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Kwanzaa Ujima 2023
This Kwanzaa we will focus on empowering yourself, reconnecting with your community, and learning survival skills from your ancestors. Do not allow the word “ancestor” to scare you. This society forces you to learn traditions and ancestors that are not yours like Santa, Birthdays, Tooth fairy, Halloween, 4th of July, historical figures and so forth, if you can do that then why get scared of your own?
Are you a Negative Nancy towards your own community? Stop sounding like a broken record by repeating purposeful negative connotations like, 'black people cannot stick together" and "Hip Hop is dead." Have you even done research or is your only source of information based on mainstream media? This country has a virus called Haterade and it has been affecting melanated communities since the beginning of time. Just because a smile is present does not make someone your aly. This is why I mentioned in Kujichagulia that we must strengthen our skills and realign with nature in order to see the glitches and viruses in our community. Stop blaming and punishing each other like how they taught you to during slavery. Anyhow, these things are not dead or impossible to reunite. There are many wonderful Black activists, speakers, musicians, actors, presidents, and so forth.
Ujima, Theme of the Day
For Ujima, I have gathered a few people that represent collective work and responsibility in our community. These people also symbolize the green candle that reignites us with life and hope.
Rizza Islam is a wonderful speaker who blows your mind with accurate information regarding history, current/future issues, and solutions to this country and the black community.
Tariq Nasheed has documenties and Hidden Colors is one of them. It is about the real and untold history of people of color around the globe (amazon). He also has a podcast, books and a Hidden History Mueseum in Los Angeles, California.
Professor Kaba Hiawatha Kamene is the bestselling author of Honoring Professor William Leo Hansberry (1894-1965): An Intellectual Libation For The Architect Of America's African Studies Department and recognized as an internationally acclaimed, Pan African Historian. (aalbc.com). Kaba Hiawatha has been a Pan African, African-Centered educator, consultant, administrator, staff developer and curriculum writer for over 40 years (nomoresuitsllc.com)
Queen Afua's teachings are grounded in ancient Egyptian temple teachings and focus on the power of meditation, affirmations, and rituals. Through these practices, she teaches individuals how to love and rejoice in their bodies, spiritualize their words and actions, and create harmonious spaces in which to live and work (queenafua.com)
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after going through the jumblr tag on here—and seeing what jewish people are having to deal with, especially now after october 7th (has it really been nearly a month? jesus)—i’ve decided to be obnoxious about the one holiday that all of us gentiles claim to know but we actually don’t know jack shit about, especially for this year and especially since alex himself is jewish: hanukkah.
hey, we go ape shit over christmas the very second the sun goes down on halloween. it’s only fair we pay our respects and make them feel safe in celebrating their traditions because these poor people don’t feel safe right now. not everything is about us, after all.
i’ve only got four—soon to be five—stories that have hanukkah as a plot point. dead man walking and fever both blatantly mention hanukkah as well as Rosh Hashanah, but i’m discounting them because it’s not really a plot point. another one is as the seasons grey for the same reason, despite alex being there and christine’s past deceased love chris being a jewish boy. eerie inhabitants is another one for the same reason (and despite the presence of the star of david as well), and blood from a stone and flowers for alexander haven’t mentioned it yet (i’m thinking of dropping in Yom Kippur or a lesser known day like purim on the latter, though!)
the first is the apple shed, the most explicit of the bunch (so far, anyway): it started life late last year as me poking fun at those hallmark movies that are all about christmas and my pointing out at how there aren’t that many things about hanukkah or kwanzaa for that matter. i haven’t updated it since the end of march just because other things came up but i feel a new chapter in the wings, though.
the second is blood and chocolate: this was a revamp of a sequel to a one shot i wrote last march because i felt the original wasn’t going anywhere. i brought it back and gave it new life last november, and i am so glad i did that because i really love this fic for two reasons. number one, it’s based on three of my main kinks (belly kink, food kink, and switching). and number two is… i like reading about jewish food? because some of it is actually delicious?? like babka, sufganiyot, and black and white cookies. it also gives me a chance to think about alex and eric, too.
the accompanying piece i wrote for kinktober this year, blood and wine, has Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as major points, too.
the third is “infinity + 1”, day 18 from my collection black moon (kinkmas 2022): the title is—you guessed it—a reference to the candles on the menorah (infinity signified by a number 8, but there’s the one candle in the middle), when alex shares the eight nights with christine in the cabin and she’s absolutely enthralled by the sight of the menorah.
and finally, the fourth is six feet under from november 2020: this was written in that grim period of my life when my reputation on here was pretty much in shambles and before alex entered the picture. it’s scott reminiscing on his memory of an old childhood friend who’s now deceased. because it was written when it was written, it’s a very lonely, very underrated, very somber, very misunderstood fic, but it was a chance for me to genuinely grieve for myself.
and the fifth that’s in the works, the one i’m writing for nanowrimo for this year and sharing on that hanukkah bingo, is alone in the dark. i won’t give away too much but i feel as proud of this as i do with seasons grey.
#trying to be a good gentile#jumblr#jewish holidays#supportive of the jewish world#fanfic#fanfiction#writing#text
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Holidays 12.31
Holidays
Banished Words List Day
Bright Idea Day
Check the Smoke Alarms Day
Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)
Falls Festival Starts (Byron Bay; Australia)
Genf Restoration (Restoration of the Republic Geneva; Switzerland)
Granite Day (French Republic)
International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)
January 0
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Lightbulb Day
Make Up Your Mind Day
Namahage (Japan)
National Andrea Day
National Heroes Day (East Timor)
New Year's Eve (a.k.a. ...
Afternoon Before New Year’s Day (Estonia)
Amateur Drinking Night
Amband
Auld Year's Night (Scotland)
Baal Fire Festival (England)
Baharu (a.k.a. Baru; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)
Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)
Brew Year's Eve
Calennig (Wales)
Ditch the Resolutions Day
Feast of Father Time
Festival of the Dead (Positivist)
Festival of Yemya (Yoruba/Santeria)
Fire and Ice New Year’s Eve Celebration (Anchorage, Alaska)
First Footing
First Night
Fravartigan (Parsi Zoroastrian)
Freedom’s Eve
Gamlarskvold (Iceland)
Harvest Day (Benin)
Hogmanay (Scotland)
Joya no Kane (Japan)
Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia)
Karma (African Americans, African Diaspora)
Malam Tahun
Namahge (Demon Festival; Japan)
Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night; Mexico)
Noche Vieja (Mexico)
Nochevieja or Fin de Año (Spain)
No Resolution Day
Novy God Eve (Russia)
Oíche Chinn Bliana (a.k.a. Oíche na Coda Móire or Oíche Chaille; Ireland)
Okera Matsuri (Sacred fire Rite; Kyoto, Japan)
Old Year’s Night (England)
Ōmisoka (Prepare and Welcome New Year’s God Toshigami; Japan)
Oud en Nieuw or Oudejaarsavond (Netherlands)
Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana)
Ritual for Iemanja (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Samoan Fire Dance (Samoa)
Silvester
Sint Sylvester Vooravond (a.k.a. Oudjaar; Belgium)
Stonehenge Fireball Festival (UK)
Swinging the Fireballs (Stonehaven, Scotland)
Szilveszter (Hungary)
Tar Barrel Burning (Allendale, England)
The Night of Big Portion (Ireland)
Vigilia di Capodanno (a.k.a. Notte di San Silvestro; Italy)
Watch Night (Christian)
World Peace Meditation Day
Yang Yi (Uzbekistan)
Oga no Namahage (Oga City, Japan)
The Old Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)
One Voice Day
Procrastinator's Day
Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]
Restoration Day (Switzerland)
Silvesterklause (Switzerland)
Solidarity Day of the World (Azerbaijan)
Universal Hour of Peace (UN) [11:30 pm]
World Healing Day
World Peace Meditation Day
You’re All Done Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Champagne Day
National Vinegar Day
5th & Last Sunday in December
King Mango Strut (Coconut Grove, Florida) [Last Sunday]
Last Sunday of the Year [Last Sunday]
Independence Days
Ikerlàndia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Penn Federal Republic (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Slinky Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Apodosis of Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Artology)
Columba (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Sharaf (Honor; Baha’i)
Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)
Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Day; Positivist)
Giovanni Boldini (Artology)
Henri Matisse (Artology)
Hogmanay (Pagan)
Hogmanay / Hug Many Day (Pastafarian)
Isabel & The Shark (Muppetism)
Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)
Look Good Until You Die Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Lucifer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Max Pechstein (Artology)
Melania the Younger (Christian; Saint)
Seventh Day of Christmas
Sylvester I, Pope (Catholic Church)
Twelve Holy Days #6 (Virgo, the intestinal tract; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #7; Silvester (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
Zoticus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day of Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Unlucky Day (Worldwide)
Premieres
The Birds and Other Stories, by Daphne du Maurier (Short Stories; 1952)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Film; 1969)
Cool For Cats (BBC Musical Variety TV Show; 1956)
Destination Tokyo (Film; 1943)
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (TV Special; 1972)
Divorce Court (TV Series; 1957)
Duel in the Sun (Film; 1946)
The Dunderheads or Feeling Zero (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 243; 1963)
Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom (Novel; 1986)
The Fraudulent Volcano (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #16; 1964)
The Knight and Knave of Swords, by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories; 1988) [Fafhrd and Gray Mouser #7]
Love To Love You Baby, by Donna Summer (Song; 1975)
The Mice Will Play (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)
A Most Violent Year (Film; 2014)
New Years’ Rockin’ Eve (New Year’s Eve TV Special; 1972)
One Froggy Evening (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
The Paradine Case (Film; 1947)
Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Novel; 1985)
Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1879)
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (Novel; 1961)
Three to Go or Crash on Delivery (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 244; 1963)
Two Doors Down (Scottish TV Series; 2013)
Today’s Name Days
Melanie, Silvester (Austria)
Donata, Silvestar, Silvija (Croatia)
Silvestr (Czech Republic)
Sylvester (Denmark)
Silvar, Silver, Silvester, Silvo (Estonia)
Silvo, Sylvester (Finland)
Colombe, Sylvestre (France)
Melanie, Silvester (Germany)
Melany (Greece)
Szilveszter (Hungary)
Paolina, Silvestro (Italy)
Kalvis, Silvestrs (Latvia)
Gedgantas, Melanija, Mingailė, Silvestras (Lithuania)
Sylfest, Sylvi, Sylvia (Norway)
Korneliusz, Mariusz, Melania, Sebastian, Sylwester, Tworzysław (Poland)
Melania (Romania)
Silvester (Slovakia)
Melania, Silvestre (Spain)
Sylvester (Sweden)
Melania (Ukraine)
Malone, Melania, Melanie, Melany, Silas, Silvester, Sylvester (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 365 of 2024; 0 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 52 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 6 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 19 (Gui-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 19 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 18 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 5 Fest; Fryday [5 of 5]
Julian: 18 December 2023
Moon: 80%: Warning Gibbous
Positivist: Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Extra Day)
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 11 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Festival of the Dead [Complimentary Extra Day; Month 0 of 13; Positivist]
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Holidays 12.31
Holidays
Banished Words List Day
Bright Idea Day
Check the Smoke Alarms Day
Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama)
Falls Festival Starts (Byron Bay; Australia)
Genf Restoration (Restoration of the Republic Geneva; Switzerland)
Granite Day (French Republic)
International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan)
January 0
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Lightbulb Day
Make Up Your Mind Day
Namahage (Japan)
National Andrea Day
National Heroes Day (East Timor)
New Year's Eve (a.k.a. ...
Afternoon Before New Year’s Day (Estonia)
Amateur Drinking Night
Amband
Auld Year's Night (Scotland)
Baal Fire Festival (England)
Baharu (a.k.a. Baru; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)
Bisperas ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)
Brew Year's Eve
Calennig (Wales)
Ditch the Resolutions Day
Feast of Father Time
Festival of the Dead (Positivist)
Festival of Yemya (Yoruba/Santeria)
Fire and Ice New Year’s Eve Celebration (Anchorage, Alaska)
First Footing
First Night
Fravartigan (Parsi Zoroastrian)
Freedom’s Eve
Gamlarskvold (Iceland)
Harvest Day (Benin)
Hogmanay (Scotland)
Joya no Kane (Japan)
Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia)
Karma (African Americans, African Diaspora)
Malam Tahun
Namahge (Demon Festival; Japan)
Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night; Mexico)
Noche Vieja (Mexico)
Nochevieja or Fin de Año (Spain)
No Resolution Day
Novy God Eve (Russia)
Oíche Chinn Bliana (a.k.a. Oíche na Coda Móire or Oíche Chaille; Ireland)
Okera Matsuri (Sacred fire Rite; Kyoto, Japan)
Old Year’s Night (England)
Ōmisoka (Prepare and Welcome New Year’s God Toshigami; Japan)
Oud en Nieuw or Oudejaarsavond (Netherlands)
Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana)
Ritual for Iemanja (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Samoan Fire Dance (Samoa)
Silvester
Sint Sylvester Vooravond (a.k.a. Oudjaar; Belgium)
Stonehenge Fireball Festival (UK)
Swinging the Fireballs (Stonehaven, Scotland)
Szilveszter (Hungary)
Tar Barrel Burning (Allendale, England)
The Night of Big Portion (Ireland)
Vigilia di Capodanno (a.k.a. Notte di San Silvestro; Italy)
Watch Night (Christian)
World Peace Meditation Day
Yang Yi (Uzbekistan)
Oga no Namahage (Oga City, Japan)
The Old Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)
One Voice Day
Procrastinator's Day
Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]
Restoration Day (Switzerland)
Silvesterklause (Switzerland)
Solidarity Day of the World (Azerbaijan)
Universal Hour of Peace (UN) [11:30 pm]
World Healing Day
World Peace Meditation Day
You’re All Done Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Champagne Day
National Vinegar Day
5th & Last Sunday in December
King Mango Strut (Coconut Grove, Florida) [Last Sunday]
Last Sunday of the Year [Last Sunday]
Independence Days
Ikerlàndia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Penn Federal Republic (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Slinky Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Apodosis of Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Artology)
Columba (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Sharaf (Honor; Baha’i)
Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)
Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Day; Positivist)
Giovanni Boldini (Artology)
Henri Matisse (Artology)
Hogmanay (Pagan)
Hogmanay / Hug Many Day (Pastafarian)
Isabel & The Shark (Muppetism)
Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity)
Look Good Until You Die Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Lucifer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Max Pechstein (Artology)
Melania the Younger (Christian; Saint)
Seventh Day of Christmas
Sylvester I, Pope (Catholic Church)
Twelve Holy Days #6 (Virgo, the intestinal tract; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #7; Silvester (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
Zoticus of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day of Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Unlucky Day (Worldwide)
Premieres
The Birds and Other Stories, by Daphne du Maurier (Short Stories; 1952)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Film; 1969)
Cool For Cats (BBC Musical Variety TV Show; 1956)
Destination Tokyo (Film; 1943)
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (TV Special; 1972)
Divorce Court (TV Series; 1957)
Duel in the Sun (Film; 1946)
The Dunderheads or Feeling Zero (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 243; 1963)
Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom (Novel; 1986)
The Fraudulent Volcano (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #16; 1964)
The Knight and Knave of Swords, by Fritz Leiber (Short Stories; 1988) [Fafhrd and Gray Mouser #7]
Love To Love You Baby, by Donna Summer (Song; 1975)
The Mice Will Play (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)
A Most Violent Year (Film; 2014)
New Years’ Rockin’ Eve (New Year’s Eve TV Special; 1972)
One Froggy Evening (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
The Paradine Case (Film; 1947)
Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Novel; 1985)
Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1879)
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (Novel; 1961)
Three to Go or Crash on Delivery (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 244; 1963)
Two Doors Down (Scottish TV Series; 2013)
Today’s Name Days
Melanie, Silvester (Austria)
Donata, Silvestar, Silvija (Croatia)
Silvestr (Czech Republic)
Sylvester (Denmark)
Silvar, Silver, Silvester, Silvo (Estonia)
Silvo, Sylvester (Finland)
Colombe, Sylvestre (France)
Melanie, Silvester (Germany)
Melany (Greece)
Szilveszter (Hungary)
Paolina, Silvestro (Italy)
Kalvis, Silvestrs (Latvia)
Gedgantas, Melanija, Mingailė, Silvestras (Lithuania)
Sylfest, Sylvi, Sylvia (Norway)
Korneliusz, Mariusz, Melania, Sebastian, Sylwester, Tworzysław (Poland)
Melania (Romania)
Silvester (Slovakia)
Melania, Silvestre (Spain)
Sylvester (Sweden)
Melania (Ukraine)
Malone, Melania, Melanie, Melany, Silas, Silvester, Sylvester (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 365 of 2024; 0 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 52 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 6 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 19 (Gui-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 19 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 18 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 5 Fest; Fryday [5 of 5]
Julian: 18 December 2023
Moon: 80%: Warning Gibbous
Positivist: Festival of the Dead (Complimentary Extra Day)
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 11 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 10 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Festival of the Dead [Complimentary Extra Day; Month 0 of 13; Positivist]
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2020 - grandfather dies of covid
2021 - sibling abruptly moves out
2022 - fight with parents
2023 - last minute sickness
If anyone sincerely tries to get me to celebrate Christmas, Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other imagined December holiday this year, I'm going to scream. Directly in their face. Nonstop. Until they leave or start crying.
I finally got a girlfriend this year, that's a win, right? Yeah! That's awesome! Do I get to spend our first winter holiday together? NOPE. Because we BOTH have jobs and she can't afford to get sick and miss work. I put five hundred dollars into gifts for her this year - not because she asked me to, she didn't ask for anything, it's all because I wanted to get her things - and I'm not going to be able to fully enjoy the experience of giving her a gift that I put my hard-earned money into without risking her getting sick.
And I swear to fucking god, if someone tries to proselytize me this year with their stupid religion-saturation of a meaningless commercialized day in December, I'm going to bite them.
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Happy KwanzaaGreetings Facebook friends and family each year my family and I celebrate Kwanzaa the day after Christmas it is a way for us to honor and acknowledge our culture and heritage as African-American people here’s a little bit of background and education about the principles this is not a religion…….🙏🏽💜💫✨👑🧘🏽♀️Kwanzaa’s Principles and Traditions More about Nguzo Saba, the seven principles of Kwanzaa, as well as some of the symbols of the celebration. The kinara, or candleholder, on Ms. Coddett and Ms. Stark’s mantle is the focal point for many Kwanzaa tables. The kinara is symbolic of Black diasporan origins — the African continent. The seven candles (red, black and green) represent the seven Kwanzaa values. Credit... Timothy Smith for The New York Times By Nicole Taylor * Dec. 21, 2020 During the height of the Black freedom movement in 1960s Los Angeles, Maulana Karenga designed a Black holiday, Kwanzaa, that was modeled after West African harvest festivals on the African continent and used Swahili words and phrases. (Swahili is a lingua franca and mother tongue primarily spoken along the eastern coast of Africa.) Every day a candle is lit to celebrate one of the seven principles, or Nguzo Saba, over the course of the cultural holiday, which runs from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. and hits its crescendo with a feast, or karamu. “Habari gani” or “What is the news?” is a standard Kwanzaa greeting and the answer is the principle of the day. Nguzo Saba: The Seven Principles The Nguzo Saba (the seven principles) and their meanings are listed below in their original wording from 1966. Posters of the seven principles are often on display for Kwanzaa, alongside other trimmings. Umoja is celebrated on Dec. 26, Kujichagulia on Dec. 27 and so on until the end of the holiday on Jan. 1.#happykwanzaa#happykwanzaa#happykwanzaa🇱🇾#kwaanzaprincipals❤️⚫️💚 #blackpowermovement#blackpower#powertothepeople#love Umoja (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in family, community, nation, and race. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmoSpYILNl4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#happykwanzaa#happykwanzaa🇱🇾#kwaanzaprincipals❤️⚫️💚#blackpowermovement#blackpower#powertothepeople#love
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Have a Very Feminist Holiday!
by Helena Donato-Sapp
There are many celebrations happening in the Winter months. Among them are Hanukkah, Winter Solstice/Yule/Christmastide, Los Posadas, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Soyal, and many others. My family is non-religious but we celebrate Christmas with presents, hot chocolate, Santa and his elves, and of course, the trimming of the Christmas tree.
One of the traditions we celebrate is exchanging ornaments. My Dad says, “A Christmas tree tells the story of your life.” This is certainly true in our home! The ornaments on our tree go back three generations now. There are old glass ornaments from my Great Grandparents and hand-crocheted ones from a Great Grandmother. My Dad’s Mom has given him an ornament every year of his life and he enjoys telling the stories of why he got this one and that one and, well, he gets very emotional about it all. He passed on this great tradition to me and, even at just 13 years of age, I have a whole tree full of Christmas ornaments that have been carefully selected and gifted to tell the highlights from each year of my life. They celebrate my birth, every show I have ever loved – from My Little Pony to Stranger Things, and key events like when I got my 2nd-degree purple belt in karate or was selected as Team Captain of my school’s volleyball team. It’s all there. My entire life.
You are probably asking yourself what in the heck this has to do with feminism!
I think it is important to get out a feminist message whenever you can. And one way I have taken the wonderful traditions around ornaments in my own family and added my own tradition is that I have been making ornaments for my classmates, family, and friends every year since kindergarten. I like to include feminist, activist, and decolonizing messages on them. I want them to be inclusive too. Here are some examples from my past holidays.
By the way, this is a great activity to do with your Girls Learn International Chapter at school. Or with your feminist-minded friends.
In 2018 I tried to include as many different faiths as I could think of and here you’ll see a Star of David and the Kwanzaa Kinara. I also had some with dreidels on them. As I said, I come from a non-religious home, but I like being inclusive and celebrating people’s faiths.
In 2019 I was explicitly feminist! I used a favorite quote from bell hooks – “Feminism is for everyone!” and I wrote that on each ornament, along with other youth activist and women that I admire. This ornament, by the way, was a big hit!
In 2020, during the pandemic, I did these small, flat wooden ornaments that I could easily send through the mail. Since I come from a two-dad family, I did a lot of PRIDE flag colors on them, but I also made the snowmen, Santa, and the elves all a beautiful brown as a way to decolonize ornaments. Yes! I just wrote that! I want to take every chance to confront white supremacy and smash the patriarchy and I will even do that through the ornaments I make and give away!
What do you need to make your own feminist holiday ornaments?
Be Creative: There are no wrong ways to do this. Be creative. I find that folks love what I come up with and now that I’ve done it for many years, they are eager to add this year’s ornament to their growing collection and they anticipate what I am going to come up with. Have fun!
Be Cost-effective: We live on a budget at our house and so we go the week AFTER Christmas and buy up ornaments that are 70% off! We save those for next year and, this way, we get all our gifts done for pennies. But, there are inexpensive sets of ornaments everywhere and we look for those. Hobby shops have the wooden ones (or shop online). There are endless choices of types of ornaments. I just try to vary them from year to year.
Be Colorful: The wooden ornaments can be colored with regular magic marker pens. The glass ornaments need a multi-surface premium oil-based paint pen and these can be purchased at your local craft store as well. Mine have lasted for years and years.
Being a feminist is a way of life. And it’s an important message that I want to bring to the world as much as possible. Sometimes that means marching. Sometimes that means writing my truths and getting my voice out into the world. Sometimes it means being more political. Sometimes it means writing politicians and companies and confronting policies and sexism in advertisements. Sometimes it means organizing. There are many ways to be a feminist.
So, go out there and have a merry Feminist holiday and spread the good news that feminism is for everyone! Merry Feminism!
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Happy Kwanzaa to all Black LGBTQ+ people who celebrate it!
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Kwanzaa Kujichagulia 2023
This Kwanzaa we will focus on empowering yourself, reconnecting with your community, and learning survival skills from your ancestors. Do not allow the word “ancestor” to scare you. This society forces you to learn traditions and ancestors that are not yours like Santa, Birthdays, Tooth fairy, Halloween, 4th of July, historical figures and so forth, if you can do that then why get scared of your own?
Today is Kujichagulia, so we light the red candle to symbolize the blood that pumps life and self-determination through our veins. Umoja reminded us that we must stick together in order to create a bright future, however today we will place all of our focus on ourselves. If we are not properly aligned with our emotions and actions, it opens a door that can cause harm to our community.
New Year Resolution
Most people change their environment, acquaintances and lifestyle during the new year, but that is actually the worst time to do so. Firstly, why would you wait for a specific month to change things that need to be changed right now? Secondly, your mindset is being served on a silver platter. You do not know what the future holds! Your ancestors had to live their day-to-day based on starving, sleeping outside, walking everywhere, fighting and fleeing wild animals, and so on. And your daily concern is if your food is too cold from the microwave.
Nature
Why is your new year resolution during the season of death? No wonder it never comes true. If you truly want to do a new year resolution it should be in spring when nature finishes its rebirth cycle. Death is necessary so don’t get gloomy about it because without it we wouldn’t have space for anything new. You may not be sleeping next to bears at night anymore but you can surely improve other things like your concentration, discernment, observation, balance, temper, empathy, speech, and confidence.
Technology
Put your phone, remote and laptop down. Most people spend hours on social media feeding themselves garbage. There is no reason why you should know more information about celebrities than your own skills in life. Technology is cool but it shouldn’t dictate your entire life. Besides, you should enjoy what’s left of nature and freedom before it’s attempted to be stripped away from us, again.
Kujichagulia, Theme of the Day:
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HAPPY KWANZAA ❤️🖤💚 day 3
UJIMA~ Collective Work and Responsibility
{Uplifting Your Community}
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Holidays 12.28
Holidays
BiCreators Day
Brobdingnagian Proboscis Day
Call a Friend Day
Congress Foundation Day (India)
Cross Day (Ireland)
Dysemas Day (Northhamptonshire, UK)
Eat a Vegetarian Day
Els Enfarinats (Flour Fight; Ibi & Valencia, Spain)
Endangered Species Act Day
End-of-Year Days (EU)
Fourth Day of Christmas
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Holiday Breather Day
International Cinema Day
Kashmiri Homestead Day
King Taskin Memorial Day (Thailand)
Kullubi (Ethiopia)
Manure Day (French Republic)
National Call a Friend Day
National Card Playing Day
National Download Day
National Short Film Day
National Stan Lee Day
National Tim Day
Pledge of Allegiance Day
Proclamation Day (South Australia)
Republic Day (South Sudan)
Return a Gift for Cold Hard Cash Day
Shaheed Sabha (Punjab, India)
Stanley Races begin (Falkland Islands)
Take a Drive and Enjoy the Christmas Lights Day
Throw Away Your Subliminal Motivation Tapes Today Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Chocolate Yule Log Day (UK)
National Box of Chocolates Day
National Chocolate Candy Day
National Eat Chocolate Day
4th & Last Thursday in December
National Betty Day [4th Thursday]
Independence Days
Iowa Statehood Day (#29; 1846)
Lundenwic (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]
Mexico (Date Recognized, 1821)
Republic of Ut Pace (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Yusienia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Abel (Coptic Church)
Bruma IV (Pagan)
Caterina Volpicelli (Christian; Saint)
Childermas (a.k.a. Feast of the Holy Innocents; Christian)
Day of the Holy Innocents (Spain)
Excelsior Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of Fools, Day 3 (Holy Innocent's Day)
Feast of the Holy Innocents (a.k.a. Childermas; Christian)
Félix Vallotton (Artology)
Fool’s Day (Dis de los Inocentes; Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela)
Inocentes (Mexican December Fool’s Day)
Kwanzaa, Day 3: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility)
Lamarck (Positivist; Saint)
Mike ’The Bike’ Hailwood Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Only 4 Pasta-eating Days Left This Year Day (Pastafarian)
Simon the Athonite (Christian; Saint)
Theodorus, Abbot of Tabenna (Christian; Saint)
Twelve Holy Days #3 (Gemini, the hands; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #4; Feast of the Holy Innocents (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
The Whispering Log (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Bairns' Day (Unluckiest Day of the Year; Scotland)
Dyzymas (Medieval Unlucky Day; Bad Day to Start Anything)
The Sexiest Day of All the Days (in Ted Lasso)
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 60 of 60)
Unluckiest Day of the Year
Premieres
Black Hawk Down (Film; 2001)
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (TV Special; 2018)
Bright Eyes (Film; 1934)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Play; 1897)
The Deep Six or It’s Tough to Fathom (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 331; 1964)
1st Commercial Film Screening (Lumber Brothers; 1895)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (Film; 1936)
The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Book; 1973)
I Am Sam (Film; 2001)
Match Point (Film; 2005)
Mother, by John Lennon (Song; 1970)
The New Delhi-Cateseen or Judgment at Bloombergs (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 332; 1964)
On the Town (Broadway Musical; 1944)
Poor Richard’s Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin (Magazine; 1732)
Portrait in Jazz, by Bill Evans (Album recorded; 1959)
Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw (Play; 1923)
To Beep or Not to Beep (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, by Samael Aun Weor (Spiritual Book; 1953)
Where the Boys Are (Film; 1960)
Today’s Name Days
Donna, Mattea, Unschuldige Kinder (Austria)
Mladen, Nevenka (Croatia)
Bohumila (Czech Republic)
Piia, Piiu (Estonia)
Piia (Finland)
Gaspard (France)
John, Unschuldige Kinder (Germany)
Domna, Mygdonios, Theofili (Greece)
Kamilla (Hungary)
Donna, Dorma, Innocenti Martiri (Italy)
Inga, Ivita, Jonatans, Mierins (Latvia)
Ema, Kamilė, Kantvilas, Vaidilutė (Lithuania)
Une, Unn, Unni (Norway)
Antoni, Dobrowiest, Emma, Godzisław, Teofila (Poland)
Ivana, Ivona (Slovakia)
Abel (Spain)
Benjamin (Sweden)
Aspen, Caspar, Gaspar, Innocent, Jasper, Kasper, Woodrow, Woody (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 362 of 2024; 3 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 52 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 3 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 16 (Geng-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 16 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 15 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 2 Fest; Twosday [2 of 5]
Julian: 15 December 2023
Moon: 97%: Warning Gibbous
Positivist: 26 Bichat (13th Month) [Lamarck]
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 8 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 7 of 31)
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Holidays 12.28
Holidays
BiCreators Day
Brobdingnagian Proboscis Day
Call a Friend Day
Congress Foundation Day (India)
Cross Day (Ireland)
Dysemas Day (Northhamptonshire, UK)
Eat a Vegetarian Day
Els Enfarinats (Flour Fight; Ibi & Valencia, Spain)
Endangered Species Act Day
End-of-Year Days (EU)
Fourth Day of Christmas
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Holiday Breather Day
International Cinema Day
Kashmiri Homestead Day
King Taskin Memorial Day (Thailand)
Kullubi (Ethiopia)
Manure Day (French Republic)
National Call a Friend Day
National Card Playing Day
National Download Day
National Short Film Day
National Stan Lee Day
National Tim Day
Pledge of Allegiance Day
Proclamation Day (South Australia)
Republic Day (South Sudan)
Return a Gift for Cold Hard Cash Day
Shaheed Sabha (Punjab, India)
Stanley Races begin (Falkland Islands)
Take a Drive and Enjoy the Christmas Lights Day
Throw Away Your Subliminal Motivation Tapes Today Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Chocolate Yule Log Day (UK)
National Box of Chocolates Day
National Chocolate Candy Day
National Eat Chocolate Day
4th & Last Thursday in December
National Betty Day [4th Thursday]
Independence Days
Iowa Statehood Day (#29; 1846)
Lundenwic (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]
Mexico (Date Recognized, 1821)
Republic of Ut Pace (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Yusienia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Abel (Coptic Church)
Bruma IV (Pagan)
Caterina Volpicelli (Christian; Saint)
Childermas (a.k.a. Feast of the Holy Innocents; Christian)
Day of the Holy Innocents (Spain)
Excelsior Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of Fools, Day 3 (Holy Innocent's Day)
Feast of the Holy Innocents (a.k.a. Childermas; Christian)
Félix Vallotton (Artology)
Fool’s Day (Dis de los Inocentes; Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela)
Inocentes (Mexican December Fool’s Day)
Kwanzaa, Day 3: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility)
Lamarck (Positivist; Saint)
Mike ’The Bike’ Hailwood Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Only 4 Pasta-eating Days Left This Year Day (Pastafarian)
Simon the Athonite (Christian; Saint)
Theodorus, Abbot of Tabenna (Christian; Saint)
Twelve Holy Days #3 (Gemini, the hands; Esoteric Christianity)
Twelvetide, Day #4; Feast of the Holy Innocents (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]
The Whispering Log (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Bairns' Day (Unluckiest Day of the Year; Scotland)
Dyzymas (Medieval Unlucky Day; Bad Day to Start Anything)
The Sexiest Day of All the Days (in Ted Lasso)
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 60 of 60)
Unluckiest Day of the Year
Premieres
Black Hawk Down (Film; 2001)
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (TV Special; 2018)
Bright Eyes (Film; 1934)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Play; 1897)
The Deep Six or It’s Tough to Fathom (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 331; 1964)
1st Commercial Film Screening (Lumber Brothers; 1895)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (Film; 1936)
The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Book; 1973)
I Am Sam (Film; 2001)
Match Point (Film; 2005)
Mother, by John Lennon (Song; 1970)
The New Delhi-Cateseen or Judgment at Bloombergs (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 332; 1964)
On the Town (Broadway Musical; 1944)
Poor Richard’s Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin (Magazine; 1732)
Portrait in Jazz, by Bill Evans (Album recorded; 1959)
Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw (Play; 1923)
To Beep or Not to Beep (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, by Samael Aun Weor (Spiritual Book; 1953)
Where the Boys Are (Film; 1960)
Today’s Name Days
Donna, Mattea, Unschuldige Kinder (Austria)
Mladen, Nevenka (Croatia)
Bohumila (Czech Republic)
Piia, Piiu (Estonia)
Piia (Finland)
Gaspard (France)
John, Unschuldige Kinder (Germany)
Domna, Mygdonios, Theofili (Greece)
Kamilla (Hungary)
Donna, Dorma, Innocenti Martiri (Italy)
Inga, Ivita, Jonatans, Mierins (Latvia)
Ema, Kamilė, Kantvilas, Vaidilutė (Lithuania)
Une, Unn, Unni (Norway)
Antoni, Dobrowiest, Emma, Godzisław, Teofila (Poland)
Ivana, Ivona (Slovakia)
Abel (Spain)
Benjamin (Sweden)
Aspen, Caspar, Gaspar, Innocent, Jasper, Kasper, Woodrow, Woody (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 362 of 2024; 3 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 52 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 3 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 16 (Geng-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 16 Teveth 5784
Islamic: 15 Jumada II 1445
J Cal: 2 Fest; Twosday [2 of 5]
Julian: 15 December 2023
Moon: 97%: Warning Gibbous
Positivist: 26 Bichat (13th Month) [Lamarck]
Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 8 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 7 of 31)
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(via Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Kwanzaa Message)
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris delivered a message to all who celebrate Kwanzaa, on this the first day of the seven day holiday. Watch her video https://www.africanamericanreports.com/2020/12/vice-president-elect-kamala-harris.html
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