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Many of the protesters, estimated to number between 110,000 and 150,000, who marched in central London that day carried Christian symbols such as wooden crosses, and placards featuring Bible verses.

The Coast Guard had signed off on a policy on November 13 that downgraded the classification of symbols such as swastikas and nooses, according to a report from the Washington Post.

Her friends urged her to reframe the tin’s meaning: Make it a tool of healing, instead of hurt, they suggested; strip it of its associations with betrayal and embrace it as a symbol of resilience.

The scene she depicts even imitates her real life: Kahlo actually kept a smaller, papier-mâché skeleton atop her own canopy bed in Mexico City as a reassuring symbol of death’s ubiquity.

I would love for it to be a symbol of that.