{"id":32042,"date":"2013-07-02T02:10:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T02:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32042"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:48:01","slug":"i-first-met-audre-in-1984-when-i-was-22-she-told-me-her-grandfather-had-been-scottish-and-that-i-didn%e2%80%99t-need-to-choose-between-being-scottish-and-being-black-%e2%80%9cyou-can-be-both-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32042","title":{"rendered":"I first met Audre in 1984, when I was 22. She told me her grandfather had been Scottish, and that I didn\u2019t need to choose between being Scottish and being black. \u201cYou can be both."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I first met <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Audre_Lorde\" target=\"_blank\">Audre<\/a>\u00a0in 1984, when I was 22. She told me her grandfather had been Scottish, and that I didn\u2019t need to choose between being Scottish and being black. \u201cYou can be both. You can call yourself an Afro Scot,\u201d she said in her New York drawl. Lorde was Whitman-like in her refusal to be confined to single categories. She was large. She contained multitudes&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jackie Kay, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18332\" target=\"_blank\">My hero: Audre Lorde by Jackie Kay<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, November 11, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/nov\/18\/my-hero-audre-lorde-jackie-kay\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/nov\/18\/my-hero-audre-lorde-jackie-kay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Audre\u00a0in 1984, when I was 22. She told me her grandfather had been Scottish, and that I didn\u2019t need to choose between being Scottish and being black. \u201cYou can be both. You can call yourself an Afro Scot,\u201d she said in her New York drawl. Lorde was Whitman-like in her refusal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2954,1587,2103],"class_list":["post-32042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-audre-lorde","tag-jackie-kay","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49631,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32042\/revisions\/49631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}