# Medusa Rising | World Building Women
> Radical Materialist Feminism, Radical Matriarchal Feminism, Gorgon Posse Pod, eco-feminism, materialist feminism, publishing women, Gorgon Posse AI Spike, movement building, women's writing, art, poetry, fiction, essay, international, politics, culture, policy, theory, federated think tank, feminist lending cirlcles, Jaclyn Lanae, women's coach, women's life coach, women's relationship coach, Matriarchal Policy, Matriarchal movement, Matriarchy Now, Dancing-Goddess, SHE-EDE, embodiment, Radfem
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## Pages
- [Meet Us](https://www.medusarising.org/about.md) - Supporting women in resistance and increasing women's thriving requires both political and cultural work. Medusa Rising feel that welcome, joy, and deep witness are essential to this world building.
- [Donate](https://www.medusarising.org/donate.md) - Feminist economies run on exhausted volunteers and the slimmest margins. This changes when we change this. Building alt-fem-economy is in our dreams and plans. Please, support vital RadMatFem projects like ours (including ours! Heh). WITH OUR GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CARE AND SUPPORT
- [Events & Community](https://www.medusarising.org/events.md) - Reading Circle | Soulcraft | Lives
- [Manifesto for a Radical Materialist Feminism](https://www.medusarising.org/manifesto-radmatfem.md) - Originally published at the Root & Spark Substack in 2022
- [Mission](https://www.medusarising.org/mission.md) - We welcome all generations of radfems on every continent into a deep sisterhood where we reclaim and reimagine women's social and spiritual history.
- [Collaboration](https://www.medusarising.org/pod-soc-collaborate-shop.md) - We are super grateful when you share and shout out this work!
- [Private Page: Katherine Acosta on Right-Wing Collaboration of US 'Feminist' Organizations](https://www.medusarising.org/private-page-katherine-acosta-on-right-wing-collaboration-of-us-feminist-organizations.md)
- [Private Page | Reading Circles & Other Events - The Details](https://www.medusarising.org/reading-circles-other-events.md) - Let us gather and subvert!!
- [Submit & Subscribe](https://www.medusarising.org/submit-subscribe.md) - Medusa Rising accepts work in any genre on any feminist topic and in translation into English. We accept work by women from the personal to the political, from the most factual to the most imaginative.
- [Women's Lands | ReproControl | Money](https://www.medusarising.org/womens-lands-reproductive-autonomy-money.md) - Control of Your Material Base

## Posts
- [LGBCC x Gorgon Posse](https://www.medusarising.org/lgbcc-x-gorgon-posse.md) - Videocast | Lauren Leggieri on LGBCC & loss of lesbian community & connection
- [Final Girl | by Beatrix Kondo](https://www.medusarising.org/final-girl-by-beatrix-kondo.md) - Poem | They call it survival like you won something.
- [Resilience Kit for Teen Boys](https://www.medusarising.org/resilience-kit-for-teen-boys.md) - Resources | EVERGREEN AND ANTI-BULLSHIT
- [Post-Midterm Safety Net Cuts](https://www.medusarising.org/post-midterm-safety-net-cuts.md) - News | Direct Material Effects on US Women's Lives
- [Matriarchy Machine | by platypus](https://www.medusarising.org/matriarchy-machine-by-platypus.md) - Fiction | It would be funny if it weren’t so… persistent.
- [Judgy Mommy Can’t Be A Sister in Struggle | by Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/judgy-mommy-cant-be-a-sister-in-struggle-by-jaclyn-lanae.md) - Soul Craft | We create safety for women by coming together and being safe for women.
- [Militant Women | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/militant-women-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Essay | The YES of Feminist Negation
- [LET'S TAKE IT BACK | DemocraShe x Gorgon Posse](https://www.medusarising.org/lets-take-it-back-democrashe-x-gorgon-posse.md) - Podcast | Supporting the Next Generation and Voting to Overwhelm Redistricting
- [How I met Jaclyn & asked her into Medusa Rising](https://www.medusarising.org/how-i-met-jaclyn-asked-her-into-medusa-rising.md) - Update | Next Soul Craft Circle Is 25 July
- [Reading Room DC | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/reading-room-dc-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Review | 3,436 and 1/2 volumes, 800 pages each, 17,000 pounds
- [Next Reading Circle | 1 August](https://www.medusarising.org/next-reading-circle-1-august.md) - Update | for Lughnasahd, Feminist International by Veronica Gago
- [Shift Competition to Confidence | by Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/shift-competition-to-confidence-by-jaclyn-lanae.md) - Soul Craft | It’s likely you’re already more aware of the energetic information coming in than you realize.
- [Blood, Milk, 神 | by Robin Anderson](https://www.medusarising.org/blood-milk-shen-by-robin-anderson.md) - Personal Essay | If the blood is deficient, the spirit, or shen, cannot rest.
- [RESILIENCE Kit for Teen Girls](https://www.medusarising.org/resilience-kit-for-teen-girls.md) - Resources | EVERGREEN AND ANTI-BULLSHIT
- [On A Materialist Spirituality | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/on-a-materialist-spirituality-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Essay | Member questions got me thinking
- [Being & Sistering in a Motherless World | by Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/being-sistering-in-a-motherless-world-by-jaclyn-lanae-2.md) - Pythias & Tiamats | A ferocious and tenacious little spark
- [Shaping Energy to Flow Is the Craft | by Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/shaping-energy-to-flow-is-the-craft-b.md) - Soul Craft | Whatever it is, it will move through you
- [Think Mean, Take Power, Destroy Power](https://www.medusarising.org/think-mean-take-power-destroy-power.md) - Essay | Reaction Is Too Late In This Struggle
- [Every Woman Is a Riot : Louise Bertin | by Allison Tyra](https://www.medusarising.org/every-woman-is-a-riot-louise-bertin-by-alison-tyra.md) - Cross-Post | from Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work
- [Call for Contributions](https://www.medusarising.org/call-for-contributions.md) - Updates | Materialist Feminism Writ Large
- [SCOTUS Goddamn! Virginia Goddamn! Tennessee Goddamn! | ​by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/scotus-goddamn-virginia-goddamn-tennessee-goddamn-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Essay | Strategic Intersectionality, Civil Rights, SCOTUS, and the Power of Memory
- [Humans Have Got to Just Grow the Hell Up Already | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/radfem-radmatfem-radmatrifem-all-ask-humans-to-just-grow-the-hell-up-already-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Podcast | Coda | Esmee at WLRN on the Meanings of Feminist Love
- [Yearning & Negation | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/yearning-and-negation-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Essay | What about feminist love, feminist schisms, and movement repair?
- [Coming Up This Week](https://www.medusarising.org/coming-up-next-week.md) - Update | Jaclyn and Esmée both offer live sessions
- [Both Energy And Body | by Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/both-energy-and-body-by-jaclyn-lanae.md) - Soul Craft: It's time to come to the circle to begin
- [AI in Mommy Mode – The World Needs Matriarchal Guidance Right This Second | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/ai-in-mommy-mode-the-world-needs-matriarchal-guidance-right-this-second-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Essay | This theory is NOT ready for prime time but history and Mythos-AI don't care about readiness
- [Asked & Answered 3 | The Big Picture](https://www.medusarising.org/asked-answered-3-the-big-picture.md) - Updates | How do all the snakes and gorgons play together?
- [War, Embodiment, Men’s Grids](https://www.medusarising.org/war-embodiment-mens-grids.md) - Essay | Two war-crimes do not make a moral justification
- [The Goddess We Fear in Flesh | by Nehal Sharma](https://www.medusarising.org/the-goddess-we-fear-in-flesh-by-nehal-sharma.md) - Essay | Bonus | Fierce Embodiment & Dark Feminine
- [Asked & Answered 2 | News from the Members Poll](https://www.medusarising.org/asked-answered-2-news-from-the-members-poll.md) - Updates | You asked and change is coming!
- [Between Voice and Reality | by Bushra Majeed](https://www.medusarising.org/between-voice-and-reality-by-bushra-majeed.md) - Essay | Our differences are strategic, let us honor that
- [Third Pillar of Soul Craft: The How's | by Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/third-pillar-of-soul-craft-the-hows-by-jaclyn-lanae.md) - Essay | Free | Soul Craft
- [Being & Be-ing in Mary Daly | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/being-be-ing-in-mary-daly-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Infographic | Reader Request
- [Rematria, Witches, RadFem is the answer to fascism | guest Max Dashú](https://www.medusarising.org/rematria-witches-radfem-is-the-answer-to-fascism-guest-max-dashu.md) - Podcast | Bonus | This may be the most whiplash time to be a radfem
- [Asked & Answered | News from the Members Poll](https://www.medusarising.org/asked-answered-news-from-the-members-poll.md) - Update | Shake it up!
- [Can We Put a Movement Back Together? | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/can-we-put-a-movement-back-together-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Bonus | Letter from a reader & reminder of the scope of this project
- [What We Deserve: Reimagining Stranger Things' Women Beyond the Duffers' Vision | by Beatrix Kondo](https://www.medusarising.org/what-we-deserve-reimagining-stranger-things-women-beyond-the-duffers-vision-by-beatrix-kondo.md) - Part 6 | Upside Down Feminism: How Stranger Things Systematically Destroyed Its Women
- [Razia Sultan: How a Story Became My Language of Feminism | by Srijani Mitra](https://www.medusarising.org/razia-sultan-how-a-story-became-my-language-of-feminism-by-srijani-mitra.md) - Personal Essay | Historical Heriones & Archetypes
- [The Duffer Brothers' Reckoning: When Audiences Stop Accepting "We Tried" | by Beatrix Kondo](https://www.medusarising.org/the-duffer-brothers-reckoning-when-audiences-stop-accepting-we-tried-by-beatrix-kondo.md) - Long Read | Part 5 | Upside Down Feminism
- [Draupadi Speaks | by Nehal Sharma](https://www.medusarising.org/draupadi-speaks-by-nehal-sharma.md) - Poem | Bonus | No Goddess Accepts Demotion
- [The New Medusas: Survivors & Endurance | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/the-new-medusas-survivors-endurance-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Essay | Companion Article to The New Athenas
- [Soul Crafting Requires Us to Dare to Die | by Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/soul-crafting-requires-us-to-dare-to-die-by-jaclyn-lanae.md) - Essay | Free | Soul Craft | Gorgon Project
- [The Last Guy You Dated | by Kari Redmond](https://www.medusarising.org/the-last-guy-you-dated-by-kari-redmond.md) - Fiction | Bonus | Dating and Learning
- [Talking with Sabina Santovetti](https://www.medusarising.org/talking-with-sabina-santovetti.md) - Podcast | Bonus | Eco-Village Design & Goddess Alignment
- [Karen "Fucking" Wheeler: The Only Woman Who Gets Power (After Proving She Knew Her Place) | by Beatrix Kondo](https://www.medusarising.org/karen-fucking-wheeler-the-only-woman-who-gets-power-after-proving-she-knew-her-place-by-beatrix-kondo.md) - Review | Part 4 | Upside Down Feminism
- [Style Understatement | by Shivangi Sharma](https://www.medusarising.org/style-understatement-by-shivangi-sharma.md) - Poem | Bonus Post | Beauty Industry BS
- [The New Athenas | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/the-new-athenas-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Bonus Post | Trigger Warning: child rape
- [Overcoming the Emergency | Sources](https://www.medusarising.org/overcoming-the-emergency-sources.md) - Bonus Post | Strategy & Tactics
- [The Comatose Woman Plot Device and the Myth of Having It All (As Long As You Want Nothing) | by Beatrix Kondo](https://www.medusarising.org/the-comatose-woman-plot-device-and-the-myth-of-having-it-all-as-long-as-you-want-nothing-by-beatrix-kondo.md) - Long Reads | Part 3 | Upside Down Feminism
- [The Daughters of India | by Arpita Biradar](https://www.medusarising.org/the-daughters-of-india-by-arpita-biradar.md) - Essay | Bonus Post | So yes, if revolution has to begin, we start from the land, and our daughters.
- [Esmée @ WLRN on Feminist Love](https://www.medusarising.org/esmee-wlrn-on-feminist-love.md) - Update | Podcast | Jocelyn Crawley hosting like a pro!
- [Meditations And Musings On Complaint! | by Jocelyn Crawley](https://www.medusarising.org/meditations-and-musings-on-complaint-by-jocelyn-crawley.md) - Book Review | Ponus Post| Collective Action Matters
- [Soul-Crafting in Violent Times | by Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/soul-crafting-in-violent-times-by-jaclyn-lanae.md) - Update | New Regular Feature
- [World-Building? Isn’t That a Sci-Fi Thing?](https://www.medusarising.org/world-building-isnt-that-a-sci-fi-thing.md) - Essay | "We must take power and, as quickly as possible, destroy Power."
- [Arrest Them All | Sunny Apocalypse & Esmee](https://www.medusarising.org/updated-links-arrest-them-all-sunny-apocalypse-esmee.md) - Bonus | Video and Audio casts that fill in some blanks
- [The Manic Pixie Dream Gay Girl: How Robin's Sexuality  Served Will's Coming-Out Arc, Then Got Discarded | by Beatrix Kondo](https://www.medusarising.org/the-manic-pixie-dream-gay-girl-how-robins-sexuality-served-wills-coming-out-arc-then-got-discarded-by-beatrix-kondo.md) - Long Reads | Part 2 | Upside Down Feminism
- [“TO ORGASM WITHOUT TERROR” | Feminism or Death by Francoise d’Eaubonne](https://www.medusarising.org/to-orgasm-without-terror-feminism-or-death-by-francoise-deaubonne.md) - Review | The OG Ecofeminist On the Side of Life
- [On the Soulcraft of Embodiment w/ Jaclyn Lanae - audio](https://www.medusarising.org/on-the-soulcraft-of-embodiment-w-jaclyn-lanae-audio.md) - Public & Corras | Audio Pods Always Free
- [Upside Down Feminism - How Stranger Things Systematically Destroyed Its Women | by Beatrix Kondo](https://www.medusarising.org/upside-down-feminism-how-stranger-things-systematically-destroyed-its-women-by-beatrix-kondo.md) - Long Read | Spoilers | Part 1 The Disposable Girls: Barb, Eleven, and the Sacrificial Lamb Economy
- [Contra-ICE](https://www.medusarising.org/contra-ice.md) - Bonus Post | A Nudge of a Starter Kit #LFG
- [On the Soul-Craft of Embodiment w/ Jaclyn Lanae](https://www.medusarising.org/on-the-soul-craft-of-embodiment-w-jaclyn-lanae.md) - Members Perk - New Video Pod
- [A Wee Gift](https://www.medusarising.org/a-wee-gift.md) - Because we need poetry, because we can be poetry
- [Invisible Leashes | by Miss M.](https://www.medusarising.org/invisible-leashes-by-miss-m.md) - Essay| Trigger warning: sexual assault and victim-blaming.
- [OK It's 2026, So Now What?!](https://www.medusarising.org/ok-so-its-2026-what-now.md) - Big Update | We're Back! Let's Go! New Gorgons!
- [Some Further Thoughts on Asymmetrical Re-Worlding | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/some-further-thoughts-on-asymmetrical-re-worlding-by-therese-doherty.md) - In response to some post-feminist pushback | Crosspost
- [Gift Subscriptions & Yuletide Restfulness](https://www.medusarising.org/gift-subscriptions-yuletide-restfulness.md) - Update| Share the insight and mischief with your besties!
- [Looking to 2026, Goddess Help Us](https://www.medusarising.org/looking-to-2026-goddess-help-us.md) - Update | Light Festivals, February's Reading Group, and a collage!
- [RadMatFem & AI, part 1 of 1000](https://www.medusarising.org/radmatfem-ai.md) - Goofing with a local LM
- [Metapatterning, Grief,  Brighton](https://www.medusarising.org/still-processing-brighton.md) - This chasm can't be where feminists land after 50 years
- [TRN ReMix | Re:Framing Mary Daly](https://www.medusarising.org/trn-remix-re-framing-mary-daly.md) - A remix and an experiment
- [This Isn't a One Way Street](https://www.medusarising.org/this-isnt-a-one-way-street.md) - You're invited, too.
- [Instigator | by Laura Nováková](https://www.medusarising.org/instigator-by-laura-novakova.md) - Red in glasses spilling scars / Kitchen counter full of vines / My heart starts then.
- [Cross-post | Notes on a Detransition 6: Empathy Hijacking | by Victoria Gugenheim](https://www.medusarising.org/cross-post-notes-on-a-detransition-6-empathy-hijacking-by-victoria-gugenheim.md) - From her Destransition Series on the parts of trans-culture we're not supposed to talk about
- [Andrea Dworkin's Enduring Insights on Sexual Assault, and some feminist reservations | by Jocelyn Crawley](https://www.medusarising.org/andrea-dworkins-enduring-insights-on-sexual-assault-and-some-feminist-reservations-by-jocelyn-crawley.md) - **This essay includes descriptions of sexual assault and rape.**
- [About the Winged Ones | by Laura Nováková](https://www.medusarising.org/about-the-winged-ones-by-laura-novakova.md) - I take a breath and just see where it goes from there.
- [Last Day to Get the Special Subscription and Sign Up for Nov 1 Reading Circle](https://www.medusarising.org/last-day-to-get-the-special-subscription-and-sign-up-for-nov-1-reading-circle.md) - Also - Please respond to the poll to help set the time of meeting
- [Slowing Down for the Dark Days](https://www.medusarising.org/slowing-down-for-the-dark-days.md) - Time to compost, to grow roots, to rest before regeneration
- [How to Join the Reading Circle on 1 Nov](https://www.medusarising.org/how-to-join-the-reading-circle-on-1-nov.md) - Please respond to the poll to help set the time of meeting
- [Hard Parts of Coalition x FiLiA2025 in Brighton](https://www.medusarising.org/hard-parts-of-coalition-x-filia2025-in-brighton.md) - I say this because the critique of colonialism is ALSO a form of grief for the broken and bleeding bodies of women. If we cannot hear that in each other's vioces, we are lost.
- [Asymmetrical Re-worlding, Part 5: Let’s Get Metaphysical! | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/asymmetrical-re-worlding-part-5-lets-get-metaphysical-by-therese-doherty.md) - We don’t need this notion of postfeminism because we don’t need to get beyond feminism but right down into the belly of it, right into the beating heart, the ground of female being that is our birthright to embrace.
- [Asymmetrical Re-Worlding, Part 4: The End of Male Power | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/asymmetrical-re-worlding-part-4-the-end-of-male-power-by-therese-doherty.md) - Subscribe between now and Halloween, and get six months of a $12 rate for $8, includes private event invites, first event just after Halloween, two more in winter. Accept Promotional Offer (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠) Or, just leave us a tip. (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠) We do love to pay these writers, reporters, a…
- [Asymmetrical Re-worlding, Part 3: Our Matriarchal Foremothers Are Laughing … If They Aren’t Crying | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/asymmetrical-re-worlding-part-3-our-matriarchal-foremothers-are-laughing-if-they-arent-crying-by-therese-doherty.md) - 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](https://www.medusarising.org/archive-chiles-black-community-face-renewed-threats-amid-surge-in-far-right-politics-by-rebecca-johns.md) - A reminder of how very global the rise the far right is
- [Coalition, Talent, Interval, FiLiA2025](https://www.medusarising.org/coalition-talent-interval-filia2025.md) - Time to Accept Our Assingment
- [Asymmetrical Re-Worlding, Part 2: The Dance of Relationship | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/asymmetrical-re-worlding-part-2-the-dance-of-relationship-by-therese-doherty.md) - :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](https://www.medusarising.org/archive-pour-it-out-by-aja-lyons.md) - 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](https://www.medusarising.org/let-us-be-clear-eyed.md) - Pogroms Must Not Be Tolerated
- [Asymmetrical Re-worlding, Part 1: The Pilgrim’s Path Beyond the Mountains of Dualism | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/asymmetrical-re-worlding-part-1-the-pilgrims-path-beyond-the-mountains-of-dualism-by-therese-doherty.md) - Reader-Friendly, Elegant Refutation of 'Postfeminism'
- [Archive | The Crone’s Tarot: A Materialist Feminist’s Menopausal Adventure | by Dr V L McMahon](https://www.medusarising.org/archive-the-crones-tarot-a-materialist-feminists-menopausal-adventure-by-dr-v-l-mcmahon.md) - "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."
- [Archive | The Complex Choreography of Womanhood | by Susan L Lin](https://www.medusarising.org/archive-the-complex-choreography-of-womanhood-by-susan-l-lin.md) - My body knows the secret to clearing the ground.
- [We'll Be Right Back](https://www.medusarising.org/well-be-right-back.md) - Revisiting Authors' Contributions from the Archive
- [Reading Circles Start 1 November](https://www.medusarising.org/reading-circles-start-1-november.md) - Pythia Tiamat & Special Offer Members
- [Bonus Post | Esmée @ Matriarchy Times](https://www.medusarising.org/bonus-post-esmee-matriarchy-times.md) - Cooking up collaborations!!
- [How the First People Came to Ireland | by Linda Rosewood](https://www.medusarising.org/how-the-first-people-came-to-ireland-by-linda-rosewood.md) - People lived around the Lake at the Center of the World for thousands of years.
- [Social Butterflies, Knowledge Bridges & Coalition](https://www.medusarising.org/social-butterflies-knowledge-bridges-coalition.md) - 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.
- [Free People / Civil Unrest](https://www.medusarising.org/free-people-civil-unrest.md) - Deep austerity and climate catastrophes can intensify :/
- [For the Occupied United States](https://www.medusarising.org/for-the-occupied-united-states.md) - & anyone trying to outwit and outlive oppressive regimes
- [From The Apple & Eve poems| by Daša Kružlicová](https://www.medusarising.org/adams-sloppy-seconds-by-dasa-kruzlicova.md) - that man! created from Angels mist / born to feed flowers / god passed him down to me / like shoe gone out of style
- [Celandine Dandelion | by Linda Rosewood](https://www.medusarising.org/celandine-dandelion-by-linda-rosewood.md) - She nearly finds what she came for, / Where flowers bloom for no man’s market. / Mostly heather speaking the women’s purple language.
- [Let’s Leave the Erasure to the Patriarchy, Eh?](https://www.medusarising.org/lets-leave-the-erasure-to-the-patriarchy-eh.md) - We're all out here trying not be consumed
- [Pragna Patel on the Gorgon Posse Pod](https://www.medusarising.org/pragna-patel-on-the-gorgon-posse-pod.md) - And where to get you some FiLiA tix!!
- [Portrait with Us | by SriJani Mitra](https://www.medusarising.org/portrait-with-us-by-srijani-mitra.md) - We have leopards breathing between our thighs.
- [How Big Is Our Dream? | by Esmée](https://www.medusarising.org/how-big-is-our-dream-by-esmee.md) - In their dream there is no future but collapse and war. | In our dream there is femina-futurism, there is the Hyper-Lithic, there is life and vitality.
- [Well, If They Arrest Me](https://www.medusarising.org/well-if-they-arrest-me.md) - The Email I Just Sent Will Be Why
- [The Fertilization President Wants My Womb | by Helena ‘Ellie’ Huizenga](https://www.medusarising.org/the-fertilization-president-wants-my-womb-by-ellie-helena-ellie-huizenga.md) - I’m pregnant with my second child, and I find myself dragged into a national policy debate I never signed up for.
- [Myth of the 'Forever Patriarchy'](https://www.medusarising.org/myth-of-the-forever-patriarchy.md) - Can't Die Fast Enough
- [Infographic | Femina-Future v Patriarchy](https://www.medusarising.org/femina-future-v-patriarchy.md) - Free to download, share, teach
- [Most Exciting News! World Building Women Worldwide Right Now!](https://www.medusarising.org/most-exciting-news-world-building-women-worldwide-right-now.md) - Global Eco-Village Network, Gaia Education Course, 31 OCT - 29 NOV 2025
- [+ Strategy & Structure](https://www.medusarising.org/whose-side-though.md) - I, I am feeling petty with a side of salt about this.
- [Use Your Voice & Stop The Far Right In Its Tracks](https://www.medusarising.org/use-your-voice-stop-the-far-right-in-its-tracks.md) - Shift the Discourse - Here's How
- [A Better Internet for Feminists](https://www.medusarising.org/a-better-internet-for-feminists.md) - Decentralized Infrastructure, Communally Organized, Bridging & Building Coalitions
- [Details | Gorgon Posse Playlist Party](https://www.medusarising.org/details-gorgon-posse-playlist-party.md) - Like a Quilting Circle but for Music (⁠✷⁠‿⁠✷⁠)
- [Giving a Good Word](https://www.medusarising.org/giving-a-good-word.md) - Premium: More Great Feminist Reading #SharingIsSolidarity
- [Palestine, Gaza, Women, Words](https://www.medusarising.org/palestine-gaza-women-words.md) - It is only through standing by each other through the trouble that we will pull through to trust and world building together.
- [New Pod | Companion to the Cixous Series](https://www.medusarising.org/new-pod-guest-its-esmee.md) - LOL I wanted to read this draft/poem/essay/meditation thing to you
- [1 Week to Go: Fun Break for Feminists!](https://www.medusarising.org/1-week-to-go-fun-break-for-feminists.md) - It's Playlist Time!!
- [RE: Framing Hélène Cixous, Part 2 | by Esmée](https://www.medusarising.org/re-framing-helene-cixous-part-2-by-esmee.md) - I keep wondering, what if, what if, what if these characters who model ideal kinds of sexual difference and human wholeness didn't have to die?
- [July 24 | Co-Curate the Gorgon Posse Playlist w/Esmée!!](https://www.medusarising.org/july-24-gorgon-chat-with-esmee.md) - RadMatFem hang out for members.
- [RE: Framing Hélène Cixous | by Esmée](https://www.medusarising.org/re-framing-helene-cixous-by-esmee.md) - Part 1: Newly Born and Ferocious
- [Honoring the Goddess-Snake |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/honoring-the-goddess-snake.md) - Anyone else need a mental health break? Yes? Cool. Let's talk about the snake women and snake goddesses I called on to help hold Medusa Rising.
- [Join Us Live | Members-Only](https://www.medusarising.org/join-us-live-members-only.md) - Hang Out & Make a Playlist with Esmée and Ask Anything
- [Gorgon Posse Ep 4 | Esmée Reads Jorie Graham's 'Disenchantment'](https://www.medusarising.org/gorgon-posse-ep-4-esmee-reads-jorie-grahams-overlord.md) - An experiment o(^o^)o
- [Chile’s Black Community Face Renewed Threats Amid Surge in Far-Right Politics | by Rebecca Johns](https://www.medusarising.org/chiles-black-community-face-renewed-threats-amid-surge-in-far-right-politics-by-rebecca-johns.md) - Reporting from Chile on Women Organizing for Black & Immigrant Communities
- [Key Concepts: Gender, A Means of Oppression | by Erin](https://www.medusarising.org/key-concepts-gender-a-means-of-oppression-by-erin.md) - For instance, in Japan, some companies tell female employees to remove glasses because wearing glasses make them look less feminine by “giving a cold impression.”
- [The Prettiest House on Jutland Road | by A'Ja Lyons](https://www.medusarising.org/the-prettiest-house-on-jutland-road-by-aja-lyons.md) - The house looked lovely yet my grandmother never / repaired the developing foundation issue
- [Growing Up Girl](https://www.medusarising.org/growing-up-girl.md) - Resources recently encountered | Free post
- [The Emergency & Escapism](https://www.medusarising.org/the-emergency-escapism.md) - A meditation
- [Happy Pride!](https://www.medusarising.org/happy-pride.md) - I just want to say that I know Pride Month has become maddeningly complicated, and that the erasure is thick on the ground, but Medusa's Laugh I hope your celebrations in throngs or in quietude you can totally forget about (entitled identities) for a while and enjoy the fact of your thriving! To Me…
- [The Newest, Shiniest Kindness: A Review of (Un)kind | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/the-newest-shiniest-kindness-a-review-of-un-kind-by-therese-doherty.md) - The core of the issue is "that women cannot be defined in terms of their own interests, only those of others."
- [Two Summer Events](https://www.medusarising.org/two-summer-events.md) - Medusa Rising joins Red Light Exposé and Invites You to Enter the Chat
- [Radical Notion Remix | Both Contained and Open](https://www.medusarising.org/radical-notion-remix-both-contained-and-open.md) - Vital concepts of #RadMatFem designed to travel the world! Please share to everyone interested.
- [There's a gap in the MSM and big podcast world where Women's Funding should be](https://www.medusarising.org/theres-a-gap-in-the-msm-and-big-podcast-world-where-womens-funding-should-be.md) - an i have done a mad thing
- [Necklace of Mouths | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/necklace-of-mouths-by-therese-doherty.md) - Art posts are public for easy sharing (^-^;
- [furies | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/furies-by-therese-doherty.md) - black is our colour, darkness our home / and red blood flows through our chthonic bodies / its own bright unlight
- [Support for Gazans](https://www.medusarising.org/support-for-gazans.md) - end the siege | only the living can build a better world
- [A Poll for You about Us](https://www.medusarising.org/a-poll-for-you-about-us.md) - Members, please respond by May 16th :)
- [Holding on Tight | by Susan L Lin](https://www.medusarising.org/holding-on-tight-by-susan-l-lin.md) - Art posts are public for easy sharing (^-^;
- [The Complex Choreography of Womanhood | by Susan L Lin](https://www.medusarising.org/the-complex-choreography-of-womanhood-by-susan-l-lin-2.md) - My body knows the secret to clearing the ground.
- [Gorgon Posse with Jane Clare Jones](https://www.medusarising.org/medusa-gazes-with-jane-clare-jones.md) - UK & US in this moment in ranty male entitlement
- [It's Fascism! New Rules! | Part 6 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/its-fascism-new-rules-part-6.md) - #3E and Autonomous Women's Movement+
- [It's Fascism. New Rules. | Part 5 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/its-fascism-new-rules-part-5.md) - This image is not like the other series images :) | This is a free & public series.
- [It's Fascism. New Rules. | Feminist Motivations |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/its-fascism-new-rules-feminist-motivations-by-esmee-streachailt.md) - Women in Authoritarian Regimes
- [It's Fascism. New Rules. | Part 4 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/its-fascism-new-rules-part-4.md) - New Rules, Same as the Old Rules, but Different
- [Pour It Out | by A'Ja Lyons](https://www.medusarising.org/pour-it-out-by-aja-lyons.md) - 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.
- [It's Faaascism. New Rules. | Part 3 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/its-faaascism-new-rules-part-3-2.md) - Don't collapse. Don't comply. Don't collaborate with power.
- [The Crone’s Tarot: A Materialist Feminist’s Menopausal Adventure | by Dr V L McMahon](https://www.medusarising.org/the-crones-tarot-a-materialist-feminists-menopausal-adventure-by-dr-v-l-mcmahon.md) - "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."
- [It's Fascism. New Rules. | Part 2 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/its-fascism-new-rules.md) - I'm not ready to make nice --- and this is a looooong post, y'all. -- Update: Recordings have moved behind the paywall.
- [Why Do Male Dominated Societies Regularly Collapse? |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/why-do-male-dominated-societies-regularly-collapse.md) - Free public reprint from my Substack. Rare Saturday post.
- [Call for Your Visions & Voices](https://www.medusarising.org/call-for-submissions.md) - Medusa Rising accepts art & writing by women from everywhere on Earth in English and in translation into English.
- [Key Concepts: What is Gender? |by Erin](https://www.medusarising.org/key-concepts-what-is-gender-by-infinite-erin.md) - One of a regular series of posts meant to introduce root ideas in RadMatFem to beginners on their feminist journey.
- [Women Supporting Women is the revolution](https://www.medusarising.org/women-supporting-women-is-the-revolution.md) - April 1st approaches! Paid subscriptions will begin!
- [It's Fascism. New Rules. |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/its-fascism-new-rules-2.md) - Part 1 | Is this goal possible? I don't know. Are they dreaming it? Yes. Should we assume we are in a fight against men who want to reprise the 13th century? Yes, I think we should.
- [Interwoven Selves: Review of From a Broken Web | by Therese Doherty](https://www.medusarising.org/interwoven-selves-review-of-from-a-broken-web-by-therese-doherty.md) - We need "to spin a meaning of self out of our femaleness, without reducing it to anything exclusively 'feminine'”.
- [SANDRA G. HARDING         29 March 1935 - 5 March 2025](https://www.medusarising.org/sandra-g-harding-29-march-1935-5-march-2025.md) - Dr Harding ... was always attentive to the importance of building networks with intellectual allies and activists ... internationally acclaimed for her pioneering development of “standpoint theory,” which apprehended science as a contextualized and culturally embedded undertaking...
- [Pass This On: Victory Afghanistan](https://www.medusarising.org/pass-this-on-victory-afghanistan.md) - Looking for Online Teachers for Afghan Women and Girls
- [Tiller | by A'Ja Lyons](https://www.medusarising.org/tiller-by-aja-lyons.md) - Vines lengthened in gratitude. Earth rumbled in reply. New moisture enriched the soil and revived that which had been left to rot.
- [Sisterhood / Coalition 5 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/sisterhood-coalition-5.md) - The opposite of this hardening and isolation is not fusion and gumminess. That happens inside the hardened identity in unconscious and unexamined ways.
- [Gathering of the Cancelled](https://www.medusarising.org/gathering-of-the-cancelled.md) - And then she did. Women Create is the world's first conference of, by, and for cancelled women creatives. Join Medusa Rising there!!
- [Sisterhood / Coalition 4 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/sisterhood-coalition-4.md) - Temporary, Focused, & How the Secret Far Right Cabals Are Doing It
- [Whispers | by Patricia Stover](https://www.medusarising.org/whispers-by-patricia-stover.md) - We work quietly / Pounding metal / Sharpening our swords
- [Sisterhood / Coalition 3 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/sisterhood-coalition-3.md) - Solidarity = Freedom Making Action
- [Episode 2 Esmee & A'Ja](https://www.medusarising.org/episode-2-esmee-aja.md) - Race Class Gender Reconsidered
- [Dedicating Posts to Sisters](https://www.medusarising.org/dedicating-posts-to-sisters.md) - mothers, daughters, feminist elders, the beloved departed
- [Announcing Member Benefits](https://www.medusarising.org/announcing-member-benefits.md) - Hey so, we've worked out our benefit tiers for each world snake goddess.
- [New Times, New Call for Contributions](https://www.medusarising.org/new-times-new-call-for-contributions.md) - Please send pitches or contributions in any of the genres we accept. We pay a bit. We want to amplify RadMatFem voices. We need your voice in these times.
- [Sisterhood / Coalition 2 |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/sisterhood-coalition-2.md) - Conformity and Compliance, or we could just ... not.
- [Respecting Grown-Ass Women](https://www.medusarising.org/respecting-grown-ass-women.md) - Authoritarianism is what abuse looks like in public. Especially when it dresses up as ‘kindness.’ It is a feature of patriarchy, not a bug.
- [Raging Gorgon Posse |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/raging-gorgon-posse.md) - I know I said we were going to go slow and think deeper, and we will, but times changed. All is change. Still slower than social, but a little faster than planned ;-)
- [Sisterhood / Coalition |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/sisterhood-coalition.md) - Let's take the pressure off!!!
- [Flow, Unfolding, Feminism is a project about the future |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/flow-unfolding-feminism-is-a-project-about-the-future.md) - We have to be willing to improvise, mess up, revise, and make world on the fly -- we're not building a buisness model we can product test, we're making world.
- [We Say Persecution](https://www.medusarising.org/we-say-persecution.md) - As always, we must decide what our social contract means and how to live it. Are we preparing for a break-down so complete that we have a chance to re-write that contract? We must be. A death-drive is an endless hunger, and we must be prepared to restore life as we would live it.
- [A Change at Imbolc](https://www.medusarising.org/a-change-at-imbolc.md) - Small adjustment to our publishing & subscription policy. Not to worry!
- [The Trump EO on Sex and Gender |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/the-trump-eo-on-sex-and-gender.md) - Gender is a power structure. The problem with it on the conservative front is that they believe this power structure is ‘evolved’ or ‘ordained by god.’ The problem with it on the progressive front is that they believe gender is not a power structure.
- [Beaten for Now, but not forever | by Patricia Stover](https://www.medusarising.org/beaten-for-now-but-not-forever.md) - A personal essay in response from a red state on the election in the US -- Medusa Rising publishes many kinds of writing. This is the first personal essay on this site. :)
- [So It Begins | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/so-it-begins.md) - Absolute Refusal & Total Solidarity
- [We Publish Women's Poetry](https://www.medusarising.org/we-publish-womens-poetry.md) - Here's one from our founder, Esmée Streachailt. ... Hey, it's what we have while we're building up readership & seeking submissions. ❤️‍🔥
- [Patriarchal Protection Racket - Gaiman Edition](https://www.medusarising.org/patriarchal-protection-racket-gaiman-edition.md) - Will they call him Cthulhu Mind Flayer after what he's done to a young lesbian and virgin? To many women?
- [Teen Girls vs The World](https://www.medusarising.org/teen-girls-vs-the-world.md) - So here is a small clutch of resources to do with that sacred portal from one phase of self to another: adolescence.
- [RadMatFem Connect](https://www.medusarising.org/radmatfem-connect.md) - A practice of strategic intersectionality based in generative difference is only possible when we know who we can work with and where they are. From time to time we will share this call for solidarity. So let's get connecting!
- [No Time to Read?](https://www.medusarising.org/no-time-to-read.md) - Cool. Check out Episode 1 😀
- [Happy Solstice, Sisters](https://www.medusarising.org/happy-solstice-2.md) - You're new here, we're new here, let's make a new year for women every-here!
- [This World of Images |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/this-world-of-images.md) - World of Images ES0:00/207.932751× A prediction made in the 1960s about the world after WW2 and in the face of late-capitalism is that it would become post-Modern – something that remembers the Enlightenment and Industrialization, remembers real empire... but isn't those things anymore. Empire is e…
- [Realists of the Larger Reality |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/realists-of-the-larger-reality.md) - We have horizons waiting to greet us.
- [Endurance |by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/endurance.md) - The purpose of your body is to keep you in touch with the physical world. Smell. Taste. Sound. Touch. Sight. Play.
- [Introducing Radical Notion Remixes](https://www.medusarising.org/introducing-radical-notion-remixes.md) - An on-going cluster of Radical Notion call-backs in more portable & snazzier formats like summaries, infographics, & discussion podcasts.
- [Impulses, Concepts, Energies](https://www.medusarising.org/impulses-concepts-energies.md) - Low-vision readers may find an accessible version of this image at this Google Document.
- [Women Create Conference London: 30 & 31 May 2025](https://www.medusarising.org/women-create-conference-london-30-31-may-2025.md) - Medusa Rising's snake-sister Victoria Gugenheim and team present the world's first conference solely for women artists cancelled by various interest groups for their art, beliefs, or politics. From writers to performance artists, from all over the globe, the conference will feature these women's cr…
- [The Boys Are Not Cool | by Esmée Streachailt](https://www.medusarising.org/the-boys-are-not-cool.md) - Splitting. The fundamental gestures of all illegitimate power are splits...The fundamental effect of all illegitimate power is alienation.
- [Regular Content Begins April 2025](https://www.medusarising.org/april-2025.md) - World building women will begin sharing our regular offerings in April. These first three months, we are learning in public, feeling our way to the presentation of this radical materialist feminist framework, the spirit of our work, and the kinds of submissions we are looking for. We'll post our ex…

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