{"id":37,"date":"2019-09-17T23:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/?p=37"},"modified":"2019-09-17T23:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T03:16:37","slug":"when-i-get-home-by-solange-knowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/2019\/09\/17\/when-i-get-home-by-solange-knowles\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Get Home by Solange Knowles <3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solange. A literal queeeeeeeeeen. Whenever I think of her, I think of how beautiful and talented she is. I first saw her in the movie, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bring it On: All or Nothing, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so, wh<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">en Professor Chaz told us about the screening of her short film, I decided I wanted to go. Her film, <em>When I Get Home,\u00a0<\/em>was unlike anything I had ever seen. It was packed with insane visuals, as she used an Afrofuturist cowboy theme as the center of what she calls her &#8220;Texas film.&#8221; She unpacks the idea of blackness, demonstrating black people owning farm land, and growing up as farmers. This concept of blackness ties into the everyday experiences she displays in marginalized America, using her return to her hometown of Houston to represent where she comes from, but also where she&#8217;s going.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/files\/2019\/09\/Solange-A-SEAT-AT-THE-TABLE-album-cover-2016-billboard-1548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"161\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/files\/2019\/09\/07790010_6_2117fc_b-1e0b50fbb1426d08b6ca7127633b8e5b99c28abe-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solange. A literal queeeeeeeeeen. Whenever I think of her, I think of how beautiful and talented she is. I first saw her in the movie, Bring it On: All or Nothing, so, when Professor Chaz told us about the screening of her short film, I decided I wanted to go. Her film, When I Get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/2019\/09\/17\/when-i-get-home-by-solange-knowles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When I Get Home by Solange Knowles <3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[109902],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}