Slowing Down for the Dark Days
Time to compost, to grow roots, to rest before regeneration
I just love a random dragon, you know?
It's time to slow down. The pressure cooker has been blasting her whistle for while now. Burnout, even just thinking and publishing, is very real. I want to stop fussing with posts and socials. I want to have some cool conversations and share them with you. I want to get some thinking thought in the wake of this whole year for the world and for our many feminisms. ... And finish the Cixous essays, for the love all creatures.
Expect a slower rhythm. I know I said this before and then just plowed on through the whole summer (how not what with the MAGAfash destruction of my country?), but this time I mean it. Medusa Rising promises 4 to 8 posts per month, so from here until maybe Imbolc, expect 4 posts. I suspect I'm not the only one who would like to lean back a little these days.
One cool conversation is coming at the end of the month. You're invited if you are Pythia and Tiamat tiers or if you upgrade with this discount offer between now and Halloween.
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.
The first Reading Circle will meet the 1st of November. We'll discuss How to Dismantle a Dictatorship by Heather Marsh.
I'll contact all the Pythia and Tiamat members, including you who upgrade with this discount offer.
Get HTDAD at Bookshop.org or your fave book store. The work this book describes applies across anti-domination and anti-extraction efforts. Replace 'Dictator' and 'Endo-ideal' with 'Male Default' and you're there. Some of us have dictators to take down, some of us have other patriarchal constructs to deconstruct and disempower. The thesis for this discussion is that they are enough alike for this anti-authoritarian playbook to speak to both the Patriarch(y) and the Tyrant/tyranny.
The book is a guide to taking our world back from these forces, not just the leaders, but the sadist social forces shaping our several tyrannies. Once we do that, we can build.
A tyrant is not a man. He is a tyranny made of his followers/reflectors, HM highlights how he is a system. He is a condition. And RadMatFem is meant for changing conditions. The thing we face has always been at the heart of the American soul because it is the soul of patriarchy.
I hope you will read these books with your own unique lenses, moving into your own applications or imagining. I will open conversations with your highlights or general impressions of the books. I've sent the conversation guide to Pythias and Tiamats. If you think I missed you, email info@medusarising.org.
As with the playlist party, we will meet on Google Meet, take a vote on whether or not to record for a podcast, and dive on in.
If you're a RadFem involved in an Indivisible chapter or 50501 or Support Veterans or with a radfem resistance group operating autonomous, let MR share your insights, you experience, how you see the direction of travel. We want to share good news and connection!!!
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