The Era of Women | Knxalan kykuyuh

Illustrated by Lin Jia-Dong

Be frugal and keep house,
be hardworking and resilient,
be gentle and considerate
How many social expectations have bonded our last generation of women?

Be independent, confident, autonomous, and free.
How much do you have to do to qualify as “a modern woman” in our society?

Our identity as indigenous peoples, our gender position as a woman.
Only when it’s “because we want to, not because we need to”
can we truly get rid of the roles imposed on us by society.
That is when we can tell our story and write down the glory of the era of women.

Note: Knxalan kykuyuh means “the era of women” in the Truku language.

Reading…

• CIWANG TEYRA
  Healing Historical Traumas through Understandings
• WOMEN’s DEN
  We are First and Foremost Human, Before We are Woman
• PANAY MULU
  Breaking Loose from Bodily Constraints
• INKA MBING
  Reborn Through Music, a Woman Singing the Lmuhuw
• FAISɄ．MɄKɄNANA
  Literatrary Writing, the Best Cure for a Homesick Tsou Woman
• AWAY DAYEN-SAWAN
  Seeking Ethnic Memory within Indigenous Crafts
• DRESEDRESE-PACENGELAW
  “Replanting” Herself in the Soil of the Homeland
• YI-MAUN SUBEQ
  A Gentle Strength with Firm Resolution
• KAWAH UMEI
  Bravely Facing the Past and Healing Herself Through Documentaries
• CHEN NIEN-CHIN
  Being a Girl has Never Been an Issue for Me. If I Can Do It, I’ll Do It.
• MUKAYI LADAN
  Taiwan’s Youngest Paiwan Pulingau Chosen by Ancestral Spirits

Originally published at https://insight.ipcf.org.tw.

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