{"id":1050,"date":"2019-12-11T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2020-01-07T15:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:21:27","slug":"cece-emily-and-ava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/cece-emily-and-ava\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is black intimacy inherently political? Does this make being black a political statement?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/1193-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/5bedf6fc7674a95c4ac7a2c4\/master\/w_727,c_limit\/Als-NtozakeShange-2.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for ntozake shange\" width=\"447\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">We explore black intimacy through three different media forms: abstract movement, language as connection, and photo stills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click on each photo to see various examples of black intimacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/muholi-politics-of-black-intimacy\/muholi-bio\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1534\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/muholi_zanele_2016_14_1a_466848_displaysize-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/muholi_zanele_2016_14_1a_466848_displaysize-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/muholi_zanele_2016_14_1a_466848_displaysize.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/four-women\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1581\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/maxresdefault-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/maxresdefault-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/maxresdefault-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/maxresdefault-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/maxresdefault-1-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/maxresdefault-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a>These are all modalities that seek to capture essences of black existence as both raw intimacy and modes of resistance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Audre Lorde&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Erotic\u00a0<\/em>is inexplicably linked to practices of black intimacy. Click on her to read more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/audre-lordes-use\u2026-erotic-as-power\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1578\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/audre-lorde-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/audre-lorde-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/audre-lorde.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is black intimacy inherently political? Does this make being black a political statement? &nbsp; &nbsp; We explore black intimacy through three different media forms: abstract movement, language as connection, and photo stills. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Click on each photo to see various examples of black intimacy. These are all modalities that seek to capture essences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1312,"featured_media":1556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/maxresdefault-e1578428465351.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}