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Girls Just Want to Have Fun: With a Nod to Cindi Lauper, Ariel Pink, Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, and the 140,000,000 Women Who Have Experienced Genital Mutilation (2013)

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Linen, silk, polyester, cotton, metallic thread and floss, cotton thread and floss 16.5”x20.25”
Linen, silk, polyester, cotton, metallic thread and floss, cotton thread and floss 16.5”x20.25”

My initial drawing grew out of my hearing a public radio conversation about the 140,000,000 women who experienced Female Genital Mutilation. My image with the black center represents the girls who will NEVER have fun.