{"id":7062,"date":"2014-08-10T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2014-08-10T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T14:59:05","slug":"i-have-a-cultural-studies-degree-is-the-new-i-have-black-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2014\/08\/10\/i-have-a-cultural-studies-degree-is-the-new-i-have-black-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Have A Cultural Studies Degree\u201d Is the New \u201cI Have Black Friends\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya: It\u2019s hard to argue with these people. Their Ivory Tower credentials make their racism enlightened and hard to untangle. They use all the right, robust words like \u201cintersectionality\u201d and \u201cnon-normative\u201d and \u201canti-colonial.\u201d They know to preface everything they say with \u201cyour feelings are valid,\u201d and yet still follow it with a slicing \u201cbut.\u201d They insist they\u2019re my allies and they wear their degrees proudly and loudly, not noticing how their howls might contribute to the way in which women of color are socialized to be quiet, reserved, to never let our anger come spilling forth like hot lava. They talk and talk and talk because in all those lectures and seminars, they never really learned how to listen. More <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-archipelago\/2be4d371cbcb\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya: It\u2019s hard to argue with these people. Their Ivory Tower credentials make their racism enlightened and hard to untangle. They use all the right, robust words like \u201cintersectionality\u201d and \u201cnon-normative\u201d and \u201canti-colonial.\u201d They know to preface everything they say with \u201cyour feelings are valid,\u201d and yet still follow it with a slicing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2014\/08\/10\/i-have-a-cultural-studies-degree-is-the-new-i-have-black-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cI Have A Cultural Studies Degree\u201d Is the New \u201cI Have Black Friends\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062"}],"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=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7063,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/7063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}