{"id":27301,"date":"2025-09-22T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=27301"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:38:15","slug":"black-girl-diaries-5-peeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/09\/22\/black-girl-diaries-5-peeling\/","title":{"rendered":"black girl diaries (5): peeling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>cicadas chirp around me<br>buzzing and bursting at the seams for something to change<br>something has to give<br>but it won&#8217;t be me<br>and it won&#8217;t be you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can feel my skin peeling off<br>gross, disgusting, unnatural,<br>yet praised<br>the summer sun burns me and<br>boils me down to my<br>bare essentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I become nothing but what you want me to become. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but when autumn comes near<br>I feel the weather cools<br>and I become myself again.<br>the cicadas die off,<br>and only their shells remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am more than that. I will always be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cicadas chirp around mebuzzing and bursting at the seams for something to changesomething has to givebut it won&#8217;t be meand it won&#8217;t be you I can feel my skin peeling offgross, disgusting, unnatural,yet praisedthe summer sun burns me andboils me down to mybare essentials. I become nothing but what you want me to become. but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2289,"featured_media":27180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1334,1],"tags":[776,2165,1454,281,15,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27310,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27301\/revisions\/27310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}