The dressed-down diplomatTwo hundred forty-seven years ago, Benjamin Franklin arrived in France as the first American diplomat, wigless with unstyled hair and…Mar 201Mar 201
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Different (Shades of Beauty) StandardsAs a biracial woman, subjected to the cross-cultural paradox of different beauty ideals, I have long struggled with what I “should look…May 11, 202317May 11, 202317
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