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One of the most well-known court phrases of all time comes from the Supreme Court obscenity trial Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964) against theater operator Nico Jacobellis (pictured above) for screening the 1958 French drama “Les Amants” (or “The Lovers”) in his small movie theater. On the question of defining “hard-core pornography”, Justice Potter Stewart infamously said in his ruling, “I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is Read more…

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 who has since become a cultural icon and important figure in Mexican, feminist, and art history. A few reasons she is an inspiration of mine are the surrealism and vulnerability in her art, a reverence for her land/culture, and the joyful subversion of normative gender standards – she proudly lived her values with and I hope to maintain that same courage-with-style in my life. In 2017 Read more…

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