September
21, 2023
Frida
Kahlo was born in 1907, three years before the Mexican Revolution. As a
teenager, she attended the National Preparatory School in Mexico’s capital,
where she excelled in anatomy and looked forward to medical school and becoming
a physician. But in 1925 her goal was sideswiped by a trolley that crashed into
the rickety wooden bus that she regularly took home from school. On impact, the
tram’s iron handrail impaled her spinal column and exited her vagina,
shattering spine and pelvis. She lived with the aftereffects of the accident
for the rest of her life.
