#deadmaidens

[herblackwings70]

🖤🙏🖤 @Regrann from @trowel_and_bone - ・・・ Today on #IndigeousPeoplesDay it is important that we honor and remember all the missing and murdered Indigenous women of the Americas. As of today we still do not have an exact number of how many Native women have been disappeared and killed, but it is too many. Far too often the disappearances of Indigenous women are brushed off by the authorities, go uninvestigated and we are ignored. This has to change immediately. Pictured here are only *a few* of the thousands of women who have been killed or gone missing. Two other important things related to violence against Native women's bodies that everyone should know: between 1970 and 1976 alone, 25-50% of Native women were forcefully sterilized by the US gov. and 1 in 3 Native women will be sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetimes. What's one thing you can you do to help? Google! Read a book! Listen to a podcast! Research and educate yourself on these issues and then share this info with others. The more people know the more change we can bring about! #deadmaidens #trowelandbone #activism #feminism #feministdeath #humanrights #nomorestolensisters #nativelivesmatter #notonemore (I have never been more humbled to work with anyone than I am to work with @deadmaidens Thank you for always sharing crucial information and for giving me a platform to discuss the real stuff 🖤)

[herblackwings70]

🖤💀🖤 @Regrann from @trowel_and_bone - 💀Throughout the month of October, I want to feature some of the numerous goddesses of death and the afterlife. This is Maman Brigitte, one of the loa in religious practices of Haitian and Louisiana Voodoo. Maman Brigitte is a divine matriarch, protectress, and a Guédé (death-spirit). She is wife to Baron Samedi, Lord of the Cemetery (but she don't need no man, tbh). Maman Brigitte is one of the most powerful Ioa, offering protection to graveyards and the dead. In Haiti, She is called upon when the first woman is buried in a cemetery. Sometimes seen as a Corpse Bride, Maman Brigitte calls upon us to face both our mortality and ancestral lines. We are far removed from death in Western modernity, with the dying often hidden away, and the funerary rites enacted by undertakers and embalmers, rather than by family members and loved ones. What can we truly know of death if we are distanced from it? What do we understand by decay and decomposition if we do not experience it? How can we mourn fully if we are separated from our beloved dead within hours of their passing? Equally, what do we know of our ancestry? Can we trace our lines back through our matriarchs? How much do we know about those who came before us, our Beloved Dead, and how they lived and died? Can we look their deaths in the eye? What about our own? In these instances, Maman Brigitte is the quintessential mother, as she encourages us to respect death, and to understand its sacred place in our society, rather than hold it at arms length and/or be afraid of it. As She is a female loa who is very much in control of Her own power, as well as truly understanding the act and function of death, Maman Brigitte is an aspect of the Divine Feminine who is not to be feared. She offers to us the chance to face our deaths head-on, as well as to truly embody and adore our own bones [hollisticgoddessuk] 💀 #voodoo #voudon #mamanbrigitte #death #deathics #deadmaidens #trowelandbone #feminism #activism #feministdeath #goddess #cemetery #funeral #bones #halloween #skeleton #skull #baronsamedi