MujerCulebra

Shedding skin

[berrie-bomb]

MOON PHASES

NEW MOON : Setting intentions, taking actions, moving forward, focusing in the increase, starting new ventures, exploring opportunities

WAXING CRESCENT : Redefining goals and taking first actions, consistency, gaining momentum, determination, pushing forward

FIRST QUARTER : Finding the balance between the new goals and habits, expansion, being practical, concentration on goals

WAXING GIBBOUS : Cultivating actions toward goals, improving and readjusting, intensive growth, pushing boundaries

FULL MOON : The energy of completion, gratefulness, cleansing, charging, appreciating progress, psychic work, letting go

WANING GIBBOUS : Giving thanks, decluttering, eliminating negative habits, slowing down, reevaluing goals

LAST QUARTER : Letting go, practicing forgiveness, finding time to relax, cord-cutting, get rid of unhealthy habits and addictions

WANING CRESCENT : Making room for new, rest and surrender, energizing by doing things we love, discharging the health issues

[woundgallery]

Louise Bourgeois, Umbilical Cord, 2000

[comrade-meow]

“The witch as a symbol, as an archetype, represents the sovereign woman. 

She represents a community of women helping women, of women acquiring knowledge, of women passing ancestral knowledge down to the younger generations. The witch is the common woman, the midwife, the herbalist, the shaman, the spiritual leader, the mother, grandmother, or the woman who has no child. The witch is the ancestral female who knows that spirit lives in all of her surroundings, because her surroundings are all mineral, water, plant, animal. She knows that all interaction is connection, that all connection is transformative. 

The vulva is the portal between the worlds and the breasts are the life-givers. The witch represents sexuality that centers connection, mutual respect, and equality. The witch is the blossoming maiden, or the full-bellied mother, or the silver crone whose face is lined and creased with her stories. She has no interest in or time for altering her natural body to please a dominator because there is no dominator. As the life-giver, she is the center of her culture. She is walking miles into the wood, hairy legged and strong, gathering food and medicine. Her contribution is her beauty, but it is also enough for her to just be. The witch is in relationship with all that is around her.

To see the witch bound and gagged like the patriarchs did to her when they came with the intention to stamp her existence out of this world is an affront to all of our ancestors who were tortured and burned. I shouldn’t be shocked by this ignorance so much anymore, but it continues to baffle me that the sexualization of unequal power dynamics & the sexualization of practices that came as a result of male domination continue to slip their way into “feminism”… This is just one example of how the witch is separated from her roots and from sexual politics. We are imposing things onto the witch that don’t belong to her, they belong to her rapist and her murderer.” - Brigid Wolf

Photo by Ania Blazejewska

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[americangirl115]

Born: September 10 1801

Died:June 15 1881

Burial place: St. Louis Cemetery No.1 New Orleans LA

Children: 4

Spouse: Jacques Paris

Parents: Charles laVeau & Marguerite Darcantrel

Marie Catherine Laveau was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo.

[fravery]

Love is a dart

Illustration by Jungho Lee

[thereignclub-trc]

Discipline comes effortlessly when you operate from a place of love for yourself. You deserve to feel your best & look your best. You deserve to expand your experiences by taking steps outside of your comfort zone. Self love will align you with effortless discipline.

[stfuprashu]

Casual intimacy is my favourite thing in the entire world. A tiny touch on your back in crowded areas. They're sitting across the table and give each other a light kick. A head on the shoulder, a hand in your hand, or a squeeze on the arm as they pass by. And I believe that perhaps love is composed of the simple things rather than large gestures or explosive shows. The small gestures that convey concern and presence and that there is no need to consider them since casual intimacy just naturally arises because of how deeply your life has been entwined with mine. The little things that say I am here and I care for you.

[pinkroselife]

kb Williams Gilbert Entrance Into the Earth

[pussywagon-]

Kill Bill Vol 1. (2003)

[overly-elusive-blog]

it’s so gorgeoussssss

[emotionalempowerer-blog]

Beautiful ❤️ The power and perseverance of Black women!

[kineticpianox]

Did you know that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere?

Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.

After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).

In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.

The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.

This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.

Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.

So if you’re one of the people who wouldn’t be alive today without a C-section, you have Ugandan surgeons and Tanzanian and Congolese midwives to thank for their contributions to medical science.

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https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html

[playfulpanthress]

Thank you, my sisters.

[kindle-the-soul]

Thank god for these women.

For my life.

For the lives of my babies.

[totalrecallvintage]

[replanting]

I am a completely different woman than I was this time last year. And I’ll be a completely new woman by this time next year. I can’t wait to learn who I’ll be. I can’t wait to see who I am tomorrow.

[replanting]

from the inhabit manifesto

[still-godless-david]

Prophecy

[zegalba]

Björk (1991) Ph. Claude Gassian