{"id":13092,"date":"2015-03-31T08:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2015-03-31T08:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:17:24","slug":"rap-against-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/rap-against-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Rap Against Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"col_middle\" class=\"fliess\">\n<div class=\"box2\">\n<div class=\"fliess-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHow do you fight back against the brutality and violence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/rape-culture\/\">rape culture<\/a>?\u201d asks<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/authors\/greg-seals\/\" data-id=\"0\" data-image=\"\/\/cdn0.dailydot.com\/uploaded\/images\/author\/gregseals.jpeg\" data-twitter=\"gregseals\" data-email=\"gregory.seals@gmail.com\" data-title=\"Contributing Writer\">Greg Seals<\/a>\u00a0on the Daily Dot. And answers: \u201cIf you\u2019re anything like artist Uppekha Jain or television host Pankhuri Awasthi, you shout so loud you can\u2019t be ignored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only days after the release of the powerful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/politics\/indias-daughter-documentary\/\">BBC documentary <em>India\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/a>, these two women came together to shine a light on the reality of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/lifestyle\/all-india-bakchod-rape-culture-video\/\">India\u2019s rape culture<\/a>\u00a0by broadcasting their voices to the world in a powerful, viral video. Dubbing themselves the BomBaebs, the Mumbai-based women penned a searing spoken-word piece, \u2018Rap Against Rape.'\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unhappily\u00a0Leslee Udwins<i> BBC<\/i>-Docu \u201cIndia\u2019s Daughter\u201d can still not be seen outside England. Under pressure from the Indian Government, which is threatening the BBC with legal proceedings, the latter is slowly giving in, the Perlentaucher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perlentaucher.de\/9punkt\/2015-03-31.html\">reports<\/a>, saying that \u201ca copy of the video circulating on Youtube has now been erased.\u201d \u00a0I could not verify this as I found a copy on Youtube, though maybe\u00a0this refers only to availability in India?<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxiwXQS4yQM\" width=\"430\" height=\"242\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow do you fight back against the brutality and violence of rape culture?\u201d asksGreg Seals\u00a0on the Daily Dot. And answers: \u201cIf you\u2019re anything like artist Uppekha Jain or television host Pankhuri Awasthi, you shout&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1642],"tags":[1644,1643],"class_list":["post-13092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-violence-against-women","tag-pankhuri-awasthi","tag-uppekha-jain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13096,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions\/13096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}