{"id":10662,"date":"2021-09-17T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2021-09-21T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:42:07","slug":"augsburg-alum-dua-saleh-17-plays-new-character-in-netflixs-sex-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/17\/augsburg-alum-dua-saleh-17-plays-new-character-in-netflixs-sex-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Alum Dua Saleh \u201917 Plays New Character in Netflix\u2019s \u2018Sex Education\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10663 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/09\/Newsweek_Logo.svg_-300x77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/09\/Newsweek_Logo.svg_-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/09\/Newsweek_Logo.svg_-768x197.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/09\/Newsweek_Logo.svg_.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Dua Saleh \u201917 plays the new character Cal in the third season of the award-winning Netflix show \u201cSex Education,\u201d available now. Cal is the first non-binary character on the show. Saleh has been written up for their new role in publications such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sex-education-3-new-character-cal-actor-dua-saleh-1627529\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Newsweek<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/sex-education-season-3-cast-meet-the-new-characters-and-who-plays-them\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teen Vogue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You also can also find an interview with Saleh, <a href=\"https:\/\/about.netflix.com\/en\/news\/meet-the-actor-playing-sex-educations-non-binary-character\">&#8220;Meet the Actor Playing &#8216;Sex-Education&#8217;s&#8217; New Non-Binary Character Cal,&#8221;<\/a> on Netflix&#8217;s website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dua Saleh \u201917 plays the new character Cal in the third season of the award-winning Netflix show \u201cSex Education,\u201d available now. Cal is the first non-binary character on the show. Saleh has been written up for their new role in publications such as Newsweek and Teen Vogue. You also can also find an interview with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10677,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions\/10677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}