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What Wendy Wore: Art by These Pink Lips, Part 1

September 16, 2020 by WendyB

Last year, I asked artist Andrew Lyko to paint my old motorcycle jacket so that it would be appropriate for cold-weather protesting. I requested a tribute to Never Again Action, a grass-roots collaboration between Jewish and immigrant-rights activists that started protesting U.S. concentration camps last summer. I wear the jacket to other protests too, so…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism, Fashion, pictures of me Tagged With: #closethecamps, abolish ice, black artists, black women artists, cosecha, customized clothes, defund the police, iris barbee bonner, movimiento cosecha, never again action, never again para nadie, painted clothes, these pink lips

September 11 and Fear Itself

September 11, 2019 by WendyB

In 1933, the year the Great Depression reached its lowest point, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as president and famously told the nation “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” It’s worth reading more of that speech today — the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. Here is the whole first…

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Filed Under: 9/11, In the News Tagged With: 9/11, abolish ice, afghan war

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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