@smollestbunny Yup to be allowed in her group Māori women would not be allowed to have a Moko and would have to do away with a lot of other parts of their culture.

She also edited ‘The White Ribbon’, a publication that produced articles in support of eugenics.
In the 1919 National Council of Women annual conference report, Sheppard suggested the
government needed to support children who were ‘well and healthily born, well-nourished
and well educated’, rhetoric that echoed ideologies of white perfection articulated by the
eugenics movement.

This practice of exclusion also continued to shape Aotearoa New Zealand’s second wave
of feminism that developed in the 1970s, so much so that Māori women had to start their own feminist movement.

#nz #newzealand #katesheppard #feminism #suffragette #suffragettes #racism #Māori