{"id":96,"date":"2019-05-03T20:48:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/?p=96"},"modified":"2019-06-18T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T15:43:59","slug":"the-forbidden-women-letter-to-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/2019\/05\/03\/the-forbidden-women-letter-to-her\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forbidden Women (student project)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Xiaocheng Chen<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/1-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/1-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/1-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/1.png 1085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #444444;font-family: sans-serif\">Part of the &#8220;Letter to Her&#8221; project with Asma, my side of the project is a hand-bound chapbook themed on the artistic and literary forms women are forbidden from in China and across cultures, including Peking Opera and writing. Both classical texts and contemporary daily materials such as envelopes and grocery receipts are transformed into space for discussion on gender issues. By selecting only a few words\/letters from the text and covering all the others, I made new feminist poems out of the original text.\u00a0<\/span>The book is also punctuated with visuals including photographs taken across cultures that speak to readers with different backgrounds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/4-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/4-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/4-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/4.png 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-105 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/8-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/8-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/8-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/8.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-106 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/9-300x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/9-300x211.png 300w, 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size-medium wp-image-108\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/11-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/11-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/11-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/11-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/12-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/12-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/12-768x1152.jpg 768w, 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Both classical texts and contemporary daily materials such as envelopes and grocery receipts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/2019\/05\/03\/the-forbidden-women-letter-to-her\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Forbidden Women (student project)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9703,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/files\/2019\/05\/3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/poetrymachines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}