{"id":1448,"date":"2021-06-25T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2021-06-25T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:35:30","slug":"good-reads-for-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Good Reads for Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pa-2021-061402.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month I finished \u201cSometimes You Have to Lie,\u201d Leslie Brody\u2019s excellent biography about Louise Fitzhugh, the author of one of my favorite adolescent books, \u201cHarriet the Spy.\u201d It has occurred to me how appropriate it was to be reading this during Pride Month. Louise never hid her sexuality, well aware her money, privilege, and talent allowed it. Most of her long-term romantic partnerships were with women, and while she may have had a few \u201cgentlemen\u201d friends, they were never a serious interest. She was an outspoken social justice advocate, and I was thoroughly absorbed in her literary world of the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s. Her gender fluid fashion sense had me captivated and a quote from another author\u2019s novel sort of clicked into place for me how I feel about identity and sexuality.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s from Carson McCullers book \u201cMember of the Wedding,\u201d another story about a pre-teen tomboy, Frankie, in whose ideal world \u201cpeople could instantly change back and forth from boys to girls, whichever they felt like and wanted.\u201d Sounds good to me, Frankie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month I finished \u201cSometimes You Have to Lie,\u201d Leslie Brody\u2019s excellent biography about Louise Fitzhugh, the author of one of my favorite adolescent books, \u201cHarriet the Spy.\u201d It has occurred to me how appropriate it was to be reading this during Pride Month. Louise never hid her sexuality, well aware her money, privilege, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Reads for Pride Month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}