{"id":52169,"date":"2017-03-07T03:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52169"},"modified":"2017-03-07T03:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:51:14","slug":"caramel-queen-or-white-mans-whore-hashtaglightie-the-play-exploring-the-realities-of-modern-mixed-race-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52169","title":{"rendered":"Caramel queen or white man\u2019s whore: #HashtagLightie, the play exploring the realities of modern mixed-race\u00a0lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2017\/02\/10\/caramel-queen-and-white-mans-whore-hashtaglightie-explores-the-realities-of-modern-mixed-race-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Caramel queen or white man\u2019s whore: #HashtagLightie, the play exploring the realities of modern mixed-race\u00a0lives<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\" target=\"_blank\">Media Diversified<\/a><br \/>\n2017-02-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZahraDalilah1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zahra Dalilah<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2017\/02\/10\/caramel-queen-and-white-mans-whore-hashtaglightie-explores-the-realities-of-modern-mixed-race-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediadiversityuk.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/hashtag-lightie-3.jpg?w=375&amp;h=281\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women and men of mixed heritage, especially black\/white, are often called upon in media to provide an inoffensive face of diversity, a fetishized vision of exotic beauty or simplistically characterised as inherently confused halves of one thing or the other. The play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51440\" target=\"_blank\"><em>#HashtagLightie<\/em><\/a> \u2013 which recently sold out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcolatheatre.com\" target=\"_blank\">Arcola Theatre, London<\/a> before rehearsals had even begun \u2013 effortlessly defies these restrictions with a story that is relatable in its specificity and genuine in its relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The show, written by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LynetteLinton\" target=\"_blank\">Lynette Linton<\/a> and directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rikki_Beadle-Blair\" target=\"_blank\">Rikki Beadle-Blair<\/a>, centres on an Irish\/Bajan family who become the targets of racial abuse on social media. Although issues of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\">colourism<\/a> and the impact of social media on young lives are not exactly new, <em>#HashtagLightie<\/em> interweaves these with a fresh look at the identities and perceptions of mixed-race women and men in British society&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2017\/02\/10\/caramel-queen-and-white-mans-whore-hashtaglightie-explores-the-realities-of-modern-mixed-race-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women and men of mixed heritage, especially black\/white, are often called upon in media to provide an inoffensive face of diversity, a fetishized vision of exotic beauty or simplistically characterised as inherently confused halves of one thing or the other. The play #HashtagLightie \u2013 which recently sold out the Arcola Theatre, London before rehearsals had even begun \u2013 effortlessly defies these restrictions with a story that is relatable in its specificity and genuine in its relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8413,8,10],"tags":[25692,26154,16878,26365,26366],"class_list":["post-52169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-colourism","tag-lynette-linton","tag-media-diversified","tag-rikki-beadle-blair","tag-zahra-dalilah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52169","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=52169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52171,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52169\/revisions\/52171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}