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Yemaya by Harmonia Rosales (2019)

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🐚 The Saltwater Series ~ Stories from the Pacific

“Shining light on the silenced stories of the Kanak people and the Pacific”

⋆₊𓇼࿐𖦹˖ ࣪⭑ Kanak Rising- What’s Happening in New Caledonia Today?⋆｡˚⋆ Part 2: Nouméa Accord and Referendums

The Nouméa Accord was a notable step toward self-determination. One of its key elements was that only residents who had lived in New Caledonia before 1998 could vote in local elections. This measure was intended to ensure that Indigenous Kanak voices were protected, given that decades of French migration had already made them a minority in their own land.

As part of the accord, three referendums were held in 2018, 2020, and 2021 asking voters whether New Caledonia should become independent from France.

In all three referendums, the majority voted to remain part of France, but the outcomes were deeply contested.

The 2021 referendum was boycotted by many Kanak groups, who argued that the vote was held during the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing fair participation.

Despite these results, many Kanak leaders argue that the process has not fulfilled the promise of decolonization.

🎨 The Hidden Archive – eine Ausstellung über Erinnerung, Kunst & Widerstandskraft. Ab 20. Juni in der @ifagalleryberlin: Entdecke die Geschichte der zeitgenössischen senegalesischen Malerei von 1960–1990 – kuratiert von @akyasy. Basierend auf einem familiären Archiv und dem kollektiven Gedächtnis zeigt Survival Kit Werke aus deutschen Museumssammlungen – viele erstmals öffentlich. 🗓️ Eröffnung: 19. Juni 2025, 19 Uhr 📍 Linienstraße 139/140, Berlin 📅 Ausstellung bis 24. August #TheHiddenArchive #SurvivalKit #KenAïchaSy #ifaGalleryBerlin #ifaGalerien #ContemporaryAfricanArt #SenegaleseArt #ArchiveAsResistance #RestitutionNow #KunstInBerlin #ifaExhibition #AfricanArchives #ElHadjiSy #ArtAsHeritage

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I load my throat

with gunpowder & mother strikes me like a match.

— K-Ming Chang, from "Postcolonial," published in Kweli

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The portrayal of the precolonial and early colonial women babaylan as oppositional to patriarchal colonization configured them as protofeminists... Mangahas claims that whereas the women babaylan were annihilated, assimilated, or compromised by the colonial order, the power of Philippine women was not fully lost... Many present-day women professionals, mostly from urban and/or diasporic middle-class backgrounds, have been attracted to the image of the babaylan and have ascribed the babaylan title to themselves... These developments have inspired many in the face of ongoing violence and discrimination against women, immigrants, and other minorities, in domestic and work places, in the homeland and in the diaspora. Scholars like Zeus Salazar, however, observe the alienation between what he calls the "babaylan of the elite and the babaylan of the real Filipino [who] still sit with their backs against each other." Salazar warns that the "Babaylan tradition could be co-opted by new-age type spirtuality-seeking affluent, middle class Filipinas whose end goal is individual spiritual enlightenment. ...Not a few have pointed out the problem of extracting the babaylan title as though it were a commodity to be acquired without first going through Indigenous channels and protocols... To abstract the title from the process and relationships just because one is attracted to images of Indigenous women that converge with feminist models or because one has the privilege to do so is facile and demonstrates a lack of respect for Native ritual specialists and their communities.

- Babaylan Sing Back by Grace Nono