{"id":176463739,"date":"2016-01-14T01:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T07:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176463739"},"modified":"2016-01-14T01:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T07:59:30","slug":"history-video-blood-at-the-root-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2016\/01\/14\/history-video-blood-at-the-root-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY + VIDEO: Blood at the Root Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176463740\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/prison-culture.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176463740\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176463740\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/prison-culture.jpg\" alt=\"Dec 26 2015\" width=\"340\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/prison-culture.jpg 340w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/prison-culture-300x59.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176463740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dec<br \/>26<br \/>2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Permanent Link to Video: Blood at the Root Exhibition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usprisonculture.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/video-blood-at-the-root-exhibition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Video: <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Permanent Link to Video: Blood at the Root Exhibition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usprisonculture.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/video-blood-at-the-root-exhibition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blood at the Root <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Permanent Link to Video: Blood at the Root Exhibition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usprisonculture.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/video-blood-at-the-root-exhibition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Exhibition<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div id=\"pd_rating_holder_2808917_post_20340\" class=\"pd-rating\">\n<div id=\"pd_rate_2808917_post_20340\" class=\"rating-icons\">\n<div id=\"PDRTJS_2808917_post_20340_stars_3\" class=\"rating-star-icon\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/blood-at-the-rootposterupdated.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-176463741\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/blood-at-the-rootposterupdated-745x1024.png\" alt=\"blood at the rootposterupdated\" width=\"600\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/blood-at-the-rootposterupdated-745x1024.png 745w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/blood-at-the-rootposterupdated-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/blood-at-the-rootposterupdated-920x1265.png 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I spent part of this year co-curating an exhibition titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bloodatrootchicago.wordpress.com\/\">Blood at the Root: Unearthing Stories of State Violence Against Black Women &amp; Girls<\/a>.\u201d The exhibition focuses our attention on the fact that all #BlackWomensLivesMatter and all #BlackGirlsLivesMatter. Relying on various artifacts, we narrate the experiences and resistance of Black women and girls (trans and non-trans) who have been brutalized, imprisoned and killed by the state and its agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Special thanks to my friend Gretchen Hasse for documenting Blood at the Root which closed at the end of October.<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Irn88EpT4Bo?rel=0\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usprisonculture.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/video-blood-at-the-root-exhibition\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.usprisonculture.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/video-blood-at-the-root-exhibition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Video: Blood at the Root Exhibition I spent part of this year co-curating an exhibition titled \u201cBlood at the Root: Unearthing Stories of State Violence Against Black Women &amp; Girls.\u201d The exhibition focuses our attention on the fact that all #BlackWomensLivesMatter and all #BlackGirlsLivesMatter. Relying on various artifacts, we narrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176463739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176463739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176463739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176463742,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176463739\/revisions\/176463742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176463739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176463739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176463739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}