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Anne Cheng

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief; Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface; and, most recently, Ornamentalism.

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How Fashion Can Relieve Us From the Burden of Visibility

Avatar photo by Anne Cheng January 28, 2021January 29, 2021

Sometimes you cover yourself up in order to reveal more of yourself, and sometimes the covering relieves you from being you.

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