Tag: Women

Wake up Women

They have come for us

We who are female

We who bleed

They are trying to pull us backwards

To a time where their hatred of us was open

Where they controlled all of what we said and did

Their patriarchy perpetuates itself through their churches

WAKE UP WOMEN

Step out of your complacency

Step out of your father’s house

Step out of your husband’s house

Step out and lift your voice

Embrace your freedom

Embrace your sisters

Embrace your sovereignty

We women are sacred and whole unto ourselves

Shed the males who oppress you

Shed the beliefs that limit you

Shed anything that you wish

YOU are in charge of yourself

YOU are in charge of your body

YOU should be running the world

YOU are spiritual power embodied

REMEMBER WHO YOU REALLY ARE AND RISE

– Tizzy Hyatt

Image: Joey Spadaro

Medusa

The story of Medusa is a story of the natural response to injustice, and of the vilifying of feminine rage. ⁣⁣

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Medusa was said to be born exceptionally beautiful, and because of this she caught the eye of Poseidon, who impregnated her in the temple of Athena. When Athena learned of this, it is said that she punished Medusa by turning her into a Gorgon and exiling her. ⁣⁣

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For ages the story of Medusa has put fear into people, but the true story here is that Medusa was a victim because of her physical beauty, and then she became empowered and as a result was feared. ⁣⁣

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What if Athena exiled and turned her it into a gorgon not as a punishment, but as an act of grace and empowerment? That never again should Medusa be violated? She gave her space and a powerful means to protect herself. Medusa now had the ability turn to stone anyone who came after her with the intent to harm or violate. ⁣⁣

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Even after Perseus managed to kill Medusa by her severing her head from her body, her power wasn’t diminished. It’s said that the blood from her head had the ability to both kill and to raise from the dead. A lock of her hair was used to protect an entire city!! ⁣⁣

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Medusa is a symbol of feminine rage. Patriarchy sees the female body as either something to exploit, to fear or to distain, rather than respect and revere. It certainly doesn’t want push back or empowered rage. So we’ve been spoon fed these ghastly distorted tales, warning women to “know their place”. But reading between the lines we see a while other story. ⁣⁣

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Righteous Rage alway has a place in society and within each of us. ⁣⁣

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In yesterday‘s post I spoke of the goddess Durga, with her many arms and her ability to destroy demons and to protect and liberate. What if Medusa is really just a vilified archetype similar to Durga? Imagine stopping violence and lies dead in its tracks just by one’s gaze ? By calling it for what it is? ⁣⁣

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Read between the lines, we see a whole other story of Medusa than what we’ve been fed. We see the story of righteous rage and feminine justice. And the power it has to destroy, heal and protect. ⁣⁣

Image: statue by Luciano Garbati – reimagining of Medusa

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You Were Right

“You were right.

Your deepest darkest fears were not unfounded.

The vagina dentata is not a mythical nightmare.

It truly is real.

The teeth are real.

Teeth that bite and tear and sever.

And they are ours.

You thought you were safe, that everything and everywhere was yours.

You were wrong.

You violated your word, our space, our bodies, us.

We are not yours and we’re coming to remind you.

With our hidden pointed teeth.

Like piranhas

We shall consume you.

You can’t stay out of the water to keep yourself safe

Because everywhere is our ocean.

We have cried enough tears to flood the world

Thanks to you.

And now we shall swim wherever we please

With our teeth ready and vision clear.

Every bite, a tower consumed.

Bones scattered and broken

Like promises and gaslight lamps.

Look over your shoulder,

The tide is rising and

She is coming.

Justice may be blind,

But she has two sets of teeth.”

~ Laura Tempest Zakroff, 12-7-2017, Teeth of Fish (a poem and a warning)

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Art: Dee Mulrooney

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Reasons Roe was over ruled

Surely easier to see why the last few Supreme Court judges were pushed through despite the overwhelmingly evidence of debauchery and cover ups by the good olé boy system of which women participate as well.

townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/06/24/read-it-heres-the-supreme-courts-basis-for-overruling-roe-and-casey-n2609277

Alice Roosevelt; Independence

This is 18-year-old Alice Roosevelt and her long-haired Chihuahua named Leo in 1902. She also had a pet snake named Emily Spinach who she would wrap around on one arm and take to parties.

Alice was extremely independent and unlike many women of her time, she was known to wear pants, drive cars, smoke cigarettes, place bets with bookies, dance on rooftops, and party all night. In a span of 15 months, she managed to attend 300 parties, 350 balls and 407 dinners.

A friend of Alice’s stepmom once remarked that she was “like a young wild animal that had been put into good clothes.” Her stepmom went a step further and described her as a “guttersnipe” that went “uncontrolled with every boy in town.”

William Howard Taft banned her from the White House after Alice buried a voodoo doll (of Taft’s wife) in the front yard. Woodrow Wilson also banned her after she told a very dirty joke (sadly no record of the joke exists) about him in public.

Her father, Theodore Roosevelt famously said, “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.”

Alice once told President Lyndon B. Johnson that she specifically wore wide-brimmed hats around him so that he could not kiss her.

During an interview in 1974, Alice described herself as a “hedonist.”

She died in 1980 at the age of 96.

Women’s Bodies

A reminder to any woman who looks at her body and finds it flawed: these are prehistoric carvings of goddesses. These represent the epitome of feminine beauty to those we seek to emulate when we go on “paleo” diets. Not a flat tummy, thigh gap, or gravity-defying breast among them.

These are bodies that are unique to their owners, and contain stories of desire, creation, hardship, and perseverance. These are bodies that are ready to hold you as you cry. These are bodies that worked every day to provide nourishment, resources and guidance to their communities while also caring for the next generation. They supported one another in their labor, holding one another’s babies while they worked crafting tools, collecting water & singing songs to teach the young about the goddesses they so closely resembled.

And these carvings weren’t found in just one area. They’ve been discovered nearly everywhere humanity has settled and thrived. Which means there was a time when womanhood, in all her power and capacity, was revered not as merely a sexual novelty or shunned as sinful temptation, but seen as a source of inspiration to create, to connect, and to find courage.

Today, our patriarchal society reveres conformity in women over all. It demands that women strive to achieve and maintain a form that resembles an untested girl. Our bodies must look perpetually untouched, unspoiled, a blank slate for a man to claim and use and write his own story upon. Instead of worshiping women as they are, we scrutinize and discard them as never good enough. And the more we strive to conform, the more we give up control of our bodies.

So have comfort, women: with each fat roll and jiggle you gain as you move forward in time, you come closer to resembling the goddess as she originally appeared in the hearts of humanity. She lives in you and longs to be seen and revered as she was before.

And you deserve to be worshipped.

~ Alaura Weaver

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Photo source: http://albertis-window.com/2012/04/excavation-sites-for-prehistoric-and-ancient-female-figurines/

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To The Woman Who Is Slowly Fading Away

TO THE WOMAN WHO IS SLOWLY FADING AWAY…

To the woman who has lost her spark.

To the woman whose get up and go, has well and truly gone.

This is for you.

This is to remind you, that you don’t have to be everything to everyone, every day.

You didn’t sign up for that.

Remember when you used to laugh? Sing?

Throw caution to the wind?

Remember when you used to forgive yourself more quickly for not always being perfect.

You can get that back again.

You really can.

And that doesn’t have to mean letting people down or walking away.

It just means being kinder to you, feeling brave enough to say no sometimes.

Being brave enough to stop sometimes.

And rest.

It starts the moment you realise that you’re not quite who you used to be.

Some of that is good, some of that is not.

There are parts of you that need to be brought back.

And if anyone in your life is not okay with that… they are not your people. Your people will be glad to see that spark starting to light up again.

So, if you have been slowly fading away my friend, this is the time to start saying yes to things that bring you joy and no to things that don’t.

It’s really pretty simple.

By Donna Ashworth

ART BY THE AMAZING Lisa Aisato 💕

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Poem from ‘to the women’ : https://tinyurl.com/ye9f93zd

‘I wish I knew’: https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ

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Lilith

“Lilith refused to submit to the rules of the patriarchy. Unbroken and unbowed, she was painted as a demon because of her rebellion. Lilith teaches us that we may be demonized as we pull off the chains of the patriarchy, but we will be free. Lilith reminds us that we can survive anything. We can plant our own sacred garden anywhere we choose.” ~Ara

✩ Dive deeper into the medicine of the Goddess Lilith and her rebellion against the oppressive forces of the patriarchy in my book “Dark Goddess Magick” available wherever books are sold & on sale now on Amazon!

“Embracing Lilith” – https://thegoddesscircle.net/visionary-writing/embracing-lilith

Writing (c) C. Ara Campbell

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