Medusa Rising: Women Building Worlds

Archive | For Mahsa, a poem for the women of Iran | by Victoria Gugenheim

Womens Poetry

Archive | For Mahsa, a poem for the women of Iran | by Victoria Gugenheim

It was the merest strands of hair, / On a girl adept at daylight / That were wayward signs to these infernal men.

Goddess figure from Indus Valley with a cowl on her shoulders, hair styled like snakes, and her hips and legs shaped like a vulva.

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Asymmetrical Re-Worlding, Part 4: The End of Male Power | by Therese Doherty

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Clipart of woman creating a cave painting overlaid on Kazakh petroglyphs.

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Asymmetrical Re-worlding, Part 3: Our Matriarchal Foremothers Are Laughing … If They Aren’t Crying | by Therese Doherty

When you can’t block people’s access to food and shelter, and you can’t stop them from leaving, how can you control them?

Archive | Chile’s Black Community Face Renewed Threats Amid Surge in Far-Right Politics | by Rebecca Johns

Archive | Chile’s Black Community Face Renewed Threats Amid Surge in Far-Right Politics | by Rebecca Johns

A reminder of how very global the rise the far right is

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Coalition, Talent, Interval, FiLiA2025

Time to Accept Our Assingment

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Asymmetrical Re-Worlding, Part 2: The Dance of Relationship | by Therese Doherty

:D I did not choose this essay because I am often quoted in it. I chose it because it's a brilliant synthesis of complex ideas beautifully presented.

Archive | Pour It Out | by A'Ja Lyons

women's art

Archive | Pour It Out | by A'Ja Lyons

I was with my sisters dancing to the rhythms correcting the misconceptions that I am any less than a goddess of the sun, or whatever that rapper said.

Let Us Be Clear-Eyed

Domination Systems

Let Us Be Clear-Eyed

Pogroms Must Not Be Tolerated

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Asymmetrical Re-worlding, Part 1: The Pilgrim’s Path Beyond the Mountains of Dualism | by Therese Doherty

Reader-Friendly, Elegant Refutation of 'Postfeminism'

Archive | The Crone’s Tarot: A Materialist Feminist’s Menopausal Adventure | by Dr V L McMahon

Archive | The Crone’s Tarot: A Materialist Feminist’s Menopausal Adventure | by Dr V L McMahon

"An old woman’s lack of regular intercourse might mean that poisonous gas would build up in the womb and dissipate through bodily orifices, such as generating deadly eye beams to emanate and blind others."

flexible scales for feminists

sharing is solidarity

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Archive | The Complex Choreography of Womanhood | by Susan L Lin

Archive | The Complex Choreography of Womanhood | by Susan L Lin

My body knows the secret to clearing the ground.

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We'll Be Right Back

Revisiting Authors' Contributions from the Archive

Clip art of a stack of books, a journal and pen, and a sticky note announcing the dates of the Reading Circles.

Reading Circles Start 1 November

Pythia Tiamat & Special Offer Members

A terracotta figurine, Goddess figure from Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, c. 3000 BCE.

Bonus Post | Esmée @ Matriarchy Times

Cooking up collaborations!!

Three sailboats on the sea, traveling from right to left.

How the First People Came to Ireland | by Linda Rosewood

People lived around the Lake at the Center of the World for thousands of years.

A collage of the woman symbol in many different styles and colors

Social Butterflies, Knowledge Bridges & Coalition

When I imagine globally cooperative, strategically coordinated feminist coalitions I do not picture that monolith, and I do not forget about the splinters or how they came to be.

Graffiti of cave-drawing style stick figures with bow and arrow attacking Cyber Trucks

Free People / Civil Unrest

Deep austerity and climate catastrophes can intensify :/

For the Occupied United States

For the Occupied United States

& anyone trying to outwit and outlive oppressive regimes

A symmetrical illustration with trees, moons, and a central serpent

From The Apple & Eve poems| by Daša Kružlicová

that man! created from Angels mist / born to feed flowers / god passed him down to me / like shoe gone out of style

abstract yellow lines represent dandelions on a gray-green water color style wash of color

Celandine Dandelion | by Linda Rosewood

She nearly finds what she came for, / Where flowers bloom for no man’s market. / Mostly heather speaking the women’s purple language.

Lines of computer code written across the images of two happy girls, the code moves over them as if in three dimensions.

Let’s Leave the Erasure to the Patriarchy, Eh?

We're all out here trying not be consumed

Pragna Patel on the Gorgon Posse Pod

And where to get you some FiLiA tix!!

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