{"id":579933,"date":"2019-02-15T08:31:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=50046a7a5a7580de37029468537ed64d"},"modified":"2019-02-15T08:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:31:52","slug":"why-seeing-marginalized-communities-in-pop-culture-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=579933","title":{"rendered":"Why seeing marginalized communities in pop culture matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just four years ago that the social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite was trending, helping to spark a national outcry regarding the lack of diversity in Oscar-nominated films and Hollywood in general. But it&#8217;s not just the film and TV industry that fail to represent the diversity of our society, it&#8217;s most forms of popular culture. Can this be dismissed as &#8220;identity politics&#8221;? Why should we care?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just four years ago that the social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite was trending, helping to spark a national outcry regarding the lack of diversity in Oscar-nominated films and Hollywood in general. But it&#8217;s not just the film and TV industry that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579934,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579933\/revisions\/579934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}