{"id":14200,"date":"2018-07-02T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=14200"},"modified":"2019-03-22T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T16:21:53","slug":"brushstrokes-pussy-and-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-pussy-and-patron\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Pussy and Patron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too often, women\u2019s bodies either become a subject of scrutiny or a source of sexual objectification. Images of the female body are accepted or validated only when they pander to the male gaze, and instances of women being vilified simply for exercising their bodily autonomy or creating their own narratives around their bodies are far too common. But photographer Roshni Kumar\u2019s photo-series, <em>Pussy and Patron,\u00a0<\/em>seeks to challenge this, drawing inspiration from \u201cretro erotica\u201d to capture photos of the nude female form expressing desire and sexual agency in empowered ways. In a world where images of the nude female body are censored in social media (especially when being shared by women themselves), this series aims to normalise images taken from a female gaze rather than a male one.<\/p>\n<p>For more on her work:\u00a0https:\/\/rosh93x.tumblr.com\/<\/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>Photographer Roshni Kumar\u2019s photo-series, Pussy and Patron,\u00a0seeks to challenge this, drawing inspiration from \u201cretro erotica\u201d to capture photos of the nude female form expressing desire and sexual agency in empowered ways. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":14236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,1648,7],"tags":[1653,1656,1654,1447,1655,1657,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-14200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-power-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-empowerment","12":"tag-female-body","13":"tag-female-empowerment","14":"tag-same-sex-love","15":"tag-sexual-empowerment","16":"tag-sexual-freedom","17":"tag-sexualities"},"menu_order":743,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200","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=14200"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16633,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions\/16633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}