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digital ink & gouache illustration of playwright & author, lorraine hansberry. she rests her head on her right hand, which holds a pencil. her left arm is wrapped around her right & she holds her right elbow in her left hand. her unbroken gaze, in 3/4 profile, is aimed squarely at you. colours are red, cream, fuchsia, black, light blue-grey & medium blue-grey.

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digital ink & gouache illustration of playwright & author, lorraine hansberry. she rests her head on her right hand, which holds a pencil. her left arm is wrapped around her right & she holds her right elbow in her left hand. her unbroken gaze, in 3/4 profile, is aimed squarely at you. colours are red, cream, fuchsia, black, light blue-grey & medium blue-grey.
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it's kat! 🍉✊🇱🇧 (kathimmel@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 06:46:06 JST it's kat! 🍉✊🇱🇧

'stop being a liberal & become an american radical.'
#art #history: poor #malcolmX, sharing a birthday with another firecracker.
i'd seen a copy of her play, 'a raisin in the sun', lying on my mum's nightstand (i do realise now how chalk bourgeois we were) & have been intrigued ever since by its writer, lorraine hansberry (born #otd in 1930). the work itself serves up a heap of quandaries about prejudice & social hierarchy. [THREAD]
#lorraineHansberry #literature #illustration #chicago

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