{"id":810,"date":"2021-09-23T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=810"},"modified":"2021-09-23T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:24:13","slug":"intersectionality-grace-brogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/intersectionality-grace-brogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersectionality: Grace Brogan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The text on intersectionality speaks to the importance of acknowledging the multifaceted nature of humanity. No one is really just one thing and it is important to not let one group or person with a particular attribute or identity stand for all people who may identify in a similar way. One particular quote that stood out to me was, “When people hailing from non- normative identity locations gain recognition through representation, they have often served […] as the exceptions that prove the rules (a version of tokenism that seems to suggest that the presence of one queer person or black person, much less one queer black person, stands for all people within these categories).” This discussion of the impact of having a person who identifies a certain way stand for all people who identify that way\u00a0 reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend about the Lil Nas X song “Industry Baby”. My friend said it was about being gay, while I thought the song was mostly about Lil Nas X and his career of which one aspect was his identity as a gay man. So I went back and look at the lyrics of the song (which I have linked below, and anyone can feel free to disagree with me in a reply) and found that only a handful of the lyrics were about being gay or queer while most of the song focused on his career and his “haters”.\u00a0 These last themes I think are common in a lot of songs by popular artists. I think that Lil Nas X occupies a very interesting part of the current pop culture scene and when there are not many artists with his kind of following that identify\u00a0 as queer it can be easy for some people to fall into the trap of only seeing him for one aspect of his identity. Once again, I am not an authority on this and I don’t know what Lil Nas X’s intentions were when writing this particular song therefore I am open to hearing what other people think.<\/p>\n

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Lil Nas X performs Industry Baby at VMAs<\/p><\/div>\n

Song Lyrics for Industry Baby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The text on intersectionality speaks to the importance of acknowledging the multifaceted nature of humanity. No one is really just one thing and it is important to not let one group or person with a particular attribute or identity stand for all people who may identify in a similar way. One particular quote that stood out to me was, “When… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87721,68046],"tags":[68171,231],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intersectionality","category-queer","tag-lil-nas-x","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}