{"id":20312,"date":"2019-04-01T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T07:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20312"},"modified":"2019-04-01T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T07:51:01","slug":"bjd-appoints-transwoman-meera-parida-as-vp-of-mahila-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/bjd-appoints-transwoman-meera-parida-as-vp-of-mahila-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"BJD Appoints Transwoman Meera Parida As VP Of Mahila Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"container\">\n<div id=\"articlevideo\" class=\"post-media imgvideoshow\">\n<div class=\"single-page-images-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shethepeople.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/meera-parida.png\" alt=\"Meera Parida\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page-header page-header-standard\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shethepeople.tv\/news\/odisha-cm-33-seats-women-election-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biju Janta Dal\u2019s<\/a> women\u2019s wing Biju Mahila Janata Dal (BMJD) party named Meera as Vice President recently making her the first transwoman to ever hold the position. The 38-year-old social activist is a resident of Begunia block, Khurda district. She has won several awards for her work in protecting the rights of marginalised groups who are vulnerable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shethepeople.tv\/news\/hiv-services-fail-women-focus-gay-men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HIV and AIDS<\/a> across the country, including the Best Transgender Leader in India award by UNDP, NACO and HIV Alliance in 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shethepeople.tv\/news\/author-kr-meera-writing-women-challenges-self-love\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Biju Janta Dal\u2019s women\u2019s wing Biju Mahila Janata Dal (BMJD) party named Meera as Vice President recently making her the first transwoman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}