{"id":125,"date":"2008-04-13T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=125"},"modified":"2008-04-13T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T19:02:49","slug":"a-carnival-of-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/a-carnival-of-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Carnival of Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/09\/allies-talking\/\">The Angry Black Woman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I call a Carnival.  <strong>The Carnival of Allies<\/strong>. Where self-identified allies write to other people like themselves about why this or that oppression and prejudice is wrong. Why they are allies. Why the usual excuses are not good enough. I figure allies probably know full well all the many and various arguments people throw up to make prejudice and oppression okay. Things that someone on the other side of the fence may not hear. Address those things and more besides.<\/p>\n<p>And when I say allies, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about any and every type. PoC can be (and should be) allies to other PoC, or to LGBTQ people if they are straight, or any number of other combinations. If you feel like you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an ally and have something to say about that, you should submit to this carnival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More, and a submission form, in <a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/09\/allies-talking\/\">Allies Talking<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Deadline is May 5, and she&#8217;ll be posting the links in the second or third week of May.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a subject I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about lately, so I&#8217;ll almost certainly be writing something &#8230; I encourage others to as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Angry Black Woman: I call a Carnival. The Carnival of Allies. Where self-identified allies write to other people like themselves about why this or that oppression and prejudice is wrong. Why they are allies. Why the usual excuses are not good enough. I figure allies probably know full well all the many and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[32,64,159,254,294,406],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-allies","tag-carnivals","tag-gender","tag-oppression","tag-race","tag-woc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}