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Breaking barriers
Ishle Yi Park
United StatesGALLERYCONVERSATION
The women of my generation are in the position of stepping forth and claiming their space. Given the privileges granted by years of...
So thank you Alice Walker. Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Theresa Hak Gyung Cha, Jessica Hagedorn, Ntozake Shange, Sandra Cisneros, Arundhati Roy – for being proud, unforgiving, passionate women, in life and on the page. I hope we can look at ourselves honestly and leave a record of our lives as beautifully as you have so we can all add to the dialogue of what it means to be human and woman in this world.

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