{"id":20312,"date":"2023-04-04T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=20312"},"modified":"2023-04-08T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T18:48:20","slug":"a-rough-cut-for-return-to-sender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2023\/04\/04\/a-rough-cut-for-return-to-sender\/","title":{"rendered":"a rough cut for &#8216;return to sender&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>my short film, return to sender (about colonial postcards and orientalist representations of women from the colonies), is coming along well! i have a rough cut and have received feedback from women friends\/filmmakers i\u2019ve trusted for decades. thank u cat ashworth, surbhi dewan, nancy ghertner, kate kressmann-kehoe, and linda moroney. i also got permissions from publishing houses and insightful scholars to quote their work. most of all, i\u2019m blown away, once again, by the sharp analysis and complete honesty of the three women who are at the center of the film. thank u Fatimah Arshad, Urvashi Bhattacharya and Sumayia Islam for ur brilliance and beauty &lt;3<br \/><br \/>[photo: urvashi bhattacharya in \u2018return to sender,\u2019 photographed by mara ahmed] <br \/><br \/><em>This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Huntington Arts Council, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/339869764_628807645739470_4955213717141316679_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/339869764_628807645739470_4955213717141316679_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20313\" width=\"361\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/339869764_628807645739470_4955213717141316679_n.jpg 512w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/339869764_628807645739470_4955213717141316679_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my short film, return to sender (about colonial postcards and orientalist representations of women from the colonies), is coming along well! i have a rough cut and have received feedback from women friends\/filmmakers i\u2019ve trusted for decades. thank u cat ashworth, surbhi dewan, nancy ghertner, kate kressmann-kehoe, and linda moroney. i also got permissions from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2023\/04\/04\/a-rough-cut-for-return-to-sender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a rough cut for &#8216;return to sender&#8217;<\/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\/20312"}],"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=20312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20316,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions\/20316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}