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Toward a hermaphroditic humanity

Posted by Ross Wolfe

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Hermaphroditism
is a humanism

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Image: El Lissitzky, photographic double-
exposure of a young boy and girl (1929)

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El Lissitzky, poster for the Russian exhibition (1929)

El Lissitzky, poster for the Russian exhibition (1929)

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Tagged El Lissitzky, gender, hermaphoditism, humanity, modernism, photo, poster, Russian exhibition, sexual division of labor

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