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Juntxs Nos Defendemos

Esther Forbyn

Portland Artist Esther Forbyn (@birdstoknow, birdstoknow.org) made this lovely graphic for a women’s and queer empowerment and self-defense workshop in Portland.

 

At the top a floating banner curves in an arch, with the words in delicate cursive: “Juntos / Juntas Nos Defendemos”. (Together we defend ourselves). In the center, a ring of overlapping clover shapes, including one which features the head of a snake, eating its tail, like an ouroborus. To the sides, the trumpet-like flowers of the Datura, angel’s trumpet, or devil’s trumpet. 



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