{"id":56835,"date":"2018-08-25T02:54:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56835"},"modified":"2018-08-25T02:59:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:59:01","slug":"and-then-i-had-to-get-comfortable-making-people-uncomfortable-and-so-for-me-on-the-act-of-coming-out-as-a-black-person-in-white-spaces-was-where-i-think-the-seeds-of-that-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56835","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd then I had to get comfortable making people uncomfortable. And so, for me, on the act of coming out as a black person in white spaces was where I think the seeds of that came.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cVery early on, I learned to, I\u2018d say, \u201cRuin the dinner party,\u201d and that became something. I think of that as my origins as a writer, actually, was that I learned very early on that I was going to disrupt, and that I was going\u2026 My presence was not going to always be comfortable. And then I had to get comfortable making people uncomfortable. And so, for me, on the act of coming out as a black person in white spaces was where I think the seeds of that came. And it was about learning speech over silence, &#8217;cause there was a very easy solution, which was just not to say anything. And having my parents\u2019 politics drummed into me from a very early age.\u201d\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danzy_Senna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danzy Senna<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danzy Senna\u2019s Life Isn\u2019t Black and White<\/a>,\u201d <em>Articulate<\/em>, April 24, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.articulateshow.org\/articulate\/danzy-sennas-life-isnt-black-and-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.articulateshow.org\/articulate\/danzy-sennas-life-isnt-black-and-white<\/a>. (00:08:58-00:09:40).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVery early on, I learned to, I\u2018d say, \u201cRuin the dinner party,\u201d and that became something. I think of that as my origins as a writer, actually, was that I learned very early on that I was going to disrupt, and that I was going\u2026 My presence was not going to always be comfortable. And [&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":[28950,1340],"class_list":["post-56835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-articulate","tag-danzy-senna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56835","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=56835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56838,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56835\/revisions\/56838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}