{"id":1994,"date":"2021-01-29T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T11:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:04","slug":"what-am-i-reading-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/what-am-i-reading-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What Am I Reading Now\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What am I Reading Now is an online reiteration of a printed column, of the same name in Cooper Gallery\u2019s occasional periodicals &amp; labels.<\/p>\n<p>These writings are published every month and are influenced by the global political movement Black Lives Matter, inviting Black practitioners to share a selection of five readings that have shaped their thinking, research and practice.<\/p>\n<p>In their newest instalment, posted this month, Noor Afshan Mirza lists five books which has shaped her life and work.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1995\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/01\/zami-sm-768x1024-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1995\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/01\/zami-sm-768x1024-1-225x300.png\" alt=\"One of Noor Afshan Mirza's top 5\" width=\"509\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/01\/zami-sm-768x1024-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/01\/zami-sm-768x1024-1.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Noor Afshan Mirza&#8217;s top 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Check her article out as well as many more here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rEjKnOfbbM\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/cooper-gallery-inbetween\/what-i-am-reading-now\/\">what i am reading now (home)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;what i am reading now (home)&#8221; &#8212; Cooper Gallery A space in-between\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/cooper-gallery-inbetween\/what-i-am-reading-now\/embed\/#?secret=L8GtJj40j1#?secret=rEjKnOfbbM\" data-secret=\"rEjKnOfbbM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What am I Reading Now is an online reiteration of a printed column, of the same name in Cooper Gallery\u2019s occasional periodicals &amp; labels. These writings are published every month and are influenced by the global political movement Black Lives Matter, inviting Black practitioners to share a selection of five readings that have shaped their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-djcad","category-literature"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}