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This story first aired in November 2021.

If you find yourself in San Francisco’s Mission District at the corner of 24th and York streets, you can’t help but notice the massive, blue-toned mural that stands there — rising over two stories high and spanning 60 feet.

This intricate mural, called “La Llorona’s Sacred Waters” and created by Bay Area artist Juana Alicia , is filled with expressive female figures that draw the eye with their depth and scale. In the center of this intricate mural, there’s Chalchiuhtlicue, the Aztec goddess of lakes and streams. In the background, there are women from Bolivia, women from India, women from the Mexico-U.S. border — all standing together.

And in the foreground, there’s a woman standing apart, stretching out her

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