{"id":50,"date":"2019-10-04T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/?p=50"},"modified":"2019-10-13T15:12:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T19:12:56","slug":"2019-va-pridefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/2019\/10\/04\/2019-va-pridefest\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 VA Pridefest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/files\/2019\/10\/08A623DC-6E52-409B-93DA-64AB4E01200A-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*WARNING* personal content<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/files\/2019\/10\/gallery-1460719885-emoji-apple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"77\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went to the VA pride fest with my friend, McKenna. It was a HOT Saturday, but it was definitely worth going. As I talked about in my second presentation, I don&#8217;t really know what I constitute myself as and I honestly have come to terms with that. I don&#8217;t think I necessarily have to choose, but obviously, I&#8217;m leaning towards the &#8220;BI&#8221; word. The thing is, most of my close friends and my sister knows and they all support me, but my mom would not be as supportive. It&#8217;s not that she wouldn&#8217;t love me, it&#8217;s just that she is religious and that whole side of my family is VERY Catholic and probably could never find out. I just feel that there would be LOTS of judgement and I do not need that, especially from the people I love the most. Whenever I attend these festivals or ally meetings to support LGBTQ+ community, I always think about those families who don&#8217;t support their children and honestly, it&#8217;s mind boggling. As I think about these topics, I realize that I should be more proud to be an ally, but also a possible member of the LGBTQ community??? As I said, I don&#8217;t really know, and I think it&#8217;s okay to not know. Thanks for coming to my TED talk\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-56\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/files\/2019\/10\/crazy-face.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/files\/2019\/10\/1FFCE0AF-BEBD-446D-918A-ACCF55A5867F-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1334\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*WARNING* personal content I went to the VA pride fest with my friend, McKenna. It was a HOT Saturday, but it was definitely worth going. As I talked about in my second presentation, I don&#8217;t really know what I constitute myself as and I honestly have come to terms with that. I don&#8217;t think I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/2019\/10\/04\/2019-va-pridefest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2019 VA Pridefest<\/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-50","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\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sofiajournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}