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“A Palestinian girl sits under a mural of a dove holding an olive branch on the wall of her home in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza City.”
Photographed by Fayez Nureldine.
20 July 2000.
k.d. began playing piano at 7, took up guitar at 10, and began writing songs at 13. At 9 she had her first bike, a Yamaha 60 Mini-Enduro. In high school, she played basketball, and was ranked 8th nationally in the javelin throw. For a fleeting month or few she dreamed of being a roller derby queen.
In 1980 she went to Red Deer College to study music, but got involved in painting and performance art, highlighted by a twelve-hour enactment of a heart transplant, done with pickled vegetables.
Black history.... history as in about five minutes ago. Alive and well and tweeting about being the first Black girl at a school after desegregation.