{"id":3664,"date":"2013-02-19T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2015-07-15T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:49:04","slug":"reeva-steenkamp-29-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/02\/19\/reeva-steenkamp-29-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeva Steenkamp, 29, is dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reeva_Steenkamp\">Steenkamp<\/a> hailed from Cape Town, South Africa. She began work as a model in 2001 and graduated from Nelson Mandela Metro University in 2005 with a BA in law, then went on to work as a paralegal. She applied to the bar in 2011, hoping to be a legal advocate by the age of 30. She was murdered on Valentine&#8217;s Day, 2013, two days before the fifth season of reality TV show Tropika Island of Pleasure, in which she appeared, began airing.<\/p>\n<p>She was murdered by abusive, wretched excuse for a human being [and celebrity athlete] Oscar Pistorius, in yet another depressingly common case of intimate partner violence.<\/p>\n<p>How much do you wanna bet he&#8217;ll get away with it due to his super privileges as a white, rich, straight, cis, celebrity dude who can also play on the public assumption that people with disabilities are useless lumps who can&#8217;t do anything, much less murder?<\/p>\n<p>And how much do you wanna bet that Steenkamp will disappear in the media&#8217;s narrative about how they&#8217;re shocked &#8212; <em>shocked, I say!<\/em> &#8212; that the inspiringly heroic <a href=\"http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\/post\/the-transcontinental-disability-choir-disability-archetypes-supercrip\">supercrip<\/a> should have such a tragic downfall?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1466062.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1466062.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1466062.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steenkamp hailed from Cape Town, South Africa. She began work as a model in 2001 and graduated from Nelson Mandela Metro University in 2005 with a BA in law, then went on to work as a paralegal. She applied to the bar in 2011, hoping to be a legal advocate by the age of 30.&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/02\/19\/reeva-steenkamp-29-is-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reeva Steenkamp, 29, is dead.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[707,647,666],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-erased-women","tag-people-with-disabilities","tag-reproductive-rights-and-rape-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}