In the United States of America, we find ourselves in full backslide of social and economic equity with women's rights under attack. A human right, a woman's self-governance over her body, is being outright challenged in open court and government. When we discuss sustainability, justice, and fairness, we must understand that equity is a battle in a never-ending war. My work is a condemnation of Texas's attempt to repeal Roe' vs. Wade, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. The image is of a blood-soaked dress entangled with an American flag on a hanger. These days I wake up and realize that as a woman, what I can do with my body and the life I live is being dictated by others, a vast majority of men.

Allicette Torres is a Puerto Rican visual artist, based in New York, whose work flourishes magical realism, photojournalism, and narratives speak to women’s issues and postcolonial thought. Her work is about memory. Themes of gender, identity, race, language, and postcolonial social-political thought are just a fragment of the conversations explored.

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