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Art of Living Collective, Andrea Patterson

Call Your Mother by her Name

“Happy Birthday Andrea!” is what my cake read inside the pandemical year of 2020. Though it was baked with love in my home by my daughters, that year Mom was replaced with my name. My actual name. I k...

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May 9, 2025

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Art of Living Collective, Andrea Patterson

Women Who Come from Women

ID: Three year old Andrea wearing her grandmother’s glasses and barrettes, smiling while sitting in the lap of her grandmother. This winter was frigidly cold, and as March arrived it took me a while t...

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Mar 29, 2025

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Art of Living Collective, Andrea Patterson

Black History Month: Origins and Journeys

Lawrence, Jacob. (Between 1940 and 1941).During World War I there was a great migration north by southern Negroes[Painting]. Image Source ID: A black and white painting of a crowd in motion wearing 4...

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Feb 7, 2025

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