#congolese artist

[theaskew]

Amani Bodo (Congolese, b. 1988. lives and works in Kinshasa), No art no culture, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 150 × 200 cm. (Source: Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy)

[kimludcom]

Maitre GIMS concert live NUIT DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 🔵⚪️🔴 Esplanade PALAIS DU PEUPLE #kinshasa 🇨🇩 #2023

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Sungu Lubuka • Mfuur Ma • M.B.T's Sound • Musique Tshiluba • Lalia • Adeito • Ngantsie Soul • Nganga • Tembe Na Tembe Ya Nini • Lolo Soulfire • Femme Ne Pleure Pas • Kiwita Kumunani • Fiancée Laya • Ah! Congo

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[lesafricainescharmantetfraises]

The ordinary and excellence of Congolese beauty

[srvanderino]

Hey Ho! I'm Broke! My parents want to evict me and I have little to no money! So, if you want to help a good man out, please give me a donation or commission and I may give you a nice drawing back!

[kizaba]

KIZABA

WWW.KIZABA.CA

[forever70s]

students at the Mushenge Art School - Democratic Republic of the Congo (1972)

[onenakedfarmer]

Daily Painting

Zemba Luzamba PARLEMENTAIRES DEBOUT (2019)

[zenethemoon]

"A voice for Congo.

This young artist uses his talent to shed light on the

struggles and injustices faced by Congolese people every day. From child soldiers to exploited women and stolen resources, it's time the world listens and takes action. Together, we can amplify this message. Thank you for standing with us!"**

Via: www.instagram.com/focuscongo @invisible_kids_academy243

[kimludcom]

Rumba Music Live Accoustic Concert By Congolese Guitarists RUMBA music is celebrated as "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage"

[hoodreader]

𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝑀𝐼𝒮𝒪𝒢𝒴𝒩𝒴 𝒪𝐹 𝒜𝒮𝒯𝑅𝒪𝐿𝒪𝒢𝒴

misogyny, the dislike, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women. misogyny is a complex societal system + means of gender-based oppression. with the rise of incel podcasts consisting of men sitting at a table and inciting violence against women, i wanted to make this post kinda observing how misogyny manifests in astrology.

astrology vocabulary + related words

hatred ♂, contempt ♄ ♇

women ( generally )♀ ☽ ♋︎

the conditions of women ( mundane ) 7h

prejudice ( generally ) ♄

ingrained prejudice 3h

oppression ♄

patriarchy ♄ ♆

aid for sudanese women, congolese women, palestinian women, first nation / american indigenous women, trans women, sex workers, and sexual health / wellness + pads / tampons

since men are the beneficiaries of patriarchy, it best serves ‘ manhood ’ as a concept to be misogynistic. many of these misogynistic acts are so deeply ingrained in cultural expressions of manhood, there is effectively no man who is not misogynistic at all; however, i’m speaking about men who are violent to women and those who enable violence toward women. which. . . to be honest. . . is probably like ninety % of men. so clock that. ( lol )

anyways. . . here are some things i noticed.

mars in the chart of a man represents his sense of manhood and what affirms it. and a man’s relationship to his manhood will tell u everything about how he feels about women.

an overactive mars ( stelliums in aries or scorpio, mars in the first or tenth, mars aspecting the asc or chart ruler, mars aspecting the north node, etc. . . ) will almost cause them to exert too much energy into trying to affirm said manhood. this leads to competitiveness ( especially with women. every overactive mars native i know has more beef w women than men ). let it be known that mars rejoices in the sixth house - the sixth house is the house of unappreciated labor / services, of hierarchies, etc. . . overactive mars men may genuinely believe women to be in service of them or posited below them.

i also see a similar think with weak or afflicted mars ( mars in cancer, taurus, or libra, mars in the malefic houses, combust mars, mars aspecting the south node, etc. . . ) there’s almost a resentment towards women bc of their own internalized insecurities ( as if women made patriarchy and told men to subscribe to it lol )

moon and venus will be the planets responsible for how a man regards women. moon in scorpio, aries, capricorn. . . moon-mars, venus in aries, scorpio, or virgo. . . moon or venus aspecting the nodes. . . combust moon or venus. . . moon-pluto, venus-pluto. . . this creates a discomfort with women and / or femininity. it can be something learned from childhood in respect to the moon due to the moon being the mother. venus is harmony, not just women - those with afflicted venuses can struggle to feel harmonic.

i also feel like solar men have pretty fragile egos, and that’s because the way men’s egos are stroked are empty. to stroke anyone’s ego is a fruitless endeavor, because it only feeds a bottomless pit, but men’s egos are largely attributed to society / structural conventions of gender and manhood. it’s an oppressive performance. and well. . . ' artists ' be sensitive about they shit.

an example of a man who is known for misogyny while having some of these placements is andr3w t4te - he has a combust moon in sagittarius as well as venus in scorpio conjunct pluto.

moving on now. . . i would say that in the charts of women, all of the points i said above essentially apply to them as well. but it’s unique because obviously, patriarchy doesn’t function the same for women as it does for men. i would say women with most of the above placements would possibly have a higher likelihood to experience misogyny - a harsh aspect between saturn or pluto and venus or moon. . . mars in the first or tenth house usually has people projecting some sort of ‘ aggressive ’ character onto u, whereas men can exhibit the same amount of passion and not be vilified.

so women with prominent ‘ masculine ’ planets ( sun, saturn, mars, or jupiter but especially the first three ) i notice experience so much outward contempt from men. the way patriarchy works is that all women are subjected to it and no woman is exempt, but there’s levels to patriarchal violence. and women with strengthened masculine planets get vilified for expressing said qualities.

solar women are vilified for being bold, expressive, wanting attention, wanting to lead. because no, as a woman, ur role is to follow or orbit around the man ( as the moon does ). u do not have the positionality to be the center of our solar system. scarcely seen and never heard

martian women are vilified for being passionate, driven, active, aggressive. because no, as a woman, ur role is to be soft and welcoming. u are to comply, serve, and obey

saturnian women are vilified for being autonomous, hermits, quiet, dominant. because no, as a woman u need to desire family. desire community ( with men ). pursue likability

jovial women are vilified for being wise, thoughtful, philosophical. because no, as a woman u are to not think. ur opinions are dumb and ur role as a woman is to never speak. never have a hope or dream or aspiration outside of beauty, love, sex, and children

women who deviate from these set structures are often subject to the most cruelty, so i’d also add prominent uranus women - especially if uranus relates to venus or moon, as this gives the woman a ‘ unique ’ expression of her womanhood. . .

i think women with lilith prominent ( and honorary mention, lilith in eighth or twelfth ) also are subject to so much misogyny. that whole story of lilith threatens manhood, especially because in the west, the natural order is supposedly determined by god. these women tend to have tremendous life lessons pertaining to women and womanhood, where they experience exile, rage, and then empowerment. this also goes for nodal women esp if ur nodal in vedic jyotish.

as for internalized misogyny. . . there is a deep-rooted shame ( saturn ) within a woman who feeds the man in her head instead of starving him out. i think. . . venus / moon harsh aspecting saturn, maybe? combust saturn? i think lilith women also may have to learn how to think of themselves as people and not accessories to men, to not regret autonomy for the sake of not feeling lonely.

a lot of benefic / strong moon and venus women can have a tendency to cling too much to patriarchy as well, because they can feel validated by it. lunarians priding themselves on being nurturing. venutians priding themselves on beauty or sex appeal - i feel like women gotta seek a lil touch of the malefics to balance that out. . . be okay with not being perfect, sexy, beautiful, or nurturing. be okay with not wanting to be motherly, not wanting to have children, not wanting to marry.

this internalized misogyny idea is more of a work in progress so bear with me, lmao, but the venus persona chart and moon persona chart will also reveal the native’s deeper rooted qualities of the respective planets. saturn will show any shames associated with womanhood.

i will close this ramble by saying that astrology is a rather patriarchal study, lmao. and it’s not implicit at all. i think if u have even a rudimentary understanding of feminism, u could see that astrology - a profession once dominated and determined by men - has fundamentally misogynistic principles. even things such as the planets representing women ( moon & venus ) respectively give insight into what it is thought a woman can provide - children, family, beauty, home, sex, relationships, nurturing, and love. but with the planets representing men are varied in quality and such - they can provide personality ( sun ), protection ( mars ), wisdom ( jupiter ), or authority ( saturn ).

the way moon and venus tells what is implicitly thought to be the “ right kind of woman. ” and respectively, mars and saturn particularly tell how to be a man. if u have a capricorn moon, for example, u fail the womanly obligation of nurturing.

or. . . how the moon represents change + movement. . . how the moon phases between visibility and invisibility, but saturn represents constants. things that are transgenerational. saturn is legacy - the wife takes his surname, the children take his surname, and sometimes? they have his first name too, lmao.

the father is viewed as foundational and it reminds me of that silly quote regarding ethnic identity: “ u are what ur father is. ” as if ur not 50/50 both parents! that’s how easily the mother / moon is erased, despite actually being more visible than the father / saturn, more proximate to us ( as the moon orbits earth ). even tho the mother is usually doing most of the work: whether it’s childbirth / labor, or simply remembering shit like their child’s favorite color, the mother usually does the most work.

how the sun ( the planet responsible for ur personality ) is also the planet read for fathers and husbands - like men are deeply integral to ur sense of personhood. the assumption a woman would even seek, desire, or pursue a husband. edit: the way the moon is the luminary representing women but the light of the moon is artificial - the moon doesn’t glow on its own, the sun glows onto it >_<

maybe even the fact that both planets representing women must be benefic. if women are benefic, then a woman’s nature is kind, helpful, easy. and if she is anything other than benefic. . . she’s not merely bad, but a bad woman. i also find it telling that in mundane astrology, the seventh represents women - and why is that? why isn’t the first house ( the house of self ) representative of women? why is it the house of other? is it because the etymology of woman is “ wife (to) man ”? a bit on the nose to decide that women would then be seventh house ruled then, hm? i could ramble on and on, lol. but hopefully i drove my point home!

anyways. that’s my astrological ramble on misogyny. ok. bye.

[lesafricainescharmantetfraises]

[jyndor]

🍉🍉🍉 GIFSETS FOR PALESTINE 🍉🍉🍉

I've had something like this in the plans for a while, and I've even done it before but this post by dante aka @teethburied -

WHILE YOU ARE HERE, GO REBLOG HIS POST

- inspired me to get it together!

🍉🍉🍉 WHAT TO DO 🍉🍉🍉

Donate to any of the vetted Palestinian fundraisers from this spreadsheet by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi.

Donate $5 - 9 USD to request a textless gifset of any media

Donate $10 USD and up to request a gifset of any media with text

Feel free to spread your donations around to multiple fundraisers! I also will of course do gifsets for you if you have a Congolese or Sudanese fundraiser you want to support, please just send the following to me via tumblr DM and if possible forward the confirmation to gifsetsforpal@gmail.com. Don't worry, I'm not gonna share your emails - I just want to make sure these are actual donations and not screenshots you found somewhere.

url and email:

fundraiser link:

proof of donation:

gifset request:

backup request:

🍉🍉🍉 WHAT MEDIA TO REQUEST 🍉🍉🍉

Anything! Any TV show, movie, music video, event, etc that you want. If I have a hard time finding something, I will probably do the backup request, so please make sure it's for a different media. Here are some examples of my gifsets, and here is a gifset I made for a mutual who donated in the past (it features a palestinian poet).

Here's some examples of requests to get inspired:

five music videos from 2024

ten lyrics from x artist or album

favorite character + fire motif

ship + lyrics/quote

scenery from x movie

astrology/signs/tarot + character

TV show + color

etc etc etc

Thank you so much and please even if you can't afford to donate right, reblog this post as well as any other vetted fundraisers you see and spread the word! Let me know if you do anything similar and I'll signal boost it too!

🍉🍉🍉 FREE PALESTINE 🍉🍉🍉

[kizaba]

Kizaba - Fashion Show ( Live In M.A.D Festival )

Presenting The KIZABA fashion show live at M.A.D Festival , for the first time in Canada, Congolese Sapologie representation of recycled clothes from the musician and designer @kizabalionel ,in couture collaboration with CAPAZCACU (AfrofuturistiK MasK d'AfriK )

Coordinators & Casting team: Jennifer Tingombay (Lolango Agency), @aimembuyi (Lartsuffit Espace )

Credit video : @franciscosaenzz

New Kizaba album  KIZAVIBE Okosilisango feat Marti StoneKIZAVIBE Réalisation : Gone DevilleSpecial 

Thanks to the musicians of Kizaba :

Maxime Archer-Fortin RNeuf @Ngone Gueye M.C. Lemieux 

Models and talents :@gladys.m.dKandoforart @Morgana_melo@NaomiGromko@lesleeluz @bond_lodovico @ebenas08 @tati.td_ @amaruflesh @RafaelaSalomao@koffi3959 @_nnykaa Bookings and sellings :Info@lolango.ca ou kizabalk@gmail.comMusic booking : Khalil De Bambara

Nuits d'Afrique COLORS Jeunestalentscongolais243full Talents2Kin RTNC.cd 1 RTNC CD #fashionstyle #fashionshow #vetements #recycler #recyclerestyle #afrobeatsdancechallenge #playlist #playlistspotify #future #Congo #canada #model #history #moderndesign #modernart #modeling #musically #musicvideo #musical #musicaenvivo #artistsoninstagram #artgallery #defiledemode #defile #fashionmodels #kinshasa #quebec #mtlblogger

[richarlotte]

Someone else you admire?

My good friend Twilly went to uni at 16 for PoliSci, Philosophy, and French, faithfully saved to be able to attend PFW every year for four years and to take the Eurail around Europe, and she’s graduating and moving to Europe to start grad school next year. I visited her at McGill when we were both around 19, and I was blown away by how much she’d been able to accomplish in the six months since I’d last seen her.

 

Twill is chic, totally carefree, cool, Congolese, and never too much. She’s found ways to study internationally for most of her life; she wrote a fashion magazine in high school; her music taste and humor are impeccable; and she’s got the bookshelf of my daydreams. T ran a small style, fashion, and lifestyle zine called “The Ambassador’s Wife” for the longest time, and the yearly zine perfectly captured the life I want to lead one day. She has such an eye for detail and has studied aesthetics and art in such depth.

 

She’s a chef, she jokes that she’s a bit of a literary dilettante but she’s far from it, she’s an artist, and she’s a dancer and actress. Twilly is the definition of a cool girl; it comes naturally to her. She’s adventurous and exotic without ever seeming like she’s trying too hard; she’s intelligent, cosmopolitan, inquisitive, and really extraordinary. She’s always told me that there’s something to be said about living life without the need for constant approval, and she’s right—there is.

 

People don’t just want to know Twilly; they want to be around her and have her in their lives. She’s magnetic and can make the worst of times seem like the best. She’d toss her hair over her shoulder and joke about spending too much time watching Anthony Bourdain, but she’s the sort of person who strays off the beaten track, comes back with stories, and has experiences that make you want to follow her the next time she goes. It’s hard to be the queen of the Irish goodbye when everyone wants you to stay, but she manages. 

 

There was a summer where she broke her phone and had to make do with a flip phone and her digital camera, so as she traveled, she’d write her address on the back of a spare photo she’d printed and distribute them to anyone she wanted to stay in contact with. She returned home to dozens of her photos mailed back to her and had to send off hundreds of texts and emails to get back in contact with everyone she’d met.

 

I admire her immensely and believe her to be one of the most consistent people in my life. We’ve known each other for years, watched each other grow, and leaned on each other. I faithfully send updates and advice, and she keeps me up to date with the major fashion houses she follows. It can be difficult to make high quality friends that mature with you as you grow up, so I think I'm especially lucky to have someone so likeminded and understanding in my life as one of my closest girls.

[yasyassie]

As we enter pride month again,

let's remember that capitalism will never benefit queer people, as it is a system that will always prioritize profit over people.

Let's remember that corporate pride isn't real pride, that companies literally just see us as consumers and nothing more, that they don't care about our rights.

Let's support small buisnesses, small content creators, small writers and artists and musicians who make really queer and really good stuff, and who stand up against injustice.

Let's continue to boycott big brands for our palestinian, uyghur and congolese brothers and sisters.

Let our humanity guide us instead of the need to buy and fall into the capitalist trap of thinking that someone belongs more because they can buy more.

Please, boycott corporate pride and choose decolonisation this month.

None of us is free until we all are.