Tag: Indigenous Women Of The Anglosphere

IWOTA #3 SHIRLEY TEMPLE

In my childhood in the ’60’s, a few years before Seargent Peppers swept me up into its ear-candied Beatlemania, Shirley Temple was my favourite star.

As a little boy in Australia, I believed she was my friend.

She had three fulltime careers in her lifetime:

1. Movie Star

2. Wife and Mother

and

3 Diplomat

And today, on the 9th anniversary of her death, I call her an Indigenous Woman Of The Anglosphere.

A Great American.

For all of my English Speaking World.

Geoff Fox, 10th February, 2023, Down Under

IWOTA #1B Rosa Parks – Sharing and Shining

The true holy spirit of women is in caring for others and helping people share.

Women do this most often as mothers in families, but can also do it socially and professionally when willing and allowed.

On her 109th birthday last year, I named Rosa Parks an Indigenous Woman Of The Anglosphere (IWOTA) , because, as a native speaker of English, her words showed a great command of the language which I believe did a lot of good in the world.

Today it is Rosa’s 110th birthday. To mark the occasion, I fuse her words with images of good, beautiful females I know and like and admire. One is a real woman, Deeanna Appadu, born and raised in Mauritius, and now in Australia. The other a goblin art comic and street-dwelling superhero, Shine Of The Moon. Both are women of color. In Shine’s case the color is tawny.

I brought them together once in one of Shine’s artistic homes

Geoff Fox, 4th February, 2023, Melbourne, Australia

Let Mums Be Mums #1 Dr Luke McLindon

Gertrude Stein died this day 76 years ago.

She said, “Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”

My 32 years as a Registered Midwife in Australia and deep connection with the much stronger family culture of Indonesia taught me that what mums need is to be themselves.

This month in Brisbane Dr Luke McLindon seems to have lost his job for revealing apparently appalling impacts of vaccines on miscarriage rates for pregnant women. The reports about his data state that 74% of women vaccinated against Covid have miscarried compared with normal miscarriage rates of 5-16%. Prima facie it appears possible from these figures that vaccine mandates in McLindon’s part of Brisbane could be killing as many as 50% of babies which women and their families want to have.

It appears that fear of a horrible thing being revealed is leading to an attempt keep that horrible thing secret. You cannot solve a healthcare problem if you do not find out what it is.

Midwifery taught me to trust the instincts and knowledge of mothers. To let and empower them to look after themselves and their families.

To be all we can be as a society we must trust our mums.

This means letting them make their own choices based on their own sense of what is right for them.

Not mandating medications rushed on to the market in a climate of fear.

Geoff Fox, 27th July, 2022, Down Under

ps I rate Gertrude Stein a brilliant Indigenous Woman Of The Anglosphere.

IWOTA #1A ROSA PARKS

On the 12th of January 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.

She had the courage to fight this injustice with reason, clarity and very powerful use of the English language. A great Indigenous Woman Of The Anglosphere. (IWOTA)

She was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor and she and her example made life better for very many people.

That’s what I call living in The Word.

She inspires me as I face what seems to me, as a 64 year old white male, like an all-powerful sexist, racist, ageist modern tyranny

Geoff Fox, 4th February, 2022, Rosa Parks’ 109th birthday