{"id":94,"date":"2020-11-10T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=94"},"modified":"2020-11-10T10:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T15:44:33","slug":"xavier-livermon","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/speaker\/xavier-livermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Livermon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Xavier Livermon\u2019s research exists at the intersection of popular culture, gender, and sexuality in post-apartheid South Africa and the African Diaspora. He is currently completing a manuscript tentatively entitled\u00a0<em>Its About Time: Kwaito and the Performance of Freedom<\/em>\u00a0that examines post-apartheid youth culture as a series of performances enacted to test the limits of post-apartheid possibility.\u00a0 His second project, tentatively entitled\u00a0<em>Queer(y)ing Freedom: Construction Black Queer Belonging in South Africa<\/em>\u00a0has resulted in a number of published essays in\u00a0<em>GLQ; Gender, Place, and Culture; and Feminist Studies<\/em>\u00a0 and examines how black queer South Africans construct forms of cultural and national belonging in a climate where progressive constitutional rights do not always translate in quotidian practice. His research interests include African Cultural Studies, Black Popular Music, Black Performance, Black Queer Studies, HIV\/AIDS and African Diaspora Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":95,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-94","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Livermon","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/94\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/audio-qt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}