if you're looking for jewelry inspired by pre-colonial filipino motifs made using traditional wax casting techniques, una artesana dropped more items today! these are solid brass pendants (with protective clear coat for sensitive skin), gold filled chains and findings, and natural stones. i got my buwan talisman with the lapis lazuli last year and i wear it everyday. 
link to shop: https://una-artesana.com/collections/talismans
Posted February 2, 2023 by Annella Linton
"Our University of Southern Maine (USM) students and DJ’s are honoring Black History Month at WMPG. This year’s theme is #BlackResistance. You will hear specially curated playlists from DJ’s. Our students are producing audio which will highlight achievements and contributions, including #PreColonial history plus profiles of contemporary figures recognizing people from politics, education, pop culture, sports and other areas. Featuring stories about #ATribeCalledQuest, #Beyonce, #OtisRedding, #JamesBaldwin, #ToniMorrison, #BadBrains, and #RobertLewis."
Link to embedded audio:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-at-wmpg/
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio
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
No #collapse, Jared. - #Genome analysis once for all takes wind out of #ecoside narrative's sails that #RapaNui’s population crashed due to #overexploitation, confirming #precolonial contact with #Indigenous Americans:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02962-w by Ewen Callaway via @nature
