{"id":1414,"date":"2025-10-21T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:27:57","slug":"28-25-ovalizing-power-lani-guinier-on-who-makes-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"#28-25 Ovalizing Power:\u00a0Lani Guinier on who makes the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lani Guinier&nbsp;(1950-2022)&nbsp;was one of the most prolific and sought-after legal scholars in the United States, and became the first black woman tenured law professor at Harvard University.&nbsp;She published 5 books between 1994 and 2015, focused largely on democratization and social justice.&nbsp; In this acclaimed keynote address given at the US National Women&#8217;s Studies Association conference in the year 2000, she compares gendered behaviours from her child&#8217;s birthday party and her&nbsp;lawschool&nbsp;classes, and concludes the&nbsp; alternative to zero-sum power should be &#8220;ovalizing the hierarchy.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit: recorded, edited, and updated by Frieda Werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: Steven Rubin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-28-25OvalizingPower-28_53-128kbps.mp3\">https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-28-25OvalizingPower-28_53-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lani Guinier&nbsp;(1950-2022)&nbsp;was one of the most prolific and sought-after legal scholars in the United States, and became the first black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,529,527,430,36,304,303,528,60,530,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-archive","category-boys","category-collaboration","category-girls","category-politics","category-power","category-race","category-rules","category-society-and-culture","category-structure","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}