White Women as Subjects

10 minute pose, graphite for Glamour & Fetish Art. 

Art is from the hand of Tim Kelly, from Baltimore. 

This title: "White Women as Subjects" is a volatile one. It is one subject in history too often unknown in depth by today's young American women activists. As well, they are subject to emotions convinced that the intensity of their reactions to social conditions is enough to make the walls of Jericho to come tumbling down! This isn't naivety. This is ignorance. The ignorance of assumption is primarily laziness. Activism is hard work. The hard part of it is the research. Research is work, and respectful of those who lived our pasts.

Understanding European history is basic to the Women's Movement. It explains; no, makes clear why the movement is first and primarily a white woman's struggle to be free. Other women are subjects to the 'crown'. Because of events unique to the 20th century, other women feel apart of this movement. Because the societal changes in the U.S. need to be white led, and the fact of what ails the souls of white women this movement is fraught with internal contradictions. For Black and Red women, the struggle is to free themselves from the histories of their past with white women, and their white men, who traveled the world killing and taking from the rest of the world. In this conquest, the inherent terror white women harbor within their wombs is of concern to us only in our relationship to the horror of what they did to other people's women!

If there is to be a woman's movement let the white women have theirs, and let our women have theirs off camera at the soul level in the ancestral realms...


- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [Jan. 18, 2019]

"Who was really sacrificed on the Cross.?"

photo by Baden Bowen of Ellis Stone.

Woman Alone by Daïdo Moriyama

Woman of Power shot with a Fuji XT2 camera several years ago by John Lehman.

Perceptions of Women's Being.

Woman Alone by Daïdo Moriyama  

The photography of Daïdo Moriyama is raw in its storytelling. His imagery: basic, pure, disturbing and a far enough away distance from eroticism to deserve study without Christian guilt process dismantling the intellectual process developing thought process about the naked body in black & white photograph make a great tool to be used in initiation ceremonies from boyhood to manhood. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.31.16  

Native model & actress, Junal Gerlach.

A woman upset the way a photographer sat Native model, Junal Gerlach in a squat upon a tree stump in a buckskin dress and fur lined moccasin boots blurted out: "Beautiful, but put on sum clothes, please!!! Ya dont see native women running around like that... We protect our souls, our beauty, its precious!"

A man responding to this woman's complaint wrote: "what her knees are offensive ?"

She said, "I mentioned clothes, sir... Real clothes!!!"

A woman chimed and said: "That's what she is wearing BUCKSKIN !!"

"Clothes mam'... REAL CLOTHES, like society wears nowadays..." the first woman said, "My point is at least cover your whole body, dang!" Ousted by one person as being a closet Christian the first woman flung back an assertion: "Being respectively dressed, has nothing to do with being a Christian or non Christian... Seriously, would ya let your daughters dressed as this woman in the photo?..."


Something was off in my estimation of her and who she was portraying to us in her objections about the image. I spoke up to the woman as best I could saying, "Ma'am, you missed the woman. You aren't or can't see Junal Gerlach. She is conveying something intangible. Being respectful is one thing along a line, a point that reshaped and continues to reshape Native women's lives according to the various church cults (denominations) all over our history. What was not respected by the white people who came along with and after the missionaries was the sanctity of Nature meaning women's lives didn't merit respect either.

The beauty of this moment the photographer captured lies in the reverence. The woman, Ms. Gerlach, is seated in a sacred and natural way. Children were birthed in this posture. A woman's sacred time, I was told by old wise women, was in this posture as she bled into the Earth, our Mother in ceremonies the Christians deemed of the devil. So, the water and the blood ceremonies of birth and the menstrual cycles that protected the Earth, our Mother and honored her; the sacred ways of expression of Native women's relationship with what grows from within the womb of the ground she sat, or squatted upon is inappropriate?

In simple language, what you are saying comes through clearly. You are outside of this ancient tradition? Even the ancients in Europe had similar traditions before the Church entered the fray it created and began killing the women perceived to have power. Whether they did have power(s), or did not was of little consequence. They were women, the weaker vessels and had to be killed to control the increase of male energies translated into European law and privilege and their assumed right to take and kill with aplomb anywhere in the world! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.31.16  

Memoirs of a Geisha by Annie Leibovitz

Japanese tattoo art.