{"id":63837,"date":"2022-05-13T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63837"},"modified":"2022-05-16T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T19:00:25","slug":"tao-leigh-goffe-is-on-a-mission-to-uncover-afro-asian-intimacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63837","title":{"rendered":"Tao Leigh Goffe Is On A Mission To Uncover \u2018Afro-Asian Intimacies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sweetjuly.com\/editorial\/tao-leigh-goffe-is-on-a-mission-to-uncover-afro-asian-intimacies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Tao Leigh Goffe Is On A Mission To Uncover \u2018Afro-Asian Intimacies\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sweetjuly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweet July<\/a><br \/>\n2022-05-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yumcoconutmilk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nylah Burton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sweetjuly.com\/editorial\/tao-leigh-goffe-is-on-a-mission-to-uncover-afro-asian-intimacies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 80%; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/sweetjuly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/TaoLandscape.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am the sedimented sum of four islands. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Caribbean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_Kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hong Kong<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Isles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Isles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a>; all of them seas and stretches of water containing many islands.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy parents named me Tao,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taoleighgoffe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe<\/a> narrates as she approaches an intricately carved, dark wood chest in season two, episode seven of the Hulu series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/series\/your-attention-please-c071cab4-090a-44e0-8173-af39a1a955e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Your Attention Please: Initiative 29<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmenlobue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carmen LoBue<\/a>, the short film is focused on Goffe\u2014who was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> and lives in New York City\u2014and her Afro-Asian heritage. Opening the chest, Goffe\u2019s hand grazes family photos and mementos: Black Caribbean men in smart suits, her Jamaican Chinese mother, and red envelopes gilded with gold, containing one word: Legacy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9EfeNgS3UBo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/sweetjuly.com\/editorial\/tao-leigh-goffe-is-on-a-mission-to-uncover-afro-asian-intimacies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University, Goffe teaches a course called Afro-Asia: Future and Feminisms, which explores African\/Asian art and scholarship from Lahore to Chicago, New York City to Hong Kong, and examines it through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, and resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,1245,8,10,20,842],"tags":[33530,29199,33529,23339],"class_list":["post-63837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","category-videos","tag-carmen-lobue","tag-nylah-burton","tag-sweet-july","tag-tao-leigh-goffe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63837","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=63837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63858,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63837\/revisions\/63858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}