#diabi

Some see Africans engaging in a form of adornment, and think it's out of place on the body 💎 Yet there are histories of conquest suffering from a lack of records, namely a lack of memory of the East African slave trades and the consumption pathways along the Indian Ocean that unite Mali and Indonesia 🪡👘 This precedes the Transatlantic slave trades in obvious ways.

Notions of being "appropriate" are turned on their head when we recognize consumers by location taking claim of inspiration, absorbing character with zero direct citation. There's been a battle over inheritance, public signatures of marriage, the bindi, and which bodies are "valuable" enough to inherit by blood and marriage 💍 You teach those that harvest minerals that they don't own them by not allowing them to wear fine jewelry without a questioning, not appearing to come from a recognized family. Indonesia is named after India, yet not on the map of caste 🕉️ Shallow, non-therapeutic discussions can't hold a diverse web, a living fabric. Check in: is your body a reflection of the lands being fought over? Most are ruthlessly competing to secure their entitlement to tour the Commonwealth ✈️

Watch the Mother tongue to analyze a colonization that cannot be denied. A rapid and sweeping change is happening to Japanese as more of the language is becoming English words due to the location of the US Navy ⚓️ We've seen a similar percentage of loanwords with Swahili, 40% of the language being Arabic. But please don't use facts about history as ammunition for modern moral superiority ✝️