{"id":1188,"date":"2023-09-19T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:07:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:07:16","slug":"black-women-in-acting-empress-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/black-women-in-acting-empress-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Women In Acting- Empress Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenplay.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of Screenplay..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a4b02e34-44c3-4235-950c-d36ab4411162\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenplay.pdf\">Screenplay<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenplay.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a4b02e34-44c3-4235-950c-d36ab4411162\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I captured this scene because it was important for me to learn, and teach others, just how hard it is in the theatre world for black women. You could do three times the work, and it be completely taken for granted. Nothing I did during that time was good enough for Mrs. C to acknowledge the work was mine, or to even remember my name. When you have been working with someone for months and they constantly mix you up with other people who don\u2019t really even look like you, it\u2019s hard. I felt undervalued, and overused. I learned to stop giving these particular people my everything and focus on other things that were important to me. I was constructed into a more well-rounded person because I had to learn to take my talents and use them for other things. My leadership in design was used for extracurricular activities that made me happier, and that gave me a sense of worth. And I learned that it was not okay to live without that worth. This experience molded me into someone who will not stop fighting for the recognition I and others deserve in lines of work that would be lacking without us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I captured this scene because it was important for me to learn, and teach others, just how hard it is in the theatre world for black women. You could do three times the work, and it be completely taken for granted. Nothing I did during that time was good enough for Mrs. C to acknowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hs-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobhiatt.net\/EdinFilm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}