Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Capitalism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Heroes, Immigrants, International Women's Day, Iranian Women's Activism, Love Between Women, Million Women Rise!, Mother-Right, Motherhood, Mourning, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Sisters, Prayers, Revolution in Iran, Rural Womyn, Single Moms, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women and Creativity, Women and Food, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's History on Mar 8th, 2010
Warriors and Heroines
This is the Time
International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 1
International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 2
Women and Water
Women and Land, and Food
Immigrant Mothers and the Children Left Behind
Million Women Rise 2010
The Women, The Women, the Amazing Women
For Women and in Sisterhood,
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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 Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Giants, Heroes, In Memorium, Lesbian Community, Love Between Women, Sisterhood, Woman-Only Space, Women's Excellence on Jan 14th, 2010
For many years now I have been interested in the relationship between scapegoating violence and a phenomenon known as — or theorized as — “mimetic desire.” French philosopher and academic Rene Girard is widely credited with developing this theory or philosophy. Briefly (and necessarily reductively), mimetic desire theory posits that human beings are by nature social, that we are [...]
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The grief is settling in.
I’m posting this with so much love to you, my sisters. Thanks to firefly for sending me a link to a wonderful Loreena McKennitt concert which reminded me of this Loreena McKennitt piece.
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From Beyond God the Father, 1973, Chapter 2, “Exorcising Evil from Eve: The Fall Into Freedom:”
Sisterhood Means Revolution
…Sisterhood is the bonding of those who are oppressed by definition. Although males in oppressed classes and groups have often called each other “brother,” there is nothing inherent in the term that signals bonding against oppression, since men [...]
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I received this plea for help in my email this morning. Mary Lou Hoerster is a one time geologist and was once married to an M.D. With the help of his friends with money and in high places and many government officials and agencies centered in Texas, her ex is stealing her home and land.
I [...]
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Posted in Deciding to Live, Domestic Violence, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Nonviolent Resistance, Pornography, Prostitution, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Spirituality on Aug 30th, 2009
Courage is making the choice to live when dying would be so much easier.Courage is knowing that living will be with double trauma.
Trauma of remembering the violence, the hate and the degradation that was and is inside my body and mind.
Trauma of knowing that, and living in a world that ridicules, silences and crushes any [...]
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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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The Iranian government has agreed to hear an appeal of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi’s baseless espionage conviction. International pressure is working!
Join feminists and human rights activist worldwide in continuing to urge the Iranian government to commute the sentence of journalist Roxana Saberi.
Reports indicate that Saberi’s case will be reheard on May 12. We must [...]
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Posted in Deciding to Live, Earth, Her, It's all connected, Love, Prayers, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Mother, The Skies, Women's Spirituality, the Animals on May 1st, 2009
Grace for the Planet
Also: Water Walkers
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