{"id":56540,"date":"2018-06-08T03:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T03:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56540"},"modified":"2018-06-08T03:14:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T03:14:41","slug":"its-complicated-to-reconcile-with-an-appearance-that-conflicts-with-your-identity-but-art-has-been-gaignards-outlet-through-which-to-come-to-terms-with-explore-and-push-the-limitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56540","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s complicated to reconcile with an appearance that conflicts with your identity, but art has been Gaignard\u2019s outlet through which to come to terms with, explore and push the limitations of identity and its perception."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massachusetts<\/a> to a black father and a white mother, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genevievegaignard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Genevieve] Gaignard<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white passing<\/a>, despite identifying as black, and her visually ambiguous identity is something that\u2019s troubled her since childhood. \u201cWhen I say I\u2019m passing, I mean we navigate through the world how others see us, and I\u2019m usually seen as white,\u201d Gaignard explains. It\u2019s complicated to reconcile with an appearance that conflicts with your identity, but art has been Gaignard\u2019s outlet through which to come to terms with, explore and push the limitations of identity and its perception. \u201cOver time I\u2019ve been able to process and tap into all the things I thought as a young girl growing up in this body, and this mind,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s about owning the skin I\u2019m in, and thinking about how I can speak about blackness through seemingly white characters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harriet Shepherd, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bi-Racial Artist Using White-Passing Characters to Talk About Blackness<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sleek<\/em>, June 7, 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/2018\/06\/07\/genevieve-gaignard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/2018\/06\/07\/genevieve-gaignard\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Massachusetts to a black father and a white mother, [Genevieve] Gaignard is white passing, despite identifying as black, and her visually ambiguous identity is something that\u2019s troubled her since childhood. \u201cWhen I say I\u2019m passing, I mean we navigate through the world how others see us, and I\u2019m usually seen as white,\u201d Gaignard [&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":[22811,28749,28747,28748],"class_list":["post-56540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-genevieve-gaignard","tag-harriet-shepherd","tag-sleek","tag-sleek-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56540","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=56540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56541,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56540\/revisions\/56541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}