The machete cut through Emmanuel's flesh and bones but did not entirely sever them.

Grito de Lares black flag in Santurce with the machete, a symbol of struggle and defiance.

In the film, Sometimes in April by Raoul Peck, Idris Elba is poised in a scene with his machete raised, and he's being forced by a crowd to chop up his best friend fellow Rwandan Army officer, albeit a Tutsi played by Fraser James.

A vagina warrior is a woman, or a vagina friendly man, who has witnessed incredible violence or suffered it, and rather than getting an AK 47 or a weapon of mass destruction or a machete, they hold the violence in their bodies they grieve it they experience it and then they go out and devote their lives to making sure it doesn't happen to anybody else.