{"id":2964,"date":"2018-10-06T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/the-black-girl-gamers-fighting-misogynoir\/"},"modified":"2018-10-06T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:13:50","slug":"the-black-girl-gamers-fighting-misogynoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/the-black-girl-gamers-fighting-misogynoir\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Girl Gamers fighting misogynoir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Misogynoir&#8230; it&#8217;s the combination of sexism and racism that affects black women in everyday life. <\/p>\n<p>Jay-Ann Lopez set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackgirlgamers.com\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Black Girl Gamers<\/a> to try to tackle misogynoir after she experienced a series of abusive messages while gaming. The community is a safe space online where women can connect and play together.<\/p>\n<p>Jay is also a vocal influencer in the black community and is working to combat misogynoir in wider society. <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been to meet the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgirlfest.com\/\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Black Girl Festival<\/a>, Paula Akpan, to talk about how prevalent misogynoir is and the ways it can be tackled. <\/p>\n<p><i>Video journalists: Samantha Everett &amp; Simone Stewart<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-45733822\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misogynoir&#8230; it&#8217;s the combination of sexism and racism that affects black women in everyday life. Jay-Ann Lopez set up the Black Girl Gamers to try to tackle misogynoir after she experienced a series of abusive messages while gaming. The community is a safe space online where women can connect and play together. Jay is also &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}