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Women’s Ritual Dances and the Nine Touchstones of Goddess Spirituality-Part Two by Laura Shannon
In the first part of this article, I looked at how Carol P Christ’s Nine Touchstones of Goddess Spirituality are related to traditional women’s ritual dances of the Balkans. After more than thirty years of researching and teaching these dances…
Posted in Dance, Magdalene A.D., Myth, Ritual, wisdom, Women
Tagged Balkan Dancing, feminism, herstory, Laura Shannon, Magdalene A.D., Mary Magdalene, Persephone and Demeter, truth
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Hidden Figures – A Different Approach to Promoting Mutuality
The other day, I re-blogged Sara Frykenberg’s post about the impossibility of debating “mutuality,” which I define as the mutual respect required to approach each and any “other” as a peer. The movie, Hidden Figures, starring Taraji Hensen, Octavia … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Film Review, Heroine/Hero's Journey, Herstory, Politics, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged creativity, culture, feminism, Hidden Figures, History, Janelle Monáe, Katherin Johnson, movies, NASA, Octavia Spence, racism, Sara Frykenberg, space, Tarji Hensen, Theodore Melfi, Womens' March
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Why I March
At my march in Denton, Texas the organizers asked us to fill out a card saying why we march. I wrote:”Because all the women who stayed home because they haven’t yet found their voice, or someone would hit them or … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Poetry, Women
Tagged Denton, feminism, Gloria Steinhem, poetry, Why I March, Womens' March
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NaPoWriMo: Book Spine Poem
The Red-Haired Girl From the Bog Her curly mane, color of sailors’ delight, captures attention from every street philosopher and holy fool mooching the squalid sidewalks of the city of the beasts … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged balance, Book Spine Poetry, feminism, Mallika Sengupta, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, red hair
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Published in We’ Moon
I am proud to announce that a couple of my poems will be featured in We’ Moon next year. We’ Moon is a women’s almanac published every year since 1987 by Mother Tongue Ink in Oregon. It’s been my constant … Continue reading
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May 7, 2015
Tagged community, Denmark, feminism, menstruation, Moon, poetry, Silver Moon, spiritual, We'Moon, wisdom, women, women's bookstores, writing
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