{"id":47134,"date":"2016-05-30T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47134"},"modified":"2016-05-30T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:22:37","slug":"inspired-by-a-qa-with-actor-writer-producer-fanshen-cox-digiovanni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47134","title":{"rendered":"Inspired By \u2014 A Q&#038;A With Actor-Writer-Producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/blog\/43-fanshen-cox-digiovanni-is-inspired-by\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Inspired By \u2014 A Q&amp;A With Actor-Writer-Producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldstar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Goldstar Pulse<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/blog\/43-fanshen-cox-digiovanni-is-inspired-by\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gse.io\/gse_media\/blog\/pulse-FanshenCoxDiGiovanni-tickets.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><small>Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/a> is creator and star of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>One Drop of Love<\/em><\/a>, a solo show co-produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Affleck\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Damon\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a>. She\u2019s a spokesperson on the arts and racial identity, a board member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedrootsstories.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Stories<\/a>, and an honoree at next week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/events\/santa-monica-ca\/2016-media-done-responsibly-awards-tickets\" target=\"_blank\">Media Done Responsibly Awards<\/a> for her commitment to diversity in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about what you do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the writer, producer and performer of a one-woman show (<em>One Drop of Love<\/em>) exploring the intersections of race, class and gender and how these affect our most intimate relationships. I\u2019m an educator and have taught (and learned from) students from all over the world. I\u2019m also an advocate for equity and inclusion at all levels of media content production.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And you haven\u2019t run off to do something else because&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m named after a book, <em>Fanshen<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_H._Hinton\" target=\"_blank\">William Hinton<\/a>, about a small village in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a> that used this word as their motto. \u2018Fan Shen\u2019 symbolizes the creation of a society in which everyone contributes and benefits equitably. So you could say my parents gave me a sense of responsibility from birth, and I happily do what I can to live up to my name personally and professionally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/blog\/43-fanshen-cox-digiovanni-is-inspired-by\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired By \u2014 A Q&amp;A With Actor-Writer-Producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Goldstar Pulse 2016-05-27 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is creator and star of One Drop of Love, a solo show co-produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. She\u2019s a spokesperson on the arts and racial identity, a board member of Mixed Roots Stories, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,13743,8,20],"tags":[118,12646,23859,23858],"class_list":["post-47134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni","tag-goldstar","tag-goldstar-pulse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47135,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47134\/revisions\/47135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}