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Caribbean Afrolatina Puertorriqueña & Dominicana

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Halaveli - Maldives (by Mac Qin) 

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Northern Lights in Monument Valley, By - Mads Peter Iversen

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“I just want you to know that you don’t have to be perfect. Perfection is often the enemy of greatness. You are enough no matter where you come from.” (x)

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Rapper Lupe Fiasco beat the world’s top ranked street fighter pro

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So my dad used to teach human evolution at the University of Minnesota, right? And his favorite thing was discussing Native American cultures and bashing misogyny. 

So he’d start off class by going “Raise your hand if you think you know why men hunted and women stayed back in the settlements” and most kids would raise their hands. He’d list off a few various reasons and kids would slowly start participating. Then he’d go “How many of you think it’s because men are stronger” and of course most of the males would raise their hands with a few girls. He’d then proceed to rip apart the patriarchal views they had all been taught. “No,” he’d say, “It’s because if five men went out and three or two came back no one would bat an eye. They’d grieve sure, but society would go on. Now if five women went out and three or two came back you know what would happen? Society would collapse.”

And it was true. For many Native American cultures the only reason women did what they did was because the men couldn’t do it. We are (usually) taught a twisted, self-aggrandizing form of history despite evidence suggesting the complete opposite of it. 

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Fun fact: most North American nations treated women and two spirit people as equal to men (or in the case of two spirits, as even holy) before colonization where sexism was enforced through Christianity and white culture. Many of us still trace our lineage through our mothers and amongst the Iroquois nations women are still fundamental to our governmental structure.

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This was present in a lot of cultures in the past before white colonization (see: imperialism and genocide)

In Australia the Aborigines believed that women were more powerful than men and closer to gods because of their ability to give birth, and men would make themselves bleed just to be like women when they came of age

In the Philippines many people held practices which celebrated a woman’s first menstruation, encouraged free sexual exploration before marriage for young men and women, and believed women to be spiritual leaders, so that the only way a “man” could be one was to become a woman (transwomen were able and even encouraged to marry, and were identified as women within the community)

Also in the Philippines economic structures defined power, so a man who was poorer than his wife would take her name, and daughters would inherit and become heads of the family if they were the eldest

Westerners love to flout how great they are at women empowerment when it comes to other cultures that treat women badly, but actively try to hide the fact that there are thousands of other cultures who treated women better centuries ago than they do even today 

And that’s a fact. 

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So, you telling me we're not really moving forward towards a better society, we're really just undoing everything we once had!?!? Lord have mercy... Smh

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