matriarchy - Medusa Rising | World Building Women

Image of Medusa in bust, in a orange-red color all over, and a black and which highlight bar of her eyes where an identity redaction might be

Culture Critique

The New Athenas | by Esmée Streachailt

Bonus Post | Trigger Warning: child rape

Collage of Bingo Cards with game marks and a distended map of the world showing 20 feet of sea level rise. The words This is not a game appear in Scrabble letters.

updates

Looking to 2026, Goddess Help Us

Update | Light Festivals, February's Reading Group, and a collage!

Longreads

Asymmetrical Re-worlding, Part 5: Let’s Get Metaphysical! | by Therese Doherty

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.

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

Longreads

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?

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

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Bonus Post | Esmée @ Matriarchy Times

Cooking up collaborations!!

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

Fiction

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 stylized image of a woman holding a skull, surrounded by stars and glitter.

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Myth of the 'Forever Patriarchy'

Can't Die Fast Enough

Line drawing of abstract Medusa looking at the viewer on a moss green watercolor style background

coalition

Most Exciting News! World Building Women Worldwide Right Now!

Global Eco-Village Network, Gaia Education Course, 31 OCT - 29 NOV 2025