{"id":115000,"date":"2023-06-26T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115000"},"modified":"2023-06-26T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:05:01","slug":"how-bama-rush-captures-this-strangely-bittersweet-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115000","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How \u2018Bama Rush\u2019 captures this strangely bittersweet Pride month&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/06\/22\/bama-rush-pride-trans-nonbinary-sororities\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;\u201cThe pain of not being myself,\u201d says Rachel Fleit in her film,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/bama_rush\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBama Rush,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u201cbecame greater than the pain of not fitting in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleit\u2019s documentary, about sorority culture at the University of Alabama, is streaming on Max (the service formerly known as HBO). She\u2019s referring to her experience as a bald woman \u2014 a person with alopecia \u2014 but as I watched her film, I found it hard not to think of the LGBTQ+ community, especially during this strangely bittersweet Pride month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of queer people spend a big part of our lives in just the way Fleit describes \u2014 fruitlessly trying to be the person others want us to be, trying against all odds to fit in to straight or cisgender culture. And then, when we finally come out as ourselves, sometimes we find that the members of the group we once longed to join reveal themselves as judgmental and cruel \u2014 exactly the kind of people you least want to hang around with, once you\u2019ve found your courage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;\u201cThe pain of not being myself,\u201d says Rachel Fleit in her film,\u00a0\u201cBama Rush,\u201d\u00a0\u201cbecame greater than the pain of not fitting in.\u201d Fleit\u2019s documentary, about sorority culture at the University of Alabama, is streaming on Max (the service formerly known as HBO). She\u2019s referring to her experience as a bald woman \u2014 a person with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115001,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115000\/revisions\/115001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}