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| burlesque dancers with Sultry Sweet Burlesque & Variety Show. |
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| burlesque dancers with Sultry Sweet Burlesque & Variety Show. |
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Burlesque dancers have fun!
Black Women White Women's Need for the Other !
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| Black woman bikini clad in mirror !!!! |
It's funny. Black women's bodies full of melanin don't subscribe to sun worship or sun bathing. They will pose indoors or parade on boardwalks with towels draped around them, or bikinis will just be coverings over their 'parts'. At the same time wrestling with identity crisis Black women often cannot find a way to embrace the core of Africanism, but those defining elements are the core of their being as they consciously and more often than not unconsciously emulate white women.
It isn't really funny. It is a sad fact of life when the freedom of one set of women's inner life was in the sacred places women of Vodoun worshiped for centuries unbeknownst to their white husbands, and the other group of women know little if anything about who they are and the depth of African spirituality which shaped the life of history making them mysterious in their ancient relationship to the spiritual lines of the Land of the Blacks! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/31/15
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| Black woman black dress !!!! |
LOVE: a warrior's teacher
A love warrior. Is there a correlation between love and war? Are the two compatible? Does one need the other for survival, or justification? Gives me something to ponder because for me during the battles I lived through as a police officer years ago I found ways to extend love and love and see the sacred within lives in the midst of violence and blood. Being loving in a violent swirl of dangerous men has none of the sentimentality of a romance novel. It has to do with a warrior's aptitude for depth and commitment. Love is part of an innate ability to restore one from the rigors of being violent protecting others lives. For the warrior detached from sentimentality something is developed that connects some warriors to a depth unimaginable for ordinary people and for men it is a love we have to measure against our mother's love where the patterns for understanding and being loved originate from in this lifetime.
Love warriors. What does it mean to you? - Gregory E. Woods 5.29.15
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| Krista Allen's finger up ! |
Monday, October 3, 2016
Peeks into being African and NDN!
Historical marker for the site they were sold at.
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| Slave auction sign in the state of Kentucky |
The term "sold down the river" originated with the Louisville slave markets. The rivers being the Ohio and Mississippi. Since Kentucky had many small farms and those crops not requiring lots of slaves they were being sold and exported to the Deep South. Combine that with the repeal of The Nonimportation Act in 1849, the buying and selling slaves became big business in the state beginning in the '50's. - Deborah Downey 9.25.16
I bristle reading historical references re-written naming Black folks in centuries past: African Americans. A major reason is the title means those people were considered American citizens. They were not. It also flies into the face of how resistant Black Americans have been to being called African, and the how deep Black Americans resent African ancestry. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
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| Image: Kay Walking Stick (Cherokee, b. 1935), "Me and My Neon Box," 1971. Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 60 in. Collection of the artist. Photo by Lee Stalsworth, Fine Art through Photography, LLC. |
Inspired by the amazing creations of Kay Walking Stick currently on display at our museum on the National Mall? The museum has collaborated with ArtJamz to offer two 1-hour painting sessions (material fees apply) to help channel your inner artist at our "IndigeArts CREATE: A Kay WalkingStick Soiree," this Friday, Aug. 5, 2016 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Experience this unique after-hours event to celebrate ...the final weeks of the critically-acclaimed exhibition, "Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist," with music spun by DJ Young Native, curator-led gallery tours, and on-hand Navajo and Nez Perce artists sharing knowledge of Native designs that inspired some of Walking Stick's works.
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| Colored persons classified .... |
Magick In Faith
An African practitioner of Wicca made a comment I had previously pondered in my life. He said with aplomb, "The practice of Magick is like being born. It is more often done, and more often effective when done alone." Other things came to me later, but initially I expressed to him: "The ancients observed that clarity sits across from power for one reason. The two co-exist. One is not alive without the other if power is in service to mankind and tended to by a soul immersed in love and its attendants. When power is dark and evil clarity is unnecessary until the carrier sees himself in a mirror and gripped with fear a glimpse of self and consequences imbues him with insight which may lead to the first version of clarity and power if the dark soul can unlearn all he knows about power!"
"It doesn't matter the color of skin. It's all about the witch within!" was from a poster created by Maidens Mothers and Crones: Positively Pagan.
The deepest message and most important to Christian women is not about witches or the clever line. It is in the name of the producers of the poster! It is the depth of Womanhood missed by most women and not lived by most women. Fear and the fear in collective histories is here. If you know those stories and understand the word pagan, know the three states of being woman. A lot is known in secret.
"It doesn't matter the color of skin. It's all about the witch within!" created by Maidens Mothers and Crones: Positively Pagan joins together one truth as if they are separate. That is a purposeful illusion. The combination tells great stories, conjures up suppressed powers, remembers what was forced to be forgotten and for the bold emboldens the truths within a women's body released through initiations.
How men benefit from the knowing of women's wombs developed from stage to sacred stage is carried by women who don't even know it.
I refuse to say there is no power in the name of Jesus. That would not be true. Upon examination where did the powers of women and their wombs go in Jesus name?
- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/31/15
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| Discovery |
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Discovery
My Poetic Journey
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Shanelle Gayden wrote...
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Who is Serenity....
Serenity was broken, hurt, alone, confused, questioning what was, and had absolutely no clue....
I had the opportunity to talk to Serenity one day and she told me just a portion of her story that led me to believe in the power of Serenity! Serenity is ME. - Shanelle Gayden, poetess, social activist, daughter
#MyPoeticJourney421
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