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An Artist Illuminates Our Need to be Seen and Recognized

Yelaine Rodriguez, “Ezili Dantor, Freedom and the African Diaspora: We are here, because you were there” (2018) (all photos by Melanie Gonzalez unless otherwise noted)

Sometimes it is not enough to be seen. To merely be looked at or noticed doesn’t necessarily mean that all the subtle and supple ways of your being will be registered. When you are only seen, critical information about you isn’t…