Posted in Bailout Bill, Erasure of Women's Lives, Homelessness, Homes, Homeschooling, It's all connected, Loss, Rural Womyn, Sustainability, Working Class People, the Animals on Jun 25th, 2010
Since we live on a farm, we aren’t immediately near what most people would think of as a neighborhood. We are surrounded by pasture and forestland. But across the bridge and up the hill, there is a more traditional neighborhood, and in the last decade people have bought land there, built houses for their families. [...]
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Posted in Colonialism, Cultivating the Hubris of the Godmakers, Empire, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Gaza, Genocide, Her, Home Birth, Homelessness, Homes, Imperialism, Indigenous Women's Rights, Internalized Misogyny, It's all connected, Lesbophobia, Liberation Theology, Loss, Love, Midwifery, Mother-Right, Nonviolent Resistance, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Blood, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Patriarchal Politics, Peak Oil, Pornography, Prayers, Prostitution, Quiverfull, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Rural Womyn, Saudi Women, The Mother, War on Animals, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Excellence, the Animals on Feb 22nd, 2010
The story of what happened to the Irish is the story of Native Americans is the story of indigenous and aboriginal people throughout the world is the story of women is the story of all colonized people.
OK, I want to talk about Ireland
Specifically I want to talk about the “famine”
About the fact that there never [...]
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Posted in Commuting, Cronehood, Earth, Homes, It's all connected, Love, Rural Womyn, Sustainability, The Skies, the Animals on Feb 20th, 2010
Family and friends alike had been stunned by my decision to keep the farm after the divorce. How could such a practical, reasonable person lose touch with reality? they worried. Even I had trouble explaining the decision…
But two years had gone by and still I stayed. ”The place is killing you,” my brother would say [...]
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Annie Lennox and All Green, both of whose music I have loved for decades. The clips are from the movie “Scrooged.” H/t to my brother Bob on Facebook.
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Posted in Earth, Her, Heroes, It's all connected, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Mother, The Skies, War on Animals, the Animals on Feb 8th, 2010
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I pulled this card this morning (and a couple of times this week) after months of never pulling this one. Before that, I was pulling it also several times a week, over months.
Things are hard for me now (nothing new, this is just a little different kind of hardness) but I recognize [...]
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Posted in Her, Inspiration, It's all connected, Love, Prayers, Sustainability, The Mother, The Skies, Women's Culture, the Animals on Jul 11th, 2009
Grandmother Earth
Today we are facing a new Era. The ancient Mayan culture speaks of this change, the ending of their old calendar in 2012, and the beginning of a new age. They, along with many other indigenous cultures, also speak that this coming time will be one of a more feminine [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Capitalism, Colonialism, Earth, Genocide, Heroes, Imperialism, Indigenous Women's Rights, It's all connected, Nonviolent Resistance on Jun 12th, 2009
Thirteen years ago, Ken Saro Wiwa Jr and the families of the 8 other Ogoni men who had been murdered by the Nigerian state in 1995 , together with two other Ogonis, began three separate law suits against Royal Dutch Petroleum, Shell Petroleum Development Corporation and Brian Anderson former CEO of the SPDC. The plaintiffs [...]
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People dominate animals, men dominate women. Each is a relation of hierarchy, an inequality with particularities and variations within and between them. … One prominent similarity between these two hierarchies is ideological: in spite of the evidence that men socially dominate women and people dominate other animals, the fact that relations of [...]
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Posted in Deciding to Live, Feminism, Her, Heroes, It's all connected, Love, Love Between Women, Prayers, Resurrections, Revolution, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women and Music, Women's Spirituality on May 13th, 2009
Why do we sacrifice our lives?
To what is left when it all ends
When all we want is heroes and friends?
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