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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More Paula Gunn Allen: Healing in a World Gone Coyote
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 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Paula Gunn Allen (Oct. 24, 1939-May 29, 2008)
Posted in Earth, Feminism, Feminist Hullaballoo, Heroes, Lesbian Community, The Mother, Women's Culture, Women's Health, Women's Poetry on May 31, 2008 | 14 Comments »
In November of 1991, my Laguna mother died of cancer. Or, at least, that’s what they put on her death certificate. She had oat cell cancer of the lung, a kind of cancer that is unlikely to kill its host quickly, particularly when the person is elderly. But she accepted the treatments that Western doctors [...]
20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Are Tonight!
Posted in Books, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heroes, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Women as Writers, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry on May 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Tonight will be the 20th annual Lambda Literary Awards. This is the big celebration of all the best authors in the LGBT community. There are over 100 books in nomination, and it will be a gala event in West Hollywood, California.
I’m in heaven already thinking about all the organization that went into the event, the [...]
Full Moon, Spring, Garden, Open Thread
Posted in Her, It's all connected, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, The Mother, Women's Culture, the Animals on May 19, 2008 | 25 Comments »
I worked all day today in my garden. I didn’t plant a garden last year, so there is a lot of work to do, to gynormously understate. By day’s end, I could see the shape of this year’s garden, though I haven’t planted seeds yet. In the center of my garden is an elderberry tree, [...]
Gathering the Goddess 2008
Posted in Her, Heroes, Homes, Inspiration, It's all connected, Love, Love Between Women, Practical Radical Feminism, Revolution, Sisterhood, The Mother, Woman-Only Space, Women's Culture, Womyn's Festivals on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Gathering the Goddess 2008 — Sept. 5-7, 2008, Santa Cruz, California
“Here we are Sisters in Goddess, coming together to celebrate the birth of the Goddess Movement in our times, through sacred ritual and divine style. We are coming together … old and young … women who stood with me in the beginning and women who [...]
“Iron Ladies of Liberia”
Posted in Feminism, Heroes, Inspiration, Women's Art, Women's Culture on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear Colleagues & Friends,
I am writing to let you know about a timely new collection of documentaries about Women in Leadership & Politics now available from Women Make Movies.
The centerpiece of the collection is IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA, which was recently broadcast on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. This new WMM Release profiles Ellen [...]
Bitch Starts Short Story Records
Posted in Feminism, Heroes, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Culture on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bitch and Ferron at Acoustic Stage at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
Bitch starts Short Story Records, will release B+Tec and Folk-Legend Ferron this Spring, Announcing Bitch + The Exciting Conclusion National Tour
FEBRUARY 21, 2008 (New York, NY) – Bitch and The Exciting Conclusion are getting ready to take their show on the road. This spring, [...]
The Women’s Security Council: A Grassroots Woman-Centered Response to the Current Presidential Campaigns
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Feminism, Her, Indigenous Women's Rights, Love Between Women, Practical Radical Feminism, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, The Mother, The Skies, Women's Culture, Women's Security Council, the Animals on February 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Award-winning quilt: Mother Earth and Her Children, by Sieglinde Schoen Smith of Carlisle, Pennsylvania
From the brand new (created today) Women’s Security Council welcome page:
The basis of American democracy is that when the government ceases to work for the people, the people have a right to start a new one. The US government has had [...]
Michfest Online Winter Festival and Tent Revival – 3
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Inspiration, Lesbian Community, Love Between Women, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Culture on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barbara Higbie and Teresa Trull–Tip the Canoe
I saw them last August and they were spellbinding. What musicians!
God Des & She — Love You Better
I met God des last August at the Grand Rapids Airport before Fest last year. She is unpretentious and real and a genuinely nice [...]
Michfest Online Winter Festival and Tent Revival-2
Posted in Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Male Terrorism, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Practical Radical Feminism, Prostitution, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Sisterhood, The Left, Ugly Americans, War on Women, Women's Art, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Staceyann Chinn
Staceyann Chinn had us on our feet, fists raised, crying and hollering on opening night of last year’s festival. If you can, see her in person. You will never forget her.
Michfest Online Winter Festival and Tent Revival — 1
Posted in Feminist Politics, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism, Sisterhood, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Culture on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Toshi Reagon — Battle of the Broken Word
I’ve seen Toshi Reagon both at Michfest and locally in Seattle. She is an amazing artist.
Saskatchewan (Juneteenth) – Laura Love
From Love’s NeGrass CD. She performed this song and others from this CD last year in Michigan. I’ve seen Love perform in [...]
Bleeding Rivers
Posted in Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Michfest Womyn, Our Blood, Our Sisters, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Culture on December 21, 2007 | Comments Off
I first encountered the a capella group Copper Wimmin at Michfest the second year I attended when they were singing to all of us as we stood in line for dinner one evening.
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URGENT CALL TO WOMEN: Act, Write and Plan Now to Save Women’s Land!
Posted in Earth, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, The Mother, The Skies, War on Women, Woman-Only Space, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Health, the Animals on December 10, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Oregon Women’s Land Trust Meeting, 1970s, © Ruth Mountaingrove
From OWL (Oregon Women’s Land) Farm:
Pipeline update: As you all recall, an energy company has stated their intentions of burying a 3-foot diameter pipeline through Owl Farm. They would need to clearcut a 100′ to 150′ wide corridor, 1/2 mile through our forest to make room for [...]
Raised in the Revolution: Radical Women Homeschooling Boys
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Homeschooling/Unschooling, Inspiration, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Parenting, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism and Feminism, Transgender Issues, Warm Fuzzies, Woman-Only Space, Women and Disability, Women's Art, Women's Culture on December 5, 2007 | 16 Comments »
V Kingsley, who, with her son, Parker, created the above youtube video, recently commented here with the link to her amazing quilt. (If you haven’t watched V’s video about the making of the Mermaid quilt, you should, it is not to be missed! Very inspiring.) V is a quilter, an artist, a lesbian, a [...]
Nowhere to Go
Posted in Feminism, Love Between Women, Women and Music, Women's Culture on November 14, 2007 | 9 Comments »
This song is what I’m feeling today. (I originally posted the Youtube video, but I guess you can’t embed the link anymore. But if you click on the link, you can listen.)
I discovered Melissa Etheridge in 1996 via this song which played regularly at the gym where I worked out. I kept hearing it, hearing it. I’d never heard [...]
Joanna Newsom
Posted in Women and Music, Women's Culture on November 13, 2007 | 10 Comments »
This is Joanna Newsom, a singer, harpist, and amazing young talent whose music combines elements of folk, Appalachian music, and African Kora rhythms. She is 25.
These are the lyrics of the song in the video above:
Peach Plum Pear
We speak in the store
I’m a sensitive bore
And you’re markedly more
And I’m oozing suprise
But [...]
Dreaming of Women’s Country
Posted in Her, Love Between Women, Our Sisters, Sisterhood, The Mother, Women's Culture on November 4, 2007 | 40 Comments »
Aijo
Posted in Her, Love Between Women, Our Sisters, Sisterhood, The Mother, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry on October 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Aijo by Värttinä.
Do not miss the curse towards the end. Talk about strong women.
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Kylä vuotti uutta kuuta
Posted in Her, Love Between Women, Our Blood, Our Sisters, Sisterhood, The Mother, Woman-Only Space, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Culture on October 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This song (and the music of Värttinä in general) is Finnish and is an adaptation of a musical genre that is very old, going back many centuries, called “runosong.” This is one of my all-time favorite songs and I cry every time I hear it. I’ve been listening to it for years. It is [...]
Children’s Cold Medicines Pulled from the Market, or Why We Crones Stop Talking to People, and How to Raise Healthy Children
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Internalized Misogyny, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Patriarchal Medicine, Sisterhood, War on Women, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Health on October 12, 2007 | 110 Comments »
So I sat there watching the 10 o’clock news just steaming last night as the latest revelation was delivered from god on high, excuse me, the patriarchal medical establishment: children’s cold medicines don’t work and sometimes they kill children. So, at long last, they have been pulled from the shelves of the drug- and grocery stores throughout [...]
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