#maori woman

[hedgewitchgarden]

Painting of Pare Watene, a Māori woman, holding her greenstone mere. Portrait by Gottfried Lindauer, 1878

[marcellanique]

Maori woman

[mhaccunoval]

portrait of a young maori woman with moko (1891) — louis john steele

[ofmdtereomaori]

Kua hinga te tōtara o Te Waonui a Tāne. Georgina Beyer (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou), transwoman, Member of Parliament, Mayor, sex worker, activist, actress, rape survivor, model, drag queen, trailblazer, LEGEND. November 1957 – 6 March 2023.

Moe mai rā e te rangatira... moe mai rā.

[teh-inggris]

gritting my teeth so hard

[msmoon-and-the-cyberdemon]

Here she is, winner of the BLU Jack poll, Maya!

I don’t have much going for her actual BLU team, but basically, she was in need to find a job with a real good pay, saw the news clipping for the mercenary job and took the chance.

The glove you see her wear would be another type of the Lamprey Maw, called the Bat Claw. However, the claw was actually hand-made by her! Maya majored in engineering and the job allowed her to pick it up again.

More drawings!

Jack is really excited to have another person in his class :)

[whereishermes]

Women's Power in Art and Rituals: A Closer Look at Pacific Cultures

[teddytoroa]

a couple years ago i dreamt that i met god and they were actually a butch lesbian couple with grey hair and crinkly eyes and broad warm hands amd they lived in another dimension together in a large midcentury style house with a lot of natural(?) light and it was filled with trinkets theyd picked up on various trips to earth over the millennia. they welcomed me like we were old friends and i stood in their lounge watching the world turn in space through a big glass window in the floor while they made me tea and we talked about my future. it felt very real and normal and when i woke up my first thought was "holy fuck" and my second thought was "if i made a post about this nobody would believe i really dreamt all that theyd think i was lying oppa homeless style". but jokes on the nonbelievers because i have a disease that makes all my dreams super vivid and often realistic and coherent and i dream about meeting a sort of god all the time. this is genuinely very normal for me. anyway i thought i should post about god being an old butch lesbian couple who are besotted with each other and live in a cool house because that seems like something all you lesbians would like.

[lemuseum]

[mortispbf]

[haechanhues]

this is going to sound hefty and a bit chunky but i saw this video about māori studying at oxford and some of the comments ‘oh this anti-british tokenism is getting old’ ‘this is clearly racism from ignorant people that don’t deserve it’ ‘they have european genes’ blah blah blah shut the fuck up. don’t put in your two cents if you don’t know what the fuck we’re talking about. 

oxford is a great fucking school, we know. we fucking know that. what this is isn’t an anti-british flag bearing protest, it’s an acknowledgement. it’s acknowledging that our colonisers came mostly from britain and our pain stemmed from there. that’s all it is. it’s an umbrella term and generational pain. what our ancestors went through, what our people went through is the pain that we want to right. our culture was ripped apart and taken from us. our ancestors lost their lives trying to retain our identity. now we’re getting it back. 

‘nā tō rourou, nā taku rourouka ora ai te iwi’ meaning  [with your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive’. metaphorically it means the knowledge that i obtain and that others obtain will strengthen our people. that is our shared goal as māori. that is what’s happening here. first it is acknowledgement and then it is revitalisation. 

[templeofshame]

oh nice i love when an actor playing a queer character comes out and like, no idea if the casting people knew

wait fuck you though, i was trying to look up the actor who plays simone as the last potentially straight actor playing a key queer role on yellowjackets, and instead of that i get a spoiler that blackbeard's mom is playing A Role that was speculated but not known for s2

Lol then i went on Wikipedia to find the same info (her name is rukiya bernard and she doesn't seem to be queer) and got another s2 spoiler via casting that I don't think was as widely speculated? (and that adds another ostensibly straight actor playing queer)

i was kinda hoping van would eventually be revealed to be nb, but i guess not because she’s played by a cis woman as an adult. i feel like it would be a strange thing as an nb actor to share a role with a cis person but like obviously nb actors should play characters of any and all genders they are comfortable with

[ofmdtereomaori]

Georgina Beyer tribute roundup

Stuff obituary with her life story

Tribute from Gender Minorities Aotearoa

Tagata Pasifika tribute

Louisa Wall tribute on Radio Waatea

Chris Carter tribute in the Spinoff

NZ Herald article with tributes from all over Twitter

Newshub story with tributes from Aotearoa NZ Sex Workers’ Collective founder Dame Catherine Healy and former PM Helen Clark

Carterton District Council have unanimously voted to name a street after her

Poroporoaki from Willie Jackson

Bonus: the Georgie Girl doco is online

[bdrmhymnz]

expect roimata to call your muses hun, babe, love all in completely platonic ways ❤️ if theyre younger than her by enough bub will also be a common nickname, she just has such a loving personality!

[autoeroticalgolania]

Maori women with Moko kauae

 {received by women on their lips and chin. A moko kauae represents a woman's whānau and leadership within her community, recognising her whakapapa, status, and abilities. It is a traditional taonga passed down over many generations from the ancestress Niwareka.}

[marcellanique]

Seductive girls