{"id":55694,"date":"2018-02-12T02:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T02:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55694"},"modified":"2018-02-12T02:21:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T02:21:56","slug":"im-kind-of-interested-in-how-do-bodies-like-mine-that-were-raped-into-existence-our-community-doesnt-look-the-way-it-looks-without-systematic-rape-and-so-how-do-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55694","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m kind of interested in how do bodies like mine that were raped into existence \u2013 our community doesn\u2019t look the way it looks without systematic rape \u2013 and so how do communities like ours, with this long history of sexual violence and sexual predation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI was born in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dominican Republic<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cMy work, among many of the things that it wrestles with, wrestles with the kind of, the often invisible and vigorously disavowed, long shadow of enslavement. I\u2019m very much interested in how people like me, who are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_diaspora_in_the_Americas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Diasporic community<\/a>, and how do we deal with the consequences of the fallout from the calamity that we call slavery. And most specifically, I\u2019m kind of interested in how do bodies like mine that were raped into existence \u2013 our community doesn\u2019t look the way it looks without systematic rape \u2013 and so how do communities like ours, with this long history of sexual violence and sexual predation, how do we as a consequence of that wrestle with the possibility of intimacy. In other words, where does love reside in bodies that spent centuries being told that they could not partake in love?\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.junotdiaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junot Diaz<\/a> (University of Missouri, January 22, 2018)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sara Shahriari, Abby Ivory-Ganja &amp; Elena Rivera, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intersection \u2013 Author Junot D\u00edaz on Immigration, Empire and White Supremacy<\/a>,\u201d <em>KBIA 91.3 FM, Columbia, Missouri<\/em>, February 6, 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/kbia.org\/post\/intersection-author-junot-d-az-immigration-empire-and-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/kbia.org\/post\/intersection-author-junot-d-az-immigration-empire-and-white-supremacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was born in the Dominican Republic,\u201d he said. \u201cMy work, among many of the things that it wrestles with, wrestles with the kind of, the often invisible and vigorously disavowed, long shadow of enslavement. I\u2019m very much interested in how people like me, who are part of the African Diasporic community, and how do [&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":[28012,28013,9143,28010,28009,28011],"class_list":["post-55694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-abby-ivory-ganja","tag-elena-rivera","tag-junot-diaz","tag-kbia","tag-kbia-91-3-fm","tag-sara-shahriari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55694","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=55694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55695,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55694\/revisions\/55695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}