{"id":1926,"date":"2012-02-23T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2018-10-20T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:39:14","slug":"smith-students-start-pearls-and-cashmere-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/2012\/02\/23\/smith-students-start-pearls-and-cashmere-tumblr\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith students start \u201cPearls and Cashmere\u201d tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Smith students start \u201cPearls and Cashmere\u201d tumblr<\/p>\n<p><i>In response to Anne Spurzem\u2019s hateful letter where she mourns that \u201cthe days of white, wealthy, upper-class students from prep schools in cashmere coats and pearls who marry Amherst men are over,\u201d Smith students started a tumblr blog using Spurzem\u2019s own words to send a quite different message. Instead of having diversity seen in a bad light, these students wanted to show that diversity made the Smith community better. The founders asked other students to send in submissions of themselves wearing clothing resembling cashmere and pearls alongside a comment about their identities. By gathering together all of these Smith student voices, they hoped to show Anne Spurzem what Smith\u2019s student body was really like and affirm the same thing within their own community.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The \u201cPearls and Cashmere\u201d tumblr blog can be found<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/pearlsandcashmere.tumblr.com\/about\"> <i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 20, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2012 Smith students start \u201cPearls and Cashmere\u201d tumblr In response to Anne Spurzem\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[93,49],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010s","tag-93","tag-student-voices","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","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\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}