{"id":158,"date":"2008-07-09T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuppagemma.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:38:28","slug":"casting-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Casting calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than one news story has covered Vogue Italia&#8217;s using only black models in one issue. Is it groundbreaking, will it sell, is it a marketing ploy and so forth. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/25570118\/\" target=\"_blank\">here for the MSNBC report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7489296.stm\" target=\"_blank\">different story <\/a>that you may not have read from the BBC about dalit women who got to attend an UN conference and model. \u00a0Usha Chomar is a former scavanger who attended the conference. She said, &#8220;I am very happy at last to be treated like a normal person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the UN this is the International Year of Sanitation. From the BBC report, &#8220;The UN aims to reduce by half the number of people without basic sanitation by 2015.\u00a0But in India alone they face a huge task.\u00a0It&#8217;s estimated that around 700 million Indians do not have access to safe and hygienic toilets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oddly we have more coverage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20070308\/ent\/ent2.html\">Naomi Campbell<\/a> mopping floors in 2007 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/26\/AR2008062603247.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Wintour<\/a> wearing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/2230480\/Vogue-editor-Anna-Wintour-wears-same-dress-three-times.html\" target=\"_blank\">same dress<\/a> several times then we do of nameless women who are trying to do more.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than one news story has covered Vogue Italia&#8217;s using only black models in one issue. Is it groundbreaking, will it sell, is it a marketing ploy and so forth. Click here for the MSNBC report. But here is a different story that you may not have read from the BBC about dalit women who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-older-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}