{"id":302,"date":"2021-10-28T23:20:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T06:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/?p=302"},"modified":"2021-10-28T23:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T06:20:04","slug":"change-for-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/2021\/10\/28\/change-for-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Change for the better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On page 7 of \u201cBroken Strands\u201d by Mayra Santos-Febres, Miss Kety makes the statement that \u201cSometimes you have to remake yourself because the first time you came out badly.\u201d What does this phrase mean? It means that one has to be willing to take the necessary steps to remake oneself to get their desired image and rise from the less-than-ideal life one has been given.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite having a broken nose, Miss Kety is seen by many in her neighbourhood (including Yetsaida) as a goddess, but how did she get there? On page 2, it is mentioned that Miss Kety does her own hair and straightens it with fine products from a discount store.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She is similar to Yetsaida and many other girls in the neighbourhood. Miss Kety and Yetsaida are both black females with a broken nose that they received from an abusive man. Yetsaida had to wait until the age of 13 and endure the constant abuse, brought about by her curly hair and internalized racism, from her father to finally change her hair. Attaining the desired image is not the only thing one must do. To maintain the desired image, one must continue to work hard by taking good care of their hair and skin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On page 7 of \u201cBroken Strands\u201d by Mayra Santos-Febres, Miss Kety makes the statement that \u201cSometimes you have to remake yourself because the first time you came out badly.\u201d What does this phrase mean? It means that one has to be willing to take the necessary steps to remake oneself to get their desired image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-span312","tag-broken-strand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}