Colombian designer makes aboriginal art visible
By AFP
17 April 2019 |
9:27 am
Laura Laurens, a Colombian fashion designer, and Roxana Panchi, an indigenous transgender from the Embera Carmatarrua community, come together to make aboriginal art visible and to fight for inclusion and sexual diversity.
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