Trista Hendren

''As a symbol, the Crone had to be suppressed by patriarchal religions because her power 'overruled the will even of Heavenly Father Zeus.' She was the Mother of God and the Slayer of God. Christianity retained the feminine as Virgin & Mother, it eliminated her role as Crone.'' -Marion Woodman

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ~ Arundhati Roy

Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes

“The Great Mother Goddess was honoured throughout ancient North Africa and the Near East, with many different names. In and around Canaan, she was known as Asherah, Mother of Creation, Queen of Heaven...” -Laura Shannon, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.

Art by Teresa Moorehouse

“In the world’s oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active and autonomous creatrix of the world... the ancient Goddess was always there.”
― Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor

Art by Judy Chicago

“To become means fulfilling the wholeness of what we are capable of being. But as long as woman lacks a divine made in her image she cannot establish her subjectivity/achieve a goal of her own. She lacks an ideal that would be her goal or path in becoming.” –Luce Irigaray

Art: Elisabeth Slettnes

The Utter Beauty of Resistance We have been shaken to our very core.

The Utter Beauty of Resistance
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Oh wow, that's interesting! Not loving it here. Not loving FB or IG either... not sure what I am going to do. X

Asherah Re-visited A blog by artist Lauren Raine about art and mythology, sacred masks and sacred art, Goddess spirituality, creativity,and synchronicity.

A new Sculpture and a few thoughts about Asherah, the Hebrew Great Mother Goddess that was erased from the Old Testament. threadsofspiderwoman.blogspot.com/2024/12/ashe...

My newest on Patreon. Art by Dee Mulrooney

55 years of the Suppressed Histories Archives, since Jan 1970. Brochures from the 1980s, and a flyer for a 1985 series I did at UC-Berkeley. More content coming soon when we reconfigure www.suppressedhistories.net

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It's 2025. Is This a Good Time to Talk About Male Supremacy and Feminist Refusals? A space to talk about backlash, feminist refusal, and changing the nature of power

Hello all, happy new year! I launched a newsletter yesterday to create a space where people can come together to discuss anti-feminist backlash and refusal. Please have a read, share, and tell me what you think! open.substack.com/pub/sorayach...

"in our own ways we all break. it is okay to hold your heart outside of your body for days. months. years. at a time. – heal"
— Nayyirah Waheed

Arna Baartz Artist

"To remember her is to remember parts of our own nature that have been exiled and buried with her. To find her buried in the shadows is to work toward our own resurrection; it is to unearth ways of being and knowing that were exiled and buried long ago."

-Vanya Leilani, Ph.D.

"We have never in recorded history lived in a time when women were, as a whole, empowered. We can only begin to imagine the riches.''

The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Aleah Chapin - Artist

"In the Eden myth, no Goddess—no images of the feminine sacred—is allowed to exist. She cannot be named nor fought, since to name her, even if only to defeat her, would be to admit her presence and importance."
-Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit 

Art by Lauren Raine

Two showings: Wed 18 Dec, 6pm & Sun 22 Dec, noon (California time; check a timezone converter).
Judea under Roman occupation, including these icons.

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With readings from Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church.

"You would be wrong to think that I came to convince you of anything this house resolution though well-meaning and appreciated is of little consequence in the midst of this Holocaust of our time I came in the spirit of Malcolm X and Jimmy Baldwin..."

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“Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone... What I am saying is that every one of us has the responsibility to be the woman Marc Lepine wanted to murder. We need to live with that honour, that courage.”
-Andrea Dworkin

"We Remember" by Cheryl Braganza

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

'Month after month, #Israel has treated #Palestinians in #Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them' said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of @amnestyuk.bsky.social

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Hello my heart! xx

"A pause is not a ceasefire, and a ceasefire is not freedom." –Rafeef Ziadah

Art by Suzi Fadel Nassif

Our words have the power to bring a new world into existence. They introduce us to worlds we might never encounter.

Books are the gateway to empathy for others and self-compassion for the shame we carry.

If only people would read them...

Art by Leticia Banegas

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Rafeef Ziadah – We Teach Life, Sir. Text-transcription-lyrics-words of poem. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits. Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into so…

"Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response."

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YouTube video by Max Dashu Ancient Sahara: women in a great rock art tradition

Ancient Sahara: women in a great rock art tradition. I've made this entire visual talk open access, because the ancient Saharan paintings are important, yet little known. Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Niger, many of these masterpieces are 6000 years old and more. youtu.be/XYMSNPC0bes?...

Thank you dear Max! Sending our love back to you!

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu over war in Gaza Court also issues warrants for Israel’s former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leader Mohammed Deif. The Israeli military says the latter was killed in a strike in the summer

"ICC: there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that Netanyahu & Gallant “bear criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare” & that they had “intentionally & knowingly deprived” Gaza’s civilians of food, water, medicine...

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