{"id":3778,"date":"2014-08-28T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2015-08-17T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:59:08","slug":"a-conversation-with-dr-yaba-blay-saturday-30th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/a-conversation-with-dr-yaba-blay-saturday-30th-august\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay: Saturday 30th August"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\">You&#8217;re invited to a conversation with Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yaba Blay<\/a> on Saturday 30th August from 5pm-7pm at the AWDF resource centre in East Legon, Accra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Dr Blay is a professor, producer, and publisher.As a researcher and ethnographer, she uses personal and social narratives to disrupt fundamental assumptions about cultures and identities. As a cultural worker and producer, she uses images to inform consciousness, incite dialogue, and inspire others into action and transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">This conversation with Dr Blay will focus on her work including a discussion on <em>1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/em> which explores potential disadvantages related with having light skin, particularly among people of African descent \u2013 racial ambiguity and contested racial authenticity. As well as a focus on &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/prettyperiod.me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pretty.Period&#8217;,\u00a0<\/a> a transmedia project created as a visual missive in reaction to the oh-so-popular, yet oh-so-offensive \u201ccompliment\u201d \u2013 \u201cYou\u2019re pretty for a dark-skinned girl.\u201d A few copies of <em>)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/em> will be available for sale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">For directions to AWDF house please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Directions-to-AWDF-House-.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_3779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3779\" style=\"width: 682px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yaba-Blay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yaba-Blay-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Yaba Blay\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Yaba Blay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,340,61,341,342,343,344],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-awdf","tag-conversation","tag-ghana","tag-period","tag-pretty","tag-resource-centre","tag-yaba-blay"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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