#nambian

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Post 88: DSD/intersex representation

Beatrice Masilingi

Beatrice Masilingi is an Nambian sprinter who has achieved great success in her career . She has won Silver at the WorldU Championships 3 times. She's also placed 6th at the 2020 Toyko Olympics! She has a DSD disorder that she wasn't aware of until she was subjected to unfair testing due to the idea she has higher testosterone levels. Like Caster Semanya and other African sprinters, she is subjected to scrutiny due to eurocentric ideals of what a woman's body should look like.

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Because one 📸 is never enough

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The San people of Namibia

Photographer: Martin Harvey

The word San is an exonym and umbrella term for a wide-range of related people indigenous to Southern Africa, who have inhabited the land prior to the Bantu expansion and the colonization of Europeans. Genetic and evolutionary biologists have theorized that at one point in history the San were one of the largest populations of the world. This hypothesis partially derives from the fact that they are one of the world’s most genetically diverse populations.

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Himba Bath Time 

Location: Epupa, Namibia

Photographer: Ben McRae

The Himba live in the arid parts for northern Namibia and southern Angola, they are semi nomadic people who usually don't have access to water, but when they do have it is a precious commodity. Due to this the Himba women never actually bathe themselves, they know how precious every drop of water is so rather than wash themselves each day they go about smoking themselves clean. A small fire is usually started, to which aromatic herbs are added. Once the fire starts to smoke the women place a conical shaped basket over the fire to direct the smoke towards the part of their anatomy they wish to clean. They then wrap themselves up tightly in a large blanket and sit back to relax whilst the aromatic smoke does its job. This is usually quiet a private process, so I was privileged to be invited in one morning by Tjimawemo to photograph her daily ritual. 

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Đêm nay a lại nhớ một người...

Mưa lớn kéo dài ko thôi thói quen phải chạy ngang nơi đó ngó hình dung... chỉ thế thôi rồi lặng lẽ trở về để ng ấy ko hay ko biết...

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Mùa thu áo trắng bay bay 🌿🌿🌿 Cho ai ngơ ngẩn, để ai thẩn thờ 🍁🍁🍁 Để ai đợi, cho ai chờ 🍃🍃🍃 Còn ai đóng cửa làm thơ thất tình !!! 🍂🍂🍂 #nambian 🤓🤓🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/BvY1CN7nmtl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4v8lbh8aae53

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Hứng từng hạt nắng... cuối chiều bơ vơ... #nambian https://www.instagram.com/p/BvMcubNgoZt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kprb53sxb22l

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Back home #nambian https://www.instagram.com/p/BvK0GIbgWyY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jvv71tcr3rxf