{"id":20722,"date":"2021-02-01T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=20722"},"modified":"2021-02-02T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T08:06:15","slug":"brushstrokes-singlehood-and-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-singlehood-and-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Singlehood and Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;20746&#8242;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alankrita Singh brings us a sparse and evocative series of photographs of women out in the world, by themselves. With a quiet defiance, it depicts women interacting with the world, at leisure, resisting the\u00a0 socio-cultural negativity they face when not under the care of men. Single women, especially if they have children, disrupt the status-quo <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the prescription that women must merely strive towards getting married and raising children within a traditional family set-up, and that women alone are to be regarded with suspicion or pryingly asked, \u201cWhen are you getting married?\u201d And, subtly and thoughtfully, this is what Alankrita\u2019s photo-essay exposes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Alankrita Singh brings us a sparse and evocative series of photographs of women out in the world, by themselves. With a quiet defiance, it depicts women interacting with the world, at leisure, resisting the  socio-cultural negativity they face when not under the care of men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":20745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,2596,7],"tags":[296,39,720,2597,2641],"class_list":{"0":"post-20722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-singlehood-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-marriage","12":"tag-power","13":"tag-single-women","14":"tag-singlehood-and-sexuality","15":"tag-socio-cultural-norms"},"menu_order":214,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20722","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=20722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20813,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20722\/revisions\/20813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}