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Published Date: April 30, 2004

Published Date: April 30, 2004

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Fashionable

by J. Otis Powell
 

Amnesia

regarding social, cultural and political movements is

fashionable,

in part, because patriarchs would

rather not acknowledge how the

shape of the world changed.

There is

backlash and reform

afoot, at this moment,

turning back the clock

and reinstating values that took

away the rights of women

to be adults,

to be self determined,

to be equals.

No wonder

Patricia appears to be in control of her expression,

a moments lapse might mean her demise.

She had to change the world

to live in it.

She had to live in the world as herself in order to make it a different place.

The picture is not lying, she is strong.

She is undaunted

by the willful ways society tried to humiliate her

but

she

never

surrendered

her

autonomy

to

the

narrow

places

left

for

her.