{"id":1400,"date":"2023-06-30T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:26:38","slug":"sasha-velour-talks-self-expression-gender-and-drag-with-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/sasha-velour-talks-self-expression-gender-and-drag-with-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasha Velour talks self-expression, gender and drag with the New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-14.png 900w, https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-14-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-14-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/05\/image-14-165x110.png 165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/burst.shopify.com\/@shopifypartners\">Shopify Partners for Pride<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/burst.shopify.com\/\">Burst<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Howdy everyone, June first marked the beginning of Pride Month, born from the commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall riots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Pride Month differs from years past as the season follows threats of violence and a widespread introduction to legislation that has led to queer children books being banned from classrooms across the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the face of this assertion, queer artists and community members continue to create and claim power over the expansivity of self-expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Sasha Velour, a gender fluid drag queen, author, television and theatre performer, and visual artist as they discuss the importance of identity, storytelling, and queer expression with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cover-story\/cover-story-2023-06-12?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Magazine_Daily_060523&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=tny_weekly_digest&amp;bxid=5be9fbb83f92a4046938f6ba&amp;cndid=52321129&amp;hasha=99f0bbd75fb748f74edfe7e7724e4c0c&amp;hashb=48e8eb3b5bd8c5f117402b7462a6968e82145232&amp;hashc=86185e4c268aecec520c3350b0eabf3b762acb1d35959148e8897163ba6e5666&amp;esrc=AUTO_PRINT\">The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopify Partners for Pride\u00a0via\u00a0Burst Howdy everyone, June first marked the beginning of Pride Month, born from the commemoration of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychlabs.torontomu.ca\/shiftlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}