Gorgon Posse of Medusa Rising
Gorgon Posse of Medusa Rising
Podcast Description
Medusa Rising -- medusarising.org -- exists to take radical materialist feminism into the next arm of its spiral: to share these ideas and analysis all over the world in easily accessible and useful forms. We are eager to publish, promote, and discuss new feminist work on women’s needs, life-wisdom, ideas, culture, soulcraft, politics, art, economy, ecological work, and social movement.
We see combinations of authoritarianism and woman-hating on the increase in conservative and progressive movements around the world. We create and support international and intergenerational feminist work responding to these developing threats in radical materialist feminist tradition (#radmatfem) developed by THE RADICAL NOTION Collective.
Supporting women in resistance toward cultural recovery and increasing women’s thriving requires both political and cultural work. Medusa Rising feel that welcome, joy, and deep witness are essential to this world building.
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Content Themes
The podcast highlights various themes such as women's needs, cultural dialogue, political activism, and social movements. Each episode tackles specific topics like race and gender identity in its inaugural episode featuring A'Ja and Esmée, while later episodes explore male entitlement and community resilience in feminism.
Medusa Rising — medusarising.org — exists to take radical materialist feminism into the next arm of its spiral: to share these ideas and analysis all over the world in easily accessible and useful forms. We are eager to publish, promote, and discuss new feminist work on women’s needs, life-wisdom, ideas, culture, soulcraft, politics, art, economy, ecological work, and social movement.
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We see combinations of authoritarianism and woman-hating on the increase in conservative and progressive movements around the world. We create and support international and intergenerational feminist work responding to these developing threats in radical materialist feminist tradition (#radmatfem) developed by THE RADICAL NOTION Collective and Jane Clare Jones.
Supporting women in resistance toward cultural recovery and increasing women’s thriving requires both political and cultural work. Medusa Rising feel that welcome, joy, and deep witness are essential to this world building. We have a Goddess Planet to heal and a future to dream into existence.
Medusa Rising audio pods are free and listener supported: https://www.medusarising.org/donate/
Max and Esmée talked of rematriation (returning to the mothers, becoming matriarchal), witches and the hunts, and keeping feminism centered in our feminism.
Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives (1970) to research and document global women’s history. She teaches with images from her collection of over 80,000 photos of female cultural heritages across time and space. She is internationally known for her expertise on archaeomythology / iconography, matricultures, and orature; historical processes of patriarchalization and how they are entangled with other systems of domination; medicine women, shamans, witches, and the witch hunts. Her books include Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, 700-1100 (2016) and Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides (2023). She has produced scores of videos and teaches via webcasts and online courses.
Links in the notes to books and courses
New course website
https://maxdashu.freshlearn.com/
Motherhouse, Land/Justice/Future
https://www.landjusticefutures.org/video-library/motherhouse
Rojava Women and Governance
https://weall.org/resource/rojava
Inspired by the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan, Rojava’s vision emphasises social ecology, communalism, and ecological sustainability. Rojava has been working to implement cooperative and communal economic models aiming to harmonise human society with the natural environment, promote sustainable practices, and address environmental challenges through collective action and community-based solutions.
- https://womendefendrojava.net/en/about-us/
- https://www.womensvoicesnow.org/womens-revolution-in-rojava
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/rojava-revolution-reshaping-masculinity/
- https://revistaperiferias.org/en/materia/rojavas-prisional-systems/
- https://rapidtransition.org/stories/rojava-in-syria-growing-local-democracy-and-defending-ecology-in-the-midst-of-conflict/
Max Dashu’s Work, Archive, Books
- Veleda Press www.veleda.net (books, posters, dvds)
- Open access videos: https://www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/videos
- Stream-on-demand videos:https://maxdashu.freshlearn.com
- Follow Suppressed Histories Archives FB page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064415032446
- Max Dashu substack https://oldwitch.substack.com/
Events and publications: https://www.instagram.com/maxdashu/
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