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Women in Black Art Project
Photographs
by Colleen Young, © 2002, Women in Black Art Project |
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The Leadership Costume, honoring the worldwide feminist peace movement Women in Black, founded in 1988, and now active in 30 countries, has a large photograph of the first Women in Black costumes, in vigil before the UN building in New York, in
1993. The skirt is inscribed with this poem (author unknown): "When every woman in the world sets her mind on
freedom… When every woman in the world dreams a sweet dream of peace… When every woman in the world, of every generation, every nation, joins hands in the name of love, there will be no more war." The costumes in the photograph on the cape were made by artist Duston Spear, and based on the Victorian garb worn by the Pankhurst family, famous British suffragists of the turn of the century.
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