a piquant blend of cats, foxes, dolls, beautiful people and whatever else may tickle my fancy.
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I’ve watched this video maybe 20 times now.
Look at these fierce ladies performing this hula, transcending the expectations of the hula mu’umu’u. Look at this hula confronting ableism, re-telling the story of Manamanaiakaluea, not as a woman who had struggled, was pitied, and was restored. This is a hula about the grace and power of Hi’iaka and the strength and resilience of Manamanaiakaluea.
This is a hula about survivance.
“Pi’i Ana A’ama” - Kumu Hula Mark Keali’i Hoomalu
this gives me chills & makes me all teary-eyed & shit.
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from Earth First! Newswire
Inhabitants of an indigenous community in western Mexico detained 14 police officers and a local official after eight of their neighbors were killed by illegal loggers.
Thursday’s detention was the latest flare-up of tension between the community in Cheran, Michoacan state, illegal loggers, armed gangs and the police.
“They took our colleagues to punish us because supposedly we were not patrolling the area well,” said a state police officer, declining to give his name.
The state government was trying to reach a deal to free the detainees, he said.
Eight indigenous rangers were shot dead Wednesday by illegal loggers who they surprised cutting down trees, state officials said.
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Northern traditional dancer and Nez Perce Native American, Paris Green poses for a portrait during the Contest Powwow Honoring President Joe Shirley Jr., on Friday, March 18, 2011, in Chinle, Navajo Nation.
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The Untold Story of The Iroquois Influence On Early Feminists
by Sally Roesch WagnerI had been haunted by a question to the past, a mystery of feminist history: How did the radical suffragists come to their vision, a vision not of Band-Aid reform but of a reconstituted world completely transformed?
For 20 years I had immersed myself in the writings of early United States women’s rights activists — Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) — yet I could not fathom how they dared to dream their revolutionary dream. Living under the ideological hegemony of nineteenth-century United States, they had no say in government, religion, economics, or social life (“the four-fold oppression” of their lives, Gage and Stanton called it.) Whatever made them think that human harmony — based on the perfect equality of all people, with women absolute sovereigns of their lives — was an achievable goal?
Surely these white women, living under conditions of virtual slavery, did not get their vision in a vacuum. Somehow they were able to see from point A, where they stood — corseted, ornamental, legally nonpersons — to point C, the “regenerated” world Gage predicted, in which all repressive institutions would be destroyed. What was point B in their lives, the earthly alternative that drove their feminist spirit — not a utopian pipe dream but a sensible, do-able paradigm?
Then I realized I had been skimming over the source of their inspiration without noticing it. My own unconscious white supremacy had kept me from recognizing what these prototypical feminists kept insisting in their writings: They caught a glimpse of the possibility of freedom because they knew women who lived liberated lives, women who had always possessed rights beyond their wildest imagination — Iroquois women.
The more evidence I uncovered of this indelible Native American influence on the vision of early United States feminists, the more certain I became that this story must be told.
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Zulu women.
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
Deep Green Resistance is radical feminist and will not change its stance. We’ve tried everything we could to have them change it, but alas they flatly refuse, and myself and a lot of people are leaving DGR to start a new anti-civ organization.
Clarification: the DGR leadership changed the vague definition that DGR was feminist to a radical feminist and implicitly anti-trans one without letting anyone know it happened or what the fuck we’d been forced into.
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This art picture shows beautiful Mayan women piercing them selves in a sacred bloodletting ritual.
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FYI: Mexico,Central America, Latin America is full of natives. Not just aztecs of incas. There are so many nations present living and surviving. A lot of stories. Many indigenous groups because of starvation/poverty move to big cities in the US. Nafta is one big cause. They might be the ones that serve you at your dinner table, clean your houses, park your mofockin cars. A lot of em speak their native languages. For example oakland has a big todos santos Mayan Community. We all have been colonized differently but were all still here. Real talk. Lets unite. Lets put in work. Lets heal.
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