Sung Sheroe: Dr. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
January 21, 2009 by damaur
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Our Sung Sheroe is Dr. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, an honorary Sister of Color whose research helped to inspire me to develop WomanistAffairs.com, dedicated to the world’s Women of Color–to give us voice. Read more
UnSung Sheroe: Recognizing all African Woman — Dedicated to Michelle Robinson Obama–Our First Lady of African Descent
January 21, 2009 by damaur
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Just as Barrack and Michelle Obama make ready to assume their leadership of the free world, as Barrack is installed tomorrow as the first African American President of America, they are actually imitating ancestors from centuries ago. Read more
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King
January 21, 2009 by damaur
Filed under Education Corner
On this day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, I am launching this website as an instrument of change and transformation. This great African American believed in a different future for his children. Read more
Education Corner:
January 21, 2009 by damaur
Filed under UnSung S/heroes
Women’s History:
The will be held open for information that will entice the website visitors to come back. Tidbits of information to tweak the curiosity will be posted here. Debunking history of its prejudices and misnomers against women, will take place here.
Did you know that marriage was not an invention of women, but of men? When the patriarchal cultures of Eastern Asia and Northern Europe swooped down to conquer the matriarchal focused people of Old Europe and eventually Africa, they found that women owned the land that was farmed, as well as the house of her clan–which passed down from mother to oldest daughter. In order to get psychological control of the people and transition the social dynamic of the conquered matriarchate culture centuries old, it was necessary for the conquerors to marry the women who controlled the lands to take the property from the women–to change the culture
. …more on this in later articles.
Do you understand where the idea of witches comes from?
The church fathers in the middle ages saw that it would be profitable to charge for healing the sick. The church outlawed women healers. Women had always been the healers and nurturers of her people. When women refused to adhere to the church’s new laws and were caught taking care of the poor who could not pay, they were branded– Witches. They were burned alive, drowned or fell victim to a number of other horrible fates. To win over public support for the new law–the healing women were associated with the devil and evil heresy against the church.
………….more on this in future article.
Articles covering both aspects of history will be published on WomanistAffairs.com.
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General Education News and Information will be posted here for the benefit of WomanistAffairs.com readers. If training, education news, scholarships for women returning to school, programs for women are happening in your area, please let us know so that we can publicize it here. In this section, women will help other women be in the know.
The Women’s Room:
January 21, 2009 by damaur
Filed under The Woman's Room
This corner will be held open for discussion on topics that readers have requested to be addressed from their readings. This will be a place where women can send in their topics for discussion and the website will attempt to address the issues raised within the correspondence as it is received.
If you are taking issue with research discussed on this website or need more clarification other than what was presented in the articles, please write to me and I will find time to respond in the Women’s Room. damaur@womanistaffairs.com
On the other side of that coin, if there are topics you would like to discuss, please send them in for the Women’s Room. We will attempt to get to all suggestions sent to us.
We will also broach topics here that are hard issues to discuss. If there is something that has been bothering you for awhile., like for instance, pushing drugs on TV to young women, for a disease they might not get. What is worse, the drug isn’t guaranteed to help the vaginal cancer anyway. But we have young women being encouraged to be guinea pigs for pharmaceutical companies. One of the marketing ploys is to say that women’s health issues have traditionally been ignored–so they have–but here try this drug that may or may not work for you–just to be on the safe side. Introducing a new drug to the system that may not work is highly suspect. Yet we have the companies pushing it as though their lives depended on it. One even makes a song of it–getting young girls to jump rope to the song to make it more attractive to the young women. Perhaps their financial lives.