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On some Native nations in the US and Canada, Indigenous women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average. These disappearances and murders are often directly linked to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, sex trafficking and intergenerational trauma impacting Native communities. This MMIP (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons) mural was done…
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The first planned sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement began in July 1958 in Wichita, Kansas. The goal was the integration of segregated businesses. The movement spread quickly to Oklahoma City. The success of the Oklahoma sit-ins led to sit-ins throughout the South. While North Carolina is known for the contentious sit-ins in 1960 in…
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Back in the fall of 2022 I received an invitation from a photography organization I’d never heard of called FotoFocus. It was surprising to me that I didn’t know anything about since I’ve been following photography magazines and blogs closely for the past 37 years. FotoFocus hosts a biennial which they describes as follows “the…
