#sisterresister

[neworleansvoudou]

If Marie Laveau were alive today, I truly believe she would be at the forefront of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements. I envision her standing in front of the White House as a #SisterResister, protesting the current administration’s racist policies, and attacks on health care and the environment. Instead of Alyssa Milano, it could have been Marie Laveau sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh at those now infamous SCOTUS hearings that mobilized the female warrior aspect of the country like never before. She would be advocating prison reform, laying the gris gris down at the border for those seeking a better life or in need of asylum, and making sure no one forgets that there are children held in cages in internment camps for brown people right now, at this present moment, in post-slavery America. *Excerpt from the Magic or Marie Laveau by moi. #blacklivesmatter #antiracism #whatwouldmariedo #marielaveau (at Prescott, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8r7rDHyKm/?igshid=17l1vw01itmr2

[thisliterarylife]

Friday feeling. 🤳🏼 #selfie #selfiefriday #nolitetebastardescarborundorum #handmaidstale #sisterresist #fourthwavefeminism https://www.instagram.com/p/BsPV4aUHJCo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19o1ca8wx33sa

[emilyheser]

Women's Day every damn day ................✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #matriarchynow #otherwild #sisterresister #womensday #internationalwomensday #resist #daywithoutawoman #thefutureisfemale #womensrights #equalpaynow #smashthepatriarchy (at SoHo)

[out-of-the-cage]

A week after returning from @womensmarch in DC I found a package on my doorstep. It was filled with love❤️ (& a pink kitty hat)❤️Sending back my love and gratitude to my beautiful, empowering, fellow #sisterresister Aunt Terry Lynch. A wise woman (ahem... @gloriasteinem) once said, "Any woman who chooses to behave like a FULL HUMAN BEING should be warned that the armies of the stays quo will treat her like a dirty joke... SHE WILL NEED HER SISTERHOOD." Aunt Terry, thank you for your sisterhood! I am a better person because of it. PS I LOVE MY HAT!!!✊🏼😻 (at Echo Park, C.A. 90026)

[fandomshatewomen]

Repost stolen from transmisogynist:

We live in a really weird era of feminism in which we’re not allowed to criticise any oppressive constructs/industries (marriage, beauty/make up, porn, etc) just because some women enjoy them.

I’m really sick of of opinions and discussions being shut down with “it’s not oppressive if we like it! don’t you know that some women choose to do these things?”

well, heck. don’t you know that  men/the patriarchy have a lot to gain in keeping us content and complicit in our own oppression?

by @sisterresister

I think our generation of feminists have lost the idea of there being an oppressive structure (patriarchy) which moulds and controls the actions of individual women. So when we say “High heels are oppressive, they are a way of controlling women’s bodies, preventing us from being able to run and deforming our feet” a lot of women hear this as “Women who wear high heels are all stupid and not proper feminists. They are gullible stooges of patriarchy!” This is because Western women have been brought up in a culture that emphasizes individualism and personal choices and ignores the coercive social and cultural structures and hierarchies within which those choices are made.

The criticism is not of individual women and the question is not whether individual women do or don’t choose to wear high heels. The criticism is of the patriarchal system that coerces women into wearing high heels and that denies women a genuinely free choice as to whether or not to wear high heels.

by @muslimfeminist (Deactivated, not sure of current)

Hey maybe some of you will take what I say seriously after hearing some other people saying it! To be honest most people dont even wait around to hear that you’re criticising institutions before they start talking about themselves and how it’s empowering

by @uirgiliana

“Western women have been brought up in a culture that emphasizes individualism and personal choices and ignores the coercive social and cultural structures and hierarchies within which those choices are made.”

Exactly!  We as individuals are understandably biased toward believing that the choices we make are made entirely freely, without being influenced by societal pressures.  However, that’s just not true.  Every choice we make is profoundlyinfluenced by the set of values and priorities we were brought up with and by the society in which we live.  Every action we take is either taken to stay within that framework or in deliberate rejection of it.  Either way, those societal values are always involved in our decision-making, however unconsciously.  

In an ideal world, yes, a woman would be able to decide what she wanted to wear, whether she wanted to shave her legs, how much makeup she wanted to put on, etc. as an individual making a free choice based on her own comfort and her aesthetic preferences.  But that is not the world we live in!  These sorts of choices are influenced by societal pressures both consciously – women, at least in the US, are told that we must shave our legs in order not just to be attractive, but not to be actively gross – and unconsciously, in that our personal aesthetic preferences are themselves very much influenced by the norms and values of the societies in which we live.  

tl;dr:  it’s not actually possible to make decisions like whether or not to wear heels without being influenced by societal norms, whether that decision is made in accordance with or rejection of those norms.  

[suxinsu]

#Akira by #Suxinsu on stage with #Tardis BIG THANKS Ben Sliver @sisterresist for sharing!

[neworleansvoudou]

"Marie Laveaux was of remarkable intellect and force of character. She had no equal and cared not whether the men and women she aided were old in coquetry and vice or young and innocent." ~ Richmond Daily Palladium 1900 🐍🐍🐍 If Marie Laveau were alive today, I truly believe she would be at the forefront of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements. I envision her standing in front of the White House as a #SisterResister, protesting the current administration’s racist policies, and attacks on health care and the environment. Instead of Alyssa Milano, it could have been Marie Laveau sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh at those now infamous SCOTUS hearings that mobilized the female warrior aspect of the country like never before. She would be advocating prison reform, laying the gris gris down at the border for those seeking a better life or in need of asylum, and making sure no one forgets that there are children held in cages in internment camps for brown people right now, at this present moment, in post-slavery America. 🐍🐍🐍 But the reason she would be doing these things might surprise a lot of people who are unfamiliar with her as a living, breathing human being. Marie Laveau is no myth; she is no mere legend. While her reputation precedes her as the notorious Voudou Queen of New Orleans, in reality, she was a free woman of color who ruled the city during antebellum New Orleans. This was no small feat. She was a devout Catholic, an independent businesswoman, a mother, and healer who lived her life in accordance with the corporal works of mercy. Stories abound about her magickal prowess, freeing men from the gallows and healing the sick from the brink of death. Her belief in Catholicism guided her life as well as her magick in such a distinct way that people from all over the world are inspired by her spirit and her story. This phenomenon is evidenced by the fact that her grave site is purportedly one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the United States, second only to the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley. *excerpt from the Magic of Marie Lavea https://www.instagram.com/p/B36gxn9AkRo/?igshid=1v3z181j8syn3

[neworleansvoudou]

My new book is available for preorders here: https://amzn.to/2XBWhyn

This book is unlike all the others written about Marie Laveau. It’s not just a biography, nor is it just a spellbook. It is much more than either of those types of books. But before I share with you an excerpt from the book, I have seen people ask about me on Tumbler and assume my ethnicity and background. To set the record straight, I am Creole, born and raised in New Orleans.  I was introduced to the Mysteries at the age of 6 by my aunt and have spent a lifetime practicing, growing and learning about New Orleans Voudou and related traditions of Southern rootwork and conjure. I write from an insiders’ perspective and often share information others have not heard of before as a result. Trust, there is a whole lot of nonsense out there about Marie Laveau that needs to be cleansed from the practitioner’s palette - in my humble opinion, of course. When you are born and bred, you got the goods, and I spill the tea in this book!

Here’s an excerpt from the Introduction to give you an idea of what to expect:

If Marie Laveau were alive today, I truly believe she would be at the forefront of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements. I envision her standing in front of the White House as a #SisterResister, protesting the current administration’s racist policies, attacks on health care and the environment. Instead of Alyssa Milano, it could have been Marie Laveau sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh at those now notorious SCOTUS hearings that mobilized the female warrior aspect of the country like never before. She would be advocating prison reform, laying the gris gris down at the border for those seeking a better life or in need of asylum, and making sure no one forgets there are children held in cages in internment camps for brown people right now, at this present moment in time, in post-slavery America. But the reason she would be doing these things might surprise a lot of people who are unfamiliar with her as a living, breathing human being. Marie Laveau is no myth; she is no mere legend. While her reputation precedes her as the notorious Voudou Queen of New Orleans, she was also a devout Catholic, an independent businesswoman, a free woman of color, a mother, and healer who lived her life in accordance with the Corporal Works of Mercy. Her belief in Catholicism guided her life as well as her magic in such a distinct way that people from all over the world are inspired by her spirit and her story. This phenomenon is evidenced by the fact that her grave site is purportedly one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the United States, second only to the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley.

There have been many books written about Marie Laveau that either focus on her life and legend or are popular spellbooks, pamphlets or fictional novels. I wanted to write a different kind of book – one that describes her magical and spiritual legacy with distinct practices found among Laveau devotees of past and present. I wanted to then be able to present the information in this book as a true working grimoire, one that has been thus historically and culturally authenticated as much as possible. Hence, what you will find in the following pages include stylistic workings attributed to her as identified in the aforementioned sources along with oral tradition as a primary indigenous information source. This latter source of information – oral tradition by actual Voudou and Hoodoo practitioners - has been sorely lacking in the available literature. What sets this book apart is that I am both a cultural anthropologist as well as a New Orleans Voudou insider with specialized knowledge of multiple folk traditions – a tradition keeper - which I have chosen to share with the world rather than take with me to my grave. That fact allows me to share with my readers a unique, twenty-first century, practitioner-scholar perspective that has been heretofore undocumented.

This book is divided into three parts. Part 1: La Belle de Nouvelle Orleans focuses on Marie Laveau as a woman, healer, Catholic, and businesswoman. It highlights key events in her life and introduces key players and myths in the Laveau legend as well as her contribution to the evolution of New Orleans Voudou from its African roots. From this exploration, I make the case for a specific type of New Orleans Voudou I call Laveau Voudou. Part 2: Becoming a Devotee discusses what it means to become a Laveau devotee, including how to create an altar to the Voudou Queen and and how to petition her. This section and the next are dedicated to the practitioner interested in learning how to serve Marie Laveau in a meaningful and culturally respectful way. Part 3: A Laveau Grimoire is a working grimoire of conjures, cures, roots and remedies in the Laveau Voudou tradition. It consists of two sections: a) Conjures, Cures, Roots and Remedies, which breaks down the eleven categories of conjure in the Laveau Voudou tradition along with examples of each, and b) Formulas and Receipts, which provides a list of remedies, products and formulas from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including those attributed to Marie Laveau.

In total, The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans provides a pathway for culturally respectful devotion to the Holy Mother of New Orleans Voudou for anyone seeking to incorporate her style of magic into their lives and develop a working relationship with her.

[otherwild]

🌹Our own @salimasees, #Otherwild photographer/employee extraordinaire wearing our #sisterresister tee 🌹 #sisteresister (at Otherwild)

[otherwild]

♥️ #sisterresister ♥️ photo by @i_forgot_who #sisteresister (at Otherwild NY)

[brownbearherbs]

Flash your stash! This one is from @stuartgetty So happy have our Guerrilla Puffs included. This herbal smoking blend is red clover, mullein leaf and flower, calendula, lemon balm and holy basil. This team of herbs are together to help support and inspire you during this time of political stress. No tobacco, no marijuana, no nicotine. Get them online at brownbearherbs.com or check out our stockists list to see a location near you. $2 from each box sold goes to Planned Parenthood. #herbalcigarette #lesbians #readyourcrutch #appreciationpicture #yoni #portlandoregon #womanownedbusiness #nepdx #mysticdistrict #brownbearherbs #queerwitch #queersofinstagram #lgbtq #naturalhealing #quitsmoking #quittobacco #sisterresister #istandwithpp #plannedparenthood #consentismandatory #flashyourstash #consentissexy #guerrillapuffs #guerrilla #impeachtrump (at Portland, Oregon)

[brownbearherbs]

Really feeling this vibe! Puffs are so supportive and centering. Get to the core of what is important for you to fight for in this intense world we live in. But, don't forget to enjoy Mother Earth too! She's got your belly. Restocked at @thealchemistskitchen in NYC #guerrilla #guerrillapuffs #herbalcigarette #herbalism #quitsmoking #quittobacco #brownbearherbs #newygant #mysticdistrict #stagecigarette #propcigarette #sisterresister #impeachtrump #redclover #mullein #tulsi #calendula #inclusivefeminism #blacklivesmatter #nobannowall (at Brown Bear Herbs)

[otherwild]

@carajsays wearing our #sisterresister tee, 25% goes to @aclu_nationwide 🔻 #sisteresister *shirt is more red than it appears here ❤️ (at Otherwild NY)

[otherwild]

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[otherwild]

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[otherwild]

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