{"id":2397,"date":"2005-07-26T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2005\/07\/26\/phyllis-allen\/"},"modified":"2005-07-26T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T08:50:09","slug":"phyllis-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2005\/07\/26\/phyllis-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Phyllis Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4738649\">Re: Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does a 24 year old white gay man have with in common with a 50 year old black woman?<\/p>\n<p>Every time I listen to this essay I&#8217;m brought to tears.  Not bawling morning tears, but tears of camaraderie and recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Phyllis moves through the history of African-American (or Black, or Negro, or brown) identity politics.  Then comes to the conclusion &#8220;I believe that I&#8217;m free to be whoever I choose to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at a loss for why this is dramatic for me, but I&#8217;ve come to despise the identity politics of being gay, but at the same time I practice them.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be 15 years down the road (or in Canada now) where no one thinks too much about my identity beyond &#8220;Nick&#8221; (or &#8220;Mr. Barnard&#8221; or &#8220;Dad&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks What does a 24 year old white gay man have with in common with a 50 year old black woman? Every time I listen to this essay I&#8217;m brought to tears. Not bawling morning tears, but tears of camaraderie and recognition. Phyllis moves through the history of African-American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}