","tag-msidelife","tag-slampoetry","tag-mac","tag-morningside-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10611,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions\/10611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}