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“The Great Mother Goddess was honoured throughout ancient North Africa and the Near East, with many different names. In and around Canaan, she was known as Asherah, Mother of Creation, Queen of Heaven...” -Laura Shannon, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree. Art by Teresa Moorehouse

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“In the world’s oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active and autonomous creatrix of the world... the ancient Goddess was always there.” ― Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor Art by Judy Chicago

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“To become means fulfilling the wholeness of what we are capable of being. But as long as woman lacks a divine made in her image she cannot establish her subjectivity/achieve a goal of her own. She lacks an ideal that would be her goal or path in becoming.” –Luce Irigaray Art: Elisabeth Slettnes

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The Utter Beauty of Resistance open.substack.com/pub/dorothyc...

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A new Sculpture and a few thoughts about Asherah, the Hebrew Great Mother Goddess that was erased from the Old Testament. threadsofspiderwoman.blogspot.com/2024/12/ashe...

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My newest on Patreon. Art by Dee Mulrooney

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55 years of the Suppressed Histories Archives, since Jan 1970. Brochures from the 1980s, and a flyer for a 1985 series I did at UC-Berkeley. More content coming soon when we reconfigure www.suppressedhistories.net Visit the daily blog on Suppressed Histories page: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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Hello all, happy new year! I launched a newsletter yesterday to create a space where people can come together to discuss anti-feminist backlash and refusal. Please have a read, share, and tell me what you think! open.substack.com/pub/sorayach...

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"in our own ways we all break. it is okay to hold your heart outside of your body for days. months. years. at a time. – heal" — Nayyirah Waheed Arna Baartz Artist

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"To remember her is to remember parts of our own nature that have been exiled and buried with her. To find her buried in the shadows is to work toward our own resurrection; it is to unearth ways of being and knowing that were exiled and buried long ago." -Vanya Leilani, Ph.D.

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"We have never in recorded history lived in a time when women were, as a whole, empowered. We can only begin to imagine the riches.'' The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis Aleah Chapin - Artist

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"In the Eden myth, no Goddess—no images of the feminine sacred—is allowed to exist. She cannot be named nor fought, since to name her, even if only to defeat her, would be to admit her presence and importance." -Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit Art by Lauren Raine

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Two showings: Wed 18 Dec, 6pm & Sun 22 Dec, noon (California time; check a timezone converter). Judea under Roman occupation, including these icons. Register sliding scale at: suppressed-histories.teachable.com/p/judaea-cap... With readings from Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church.

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"You would be wrong to think that I came to convince you of anything this house resolution though well-meaning and appreciated is of little consequence in the midst of this Holocaust of our time I came in the spirit of Malcolm X and Jimmy Baldwin..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5U...

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“Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone... What I am saying is that every one of us has the responsibility to be the woman Marc Lepine wanted to murder. We need to live with that honour, that courage.” -Andrea Dworkin "We Remember" by Cheryl Braganza

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'Month after month, #Israel has treated #Palestinians in #Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them' said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of @amnestyuk.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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"A pause is not a ceasefire, and a ceasefire is not freedom." –Rafeef Ziadah Art by Suzi Fadel Nassif

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Our words have the power to bring a new world into existence. They introduce us to worlds we might never encounter. Books are the gateway to empathy for others and self-compassion for the shame we carry. If only people would read them... Art by Leticia Banegas www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...

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"Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response." blissonature.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/r...

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Ancient Sahara: women in a great rock art tradition. I've made this entire visual talk open access, because the ancient Saharan paintings are important, yet little known. Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Niger, many of these masterpieces are 6000 years old and more. youtu.be/XYMSNPC0bes?...

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"ICC: there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that Netanyahu & Gallant “bear criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare” & that they had “intentionally & knowingly deprived” Gaza’s civilians of food, water, medicine... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

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Go, tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go, tell it on the mountain That Goddess DID come first! While Grandmas kept their watching O'er precious babes by night Behold throughout the heavens There shone a Holy light Art: Andrea Redmond Songs of Solstice, Trista Hendren.

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¨Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage... In anger, there is truth." -Soraya Chemaly #ragebecomesher Art by @tiril.valeur

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"The immediate damage military occupation inflicts on the affected population is never separate from the long-term damage it inflicts on the planet. Oppose all wars of occupation, and all forms of militarism that help fuel them." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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This Songbook celebrates the cycles of Nature—Birth, Life, and Death—through the changing Seasons from Autumn's abundance to Winter's "Dead Time," when the world goes dark and cold. It is a celebration of both the Light & the Dark, since both are Sacred & needed for new Life to flourish. #skybook

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“Your ability to feel anger or rage is not an accident. On the contrary, it is a great gift. Rage is an intelligent fire. It is infused with its own magic, and born of love. And we need this intelligent fire to unfreeze ourselves from the glaciers of time.” ~ Alison Nappi Art by Jenny Hahn

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''If God is the Mother of the Universe, then the Creation is of the same substance as her—it is of her, as the child is of its mother’s substance, and this means that the whole Creation is divine, and divinely related.'' -Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, TGCM Art by Melissa Shemanna

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My work is global women's history, in the Suppressed Histories Archives, since 1970. Restore women to cultural memory, political analysis, across time and the full cultural record: rock art, archaeology, Indigenous orature, not just written records. Daily posts here: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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Scheduled for next year! Call for Submissions: www.patreon.com/posts/call-f... Pre-order: thegirlgod.com/asherah.php Cover art by Lauren Raine

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Currently reading... so good!

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