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Black Girl Dangerous: Read A Book! Or, Why I Don't Talk To Strange White Folks About Race -
by Mia McKenzie
Last night I had a Facebook chat with a friend of mine who was feeling all stabby because a white woman she knows posted a ridiculous and offensive status message about race. This person, who, according to my friend, appropriates from at least five different cultures on a daily…
From my sketch book, with love.
The Lady of Copán.
Sketch
10 x 7”
04/11/12
I recently read an article about new discoveries made by Shankari Patel, an anthropology graduate student at the University of California-Riverside, which states that Mayan women were in fact powerful leaders within the society. No glass ceilings existed for the Women of pre-columbian Mexico, how powerful is that? In Mesoamerica there were both female doctors and female authority figures.
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