{"id":16767,"date":"2019-04-01T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=16767"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:39:17","slug":"brushstrokes-searching-for-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-searching-for-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Searching for Network\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are a queer person growing up without \u2018networks\u2019 of support in your immediate physical environment, experiences of isolation and self-doubt aren\u2019t uncommon.\u00a0 As despondent as your immediate public (or even private) space may seem, the Internet offers you the safety and freedom you crave, allowing for exploration, conversations, and so much more. Afrah Shafiq\u2019s illustrated story, <em>Searching for Network\u00a0<\/em>(based on true stories from a dissertation by Smita Vanniyar), poignantly captures this very phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;16811&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>This illustration was first published on <a href=\"https:\/\/deepdives.in\/searching-for-network-an-illustrated-story-7fa4c804f9ea\">Deep Dives<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0as part of the series\u00a0<i>Sexing the Interwebs<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus, you take to the Internet, with its vast landscape of possibilities, and it becomes your means of finding queer solidarity, queer friendships, and even queer love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":16786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,1966,7],"tags":[440,1971,449,1972,261,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-16767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-public-space-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-network","13":"tag-public-space","14":"tag-queer-solidarity","15":"tag-queerness","16":"tag-sexualities"},"menu_order":583,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767","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=16767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16847,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions\/16847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}