{"id":9835,"date":"2016-09-01T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=9835"},"modified":"2019-03-25T16:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:09:36","slug":"video-page-darkmatter-trans-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/video-page-darkmatter-trans-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Page: DarkMatter\u2019s Poetry and Trans Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, we featured images of DarkMatter\u2019s Alok Vaid-Menon who uses <a href=\"https:\/\/tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-vaid-menon-trans-attire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">images of their gender transgressive attire<\/a> in their activism to promote the visibility of transpeople. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatterpoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DarkMatter<\/a> is a trans South Asian performance duo from New York. Janani Balasubramanian, the other half of the duo, also performs transgression through their attire and their art.<\/p>\n<p>DarkMatter appear on The Laura Flanders Show to perform their spoken word poetry and chat about their trans politics, traversing issues of gender, race, desire, migration and more that connects to it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VNtYIBI3BFc?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DarkMatter is a trans South Asian performance duo from New York. Watch them perform their spoken word poetry and chat about their trans politics, traversing issues of gender, race, desire, migration and more that connects to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":9837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,856,13,7],"tags":[807,857,880,879],"class_list":{"0":"post-9835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-migration-and-sexuality","9":"category-videopage","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-darkmatter","12":"tag-migration-and-sexuality","13":"tag-spoken-word-performance","14":"tag-trans-politics"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835","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=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16692,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions\/16692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}