another way of being a woman ...



Black powerful woman emerging from the birthing waters ...

I know the history of white men from Europe. It is gross and violent towards women. It is a long story of trying to take women of power, women who learned themselves and killing them or torturing them. For several centuries this went on as a holy purge in Europe. Their quest to take women's power is well documented and now man-made women are being toted as the new women and women are celebrating what?

 

Bruce Jenner a woman? There are profound questions my ancestors Red and Black asked of themselves about the strange way the white man thought. Many white men thought nothing of ripping Native women's vaginas from between their legs and adorning their saddle horns with them. It meant nothing to the Spanish in Mexico to have sex with sheep because their vagina felt like a woman's vagina. White men in the South believed and said, "A man ain't a man 'lessen he's had him a nigger!" Meaning the rape of Black men before hanging.

 

White men believed a hundred years ago white women had hysteria and it was cured by a doctor fingering a woman into an orgasm, at the same time women were not worthy of acceptance above chattel until recent times with no vote, no say over finance and as recently as ten years ago the voices of grieving mothers were not considered enough to weigh in men's decision making process to war.  

 

It was frightening from our perspective for many reasons chief of which was his twisting through Nature creating imbalance. Like the story of the Emperor's New Clothes the same thing is being asked and people think they are hip or have arrived at some new point of enlightenment making themselves believe man-made women are or can become women.

 

Why women accept degradation(s) is beyond baffling. Is this modern women accepting each type of diminishing of her essence? Are the wombs we come from to be filled of sand before they are sacred in this culture and these times? Is there another way of being a woman? And if so is it the power of the imagination that will make it so because the essence of a woman and the notion of the sacredness of the womb cannot be recreated in a lab.

 

 

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (june 8, 2015)

body art of

Riae Suicide

(2015) seated with dogs by Alex Aldegheri Photographer!!!!