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Saturday, August 23 2025

Muslim Fashion Designer Iman Aldebe Redefines Her Cultural Style

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Iman Aldebe is a Swedish born, cross-cultural fashion designer. She has defied Western assumptions of Muslim tradition with her designs.

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Annie Leibovitz on the left in front of a black a large black and white photo standing in front of a crowd of reporters and news cameras.

Annie Leibovitz: Remarkable Photographer and Domestic TCK

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Bridging the gap between commercial and fine art photography is a challenging task, but military brat and domestic TCK Annie Leibovitz does it with ease.

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Ana Mendieta: A Champion for CCKs

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Born in Havana, Cuba in November 1948, Ana Mendieta was a well-known performance artist throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. At age 12, she and her sister were forced to flee Cuba after her father joined an anti-Castro counter-revolutionary force, and the two siblings spent their first few weeks in the United States at a refugee camp in Florida until they were sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa — a location with a culture very different from the life Ana knew back in Cuba. She wouldn’t reunite with her mother and brother for five years and her father for another 18.

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A group of female models pose against a cement wall, one holds a reflector as she is posing while a photographer captures her in the foreground and a person holds a light in the right of the frame, their arm covering the right corner of the photo.

Behind the Lens Part 3 of 3: Restorative & Responsible Representation

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Portrait Photographer Betsy Meredith talks about her motivation for photographing foster children.

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Green goddesses right before the runway at alietteny September 2019

Series – Part 1 of 3: 2019 New York Fall Fashion week leading in diversity

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2019’s New York Fall Fashion show was a leading example for diversity of models and designers present at the shows. Award winning designer Telfar Clemens who is Liberian-American is a significant part of this years show through his culturally mobile designs.

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SERIES – PART 3 OF 3: Persepolis Boldly Illustrates the Middle Eastern Experience Before and After Iranian Revolution

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Persepolis is a autobiographical graphic novel written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian-French cartoonist. It tells the tale of Marji, a young girl living in Tehran just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. This accounts her life before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution, where she lives through threats to her wellbeing and xenophobia.

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Image of various superheroes from Marvel Heroes video game.

SERIES – PART 1 OF 3: Intersectionality in Comics: America Chavez Punching Through Reality, One Multiverse at a Time

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With great power comes great responsibility, and America Chavez is no exception to that rule. Coming from the far reaches of the Marvel multiverse, this superheroine blasts through time and space to save the day, all the while keeping her special charm and wits in battle.

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Rita Moreno in the 1961 film adaptation of “West Side Story.”

“West Side Story” and its Complicated Relationship with Cultural Dimensionality

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Despite the racist undertones in “West Side Story”, the messages about life in foreign places still stand true.

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