From the original image: this woman's hair isn't parted in the middle... y parecen ser cintas en su cabello @REMEZCLA @SaraYimonpic.twitter.com/sBn1RZqaGo
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From the original image: this woman's hair isn't parted in the middle... y parecen ser cintas en su cabello @REMEZCLA @SaraYimonpic.twitter.com/sBn1RZqaGo
They look like bows in her hair (and Adelitas were known to wear ribbons) ... doesn't look like hair itself.pic.twitter.com/F0NILYDRVh
The clear part in the middle? The hoops of hair (not ribbons adorning hair)? That's Hopi.... no matter what George Lucas says.pic.twitter.com/BpXkrICd0n
Indigenous women are already invisible. Let's not continue to erase reality because of something some white man said (and was wrong about).
Princess Leia's hair really *is* modeled after Hopi hair. Damn.pic.twitter.com/uqlQauK03o
So... @UnsettledCity, why did you crop indigenous women and girls out from the Star Wars exhibit? cc @SaraYimonpic.twitter.com/JcBxCN5t5W
So, @UnsettledCity actually responded to my tweet about cropping Hopi women out of his photo. He later deleted it.pic.twitter.com/CPtc1lxX9j
A *lot* of media has used @UnsettledCity's claims about this sole woman from the Mexican Revolution, and also erase Hopi women and girls.
As a well-known academic, @UnsettledCity's word carries weight. So much that he's helped create the narrative of Princess Leia's hair now.
But anyway. It turns out the woman from the Mexican Revolution in that photo is Clara de la Rocha. A lot to address here.
Lots of people, incl @map_alfaro, insist that "Mexican women are indigenous women," which is meant to cancel out my point about Hopi women.
Lots of people in my mentions suggesting that the woman in the photo is indigenous and that she picked up that hair from Hopi women. Ahem.
Behold, the genealogy for Clara de la Rocha, pictured here. She's directly descended from European colonizers. http://delarochahistory.com/?page_id=7364 pic.twitter.com/AR3vuXe23L
Read for yourself how this woman's family took land from indigenous peoples as they settled northern Mexico. http://delarochahistory.com/?page_id=7364 pic.twitter.com/rfSVRzcjsB
That doesn't take away that Clara de la Rocha fought in the Mexican Revolution. But it's not like she was indigenous. She was no peasant.
CC @Pochdigeno, who tweeted at me that they're a geneticist, implying that Clara de la Rocha was indigenous. Right.
Clara de la Rocha's family was so rich they filled and entire library with gold and silver. Revolution, tho. Tuh.pic.twitter.com/sx3KHODBWY
Where did all that gold and silver come from? From the same indigenous peoples who were killed and displaced. Resources. Land. Life.
So @UnsettledCity's viral FB post is about a Mexican revolutionary woman. A *very* rich woman who's European family settled northern Mexico.
Lost in all of that? Hopi women. Hopi girls. Erased in preference for a tidy narrative about revolution... that lacks nuance.
I'll add one more thing and get back to my Saturday: Clara de la Rocha does not represent all Mexican revolutionary women, of course.
There were lots of indigenous women who were part of the Mexican Revolution. But different women fought for different things. Again: nuance.
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