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This dress
under
construction explores the interrelationship between the privileged and
the
oppressed. The words of the freed
American slave Isabella Baumfree who called herself Sojourner Truth
have been
burned into the stripes then fused with red wax to the satin. Her cogent elucidation of religious tenets
that are twisted to justify domination of women was given in an
extemporaneous
speech in Akron
