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You’re out on the street and see a young woman walking towards you. In a split second, subconsciously, you immediately classify her--class, ethnic group, religion, age, politics.
Are you correct?

Watch a clip of Liz Mermin’s film “The Beauty Academy of Kabul” where she shows us the fashionable world of Afghan women—a stark contrast to how they are portrayed in western media.

Sandra Valencia Sebastian Pedro from Guatemala presents the beautiful clothing of Mayan women in her series “The Women of Abya Yala”. Colors and shapes in these fabrics act as silent symbols and markers of local and regional ethnic identity.

Iz Oztat takes the headscarf out of the debates of Turkish politics—and associates it instead with personal freedom, in her series, “Sisters.”

Do you identify yourself with a particular group or culture through your appearance?


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Brenda Jiménez
Mexico
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I read a few post and they all got to me in different levels, some made me smile, some think about the culture and country i live in: they made me realize how every day mexican woman try to look more and more americanized or european, but...
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"The Beauty Academy of Kabul" by Liz Mermin
United States
"Good Hair" by Danielle Scruggs
United States
"Black Hair Day" by Annette Quarcoopome
Ghana
"You Bring Out the Sri Lankan in Me" by Sharanya Manivannan
Sri Lanka
"Marie, an Iranian Transsexual" by Newsha Tavakolian—EVE Photographers
Iran
"An American in Paris" by Rupa Marya
United States
"Plow Right Through" by Sumayya Maria Essack
United States
"Coffin Nest" by Khadija Baker
Syria
"Our Ethnic Identity" by Siti Norkhalbi Haji Wahsalfelah
Brunei
"The Women of Abya Yala" by Sandra Valencia Sebastian Pedro
Guatemala
"Mayan Women" by Andrea Aragón
Guatemala
"Kashmira" by Phoebe Boswell
Kenya
"Breaking the Lesbian Stereotypes" by Nadine M.
Lebanon
"Slip of the Tongue" by Karen Lum
United States
"Sisters" by Iz Oztat
Turkey
"Arusa" by Jihan Ammar
Egypt
"Miss Gulag" by Maria Ibrahimova Yatskova
Russia
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