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Urban art in movement

Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil

This piece of Brazilian graffiti captured Jaime Hernandez’s attention while she was studying abroad in São Paulo. Hernandez says, “As a final project of my course, I presented the case of Afro-Brazilian ballerinas and focused on this graffiti that shows the empowerment of them through destroying stereotypes that black girls cannot be classic dancers.”