The AfroFuturist Affair

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blackgirlphresh: nenasoulfly: revolutionary women - a book of stencils. author queen of the neighborhood.   about the book: its “a radical feminist history and a street art resource, this handbook combines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of 30 female activists, anarchists, feminists, freedom fighters, and visionaries. From Harriet Tubman, Emma Goldman, and Angela Davis to Vandana Shiva, Sylvia Rivera, and Lucy Parsons, this collection offers a subversive portrait celebrating the military prowess and revolutionary drive of these women whose violent resolve often shatters the archetype of woman as nurturer. A sampling of quotes from key writings and speeches gives voice to each woman’s ideologies, philosophies, struggles, and quiet humanity while the stencils offer further opportunities to commemorate these women and their actions through the reproduction of their likenesses.”  its on amazon.

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nenasoulfly:

revolutionary women - a book of stencils. author queen of the neighborhood.  

about the book: its “a radical feminist history and a street art resource, this handbook combines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of 30 female activists, anarchists, feminists, freedom fighters, and visionaries. From Harriet Tubman, Emma Goldman, and Angela Davis to Vandana Shiva, Sylvia Rivera, and Lucy Parsons, this collection offers a subversive portrait celebrating the military prowess and revolutionary drive of these women whose violent resolve often shatters the archetype of woman as nurturer. A sampling of quotes from key writings and speeches gives voice to each woman’s ideologies, philosophies, struggles, and quiet humanity while the stencils offer further opportunities to commemorate these women and their actions through the reproduction of their likenesses.”  its on amazon.

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Electromagnetism

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“African people naturally have kinky or wiry hair. Non-African people have matted or animal-like hair. In other words, kinky or wire-like hair is an evolutionary advance since very few animals (sheep, buffalo, yak, etc.) have hair similar to African people.  Kinky or wire-like hair is constructed like an antenna to absorb more readily those naturally occurring electromagnetic waves in nature.  The “conscious waves” we mentioned earlier are also more attracted to kinky or wire-like hair.  Matted or animal-like hair may generate electricity in the form of static; however, it is matted and limits the conversion of radiant energy into other forms of energy.”

 - Chapter 10, The Material-Spiritual Connection in The Science & The Myth of Melanin: Dispelling the Rumors, Exposing the Facts, by T. Owens Moore, Ph.D.

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The art of hairplaiting and hairdressing is an important one for women in Yoruba mythology. The river goddess Oshun takes charge of that profession, for which reason she has been nicknamed Sheegesi ‘the Hair Expert with the Beaded Comb’. Still treasuring this heritage, cult members of Yeye Olorisha in Owo spend hours and sometimes days doing their hair elaborately for the annual Igogo festival to honour Oronsen, a female deity. The hairdo is not considered complete without the insertion of ornate brass and, of recent, plastic combs which hold up bright red parrot feathers. Dressed thus, these women at the peak of their performance in the Igogo festival create their own aesthetic atmosphere, magically charging it with their ‘bird power’. This ‘bird power’ like ashe, ‘a form of prophetic power’, enables women to accomplish anything that they wish. It is probably because of this power also that men fear to move too close to these cult members as they believe that they may lose their sexual potency.
Woman in Yoruba Religious Images
Author(s): Rowland Abiodun
Source: African Languages and Cultures, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1989), pp. 1-18
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. (via cosmicyoruba)

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