{"id":58989,"date":"2019-10-05T02:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T02:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58989"},"modified":"2019-10-05T02:53:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T02:53:38","slug":"black-voices-this-is-black-macadie-amoroso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58989","title":{"rendered":"Black Voices: This is Black: Macadie Amoroso"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Voices: This is Black: Macadie Amoroso<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Shades of Noir<\/a>
\n2019-09-02<\/p>\n

Rayvenn Shaleigha D\u2019Clark<\/strong><\/a>, Junior Editor<\/p>\n

\"Portrait<\/a>
\nMacadie Amoroso<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

SHADES OF NOIR Q&A \u2013 \u2018Blue Beneath My Skin\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Macadie Amoroso<\/strong><\/a>: I am the writer and performer of \u2018Blue Beneath My Skin\u2019, which I was inspired to write because I\u2019d been wanting, for a while, to voice my personal experiences of being mixed-race. I rarely see or hear of any plays about it, but whenever I speak to other mixed-race people, they always have so much to say about their experiences.<\/p>\n

What motivated me to put pen to paper was receiving an email about the festival, This Is Black<\/em><\/a>. It was emphasised in the email that the festival was about celebrating black work and giving black artists a voice, and I immediately felt disheartened. Not because I felt like this wasn\u2019t important (it very much is) but because I don\u2019t identify as black, and therefore, I felt an element of fraud\/guilt, thinking, \u2018this isn\u2019t for me. Maybe I\u2019ll be taking up space of someone who does identify as black\u2019<\/em>. This spurred me to write about what it\u2019s like being of mixed heritage, but only having exposure to one side of that. I chose to write it in spoken word because I\u2019ve always been more of a poet than a writer and I think it\u2019s a very effective way of storytelling…<\/p>\n

…Rayvenn Shaleigha D\u2019Clark: How did you go about building a varied depiction of Black stories and black characters?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MA: I could only build what I know, so I focused on the protagonist\u2019s mixed-race experience, but making sure to highlight through other characters, like her best mate, Paul, that her experience is definitely not the only mixed-race experience out there. I hope what I\u2019ve done through this play and the characters within it, is show that struggle is universal and feeling \u2018blue\u2019 is something that everyone experiences regardless of age, gender, sexuality, colour, ethnicity; it\u2019s a part of the wider human experience…<\/p>\n

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

I am the writer and performer of \u2018Blue Beneath My Skin\u2019, which I was inspired to write because I\u2019d been wanting, for a while, to voice my personal experiences of being mixed-race. I rarely see or hear of any plays about it, but whenever I speak to other mixed-race people, they always have so much to say about their experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13743,8,20],"tags":[30328,30326,30327],"class_list":["post-58989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-macadie-amoroso","tag-rayvenn-shaleigha-dclark","tag-shades-of-noir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58989","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=58989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58991,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58989\/revisions\/58991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}