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Shilpa Varma

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Happy Birthday, Frida!

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The Woman Who Painted Through Pain: Why Frida Still Matters

July 6th rolls around again, and I find myself thinking about birthdays - specifically, about a woman who would have turned 118 this year but somehow feels more alive than half the people scrolling through their phones on the tube this morning. Frida Kahlo died at 47, which seems impossibly young until you realise she crammed about seventeen lifetimes' worth of feelings into those years.

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