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Prompt No. 71: Botox, Benjamin, Blackness (TW: Suicide)

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Jesica Elise
Jun 15, 2026
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The Trailblazing Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance - AWARE
Loïs Mailou Jones, Untitled (Two Women), c. 1945
The title is taken from a comparison Alice Walker presents in her essay,
“Saving the Life That Is Your Own: The Importance of Models In the Artist’s Life.”

The plan was to write about ugliness, to discuss the importance of visual discordance in presentation under technocratic fascism. I wanted to explain ho…

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