{"id":37197,"date":"2014-08-28T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37197"},"modified":"2014-10-24T20:18:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T20:18:45","slug":"a-conversation-with-dr-yaba-blay-saturday-30th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37197","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay: Saturday 30th August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/a-conversation-with-dr-yaba-blay-saturday-30th-august\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay: Saturday 30th August<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\" target=\"_blank\">Africa Women&#8217;s Development Fund<\/a><br \/>\nPlot Number 78, AWDF House<br \/>\nAmbassadorial Enclave<br \/>\nEast Legon, Accra, Ghana<\/p>\n<p>2014-08-28<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re invited to a conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a> on Saturday 30th August from 5pm-7pm at the AWDF resource centre in East Legon, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Accra\" target=\"_blank\">Accra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Blay is a professor, producer, and publisher. As a researcher and ethnographer, she uses personal and social narratives to disrupt fundamental assumptions about cultures and identities. As a cultural worker and producer, she uses images to inform consciousness, incite dialogue, and inspire others into action and transformation.<\/p>\n<p>This conversation with Dr. Blay will focus on her work including a discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32590\" target=\"_blank\"><em>(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/em><\/a> which explores potential disadvantages related with having light skin, particularly among people of African descent \u2013 racial ambiguity and contested racial authenticity. As well as a focus on \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/prettyperiod.me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pretty.Period<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0 a transmedia project created as a visual missive in reaction to the oh-so-popular, yet oh-so-offensive \u201ccompliment\u201d \u2013 \u201cYou\u2019re pretty for a dark-skinned girl.\u201d A few copies of <em>(1\u00a0)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/em> will be available for sale.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdf.org\/a-conversation-with-dr-yaba-blay-saturday-30th-august\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay: Saturday 30th August Africa Women&#8217;s Development Fund Plot Number 78, AWDF House Ambassadorial Enclave East Legon, Accra, Ghana 2014-08-28 You\u2019re invited to a conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay on Saturday 30th August from 5pm-7pm at the AWDF resource centre in East Legon, Accra. Dr. Blay is a professor, producer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,13,8],"tags":[17816,17817,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-37197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","tag-africa-womens-development-fund","tag-awdf","tag-yaba-a-blay","tag-yaba-amgborale-blay","tag-yaba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197","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=37197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}