{"id":35658,"date":"2022-03-28T07:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T06:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=35658"},"modified":"2023-07-09T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T12:44:48","slug":"alter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/alter\/","title":{"rendered":"Alter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story that is mine.<br \/>\nWhich I don\u2019t own, but share.<br \/>\nA life that is mine and other(s) to hold onto.<br \/>\nDifferent and alike.<\/p>\n<p>I dig them.<\/p>\n<p>I dig them diffracting the horizon.<br \/>\nI am thankful.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re different from me.<br \/>\nBut also they\u2019re another you. Another im.possible version of you.<br \/>\nThey\u2019re your siblings, your alters, your kind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You don\u2019t <em>get\u00a0<\/em>them: you feel them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">I see you.<\/p>\n<p>You feel them because no one owns their lives.<br \/>\nWe hold onto. We dig them.<\/p>\n<p>We dig them intuitively.<br \/>\nWe fly.<\/p>\n<p>We dig them for generations gone and heirs forthcoming.<br \/>\nWe fly in a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>random<br \/>\n<\/em><em>act<br \/>\n<\/em><em>of flyness.<\/em><span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_35658_1('footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_35658_1('footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_35658_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><span lang=\"fr\">After Terence Nance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_35658_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We steal.<\/p>\n<p>We steal because we strive.<br \/>\nAnd we steal because we strive because we care.<\/p>\n<p>We care, but often we don\u2019t and we gotta hustle so we steal and here we go again.<br \/>\nA story that is mine.<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t about me but those alters that hold onto y\/our lives.<\/p>\n<p>A hint.<br \/>\nA hint or an intel from the brownfields, exhilarating and exhausting.<br \/>\nYou\u2019re haunting you while other theys are hunting back.<br \/>\n\u2013\u2013 You air bend.<\/p>\n<p>A fugue.<\/p>\n<p>A flight for those who do not own, but hold,<br \/>\nto share..<br \/>\nA golden teapot and hashes.<\/p>\n<p>alter-<br \/>\nWhere egos stand for black stands for trans-<\/p>\n<p>ition, mission, mation and mutation.<\/p>\n<p>Anything but a piece of enlightenment on blackness.<\/p>\n<p>So I won\u2019t explain _____ we\u2019re colonial projects and the question is, real: what do we do with it?<\/p>\n<p>All of us.<\/p>\n<p>You see a metaphor where I see life,<br \/>\na writing coquetterie where I see lives.<\/p>\n<p>But Kid,<br \/>\nif you don\u2019t get it, it\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is just and always fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>2015.<br \/>\nSome time ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018cause then I remember I was invited to <em>speak<\/em>about it, like it had become somehow<br \/>\n\u2013 History, situated, knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Enlightened blackness:<br \/>\nAfter joy was satisfaction, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<br \/>\naffirmation,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .<br \/>\nacknowledgment,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .<br \/>\nrecognition.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.<br \/>\nA settlers state,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .<br \/>\ndawning.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .<br \/>\nBut they\u2019ve kept calling me Yahoonessi and they won\u2019t apologize about it.<\/p>\n<p>Another story that is mine.<\/p>\n<p>A story like none of a kind, really.<br \/>\nMine.<br \/>\nThat of a billion souls that do not own shit but hold onto their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Anything but a piece of enlightenment on blackness.<\/p>\n<p>Notknowingness.<\/p>\n<p>Precisely because it\u2019s the opposite to possessing a thing as.certain*ty.<br \/>\nPrecisely because you\u2019ve got a choice to trust others to lead you or not.<br \/>\nPrecisely because they\u2019ve been enslaved and precisely because we fly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>.. the whole point about<br \/>\n<\/em><em>escape is that it\u2019s an<br \/>\n<\/em><em>activity.. (it\u2019s) not an<br \/>\n<\/em><em>achievement..\u00a0you don\u2019t<br \/>\n<\/em><em>ever get escaped..\u00a0 you<br \/>\n<\/em><em>know like \u201cI escaped\u201d.. and<br \/>\n<\/em><em>what that means is.. what<br \/>\n<\/em><em>you\u2019re escaping from<br \/>\n<\/em><em>is always after you..<\/em><span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_35658_1('footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_35658_1('footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_35658_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">After Fred Moten.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_35658_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Precisely because that\u2019s what sharing power is about. Losing it,<br \/>\nin turns.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s getting harder to maintain aflot. You\u2019re suffocating.<\/p>\n<p>In the air, soap bubbles are like soaps on TV-programs and you keep wondering: \u201cok, but is it cryptic or a bag of shit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Coons are wildcats all the same.<br \/>\n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Coton mud and banana cakes all the same: stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Black lives on the same time slot as mass and wildlife documentaries,<br \/>\nand you keep wandering, and you keep fleeting.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re a shoal of shoaling blue runners.<br \/>\n\u2013 <em>Woof, woof <\/em>(and) you keep barking.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean by that is that of course you cannot understand because ain\u2019t shit to understand \u2013 what I feel, or what it feels, to rub up against the tie of all that it is(n\u2019t) that is(n\u2019t) stalling against the blackness of my kind. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lightness.<\/p>\n<p>Though fluidity is precisely letting go; what I mean by that is that I do not own and I can never know, I will never get and I won\u2019t ever drain the words and flows \u2013 heaviness, density \u2013 all the meanings of the words, from a broken language that is mine to another colonial that is yours, that sur.render(s) the lands and scapes of black writing. But I dig them, I feel them pulse, deep down and low, in my ears, lungs and cunts, in those various visceral densities of my beings that you\u2019d like to understand because: it matters. But it doesn\u2019t matter, it is precisely matter, my guts, my blood, my cells. I don\u2019t kn.ow.n shit but I\u2019m in that shit. It is mine and I am not here to tell YOU how magical it is. Cause you don\u2019t need to be taught, you\u2019d listen if you\u2019d care, you need to act, you need to stick your neck out of it, \u2018cause really the shit is y.ours.<\/p>\n<p>As it is life.<\/p>\n<p>So I won\u2019t explain _____ we\u2019re colonial projects and the question is, real: what do we do with it?<\/p>\n<p>2022.<br \/>\nA couple years left before it starts again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">I love you.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Explaining it sounds like exploring it, sounds like expanding it, sounds like an attempt to stain, an habit to detain, obtain and constrain \u2013 to me. So I won&#8217;t explain.<\/p>\n<p>But imply, implore: we s(t)and.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Now,<\/p>\n<p>imagine yourself walking on the crest of things.<\/p>\n<p>Can you really picture yourself on the crest of things?<br \/>\nI can\u2019t so I won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Hypersensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>You tell me.<\/p>\n<p>An anti-American dream with a stench of French universalism.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, don\u2019t get me wrong: there\u2019s a curse on all of your isms.<\/p>\n<p>So ofc on some other side of things, I remember stars streaking the surface of a puddle and foul fuel waves twerking down your tiptoes. Crispy yellow sandbrick units and aggregated saxifragas. Hearthstones cooking, a feast of flies.<\/p>\n<p>I remember I wrote about a dozen times these words: \u201cThey\u2019d be Massa\u00efs on the moon and Mam\u2019Wata sunbathing near a swimming-pool.. <em>..Myths<\/em><span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_35658_1('footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_35658_1('footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_35658_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><span lang=\"fr\">After Sun Ra.<\/span><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_35658_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I remember remodeling it a dozen times, reshaping it a dozen times.<br \/>\nA hashtag, a meme and a formula, a praxis, a spell and a prayer. A vision and hope \u2013\u2013 schizophonic egregore.<\/p>\n<p>I remember it somewhen between meltdown, anger and faith. I remember it radical, intricate, collective and prismatic, paradoxical and polysemic, bravely sustaining. I remember it irreducible, intransigent and unsolvable: you are still alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Resistance is blur, fog, shadow.<br \/>\nAn alliance and anticipated friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Earthseed.. Except the stars aren\u2019t up, aren\u2019t down, but far. And I hate you.<\/p>\n<p>I hate you bad and I hate you too.<\/p>\n<p>Shit happens.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly it won\u2019t last.<br \/>\nI dig you too.<\/p>\n<p>That story is mine because of my willingness to share and unshare, my willingness to explain or to frame, perform, a worlds.<\/p>\n<p>For <em>\u201cI\u201d<\/em>come(s) in hordes.<\/p>\n<p>No subjects for it matters but an(other\/e)stranged bodies: cruising.<\/p>\n<p>Black blood\u2019s beat beatbox, incapable of melding to become one. Multitude.<\/p>\n<p>Multitude.<br \/>\nMultitude.<br \/>\nMultitude.<br \/>\nMultitude.<\/p>\n<p><em>It takes a route to meeting y.ourselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We speak in tongues.<br \/>\nMy guess is that the cave is a remnant.<br \/>\nA manifesto lost in uncollective translation. Babelian.<\/p>\n<p>I dig them. We fly.<\/p>\n<p>Multitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab \u2013\u2013 It\u2019s a strong grip you have, my friend, on things. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The flickers are getting stronger by now and the rivers up-skies.<br \/>\nFallon calls up skyseas; while Jo is spelling<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_35658_1('footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_35658_1('footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_35658_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><span lang=\"fr\">After Fallon Mayanja and Jos\u00e8fa Ntjam<\/span><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_35658_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>.<\/p>\n<p>A story that is mine.<br \/>\nWhich I don\u2019t own, but share.<br \/>\nMy multitudes and others.<\/p>\n<p>No need to proofread or explain it: we\u2019re living it.<br \/>\nWe, a group of outcasts at large from man. Hu~nity.<\/p>\n<p>Unwilling to master or seize, we perform a worlds where words are spells like swords unforged, and we dive in a stream of open meanings and potentialities. Imagination is our homelands.<\/p>\n<p>Still,<\/p>\n<p>Too greedy to grasp \u2013\u2013 everything: that&#8217;s coloniality already.<\/p>\n<p>Blackness is poetry:<\/p>\n<p>A mountain of wh.ores,<br \/>\ntales, whales,<br \/>\nfusion.<\/p>\n<p>A philosopher\u2019s stone stuck to melancholia,<br \/>\nand my siblings: witches.<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/948E21AE-3D3D-4F60-A7F2-9931BF7A0BC6#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_35658_1();\">&#x202F;<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_35658_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_35658_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_35658_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_35658_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><span lang=\"fr\">After Terence Nance.<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_35658_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_2');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_2\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">After Fred Moten.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_35658_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_3');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_3\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><span lang=\"fr\">After Sun Ra.<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_35658_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_35658_1_4');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_35658_1_4\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>4<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><span lang=\"fr\">After Fallon Mayanja and Jos\u00e8fa Ntjam<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function footnote_expand_reference_container_35658_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_35658_1').show(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_35658_1').text('\u2212'); } function footnote_collapse_reference_container_35658_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_35658_1').hide(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_35658_1').text('+'); } function footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_35658_1() { if (jQuery('#footnote_references_container_35658_1').is(':hidden')) { footnote_expand_reference_container_35658_1(); } else { footnote_collapse_reference_container_35658_1(); } } function footnote_moveToReference_35658_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_35658_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } } function footnote_moveToAnchor_35658_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_35658_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story that is mine. Which I don\u2019t own, but share. A life that is mine and other(s) to hold onto. Different and alike. I dig them. I dig them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2754,"featured_media":35841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6153],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6724],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alter &#8211; A*Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alter &#8211; A*Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A story that is mine. Which I don\u2019t own, but share. A life that is mine and other(s) to hold onto. Different and alike. I dig them. I dig them...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"A*Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-28T06:21:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-09T12:44:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alter.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"266\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"184\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mawena Yehouessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mawena Yehouessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/\",\"name\":\"Alter &#8211; A*Desk\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alter.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-28T06:21:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-09T12:44:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#\/schema\/person\/0b1e08bf9c9581775fc2ada300d8f604\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alter.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alter.jpg\",\"width\":266,\"height\":184},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Portada\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Alter\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/\",\"name\":\"A*Desk\",\"description\":\"A*Desk Critical Thinking\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#\/schema\/person\/0b1e08bf9c9581775fc2ada300d8f604\",\"name\":\"Mawena Yehouessi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/1d38e6589e7677f4f34acc4990a02a78\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e126273b34564727fd430d2f4698289b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e126273b34564727fd430d2f4698289b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mawena Yehouessi\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/autor\/mawena\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Alter &#8211; A*Desk","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Alter &#8211; A*Desk","og_description":"A story that is mine. Which I don\u2019t own, but share. A life that is mine and other(s) to hold onto. Different and alike. I dig them. I dig them...","og_url":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/","og_site_name":"A*Desk","article_published_time":"2022-03-28T06:21:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-09T12:44:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":266,"height":184,"url":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alter.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mawena Yehouessi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mawena Yehouessi","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/","url":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/","name":"Alter &#8211; A*Desk","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alter.jpg","datePublished":"2022-03-28T06:21:03+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-09T12:44:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#\/schema\/person\/0b1e08bf9c9581775fc2ada300d8f604"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alter.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alter.jpg","width":266,"height":184},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/magazine\/alter\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Portada","item":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Alter"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/","name":"A*Desk","description":"A*Desk Critical Thinking","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#\/schema\/person\/0b1e08bf9c9581775fc2ada300d8f604","name":"Mawena Yehouessi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/1d38e6589e7677f4f34acc4990a02a78","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e126273b34564727fd430d2f4698289b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e126273b34564727fd430d2f4698289b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mawena Yehouessi"},"url":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/autor\/mawena\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35658"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35679,"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35658\/revisions\/35679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35658"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}