{"id":27,"date":"2025-04-23T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:16:00","slug":"ben-f-locke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Ben F. Locke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Filmmaker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/680f8029a163e24569fd54e8\/f5241e49-0471-4555-8952-f723ddc28c13\/Untitled+design+%281%29.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Ben F. Locke<\/strong> is a Black, Queer and Nonbinary Chicago Writer, Actor, Director, Casting Director and Producer. They have a double degree in Theatre and Human Services from Millikin University, graduated from the School at Steppenwolf and Boston University&#8217;s Graduate Program for TV\/Film Writing. Their work focuses on Black\/Queer experiences and tries to focus on joy rather than trauma, as a way to expand how this industry sees us and what stories we&#8217;re allowed to be part of. More stories for us, by us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-svg-icon--outer social-icon-alignment-left social-icons-color- social-icons-size-small social-icons-style-regular \" >\n<style>\n    #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1756124171538_2826 .social-icons-style-border .sqs-svg-icon--wrapper {<\/p>\n<p>        box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px inset;<\/p>\n<p>      border: none; \n    }\n  <\/style>\n<nav class=\"sqs-svg-icon--list\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/victor-gulley-b1b7a218b\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sqs-svg-icon--wrapper linkedin-unauth\" aria-label=\"LinkedIn\"><\/p>\n<div>\n        <svg class=\"sqs-svg-icon--social\" viewBox=\"0 0 64 64\">\n          <use class=\"sqs-use--icon\" xlink:href=\"#linkedin-unauth-icon\"><\/use>\n          <use class=\"sqs-use--mask\" xlink:href=\"#linkedin-unauth-mask\"><\/use>\n        <\/svg>\n      <\/div>\n<p>    <\/a><br \/>\n  <\/nav>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Ben F. Locke is a Black, Queer and Nonbinary Chicago Writer, Actor, Director, Casting Director and Producer. They have a double degree in Theatre and Human Services from Millikin University, graduated from the School at Steppenwolf and Boston University&#8217;s Graduate Program for TV\/Film Writing. Their work focuses on Black\/Queer experiences and tries to focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun4everyone.kinsta.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}