Lens articles
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Turning the lens on tolerance
Northwestern Elementary School students share their thoughts, ideas about tolerance.
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Book Review: Through that lens, Klein looks deeply into the 'mirror world'
But if your doppelganger is forever spouting extreme views that range from the ridiculous to the outright offensive, well, that would be no fun at all. This is the predicament that Naomi Klein finds herself in, since her doppelganger is Naomi Wolf. Apparently, sharing a first name and the label 'feminist' is enough to make two women interchangeable in the eyes of the doom-scrolling, trolling public. The problem for Klein is that Wolf, the author of an influential feminist text of the 1990s, The...
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Women behind the lens: ‘When your sister does your hair, you don’t need a mirror’
Photographer Darlyne Komukama and her friends set up a roving hair salon for Black women to ‘convene, connect and converse’This photo was taken as part of an art project called the Salooni that I created with three other Ugandan women: Kampire Bahana, Aida Holly-Nambi and Gloria Wavamunno.The Salooni explores the idea of Black hair practices as systems of knowledge through which culture and survivalist strategies are passed from generation to generation. Continue reading