{"id":14232,"date":"2009-10-14T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T23:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14232"},"modified":"2010-03-28T01:04:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T06:04:37","slug":"spoken-word-performance-about-being-transgendered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/14\/spoken-word-performance-about-being-transgendered\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoken Word Performance about Being Transgendered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adeste S. sent in this performance by two women about the difficulties and frustrations of being transgendered:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GmfkdOAq-xk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Performed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravenewvoices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brave New Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NEW! (Mar. &#8217;10):<\/strong><\/span> Ryan sent in this video of Sass Rogando Sasot speaking to the United Nations about transgender rights. From an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/coilhouse.net\/2009\/12\/reclaiming-the-lucidity-of-our-hearts\/\">Coilhouse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her speech, titled \u201cReclaiming the Lucidity of Our Hearts\u201d, addresses the need for vastly improved acceptance, support and protection of transgender citizens worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Her entire presentation is very moving, but about 8 minutes into this clip, something shifts in Sasot\u2019s voice and delivery. What began as an engaging speech swiftly transforms into something far more urgent, immediate, and beautiful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JrOc6CIQjtc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adeste S. sent in this performance by two women about the difficulties and frustrations of being transgendered: Performed at Brave New Voices. NEW! (Mar. &#8217;10): Ryan sent in this video of Sass Rogando Sasot speaking to the United Nations about transgender rights. From an article at Coilhouse: Her speech, titled \u201cReclaiming the Lucidity of Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8070,664,55,2106,120],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artliterature","tag-biology","tag-gender","tag-gender-transgenderintersex","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22094,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions\/22094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}