{"id":194,"date":"2017-03-09T09:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:44:17","slug":"international-womens-day-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/2017\/03\/09\/international-womens-day-2017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SunGen marked International Women&#8217;s Day by celebrating intersectionality in the feminist movement with an engaging conversation with Holly Sterling.\u00a0 Vice Chancellor Professor Shirley Atkinson opened proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Holly is a highly acclaimed children&#8217;s illustrator and author.\u00a0 She shared her own experience as a mixed-race woman and her journey to becoming a published author and illustrator.\u00a0 She also discussed why it is important that children should be able to see mixed race families depicted in books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/IMG_2179.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-195 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/IMG_2179-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/IMG_2179-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/IMG_2179-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/IMG_2179-1024x716.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holly&#8217;s talk was followed by some lively activities organised by Trish Bryans to get attendees to engage with the concept of intersectionality and to share their own re-imaginings of what it means to be part of the &#8216;sisterhood&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SunGen marked International Women&#8217;s Day by celebrating intersectionality in the feminist movement with an engaging conversation with Holly Sterling.\u00a0 Vice Chancellor Professor Shirley Atkinson opened proceedings. Holly is a highly acclaimed children&#8217;s illustrator and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/sungen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}