{"id":58,"date":"2019-03-27T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2019-04-30T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:55:07","slug":"reclamation-holy-armor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/reclamation-holy-armor\/","title":{"rendered":"RECLAMATION: HOLY ARMOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RECLAMATION: HOLY ARMOR, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Performance<\/p>\n<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;157&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQBzXXWf-Tg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RECLAMATION: HOLY ARMOR is a performance functioning as a ritualistic meditation on years of learning to inhabit a body, a trans, dysphoric body, and the intentionality it takes to make it a home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With this piece, I attempt to establish a relationship and comparison between the fruit \u201cbody\u201d and my own. The process of ripping the grapefruit peels from their core in both a violent manner that completely mangled the insides as well as a more careful, intentional, and preserving manner highlights the dichotomy of how having to modify and reclaim one\u2019s body is simultaneously difficult and chaotic yet thought-through and with careful, sustained determination. Sewing them together and wearing the garment made of peels becomes like a ceremonial robe&#8211; or a form of armor&#8211; that not only shields my body, but expresses a raw vulnerability with the insides of the peels facing outward. Transferring my piercings and giving the serotonin tattoo at the heart is a direct representation of some of the ways reclamation is possible&#8211;both being choices made to \u201cmodify\u201d the body to one\u2019s desire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The closing element to this performance being a nod to holy communion and a cyclical experience of reuniting with myself by personally eating them, and connecting with others by offering pieces for viewers to eat as well. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECLAMATION: HOLY ARMOR, 2019 Performance [slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;157&#8242;] RECLAMATION: HOLY ARMOR is a performance functioning as a ritualistic meditation on years of learning to inhabit a body, a trans, dysphoric body, and the intentionality it takes to make it a home. With this piece, I attempt to establish a relationship and comparison between the fruit \u201cbody\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/levitaylorbooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}