{"id":6118,"date":"2010-03-18T17:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2010-03-18T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:51:41","slug":"a-knock-out-a-film-by-tessa-boerman-and-samuel-reiziger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6118","title":{"rendered":"A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmCatalog\/pages\/c669.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\" target=\"_blank\">Women Make Movies<\/a><br \/>\nNetherlands, 2004<br \/>\n53 minutes<br \/>\nColor, VHS\/DVD<br \/>\nSubtitled<br \/>\nOrder No. W05882<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmCatalog\/pages\/c669.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmcatalog\/imageDownload\/aknock_hires.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl.<\/strong> Thanks to her tenacious spirit and an uncanny talent for combat sports, she put her difficult past behind her and managed to sign a contract with the biggest boxing promoter in Europe. She won all 21 fights, 18 of them with a knockout \u2013 an exceptional achievement in women\u2019s boxing. But despite her spectacular record in the ring, her career came to a sudden halt when her promoter broke her contract under the belief that she was not \u201cpromotable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Refusing to vamp up her image and pose naked in magazines, this undefeated world champion was abandoned by an industry more interested in selling sex than sport. <em>A Knock Out<\/em> interweaves Aboro\u2019s personal story with interviews with boxers whose wild success strikes a painful contrast with Aboro\u2019s struggles. Searching for logic behind Aboro\u2019s case, this poignant documentary captures a universal story of fighting for one\u2019s identity and offers a probing look at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and the increased commercialization of women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger Women Make Movies Netherlands, 2004 53 minutes Color, VHS\/DVD Subtitled Order No. W05882 Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl. Thanks to her tenacious spirit and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,28,666,125,8,842],"tags":[2530,2529,2528,2527,2526],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-europe","category-gaylesbian","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-boxing","tag-michele-aboro","tag-samuel-reiziger","tag-tessa-boerman","tag-women-make-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","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=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}