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Personal essay

The Many Colors of a Chameleon

The woman I’ve been becoming.

Artwork accompanying The Many Colors of a Chameleon in Abigail Fort’s portfolio

Womanhood, sexuality, adaptation and the ways place shapes identity. Between the American South, Rome and Berlin, a lifetime of learning to change my colors—and the gradual process of learning not to.

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