{"id":46985,"date":"2016-05-15T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46985"},"modified":"2016-05-15T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:35:01","slug":"artist-turns-racist-flirtations-on-tinder-into-compelling-look-at-race-and-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46985","title":{"rendered":"Artist Turns Racist Flirtations on Tinder Into Compelling Look at Race and Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist Turns Racist Flirtations on Tinder Into Compelling Look at Race and Sex<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Root<\/a>
\n2016-05-13<\/p>\n

Demetria Lucas D\u2019Oyley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPhoebe Boswell<\/a> Source: phoebeboswell.com<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

She Matters: Inspired by James Baldwin\u2019s<\/a> \u201cStranger in a Village<\/a>,\u201d Phoebe Boswell<\/a> was interested in exploring the perceptions of black women in predominantly white spaces.<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the weekend I swung by the 156 Art Fair, an annual exhibition of African art at Pioneer Works<\/a> in Brooklyn, N.Y.<\/a> Among the many strong presentations on display, Phoebe Boswell\u2019s<\/a> Stranger in the Village<\/em><\/a> stood out.<\/p>\n

In April 2015 Boswell, a biracial Kenyan woman currently living in London<\/a>, was temporarily situated in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/a>, in a predominantly white area. Boswell set out to explore perceptions of race and sex during her stay by turning to dating app Tinder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I might want to explore what my body might feel like living in a space that might not be very welcoming,\u201d Boswell says.<\/p>\n

Any black woman who has ever ventured online to look for love\u2014a particularly painful place for black women\u2014should be able to predict the worst of what happened to Boswell next. Reactions to Boswell ranged from microaggressions<\/a> to flat-out racism. But Boswell turned her lemons into artistic lemonade. For her installation, she sketched portraits of her online suitors with a mechanical pencil and included quotes from her exchanges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the space of day, I go back through microaggressions for a month,\u201d Boswell explained. \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, my God!\u2019 I\u2019m frightened from the things that I see.\u201d Here, she talks about the experiences on Tinder that inspired the project…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist Turns Racist Flirtations on Tinder Into Compelling Look at Race and Sex The Root 2016-05-13 Demetria Lucas D\u2019Oyley Phoebe Boswell Source: phoebeboswell.com She Matters: Inspired by James Baldwin\u2019s \u201cStranger in a Village,\u201d Phoebe Boswell was interested in exploring the perceptions of black women in predominantly white spaces. Over the weekend I swung by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,28,13743,8,20,25],"tags":[23780,23781,22783,23783,5187,23782],"class_list":["post-46985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-europe","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-demetria-lucas-doyley","tag-gothenburg","tag-phoebe-boswell","tag-pioneer-works","tag-sweden","tag-tinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46985","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=46985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46986,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46985\/revisions\/46986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}