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And while painted fingernails and colorful designer clothes may not be enough to dismantle centuries of patriarchal patterns, they can be emblematic of a larger cultural shift

Warm, Flattering & Actually Wearable Somewhere along the way, dresses were relegated to summer

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And frankly, meeting my first cross-dressing friend was not on the radar for what I expected to experience at this International Conference of neurologists, doctors, physical therapists, research scientists, somatic therapists, and other practitioners in one of the worlds preeminent universities - La Sorbonne