{"id":12605,"date":"2017-11-01T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T05:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=12605"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T08:45:28","slug":"brushstrokes-portraits-south-africas-lesbian-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-portraits-south-africas-lesbian-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Portraits of South Africa&#8217;s Lesbian Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the portrait series \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/4w5wnq\/portraits-of-south-africas-lesbian-community-v23n5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faces and Phases<\/a>\u2019, South African photographer Zanele Muholi has created a visual record of black lesbian history that spans more than a decade. In the striking photos set against different textures and backgrounds, Muholi showcases the diversity and fluidity of black lesbian identity in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Through the <a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/blog\/magazine-zanele-muholis-faces-%C2%9D-phases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, Muholi asserts the black lesbian community\u2019s right to document their history and existence. \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/creativetimereports.org\/2013\/07\/01\/queer-faces-made-visible-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faces and Phases<\/a>\u2019 is both a celebration of the way the community has developed over time and a piece of \u2018visual activism\u2019 highlighting the issues that South African lesbians have faced throughout recent history.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the series to get a glimpse into South Africa\u2019s queer past, present and future.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the portrait series \u2018Faces and Phases\u2019, South African photographer Zanele Muholi has created a visual record of black lesbian history that spans more than a decade. In the striking photos set against different textures and backgrounds, Muholi showcases the diversity and fluidity of black lesbian identity in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":12606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,1446,7],"tags":[549,1457,1458,546,1459],"class_list":{"0":"post-12605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-time-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-history","12":"tag-lesbian-community","13":"tag-portraits","14":"tag-south-africa","15":"tag-visual-activism"},"menu_order":868,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16657,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions\/16657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}