Firstly I heard from Ana Mcallister, she’s a artist writer, Instagram influencer and a body positive wahine Māori -@Nope.thank.you.very.much
There has been a lot of mahi around wahine and the decolonisation of their periods. Ana said there isn’t the same focus on this in terms of body-hair but it’s definitely on the rise around beauty standards as a whole.
She said there was no shame or whakama around body hair until colonisation came on the scene.
As part of her decolinisation [sic] and acceptance of bodies she chooses to grow it all out and make it sexy.
“Disrupting that by doing things that they would consider gross or unfeminine or not sexually attractive is a way to disrupt that whole system of how we’ve been represented for 251 years…”
(emphasis mine)
Are colonised periods and consequently, “de”-colonised periods an actual thing?
Is this newsworthy?