{"id":1581,"date":"1985-11-09T17:16:18","date_gmt":"1985-11-09T17:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2018-10-28T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T15:45:36","slug":"body-outlines-drawn-in-protest-of-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1985\/11\/09\/body-outlines-drawn-in-protest-of-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"Body outlines drawn in protest of apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 9, 1985<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Body outlines drawn in protest of apartheid<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Members of the Ethical Investment Committee and the Divestment Task Force painted sixteen outlines of human bodies between President Dunn\u2019s house and Neilson Library. The body outlines were intended to represent the young people dying in South Africa and bring them to the attention of the Smith community at large. The students who drew the outlines also put up signs explaining the outlines and listing upcoming anti-apartheid events. However, the signs were taken down by Campus Security because they were in violation of postering regulations.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the body outlines can be found here (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.11.11.-Outlines-spark-reaction-1-e1538922393459.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.11.11.-Outlines-spark-reaction-3-e1538922400248.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A picture of one of the body outlines can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.11.11.-Photo-of-body-outlines-drawn-in-protest-of-South-Africa-1-e1538922406117.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters to the editor about the body outlines can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.11.14.-Opinion-Page-Painted-outlines-are-graffiti-4-e1538922423545.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.11.21.-Opinion-Page-Chalked-victims-remind-us-of-reality-4-e1538922480552.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.11.21.-Opinion-Page-Reaction-to-disturbing-truths-4-e1538922496214.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.12.05.-Opinion-Page-Outlines-expose-racism-4-e1538922527105.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 28, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 9, 1985 Body outlines drawn in protest of apartheid Members of the Ethical Investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[63,26,47],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","tag-63","tag-apartheid-in-south-africa","tag-student-protests","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}