{"id":15,"date":"2016-11-29T07:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2016-12-10T04:32:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T04:32:03","slug":"gretel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/gretel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Dear African Women<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"tx\">My African identity is a part of my identity that\u00a0I value immensely. It has often times been a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">source of pride and given me a sense of belonging. Thus, the purpose of this project was to\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">highlight the different ways that African cultures may influence and promote self love and self\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">appreciation for women. Often times African cultures are depicted as violent and repressive\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">towards women, and though there may be some truth to it, I hope to highlight the different\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">aspects of the many cultures\u00a0that empower women. The women filmed in the project\u00a0came\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">mainly from West and East Africa. The countries represented are\u00a0a mix of predominantly\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">Christian and Muslim countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UbMeNqTRQWQ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Gretel Nabeta is a junior at Emory University majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies and Film.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear African Women My African identity is a part of my identity that\u00a0I value immensely. It has often times been a\u00a0source of pride and given me a sense of belonging. Thus, the purpose of this project was to\u00a0highlight the different ways that African cultures may influence and promote self love and self\u00a0appreciation for women. Often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":168,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/powerofblackselflove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}