{"id":20410,"date":"2019-04-01T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20410"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:54:03","slug":"oakland-singer-mahawams-is-an-island-is-a-fight-for-visibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/oakland-singer-mahawams-is-an-island-is-a-fight-for-visibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Singer MaHaWaM\u2019s \u201cIs An Island\u201d is a Fight for Visibility"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100941\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcampblog.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/03\/mahawam-1244.jpg?w=1244&amp;h=646\" alt=\"Mahawam\" width=\"1244\" height=\"646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100941\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#303030;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.15px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">\u201cI want to lend some visibility to something that seems to be very invisible,\u201d says the singer and rapper MaHaWaM, speaking over the phone from their home in Oakland, CA. \u201cAs a Black person in America, my life has been threatened before. So when I received my HIV diagnosis, it was like, \u2018Here\u2019s another thing to deal with every day,\u2019 you know?\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/2019\/04\/01\/mahawams-is-an-island-interview\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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>\u201cI want to lend some visibility to something that seems to be very invisible,\u201d says the singer and rapper MaHaWaM, speaking over&#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-20410","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\/20410","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=20410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}