{"id":804,"date":"2019-12-08T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/?page_id=804"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:35:16","slug":"my-lover-is-a-woman-by-pat-parker-rationale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/my-lover-is-a-woman-by-pat-parker-rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My Lover is a Woman&#8221; by Pat Parker Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Lover Is A Woman, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">black, lesbian poet Pat Parker grapples with the challenges and nuances of being an openly queer black woman. \u00a0She immediately uses the erotic as Audre Lorde defines it in that she allows her feelings of joy that are explicitly connected to her female lover are allowed to breathe regardless of her family\u2019s distain for her queerness. This piece is a stunning depiction of the potential that lies within allowing oneself to be led by knowledge that stems from emotion, especially for black queer women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When we look at this piece in the context of Whitney Houston, it becomes clear just how rebellious of an act being queer is in our American culture.\u00a0 Parker calls to the negativity that she felt from her family and friends because of her queer identity.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t hard to imagine then, why Houston was reluctant to come out, knowing how it would impact her career as Robyn Crawford alluded to in our introduction video.<\/p>\n<p>If queer black bodies is a rebellious act, can it be normalized? What is more, what will happen if it is normalized?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-877 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/flower-border-ornament-8-300x42.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/flower-border-ornament-8-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/flower-border-ornament-8-768x107.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/flower-border-ornament-8-1024x143.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/flower-border-ornament-8-700x97.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/page-2-cnz\/\"><strong>Back<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: right\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/apinda-mpako-and-ayanda-magudulela-by-zanele-muholi\/\"><strong>Next<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In My Lover Is A Woman, black, lesbian poet Pat Parker grapples with the challenges and nuances of being an openly queer black woman. \u00a0She immediately uses the erotic as Audre Lorde defines it in that she allows her feelings of joy that are explicitly connected to her female lover are allowed to breathe regardless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-804","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}