Memento mori......

Who cares about body hair?

V1:

Why’d we let greedy profiteers decide (10) About our bodies and what goes inside? (10) Or what should be on them to be pretty, (10) So we’d look the same in ev’ry city? (10) It is now the hour (5) To take back power! (5)

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You’re already beautiful in your skin (10) Whether you’re dark, fair, fat or thin! (8) Hair removal ads try to get you down, (10) Don’t doubt yourself: ignore those clowns! (8)

V2:

Even if those shiny razors and wax strips Claim to better your legs or upper lips Don’t put those packaged liars on your shelf Unless you’re doing it just for yourself! It is now the hour To take back power!

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V3: There is not just one way to be human, The truth about this will have ‘em fumin’! P&G wants to make you think you need Smooth, hairless, shaved skin; look beyond their greed! It is now the hour, To take back power!

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V4: They’ll try to claim it’s for basic hygiene: But that’s just a lie for all to be seen. The obsession with prepubescence Is creepy and patriarchal nonsense! It is now the hour, To take back power!

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V5: Your body is your own and yours alone! You are a person, not filling some zone. Your body’s beautiful, hairy or not; Don’t give Patriarchy a second thought! It is now the hour, To take back power!

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V6: Then there is the whole damn issue with pain: Pour hot wax, plucking again and again! An expectation for some to endure: For men’s approval?! To be seen as pure?! It is now the hour, To take back power!

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V7: If it’s not your body, you get no say: Not today, tomorrow or any day! Keep your damn shame and judgment to yourself: That junk, like razors, belongs on no shelf! It is now the hour, To take back power!

#BlackHistoryFact  - African American Inventor Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner is known for developing the sanitary pad  

MEFeater Magazine 

“She and her sister were both inventors, creating and patenting inventions for household use. Her sanitary belt wasn’t put into use until 30 years after she invented it because the company rejected her when they found out she was a Black woman.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenner

- @MythjaeComics

The Forgotten Black Woman Inventor Who Revolutionized Menstrual Pads

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner was a self-taught inventor who created the sanitary belt and filed five patents in her lifetime.

The movie starts with the idea that the male god who wronged Te Fiti must be the one to heal her. This seems to make a certain sort of intuitive sense in that I think we all believe that if you do something wrong you should try to make it right. But how does he try to right it? Through more violence. Of course that failed. 

It was only when another woman, Moana, saw past the “demon of earth and fire” that the traumatized Te Fiti had become (what a good metaphor for trauma, right?) and met her with love instead of violence that she was able to heal. Note that they do the forehead press before Moana restores the heart, while Te Fiti is still Te Kā. Moana doesn’t wait for her beautiful island goddess to appear in all her green splendor before greeting and treating her as someone deserving of love.

I know your name They have stolen the heart from inside you But this does not define you