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[ukpuru]

Ibibio Mami Wata priestess Mary Magdalena with white chalk markings on her face. Oron, Nigeria, 1989. From Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria by Sabine Jell-Bahisen.

[ukpuru]

Shot of Ibibio water-spirit priestesses on a boat from Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits In Nigeria (1989) [preview here] by Sabine Jell-Bahlsen.

[Lady in front is named Mary Magdalena and was already posted here]

[vintagecongo]

Free Kikongo language resources

Kikongo is the language of the Bakongo of Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Angola and Republic of Congo

Dictionary and grammar of the Kongo language, as spoken at São Salvador, the ancient capital of the old Kongo empire, West Africa Central Africa (easier read)

Novo Dicionário Português-Kikongo

Kongo Language Course

Learn Kongo

KIKONGO MISTREATED!…English Version 

Kikongo grammar 

Kituba: Basic course (Kituba is  a creole language based on Kikongo)

Dictionnaire Kikóngo ya Létá (Mủnukutủba) – Français (it’s Kituba spoken in D.R.C)

*not all of these are written in the same Kikongo dialect*

[vintagecongo]

Kongo Cosmology in La Maison Noir: The Gift and the Curse by Petite Noir 

Petite Noir’s project centres around the religious cosmology of the Bakongo (Kongo) people of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo. The video features the Dikenga dia Kongo (Kongo cosmogram) and other Bakongo symbolisms, representing the circle of life and the elements.  

Bakongo culture ascribes to each cardinal point of the Dikenga cosmogram an ontological meaning that symbolizes a segment of the broader transition between various stages of life. The four points of Dikenga tell of a journey of the community’s accumulation, interpretation, and transmission of knowledge. The cosmogram represents each human as “a living sun and marks the phases through which individuals progress as they develop a conscience, take on responsibility, and assume a sense of belonging to religious, political, cultural, familial, and national communities…The impact of imported belief systems, religious practices, and cultural structures was and continues to be felt in all countries that had significant slave populations but is most notable in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil. 

- Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign:  The Atlantic Passage: The Spread of Kongo Belief in Africa and to the Americas by Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz

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[userinherownwrld]

Drylongso (1999) dir. Cauleen Smith

[userinherownwrld]

Judy Pace in Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

[thesefevereddays]

Tendril

By Jada Renée Allen

& just the vermillion

flicker of cannas near the pane.

Our bodies too, plateaued;

my hole, newly bloomless.

Outdoors, further out, a wren

winnows, the mesquite

on whose yielding limbs the all-

but-tender fowl rests

flexes, in cold as in darkness . . .

Time, like desire, expands too—

no? My lover, nodding gently,

shakes the leaves, &

A little softer. A little softer now—

A little softer, for what’s been torn.

[wordgarment]

TRANSGENDER, NONBINARY, GENDERQUEER and TWO-SPIRIT POETS YOU SHOULD READ!

Here's a non-exhaustive list in alphabetical order by author last name. The majority listed here have published full-length poetry collections and/or chapbooks, but some have not, and have published poems in publications you can find online. Some also write in other genres, as well, and/or make art in other mediums. Consider reblogging it and adding to it if you so desire. My background is primarily in "academic" poetry, for better or worse, and I'm less knowledgeable about slam poetry/poets who don't publish in avenues approved by the academy or are not in academic circles. I've only listed poets here whose work I have read. So there are certainly people worth reading that I'm missing.

Andrea Abi-Karam

Samuel Ace

Jada Renée Allen

Justice Ameer

Ryka Aoki

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Noah Baldino

Ari Banias

Kay Ulanday Barrett

Oliver Baez Bendorf

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Stephanie Burt

Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Jos Charles

Ching-In Chen

Travis Hedge Coke

CAConrad

jayy dodd

J Jennifer Espinoza

T. Fleischmann

Kay Gabriel

Aeon Ginsberg

torrin a. greathouse

Kamden Hilliard

Stephen Ira

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Rickey Laurentiis

Dawn Lundy Martin

Noor Ibn Najam

Trace Peterson

Raquel Salas Rivera

Trish Salah

Danez Smith

TC Tolbert

Chrysanthemum Tran

Joshua Whitehead

Kit Yan

In addition, two wonderfully edited trans poetry anthologies published by Nightboat Books that include many of these writers' work:

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, edited by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson

We Want it All: A Radical Anthology of Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel

Also, some online literary journals regularly publishing trans and nonbinary poetry:

https://foglifterjournal.com/

https://www.peachmgzn.com/

https://beestungmag.com/

The current moment is a very exciting time for trans poetics. These are brilliant poets and thinkers publishing work that's worth your time. Poetry is not everyone's cup of tea, certainly, but I wish more people knew about how many awesome trans poets are out there right now making amazing and important art.

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WELP.

[xanadontit]

Can’t hurt.

[jigglyteenfeedee]

Bet

[arizonasugarbaby]

I’ve been rolling in the dough lately so it seems like these things are working 🙏🏻

[baddestheaux]

No they literally work

[lilyliqueur]

I reblogged this the other day and literally got a settlement check from an old job. like LMAO ?????????????????????????? 

[fixedhawa]

i’ve got nothing to lose lol

[drapedinink]

[kinofhim]

belly (1998), dir: hype williams

[ukpuru]

Stephanie Newell “Buried beneath Imperial History”, The Forger’s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku (2006); Ohio University Press [Click here to read full introductory chapter]

[ukpuru]

Igbo Mami Wota (Ezenwanyi) priest and shrine. Henry John Drewal. 1988. 

[ukpuru]

Mammy Watah masquerade from Iviakpera Quarter, with gifts and supporters, on the third day of Otsa, just prior to the finale. Azukhala-Ekperi, 1972. Photo: Jean M. Borgatti (slide 72.38.19). This version was brought to the festival by Wilson-Sule, who had bought it at Ikot Ekpene.

Jean M. Borgatti. The Otsa Festival of the Ekperi: Igbo Age-Grade Masquerades on the West Bank of the Niger? African Arts, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter, 2003), pp. 40-57+93-95.

[ukpuru]

Madhu Krishnan (2012). Mami Wata and the Occluded Feminine in Anglophone Nigerian-Igbo Literature.

[ukpuru]

Mammy Water is a pidgin English name for a local water goddess worshipped by the Ibibio, Ijaw, and Igbo speaking peoples of southeastern Nigeria. The water goddess traditionally gives wealth and children, compensates for hardships, and is sought in times of illness and need, especially by women. Her various cults are led, predominantly, by priestesses. This acclaimed documentary shows numerous rituals and ceremonies associated with Mammy Water, while devotees provide commentary. This is an important depiction of the strength of traditional religion in contemporary Nigeria and one of the few academically sound investigations of the role of women in an African spiritual movement.

http://www.der.org/films/mammy-water.html