Death in Lust, Ideals in Chains.

Raquel Welch only in a string stays this way in our collective consciousness: the creative side.  

Black women leave a lot to think about!

Taraji P. Henson's captivating way of being present, and at risk and in the splendor 

of one moment at a time! That's quite a gift to have as expression of Life, of gratitude! 

When you think about the lot of African women's life in relation to white men, and there is horror; deep horrors always just beneath the surface you should cringe. Coping. How they coped is an insight into how they faced and dealt with the terror of that relationship. There have been a number of white men whose lives were destroyed trying to destroy African women over the centuries. It is not openly spoken of; it is part of the dark folklore between then and now! 

The complexity of these stories is woven into the fabric of women, Black women like the actress, Taraji P. Henson, and many others! White women need to learn from those they once and enslaved, and continue, for the most part, to express this emotion towards in life day to day. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10/11/18 

[This] provocative older white woman, as she is: a stabilizing force, confronts history in ways other races can't. Do they take advantage of this politically, or socially? Is it making a difference their social status for others? It can be measured, but so far fear dominates them. "When is enough, enough?" answered leads better than being bound by the spell of their long dark history. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [10/11/18]  

Amber Cream here. There should be flow and glory in womanhood, but survival makes it another. As one older Black woman told me: 'a wet pussy and an empty pocketbook don't go together'. That is whore talk, or survival or reality?

NOT FAR: Europe's DARK AGES!

Grief after Kavanaugh's appointment. 

photo by Mary Mathis. October 5, 2018.

I shot the Kavanaugh protests this morning for NPR, and this is the photo that will always stick with me. I walked up to her after, needing her name for the photo but knowing it was a terrible time to ask. When I asked, she ignored me and said, “How are we going to find the strength to keep fighting?” I was speechless.
She said, “Are we going to be out here for another 30 years? I don’t have 30 years left.” - Mary Mathis

Kyla Cole, in the powers of... 

photographer unknown. Sorry. 

Diamonds Are Rough

Diamond Jackson is a whore; in polite society she is an adult actress. She is fine; as good looking as a man would want a woman to be but she embodies histories we like to ignore, or pretend didn't happen. Her perceptions mirror the inconsistencies of men's theology. This woman likes to be filmed and photographed copulating with white men in submissive and dominate roles. As an outside historian observing this let it be pointed out: she raises awareness about the conditioning of thought and practice that influences the way men and the law looks at, and judges women victims of rape and molestation. 

Black women, like Diamond Jackson, school white men's imaginations about who they are, and what they truly think about Black women in their contempt... There is a history to this assertion Americans need to uncover!

Sadly, there are millions of Americans ignorant of the basis of the social constructs they take for granted, and assume have always been in place for the right reasons. Women have the right to know what preceded today to better understand the forces that dictate life every two minutes, in the States, when a woman gets raped. If the MeToo Movement is going to acquire true power it needs relationship with the past realities, and principles that set this stage of such deep disregard for women and it needs a sacred base. Understandably, fear keeps women focused on outrage. With no substance and a lot of emotion this aspect of the women's movement moves to sink in quick sand without balance to a righteous cause. But, why balance, and what needs to be balanced? 

The obvious questions arise from knowing what has passed on before today, why and how. (Sankofa) There is another dangerous question we cannot afford, in the long run, to ignore; a deeply disturbing question not to be answered by men. There is a link between whores and professional women too terrible to think about, but it is there. You discern and ask the question from these histories. 


Gregory E. Woods (Dawn Wolf), Keeper of Stories
4/29/18 

Teaching world history revolves around women.

Diamond Jackson makes this point without reservation.

the Distance between Needs.

5 young Black women with Faith Coffield's baby in the center, and Zaria Fortson-Linton on the far right. photo by Roland Dawson (2018). A question to them: "Do they understand the depth of the meaning of their breasts, and connections to their long ago?" 

Faint Memory of Times Before Them. 

There is the faint memory of the times before the whites landed on the African coasts, and demeaned the sacredness of the breasts and diminished its sacred power in the cultures that operated at this level of being Human. It is a significant memory. American women are steeped in European hate based beliefs we can place beneath the dogma of Puritanism. It is a real struggle for women trying to gain equality when they are of the African Diaspora because this struggle, for them, is the conflict of being an African woman and understanding being equal is not a goal in a matriarchal society. What is meant is in the question: "Do Black women in our Diaspora need to try regain what was the core of our collective cultures in Africa in sympathy, or remain in ignorance of white women's cultural trauma and how it has always worked against African women?". . .

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
July 5, 2018

Part of complex stories...

Lily Tomlin on roles for women, feminism and gay rights ... 

Lily Tomlin is a vocal and articulate thinker.

Lily Tomlin on roles for women, feminism and gay rights

The "Laugh-In" star brings her classic characters to Minneapolis for Twin Cities Pride. 

By Sharyn Jackson Star Tribune

June 24, 2015 — 9:32am

From workplace inequality to late-in-life divorce, Lily Tomlin has never shied away from topical, ripped-from-the-headlines subjects concerning women in her big- and small-screen roles.

Her latest performance in the Paul Weitz film “Grandma” — her first starring role in almost 30 years — as a lesbian matriarch who takes her granddaughter to get an abortion is getting festival acclaim. Her Net­flix series “Grace and Frankie,” which reunites her with “9 to 5” co-star Jane Fonda, follows the fraught friendship of two women whose husbands are in love with each other. It just got picked up for a second season.

But before all that, there was Edith Ann and Ernestine, just two of the beloved characters Tomlin created on “Laugh-In.” She’s bringing some of those greatest hits back to Minneapolis Thursday for “An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin,” a Twin Cities Pride event.

In an interview with the Star Tribune, the droll and deadpan Tomlin, who wed longtime romantic and artistic partner Jane Wagner in 2013, mused on her latest roles, the state of feminism and the impending decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, which could come any day. Here are excerpts from the conversation. 

Q: You’ve been doing a ton of work, and “Grandma” has been getting great buzz. What do you look for in a role now? 

A: I guess a paycheck.

It’s hard to be completely serious about show business. I look for a project that I can enjoy doing for a length of time. And I want it to reflect me if it can, or some other aspect of humanity that I feel indebted to in some way.

Jane Fonda and I doing “Grace and Frankie,” we wanted to do something about women of our age who are in leading roles and who aren’t the object of the humor, and who make changes and survive and thrive and are just like younger people, except that they’re aging.

Lily Tomlin's favorite and famous character, the Telephone Lady.

Q: Working with Jane Fonda on “9 to 5” and now on “Grace and Frankie,” you’re still addressing issues for women. What’s changed since then?

A: A lot has changed, and not a lot. Especially in the last couple of years, it seems like there have been more and more roles for older women, and also better roles for women in general. But at the same time, there are plenty of roles that aren’t. More women are inching up into decision making roles in the business, but the business is still going to reflect the culture to a large extent. 

to be continued...

WOMEN'S struggles in America!

White man's best friend.

Freaks me out their saying about dog's being man's best friend all the crazy shit white men

have done to sheep, dogs and horses with their dicks. . .

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Feb. 6, 2017

[note to the overly sensitive] "Our world does not conform to, nor look the way whites view the world; nor is there a corresponding feeling about the way history is between us, and what history has done to us!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

White woman's suffrage movement protestor. circa. 1900's.

... early 1900's. If I give myself a minute I can recall the specifics, but white woman during this time period and struggle were treated horribly! Beaten, subjected to incarceration, electric shock treatment, fondling, rape because they dared asked to be free of the restrictions white men imposed upon them.

Think of the terrible crush to the ideals and idea of the Victorian era these women were at odds with as white men felt the push against the social order of the day! Think of it, from their point of view, as an act of terror. White women were shattering the templates of society oblivious or ignorant of what they, as white women, imposed upon Colored women! This time period and white women's suffering movement was, and is fraught with gross contradictions that from the point of view of Black women is as divisive and blind to them as before, in the 19th century!

There is a lot in this picture, in this time period to be remembered, or ignored as a matter of convenience. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/13/18

Ksenia Milevich.

Being Large in Life as a Woman: "What are they saying?"

"Vision of beauty as expressed by popular demand in the early 21st century has more dare, more defiance than times past, where the two were less obvious, but deeply felt!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 8/31/17 

Dangerous curvature 

free of Freedom!

the Creature hides her beauty within. Revealed she may be as beautiful as 'She', as much a voice as a whisper is a sound needing expression. We wonder where women may go in this world, but not believing in magical powers... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/5/17 

"Women have to project, not themselves, but a creature to be feared to be safe from rape and other abuses, and respected enough to be given what is due their stature as women in their workplaces, and women as mothers. It is not that this stature is respected or feared; it isn't. It is the ability of men to keep women ignorant of their wombs that keeps this world working against its best interests; so women become creatures to alter this perception, and create a perception to sustain the illusion, in the name of survival. Trying to create real change in the world-at-large is almost impossible without the womb's power, but they work hard at it..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/5/17  

Cover up of the sacred reveals something is hidden. 

We Are Not Far from These TIMES!

Bent over. 

Nana’s system for changing a flat tire: 1. Get tools ready. 2. Flash your ‘motorist in distress’ knickers. 3. Wait for kind man to stop and change it for you.

Bare Naked Sacrifice

Aly Raisman, 6-time Olympic medalist for Sports Illustrated magazine 2017. 

Aly Raisman on topless photo shoot: 'Women do not have to be modest in order to be respected'

by TAYLOR MAPLE
April 13, 2017

Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman said she gives no heed to critics of her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photo shoot -- it's something she expected.

"I knew people were going to say that I wasn't a good role model and all of this stuff," Raisman, who posed topless in the magazine, told Motto. "I did the issue because I love my body. I can express myself in any way that I want. But that doesn't give anyone the right to judge me. I think being a role model is about being a kind person."

"It really made me realize women do not have to be modest in order to be respected," Raisman added.

Raisman is often outspoken about body image and the need for young women to have confidence. She's recently partnered with Playtex Sport to encourage women to continue participating in sports while on their periods. Raisman spoke about the need to support girls when they are going through puberty.

"Girls feel really insecure and awkward at that stage -- your body starts to change," she said. "Instead of feeling uncomfortable and not talking about it, I think it's important to have this conversation."

Raisman also tackles the issue of sexual assault and the need for girls to speak up when someone's behavior makes them uncomfortable.

"It's very hard for young women to speak up," she said. "I think young girls need to understand that if something doesn't feel right or they feel uncomfortable, then it's probably wrong. And it's OK to speak up."

Lena Filanea in white light

COMMENTARY 


There is an irritating unreasonableness on the border between arrogance and assumptions of privilege American women, white American women, in particular, flaunt. Their contradictions mislead with aplomb. Here, they have an urgent need to feel and be free, on the other hand the culture we live in is violent towards women, and any social advancement made was hard won because the fundamentals of European thought viewed women as chattel. For hundreds of years, white women have endured these conditions of spiritual squalor, and in the infancy of freeing themselves from it, somehow believe nudity, or near nudity is an expression of freedom!

We, all enjoy it, but on deeper reflection, and in particular raising daughters and sons, the heaviness of the contradictions prey on common sense; and unless there are deep connections to the spiritual teachings that discipline the spirit, and mature the emotions women increasingly fall prey to the lusts of uncontrollable energies men cannot intelligently control. What I am saying is the obvious, but the innate pride of American women emboldens them dreaming of a righted wrong that is barely controlled by law!

Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman flaunts each contradiction, I suspect, because she doesn't know any of the things I recalled. Talking directly into a generation of disturbingly unsophisticated young people, in comparison with past generations, she said, "... women do not have to be modest in order to be respected."

As if she caught herself she adds rather stupidly: "It's very hard for young women to speak up. I think young girls need to understand that if something doesn't feel right or they feel uncomfortable, then it's probably wrong. And it's OK to speak up."

Her immaturity and non-grasp of the depths of sacred womanhood, or being a conscious and intelligent woman in a violent culture aimed at taking from the female species as much sex and power as possible; she sounds foolish. Sadly, millions take her advise and step into an unknown: the provinces of the sex trade in all of its variables, and forms.

In various ways we are all complicit.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
April 14, 2017

lying down Daniela Cavalieri