{"id":9787,"date":"2019-02-22T00:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9787"},"modified":"2019-02-22T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T22:29:17","slug":"slam-poet-talks-sex-education-little-poetry-on-the-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9787","title":{"rendered":"Slam Poet Talks Sex Education, Little Poetry on the Side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Lindsey Smith–<\/strong>Ebony Stewart<\/a>, an internationally recognized slam poet, came to perform her poetry, yet touched on something different weighing on students’ minds: sex education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stewart started out the set on Thursday night in Buck\u2019s caf\u00e9 by talking with the audience, asking them questions like, \u201cWhat do you do for fun here?\u201d and, \u201cWhat are your fears?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversational and\nfriendly, she dove right into one of her poems about pick-up lines<\/a>, smooth\nand polished as she spoke. When she eventually stopped, she asked everybody if\nthey were okay, sprinkling \u201csugar\u2019s\u201d in every other sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allison Agee, a senior English major, said of the event. \u201cI usually don\u2019t like slam poets or poetry in general, but I liked her as a person.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many came for her poetry, which focuses on gender, sexuality, womanhood, and race; what was most interesting about Stewart\u2019s set was the lack of it. Halfway through, she called for questions from the audience about anything from love to sex to dating or even about Stewart herself. As a former sex educator and an aspiring sex therapist, Stewart was very knowledgeable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People asked about body\nimage, how to be intimate after trauma, and a variety of other sex-related\nquestions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After over twenty minutes\nof this, Stewart then finished her set with a short poem about time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tori Anderson, one of the MAC committee members who sponsored the event, said of Stewart\u2019s performance, \u201cI thought it was something very different from what we usually have. She was very welcoming and made everyone feel comfortable with what are usually awkward subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart is also an award\nwinning playwright and author. She can be found on Twitter @EbPoetry, Instagram\nat gullyprincess, and Facebook at Ebony Stewart or @StoryofTheBlackGirlWinning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lindsey Smith–Ebony Stewart, an internationally recognized slam poet, came to perform her poetry, yet touched on something different weighing on students’ minds: sex education. Stewart started out the set on Thursday night in Buck\u2019s caf\u00e9 by talking with the audience, asking them questions like, \u201cWhat do you do for fun here?\u201d and, \u201cWhat are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[46880,45,6119],"class_list":["post-9787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","tag-msidelife","tag-art","tag-morningside-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9796,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions\/9796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}