11/03/2026
Today I’m going to be extra straight with you all. Men and women’s fertility has gone down the toilet. Our general health is going down the pan. Our ancestors in their wisdom created a system where men and women would spend several years being taught about their bodies, having stable family life and how to contribute to society. This was our puberty rites.
Colonisers came and we listened to them and to this day many people have little respect for the rites and it’s becoming stagnant, just symbolism. The boys rites have disappeared!
These rites were created to provide important education to the young people during this important tradition. Could we not use this understanding to teach young girls and boys about who they are?
Their bodies? Be taught by the elders of their community who can guide them as they get older? Now look at what’s happening? How may of us are sitting here with fibroids, endometriosis and PCOS? Do you know that May of these diseases showed signs many years before you went to the doctors? Imagine a puberty rite with this education? Wouldn’t things be different? Do you now understand why our ancestors instituted it? Now why don’t we build on this premise instead of denigrating it?
Wishing all those doing their rites next month a happy puberty rite season. Let’s look at our rites with the lens in which they were created and develop them as our ancestors did.
