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On this day, International Women's Day, us as women are encouraged to express ourselves as powerful women in life. In reality though, we should keep in mind, being proud to be who we are should not be limited to just one day! We should celebrate each other everyday! This is not only a day to celebrate women achievements in the world, but also to consider what more needs to be done to achieve equality. 

The encouraging messages I've seen all day from friends make me happy and I wish we…

As I am looking for artist to put in this power point presentation for International Women's Day celebration at the artist market downtown, I found it difficult. Aside from Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe, what other women artist are commonly known? Google "women artists" and you get a short list of primarily old 18th and 19th century artist, Google "Latina artists" and get and even shorter list. Overall I got my 20 women artist to be displayed, a little more than half are Latina, and very…

No, V-Day does not stand for Valentines Day; it was violence against women day! I went for Latinitas to do the Clothesline Project and a healing hearts tree. For those who don’t know, the clothesline project is a program to address and increase awareness to the issue of violence against women. This is done all around the world in many different ways. We asked survivors, those affected, or anyone who believes the violence has to stop to write messages to one another for encouragement on some…