{"id":8691,"date":"2016-07-17T01:06:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T01:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dancemogul.com\/news\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T16:23:50","slug":"adisa-gooding-serving-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/adisa-gooding-serving-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"<center><strong><em>Adisa Gooding<\/strong> | Serving Truth<\/em><\/center>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/'\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8692\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8692\" src=\"\/\/dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13627067_10153476819616735_5849910638832238438_n.jpg\" alt=\"13627067_10153476819616735_5849910638832238438_n\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13627067_10153476819616735_5849910638832238438_n.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13627067_10153476819616735_5849910638832238438_n-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13627067_10153476819616735_5849910638832238438_n-600x750.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>DDCPhotography<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dance Mogul:<\/span><\/strong> What was the inspiration behind your Version of the Lemonade experience?<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adisa:<\/span> <\/strong>Well my inspiration behind lemonade served bittersweet came from one, me personally being inspired by Miss_Shalae who has been a strong and loving voice to and for trans women from minority backgrounds and two, her passion and own inspiration to do this project which stemmed from a deep love for Beyonc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dance Mogul:<\/span><\/strong> Your Transgender journey has come with highs and lows. Can you tell us how you were able to overcome discrimination?<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adisa:<\/span><\/strong> Honestly, I&#8217;m not sure how to answer this question. I&#8217;m still overcoming the ignorance and discrimination of my life\/lifestyle decisions. In the words of my favorite trans author Janet Mock, &#8220;I&#8217;m too busy living it, navigating it, surviving it, to truly and truthfully answer this question.&#8221; (Redefining Realness&#8221;Chapter five page 144)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dance Mogul:<\/strong> With everything going on in the world right now as far as hating each other for being different, how do you find the balance for normalcy in your life?<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adisa:<\/span><\/strong> What is normal in this day and age? I personally believe normalcy is relative to each person&#8217;s unique experience. What I do know is what has helped me find peace within, and that&#8217;s the security of living in my fullest truth. It truly saddens me the amount of hate that seems to be crippling our humanity, however, I personally chose to spread love and light through my art in hopes of a better and safer tomorrow for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dance Mogul:<\/strong><\/span> Do you have any advice for the young people coming up that make no traditional choices?<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adisa:<\/span> <\/strong>Live your life, be proud of who you are and stay true to yourself. Surround yourself with people that love you. Don&#8217;t accept being tolerated, plant yourself where you are celebrated!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dance Mogul:<\/span> <\/strong>Is there anyone you would like to thank for helping you?<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adisa:<\/span><\/strong> First and foremost I&#8217;d like to thank God, I&#8217;d also like to thank Miss Shalae Q Burdette who was my co-director and videographer\/editor my manager Cheryl Steele my little brother and sister and my mom, and everyone else that has supported me along the way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8694\" src=\"\/\/dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1047.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1047\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1047.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1047-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1047-600x426.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8695\" src=\"\/\/dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n.jpg\" alt=\"13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n\" width=\"501\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n-900x900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13631481_10153474769531735_4527870126731420762_n-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>DDCPhotography<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8693\" src=\"\/\/dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0979.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0979\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0979.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0979-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0979-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0979-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0979-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0979-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0979-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DDCPhotography Dance Mogul: What was the inspiration behind your Version of the Lemonade experience? Adisa: Well my inspiration behind lemonade served bittersweet came from one, me personally being inspired by Miss_Shalae who has been a strong and loving voice to and for trans women from minority backgrounds and two, her passion and own inspiration to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive-interviews","category-waacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}