Posted in Apropos of Random, Cultivating the Hubris of the Godmakers, Deciding to Live, Homes, It's all connected, Love, Motherhood, Radical Feminists Can Sometimes Cook, The Mother, Warm Fuzzies, Witchyness, Women and Creativity, Women's Art, Women's Culture on Jan 5th, 2009
I started a new tradition for my youngest two kids, who are 10 and 13 (Jeyoani, too, and whatever other of my kids happens to be at my house :)). The night before I go back to work after the holidays, we will continue each year to do three things that we did for the first time [...]
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don’t make so much
noise dear
the nurses say to the woman
three days in labor
white scum on her lips
outside the streets are hot
and flat and infinite
and time is only marked
by the dilation of pain
you’re acting like a little girl
the doctor tells her
you don’t hurt
hips like a cow
you were born to bear
his own stomach
is pegged across his thighs
like [...]
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At the centre of the earth there is a mother.
If any of us who are her children choose to die
she feels a grief like a wound deeper
than any of us can imagine.
She puts her hands to her face
like this:
her two palms open on her cheeks
Put them there like she does
Her fingers cover her eyes
She presses [...]
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Above is a video interview of Shekinah Mountainwater, a beautiful, wonderful woman. She was interviewed July 9, 2007, and died a little over a month later, on August 12, 2007, of breast cancer. I’m reading her book Ariadne’s Thread at the moment and am enjoying it so, so much. Like so many [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Her, Heroes, Homelessness, Homes, Immigrants, Indigenous Women's Rights, It's all connected, Male Terrorism, Prostitution, Sex Trafficking, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Mother, The Skies, War on Women on Nov 22nd, 2008
UPDATE: Irene Fernandez has been ACQUITTED. H/t to People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty
Dr. Irene Fernandez on receiving the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, Sweden in December 2005:
“… I am a product of migrant labour. My father was a migrant worker from Kerala, India. He worked in the rubber plantations during the British rule [...]
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Above is a photo of my new (to me!) stove. I got it free via Freecycle in my area. Through Freecycle I have also been the grateful recipient of a very fine sectional couch, an entertainment center, a computer desk, a computer, two La-Z-Boy recliners and a medium-size animal crate.
Freecycle is [...]
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Garden
Mother and Daughter
Vessel
Summer
Her Face
Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole…In creating new symbols, we are creating new ways of seeing and being in the world. …Most men feel they must separate themselves from femaleness in the name of all that is masculine, all that is sacred [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Earth, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heart for President, Her, Heroes, Inspiration, Love, Male Terrorism, Party Politics, Police Violence, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism and Feminism, Revolution, Sisterhood, Sustainability, The Left, The Mother, The Rape of Iraq, The Skies, War, War on Women, the Animals on Aug 31st, 2008
Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Candidate for President of the United States, outside the Convention, Sunday, August 24, 2008: :
Our country has been hijacked, and the Democrats are in on the plan… When it came to war and occupation, the Democratic leadership showed us that financing an illegal and immoral war, based on lies, was more [...]
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Posted in Feminism, Giants, Her, Heroes, Homes, It's all connected, Love, The Mother, The Skies, Women's Art, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Health, the Animals on May 31st, 2008
In the United States, where milk and honey cost little enough, where private serenity is prized above all things by the wealthy, privileged and well-washed, where tension, intensity, passion, and the concomitant loss of self-possession are detested, the idea that your attitudes and behaviors vis a vis your body are your politics and your spirituality, [...]
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