{"id":4535,"date":"2019-08-05T00:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2019-08-05T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:47:12","slug":"life-stories-107-chavisa-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/05\/life-stories-107-chavisa-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Stories #107: Chavisa Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chavisa Woods’ 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism<\/i><\/a> is a book that, as our British friends say, does exactly what it says on the tin\u00e2\u20ac\u201dchronicling 100 separate incidents of sexist behavior that Woods has faced in her lifetime, a pattern of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse (including sexual assault) that starts when she’s five years old and continues to the present day. It’s a patten that, I speculated, just about any woman should find instantly recognizable, to which Woods replied:<\/p>\n

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“I keep saying a lot of memoirs are written because the author thinks it’s an exceptional story. I actually felt like I needed to write this memoir because my story is not exceptional at all, and I wanted to show how pervasive sexism is in multiple spheres of society… I just wanted to show how pervasive it is everywhere and how it affects us constantly throughout our lives.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We cover a lot of territory in this conversation, including how Woods used to adopt a violent response to sexual harassment—and the mental and emotional toll that response took. Misogyny becomes like a hazing ritual, an ordeal women are supposed to endure for the privilege of being allowed to participate in society at all. As I said, every woman reading 100 Times<\/i> will find it instantly familiar… but every man who reads it and doesn’t<\/i> recognize the world it describes has to come to a hard reckoning with things he may have done and has almost certainly condoned through inattention, inaction, and silence.<\/p>\n

Listen to Life Stories<\/i> #107: Chavisa Woods<\/a> (MP3 file); or download this file by right-clicking (Mac users, option-click). Or subscribe to Life Stories<\/i> in Apple Podcasts<\/a>, where you can catch up with earlier episodes and be alerted whenever a new one is released. (If you’re already an iTunes subscriber, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast!)<\/font><\/p>\n

photo: Itziar Barrio<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chavisa Woods’ 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism is a book that, as our British friends say, does exactly what it says on the tin\u00e2\u20ac\u201dchronicling 100 separate incidents of sexist behavior that Woods has faced in her lifetime, a pattern of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse (including sexual assault) that starts when she’s five years old and continues to the present day. It’s a patten that, I speculated, just about any woman should find instantly recognizable, to which Woods replied: “I keep saying a lot of memoirs are written because the author thinks it’s an exceptional story. I actually felt like I needed to write this memoir because my story is not exceptional at all, and I wanted to show how pervasive sexism is in multiple spheres of society… I just wanted to show how pervasive it is everywhere and how it affects us constantly throughout our lives.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[1123,1122,639,1124,1119,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}