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Sara Tatyana Bernstein, PhD writes about fashion and culture. Places you can find her work include The Outline, BuzzFeed Reader, and Racked. She is also editor and co-founder of Dismantle Magazine: Fashion, Popular Culture, Social Change. Sara's MA in Visual Culture: Costume Studies is from NYU. Her PhD in Cultural Studies is from UC Davis. She teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR.
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