Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and then there is #NonBinary…

International Non-Binary People’s Awareness Day
Published in 2025

"In Africa, we have the existence of non-binary as far back as there were humans on the continent. Throughout various cultures. The different languages and terminology such as non-binary, #GenderQueer, #Agender and #Genderfluid may not have existed– but the people were there! There is evidence of different genders on the continent long before #colonisers arrived.

What is Non-Binary

While non-binary people generally identify themselves as being outside the binary of male:female, there are many ways to be non-binary: some identify as a third gender, while others identify with more than one gender, both genders, no gender (agender), being fluid between the genders (genderfluid), or having a gender identity that is fluid and changes. Non-binary people see gender as a spectrum, rather than a binary construct."

Read more:
https://transintersexhistory.africa/non-binary-awareness/

#Africa #GBLTQ #VictorMukasa #EstianSmit #NeoMusangi #RejectColonialism

Hmmm, nothing to see here
Move along

#Palestine #landTheft #colonisers #lawsAreGreatYouJustMakeEmUp #freePalestine

The Identity Politics of Masculinity as a Colonial Legacy

"The #PreColonial #Indonesian notion of personhood diverges from a western conceptualisation and is expressed instead through #cooperation, #mutuality, #sharing, #caring, and a readiness to #negotiate and #compromise – all of which are characteristics that are associated with feminine qualities and were thus considered inferior according to #Eurocentric understandings of the #subordination of women in #WesternSociety"

by Desi Dwi Prianti
03 Nov 2019

"[In this paper] I argue that a hierarchical structure between masculine and the feminine was introduced by the #Dutch #colonisers – a structure in which they considered themselves to represent the superior, masculine side of the binary, whereas the colonised were seen as their effeminate subjects."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2019.1675612#d1e112

#ToxicMasculinity #Colonialism

John Oliver discusses how the West Bank settlements came to be, what their presence means for everyone in the region, and why the weight of the world rests squarely on the shoulders of Ben & Jerry’s.

https://youtu.be/NqK3_n6pdDY?si=E159GRlEg3idL8Bu
#Palestine #WestBank #Israel #colonisers #JohnOliver #settlements

What a great project. Two men, one #indigenous one white, travel the coast asking indigenous communities for their stories of first contact with the #colonisers.

I wonder what other stories we’d hear if the questions were asked by, & of, #women. Would love to hear them.

We retraced Captain Cook’s journey along the east coast of Australia, seeking the other side of history. It was life changing https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/14/we-retraced-captain-cooks-journey-along-the-east-coast-of-australia-seeking-the-other-side-of-history-it-was-life-changing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other