{"id":5948,"date":"2014-12-28T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:07:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T01:07:16","slug":"black-maleness-in-america-as-told-by-someone-who-chose-to-be-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/black-maleness-in-america-as-told-by-someone-who-chose-to-be-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Black maleness in America as told by someone who chose to be a man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/black-maleness-in-america-told-by-someone-who-chose-to-be-a-man\/kingston-faraday-transgender-man\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5950\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kingston-Faraday-transgender-man.jpg\" alt=\" transgender man Kingston Faraday\" width=\"750\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5950\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kingston-Faraday-transgender-man.jpg 750w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kingston-Faraday-transgender-man-225x129.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kingston-Faraday-transgender-man-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI almost didn&#8217;t read this, as I don&#8217;t have such a big interest in how women transition into being men and vice-versa but I&#8217;m glad I did, because that&#8217;s not what this article talks about. It&#8217;s about the experience of being a black man in the US on the queer spectrum &#8230; the experience of being a black trans-gender man &#8230; the family and sociological ramifications of becoming a transgender person and the experience of being a black man in America today amidst all the social unrest, told from the perspective of a person who chose to be a man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afropunk.com\/profiles\/blogs\/interview-a-conversation-with-transgender-actor-kingston-faraday\">Interview with Kingston Faraday on Afropunk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To say the least, very interesting. Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/okaikor\">@okaikor<\/a> for the share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost didn&#8217;t read this, as I don&#8217;t have such a big interest in how women transition into being men and vice-versa but I&#8217;m glad I did, because that&#8217;s not what this article talks about. It&#8217;s about the experience of being a black man in the US on the queer spectrum &#8230; the experience of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/black-maleness-in-america-as-told-by-someone-who-chose-to-be-a-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black maleness in America as told by someone who chose to be a man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,1082,16],"tags":[724,1646,1647,1645],"class_list":["post-5948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-dei","category-transformation","tag-black","tag-man","tag-queer","tag-transgender"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}