{"id":17502,"date":"2020-07-14T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=17502"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:21:36","slug":"the-injured-body-lu-highsmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2020\/07\/14\/the-injured-body-lu-highsmith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Injured Body: Lu Highsmith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Transcribing interviews for my new doc \u2018The Injured Body\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lu LutonyaRachel Highsmith<\/a>\u00a0is a poet, writer, and community activist. She is the founder and director of\u00a0Roc Bottom Slam Team<\/a>.

On how she processed racist micro aggressions she experienced in college:

\u2018As an 18 year old, my initial reaction was anger. I was really ticked off that they would say these things or even think these things. This was the late 80s, so it\u2019s not like it was back in the 50s or 60s. I was very upset. I don\u2019t know if it caused me to try to prove myself. I was on a mission to excel academically, culturally, creatively. It probably took a good 20 years for me to change my mindset. By my mid-30s, I was like, I\u2019m just who I am.\u2019
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Transcribing interviews for my new doc \u2018The Injured Body\u2019 Lu LutonyaRachel Highsmith\u00a0is a poet, writer, and community activist. She is the founder and director of\u00a0Roc Bottom Slam Team. On how she processed racist micro aggressions she experienced in college: \u2018As an 18 year old, my initial reaction was anger. I was really ticked off that … Continue reading The Injured Body: Lu Highsmith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,15,14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17504,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502\/revisions\/17504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}