#colonialist — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/116510548525370401

Is this what happens generations after your country sponsored the world's first #narcotics #traffickers on a global scale?🤔 #opiumwars
#colonialist 👇

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/116510548525370401

Is this what happens generations after your country sponsored the world's first #narcotics #traffickers on a global scale?🤔 #opiumwars
#colonialist 👇

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/116519312064815243

#Britain has not been "Great" for a long time - "karma's a bitch". 👇
#colonialist

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/116519312064815243

#Britain has not been "Great" for a long time - "karma's a bitch". 👇
#colonialist

JUNGLE DRUMS OF AFRICA (1953)

#film #aiart #aivideo #aiimages #vintagephotography #erotic #blackandwhite #nsfwart #movies #africa #colonial #colonialism #colonialist #race #racefilm

JUNGLE DRUMS OF AFRICA (1953)

#film #aiart #aivideo #aiimages #vintagephotography #erotic #blackandwhite #nsfwart #movies #africa #colonial #colonialism #colonialist #race #racefilm

Hi, I'm V! #introduction

I am a late-fifties white, fat #disabled #nonbinary person. I live with my partner D & his partner, E, who also hang round on fedi. Sadly, we currently have no pets, but we help out our neighbours & friends with dog walking and pet sitting.

I have a bunch of chronic illnesses & conditions that limit my energy, so posting & response times can be slow and sporadic, but I do my best. I will CW when appropriate and provide image descriptions. I don't boost images without descriptions.

I love the #fediverse; however, I am aware of the problems this place has, especially for #BIPOC . I try to use it critically & thoughtfully and do my best not to be part of the problem. I do appreciate being called out/in if I fuck up, but I recognise that responsibility is mine to do better.

I am trying to unlearn a whole bunch of #racist #colonialist crap amongst other things, so I can be a halfway decent human. BTW Fuck whiteness, white supremacist, nationalist bollocks in any form or shape. I won't argue with you, I'll block & report you.

I like #sewing , #art , #gardening , #craft, #photography, and #Slowmaking stuff in general.

Hi, I'm V! #introduction

I am a late-fifties white, fat #disabled #nonbinary person. I live with my partner D & his partner, E, who also hang round on fedi. Sadly, we currently have no pets, but we help out our neighbours & friends with dog walking and pet sitting.

I have a bunch of chronic illnesses & conditions that limit my energy, so posting & response times can be slow and sporadic, but I do my best. I will CW when appropriate and provide image descriptions. I don't boost images without descriptions.

I love the #fediverse; however, I am aware of the problems this place has, especially for #BIPOC . I try to use it critically & thoughtfully and do my best not to be part of the problem. I do appreciate being called out/in if I fuck up, but I recognise that responsibility is mine to do better.

I am trying to unlearn a whole bunch of #racist #colonialist crap amongst other things, so I can be a halfway decent human. BTW Fuck whiteness, white supremacist, nationalist bollocks in any form or shape. I won't argue with you, I'll block & report you.

I like #sewing , #art , #gardening , #craft, #photography, and #Slowmaking stuff in general.

THE LOST TRIBE (1949)

NSFW

#nsfw #film #aiart #aiphotography #aiimages #vintagephotography #erotic #blackandwhite #nsfwart #movies #femalenudity #africa #colonial #colonialism #colonialist #race #racefilm

THE LOST TRIBE (1949)

NSFW

#nsfw #film #aiart #aiphotography #aiimages #vintagephotography #erotic #blackandwhite #nsfwart #movies #femalenudity #africa #colonial #colonialism #colonialist #race #racefilm

The fifth myth is that the #Palestinian struggle is that of terrorism and nothing more. The struggle led by the PLO was a liberation struggle against a #colonialist project. Somehow the #world finds it difficult to grant legitimacy to anti-colonialist struggle when most of the #oppressed are Muslim and the oppressor is Jewish. (9)

Ilan Pappé, #Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on #Israel's War Against the #Palestinians

#quote #quotes

The fifth myth is that the #Palestinian struggle is that of terrorism and nothing more. The struggle led by the PLO was a liberation struggle against a #colonialist project. Somehow the #world finds it difficult to grant legitimacy to anti-colonialist struggle when most of the #oppressed are Muslim and the oppressor is Jewish. (9)

Ilan Pappé, #Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on #Israel's War Against the #Palestinians

#quote #quotes

@jackie all #dictators no matter their title to explain their positions always warrant a #vote of no confidence as they are all #authoritarian #colonialist #rightwing #bigots and #hypocrites!

@jackie all #dictators no matter their title to explain their positions always warrant a #vote of no confidence as they are all #authoritarian #colonialist #rightwing #bigots and #hypocrites!

It's genuinely so #evil of #Christianity to teach that #everyone needs to be a #Christian. That's a #colonialist #doctrine.

It's genuinely so #evil of #Christianity to teach that #everyone needs to be a #Christian. That's a #colonialist #doctrine.

It's only #thanksgiving in the #usa, but this is an important message.
It's a #colonialist #racist holiday that needs to be shown up for what it is.

#indigenous #decolonize #antiracism #boycott_thanksgiving

It's only #thanksgiving in the #usa, but this is an important message.
It's a #colonialist #racist holiday that needs to be shown up for what it is.

#indigenous #decolonize #antiracism #boycott_thanksgiving

@dmacphee the #usa is already a dictatorship from the #colonialist days actually, #dumb #headlines...

@dmacphee the #usa is already a dictatorship from the #colonialist days actually, #dumb #headlines...

I'm having a rest from #solarpunk because of hateful-comments,

They usually have problems with images like this. #rendering from #stablediffusion trained on my #photography of men in my tribe #FirstNations

The early #colonialist made the men cut their hair short, our #tradition. Many of the young ones today choose to grow it long again, which makes my eyes emotional.

Not photography it is #synthography. #carbonnegative #carbonoffsets #tech set-up.

Thankyou to #aiart & #lgbtq for kindness.

#minecraft is problematic due to the glorification of #resource #extraction and the #conquering of one's #environment as a method of advancement. #Colonialist #propaganda.

#minecraft is problematic due to the glorification of #resource #extraction and the #conquering of one's #environment as a method of advancement. #Colonialist #propaganda.

@glynmoody, did you see this? https://www.piratenpartei.de/2025/06/19/israel-und-die-drecksarbeit-fuer-die-freie-welt/
#PPDE is yet another #amoral #colonialist project.

@glynmoody, did you see this? https://www.piratenpartei.de/2025/06/19/israel-und-die-drecksarbeit-fuer-die-freie-welt/
#PPDE is yet another #amoral #colonialist project.

#BernieSanders: “I am 100% pro #Israel in the sense of right to exist”

#video #bigot #hypocrite #fascist #nazi #neonazi #zionazi #zionist #rightwing #farright #usa #america #idiot #bonehead #ausgov #politas #colonialist #imperialist

#BernieSanders: “I am 100% pro #Israel in the sense of right to exist”

#video #bigot #hypocrite #fascist #nazi #neonazi #zionazi #zionist #rightwing #farright #usa #america #idiot #bonehead #ausgov #politas #colonialist #imperialist

#CaptainTraore from #BurkinaFaso explains the narcissistic psychopathic behaviour of #colonialist powers and how #Africans have been coercively controlled, gaslighted and manipulated for generations but now africans are seeing through it

#GifsArtidote: #WhiteWesterners like myself should take accountability for what our ancestors have caused and we continue. which parts of me are enabling? follow the money
#press #live #BreakingNews #analysis #GlobalSouth #BlackMastodon
https://www.youtube.com/live/UTfWbS_GX08?si=uVYayLO57dkMqCTX

20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder

in History | January 20th, 2017

"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.

"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."

https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism

20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder

in History | January 20th, 2017

"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.

"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."

https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism

HT @Lazarou

Strong #solarpunk vibes here, 'weaving' a public building!

"As architects, we need to unlearn everything we have been taught. Our idea of progress is completely based on #colonialist, #extractivist practices. People talk about #sustainability, but what exactly are we sustaining?" - Architect, #AnaMariaGutiérrez

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/21/organizmo-the-colombian-architects-overturning-colonialist-sustainability-ideas
#SolarPunkSunday #Colombia #CenterForRegeneration #Weaving #PostColonialism #Decolonize #Architecture #Bamboo #TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge

HT @Lazarou

Strong #solarpunk vibes here, 'weaving' a public building!

"As architects, we need to unlearn everything we have been taught. Our idea of progress is completely based on #colonialist, #extractivist practices. People talk about #sustainability, but what exactly are we sustaining?" - Architect, #AnaMariaGutiérrez

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/21/organizmo-the-colombian-architects-overturning-colonialist-sustainability-ideas
#SolarPunkSunday #Colombia #CenterForRegeneration #Weaving #PostColonialism #Decolonize #Architecture #Bamboo #TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge

#NavajoNation Dishonors Legacy of #KleeBenally: Agrees to #Uranium Transport Through #Navajo Communities

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, February 3, 2025

"The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.

"The deadly trucks from the #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain uranium mine in the #GrandCanyon will pass through the #Havasupai's homeland, and then past the homes of #Paiute, #Dine' and #Hopi in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte Community in Southern #Utah.

"Klee is being honored with a #NuclearFreeFutures Award in New York in March.

"Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo #Tódichiinii Clan and the #Nakai #Diné Clan. In addition to a
musical career with his siblings in the band #Blackfire,

"'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'

"The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

"Klee, co-founder of #HaulNo!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in
December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the #CanyonMine, White
Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the #ColoradoRiver, #MoenkopiWash, the #SanJuanRiver, and the lands and cultural resources of the #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/navajo-nation-dishonors-legacy-of-klee.html
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

#NavajoNation Dishonors Legacy of #KleeBenally: Agrees to #Uranium Transport Through #Navajo Communities

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, February 3, 2025

"The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.

"The deadly trucks from the #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain uranium mine in the #GrandCanyon will pass through the #Havasupai's homeland, and then past the homes of #Paiute, #Dine' and #Hopi in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte Community in Southern #Utah.

"Klee is being honored with a #NuclearFreeFutures Award in New York in March.

"Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo #Tódichiinii Clan and the #Nakai #Diné Clan. In addition to a
musical career with his siblings in the band #Blackfire,

"'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'

"The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

"Klee, co-founder of #HaulNo!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in
December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the #CanyonMine, White
Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the #ColoradoRiver, #MoenkopiWash, the #SanJuanRiver, and the lands and cultural resources of the #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/navajo-nation-dishonors-legacy-of-klee.html
#WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
#NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

#Nazi #Trump and #whitesupremacist #colonialist #Elon #Musk join forces to slander South Africa's land reform.

They call it "racist ownership land policy" when in fact it has been part of the anti-#apartheid policy that tries to make land ownership more equal among Native South Africans and white colonialists. The latter captured more than 3/4 of the land in South Africa during the colonial period perpetuating the poverty of Native South Africans.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5290131/south-africa-land-trump-musk-ramaphosa

Spray-Tan Stalin’s #Gaza plan is repulsive, #colonialist bullshit.

Also: This is what H*mas has wrought, further disaster for #Gaza residents. #Islamofascist #terrorists aren’t just a threat to the west: they bring endless destruction upon those for whom they claim to be fighting.

#terrorism #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast

#KleeBenally Honored as #NuclearFree Futures Awardee 2025

via #CensoredNews: "Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of #UraniumMines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the #NavajoNation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'" [Order Klee's book at the link at the end of the post.]

In addition to Klee, those honored by #BeyondNuclear include the @uraniumfestival founders #MárciaGomesDeOliveira and #NorbertSuchanek, #SPUdayakumar, #EdwickMadzimure, and #JoannaMacy. Klee's award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/klee-benally-honored-as-nuclear-free.html

Order Klee's book here:
https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred
#NuclearFreeFuture #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NoUraniumMining #NoSpiritualSurrender

#KleeBenally Honored as #NuclearFree Futures Awardee 2025

via #CensoredNews: "Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of #UraniumMines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the #NavajoNation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'" [Order Klee's book at the link at the end of the post.]

In addition to Klee, those honored by #BeyondNuclear include the @uraniumfestival founders #MárciaGomesDeOliveira and #NorbertSuchanek, #SPUdayakumar, #EdwickMadzimure, and #JoannaMacy. Klee's award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/klee-benally-honored-as-nuclear-free.html

Order Klee's book here:
https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred
#NuclearFreeFuture #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NoUraniumMining #NoSpiritualSurrender

Is Elon #Musk to last #racist South African #colonialist on this planet? #colonialism #racism #whitesupremacy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp838dxrxd2o

@JonathanMBR
It seems the #Ruto #colonialist #government has no idea, how #Kenya functions and what keeps normal people fed.
Or, they do, but don't give an eggplant, cos they are willing servants of big #corporate masters.

@JonathanMBR
It seems the #Ruto #colonialist #government has no idea, how #Kenya functions and what keeps normal people fed.
Or, they do, but don't give an eggplant, cos they are willing servants of big #corporate masters.

"#Indigenous communities in #Ontario are flooded with #mining claims that chip away at their territories. It’s a '#racist, #colonialist' system, the lawyer leading a new court case said." https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-indigenous-mining-claims-lawsuit/

#IndigenousPeoples #Canada #onpoli #UNDRIP

"#Indigenous communities in #Ontario are flooded with #mining claims that chip away at their territories. It’s a '#racist, #colonialist' system, the lawyer leading a new court case said." https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-indigenous-mining-claims-lawsuit/

#IndigenousPeoples #Canada #onpoli #UNDRIP

It doesn't matter where you land on the bipartisan "democracy" of the US and many other countries - this is a #colonialist and #capitalist mindset and we see proof of it in #Congo and #Palestine

I fear for my life even if I survive today, even if I make rent, even if I get food

I fear for my mother's life if I am too mentally unwell to function this system will execute her, she's old, brown, an immigrant, disabled - marked as useless to society

We have worth

https://ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds

Protect Loch Tay and land access rights

Discovery Land Company (DLC) plans to create a private resort for the mega-rich on over 8000 acres of land at #TaymouthCastle, #Kenmore, #GlenLyon and areas around Loch Tay. They threaten to destroy natural habitats & cultural heritage along with land access rights for the people of Scotland.
DLC sales brochure claims Scotland is “an untouched playground”
Pease help protect #LochTay from this corporate #colonialist attack.

https://chng.it/hFDdXMpQyQ

This is a very good read -- which points out that Ancient Egypt was #African, but often gets lumped into #Mediterranean history (guilty of that myself). And yes, I wondered about Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep as well... Also, there are "love spells" in Egyptian magic whose purpose was for a woman to attract another woman.

themstory: #AncientEgypt Was Totally Queer

By Hugh Ryan
February 22, 2018

"In 1964, archaeologists in Egypt opened the tomb of #Niankhkhnum and #Khnumhotep, two men who lived and died sometime around the year #2380BCE. Inside, they would discover what might be the oldest evidence of queer lives in existence.

"In the tomb, the two were depicted in many of the stereotypical ways that heterosexual couples were shown in Egyptian funereal art: kissing nose-to-nose, holding hands, and standing very closely together, almost in an embrace. Their wives (and children) are also depicted in the tombs, though curiously, there are no paintings of either man embracing or kissing their wife.

"If a man and a woman were depicted in this way, they would obviously be interpreted as a couple. And so, faced with all this evidence, archaeologists leapt to the conclusion that Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were... brothers — really, really close brothers. Possibly even conjoined twins (not that they are depicted as conjoined in the tomb at all — in fact, they are often depicted separately).

"#JacklynLacey, who specializes in #AfricanEthnology at the American Museum of Natural History, is unsurprised about these interpretations. I can almost hear her eyes roll over the phone as she talks about the long history within the field of #archaeology — 'a discipline that has reproduced itself through the #colonialist #WhiteMale lens,' she says — of 'explaining away things that appear queer.'

"What is definitely known about Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep? They worked as chief manicurists to the Pharaoh in the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom. This might sound like the set-up for a terrible gay remake of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but at the time, grooming the Pharoah was revered labor.

"Though they weren’t themselves nobility, it is clear from their tomb that the two men were of high status. And, curiously enough, they were of equal status, being depicted in complimentary activities without either being shown as smaller, lesser, or subservient to the other.

"According to author Wael Fathi, this is far from the only allusion to queerness in Ancient Egyptian culture. For other examples, he cites the Egyptian Book of the Dead, written in 970 BCE (not to be confused with the Tibetan Book of the Dead, written sometime in the 8th century CE). Its female author writes, 'I never had sex with a woman in the temple.' Who knew so much suggestion could be packed into the phrase 'in the temple.' There are also numerous allusions to same-sex sexual activity and gender bending among the tales of Egyptian gods. And in the Book of Dreams (circa 1200 BCE), different fates are laid out for the woman who has sex with a married woman versus the one who has sex with a single woman.

"Still and all, it would be historically inaccurate to talk about 'gay Ancient Egyptians,' Lacey hastens to clarify, for two reasons. First, we’re dealing with small amounts of evidence, which makes it hard to interpret what, exactly, we’re seeing. It’s not strictly impossible that Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep could have been especially close brothers, or even twins. As for the Book of the Dead, prominent men (and occasional women) paid to have versions written out specifically for them, and some have suggested that this particular version miscopied a line meant for a man into a text for a woman. Second, even when we do correctly identify a practice — say, of women having sex with one another outside of the temple — that doesn’t mean that that physical activity is correlated with the same kind of identity we know today as lesbianism. (For this reason, I prefer to use the word queer, as a way of gesturing towards a sexual or emotional practice that was unusual — no such other tombs of two men or two women have been yet identified — and outside the bounds of heterosexuality.)

"Egyptian history is, in some ways, particularly prone to these problems of misinterpretation, because starting in the late 19th and early 20th century, 'the country is basically excised out of the continent and moved into the Levant by Westerners,' according to Lacey. Over and over again, historians and archaeologists have contrasted Egyptians with Greeks and Romans, and have seen Egyptian practices through what we know from those cultures, rather than putting them in conversation with other #AfricanEmpires — even though, for example, we know that the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (aka the #KushiteEmpire) was actually a series of five #Nubian rulers, who came from Northern #Sudan. Lacey tells me that there is a persistent rumor among scholars who study Nubia that 'there were entirely homosexual groups of men living in the kingdom of Kush,' though no one has ever isolated the source of those rumors, or proven or disproven them. Perhaps that’s because only a tiny fraction of the time, money, and effort that’s been spent on archaeology and ethnography in Egypt and the Mediterranean has ever been spent on other parts of Africa.

"In fact, when the African Peoples hall opened at the American Museum of Natural History in 1960, it was the first major permanent museum exhibition to include Egypt with the rest of Africa. To this day, Lacey points out, this is a problem in most museums. 'The Met has a Department of Africa, The Americas, and Oceania,' she says, “essentially combining four continents, but it also has a department of Egyptology.” And at the Brooklyn Museum, they have a collection of “Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art,” which mixes Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and Ancient Greek and Roman artifacts.

"Queer Egyptian history is thus caught in a double bind: it is rarely seen as queer, and rarely seen as African. Perhaps today, at a time when we are finally willing to accept an #Afrofuturist fictive African empire that has nothing to do with the West, as audiences did with the record-breaking film Black Panther this weekend, we can extend our imaginations backwards and begin to imagine a past that sees Africa as an entire continent — one in conversation with #Mediterranean cultures, but not the same as them."

Hugh Ryan is the author of the forthcoming book When Brooklyn Was Queer (St. Martin’s Press, March 2019), and co-curator of the upcoming exhibition On the (Queer) Waterfront at the Brooklyn Historical Society.

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https://www.them.us/story/themstory-ancient-egypt

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