This looks vaguely familiar

What’s interesting to me about this image is not so much its historical precursors as the fact that the image, in depicting a human hand, crosses lines of religious law that women in full abayas generally do not cross. It’s transgressive in unexpected ways.

And I like it.

Hippie demonstrates flower power

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