{"id":14786,"date":"2016-02-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/02\/06\/professor-tanya-rawal-s-sareenotsorry-campaign-uses-fashion-to-fight-racism\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:00:00","slug":"professor-tanya-rawal-s-sareenotsorry-campaign-uses-fashion-to-fight-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/02\/06\/professor-tanya-rawal-s-sareenotsorry-campaign-uses-fashion-to-fight-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Tanya Rawal&#8217;s #SareeNotSorry Campaign Uses Fashion to Fight Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiawest.com\/news\/global_indian\/professor-tanya-rawal-s-sareenotsorry-campaign-uses-fashion-to-fight\/article_dc5780fc-a99f-11e5-9b94-e73ef585c2ff.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN LEANDRO, CALIFORNIA, December 23, 2015 (India West): &#8220;It&#8217;s time we stop apologizing for our skin color, language and culture,&#8221; says the woman behind the viral hashtag #SareeNotSorry, a campaign to discourage negative attitudes of people towards Indian Americans and bring attention to the positive aspects of Indian culture.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Tanya Rawal, an Indian American professor at the University of California, Riverside. Since September, using the hashtag #SareeNotSorry, Rawal has been tweeting and instagramming pictures of herself wearing sarees in myriad colors and fabrics, sometimes accessorized with a belt and boots. At first, the idea was just a teaching experiment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My experiment was on what does it mean to be brown and a woman, and I was hoping to generate some questions in the class around being a minority in this country,&#8221; Rawal told India-West by phone from Riverside. But what started as a teaching experiment ten weeks ago has become a full-blown movement on social media, with women across the world posting pictures of themselves in sarees, using the hashtag she started.<\/p>\n<p>Much more at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source SAN LEANDRO, CALIFORNIA, December 23, 2015 (India West): &#8220;It&#8217;s time we stop apologizing for our skin color, language and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}