Gorgon Posse of Medusa Rising

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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5 days ago

Ep 1 A'Ja & Esmée talk Genspect, Race, Gender Identity

5 days ago

Hey-so, here’s our first real episode!! I have stitched it together in the ways one does, and two things have become clear to me:
1) I need more practice at editing podcasts, and 2) I talk too much. Not in the ‘I’m a woman and I feel I talk too much’ way (please, have we met?), but in the ‘I have learning to do about Hosting As A Craft' way.
Still, this was fun and A’Ja and I brought a lot of expertise and humor to this conversation.
The episode of Genspect’s YouTube channel we’re discussing is Trans Ideology and Black America:⁠https://www.youtube.com/live/W6hsM9IxA-M?si=zIL7H6Leu9FcJkp7⁠
Women’s Liberation Radio News, this link is their YouTube:
⁠https://www.youtube.com/@WomensLiberationRadioNews⁠
And this one is their podcast on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/01lg0y5foXUP2y7mfHvyYw⁠
Gender A Wider Lens is at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP62aWWtlZV1oVnbMhTRBcg⁠
On Sexual Offenses and incarceration, here’s a summary.
Dates and numbers tend to be all over the place on this subject.
People in prisonIn 2021, there were 12,850 people in federal prison for child sex offenses. In addition, 15.5% of the prison population was sentenced for rape or sexual assault, according to The Sentencing Project. ⁠https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/responding-to-crimes-of-a-sexual-nature-what-we-really-want-is-no-more-victims/⁠
People on sex offender registriesIn 2017, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) estimated that there were over 850,000 registered sex offenders (RSOs) in the United States, according to the NIH. ⁠https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10038390/⁠

5 days ago

Gorgon Posse of Medusa Rising Trailer

5 days ago

Founder/Editor of ⁠Medusa Rising | World Building Women⁠, Esmée Streachailt, introduces the podcast's mission to deepen feminist movement. Medusa Rising aims to expand the radical materialist feminism established by The Radical Notion magazine into accessible digital formats. The podcast will cover feminist topics and promote intersectional collaboration and sisterhood. Team members will host episodes in their expertise or curiosities. Moving out of the patriarchal/dominance epoch into a matristic/partnership epoch will require improvisation and learning in public! Listeners will hear from diverse feminist voices on various subjects including embodied thriving, soul craft, politics, culture, and social movements in a RadMatFem perspective. The team embraces a slow, deliberate approach creating meaning more than content, and warmly invites contributions from the community.

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Monday May 05, 2025

Ep 3: Jane Clare Jones

Monday May 05, 2025

Male Entitlement has been throwing a Fascist Tantrum in the US, and an Aggrieved bit of Narcissistic Rage in the UK. Jane Clare Jones sat down with Esmee to talk it through. You may have to copy and paste these links because I am not giving the overlords my passport for verification. Jane Clare Jones can be found at Culture War Blues: https://culturewarblues.substack.com The Center for Feminist Thought: https://feminist-thought.org The Executive Orders referred to can be found at WhiteHouse.gov https://www.whitehouse.gov (if you can stomach it)The UK Supreme Court Ruling for For Women Scotland can be found at https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2024_0042_judgment_aea6c48cee.pdfwww.medusarising.org - free membership, affordable perks, faf247

Tuesday Mar 18, 2025

Ep 2 Reading Sisterhood/Coaliton Pt 3

Tuesday Mar 18, 2025

Ep 1 Reading Sisterhood/Coalition Pt 300:00 Ep 1 Reading Sisterhood/Coalition Pt 3

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We are eager to promote new feminist work on women's needs, life-wisdom, ideas, culture, soulcraft, politics, art, economy, ecological work, and social movement. Patriarchy is the interlocking legal, economic, cultural, and religious systems and traditions that support male supremacy. It was born in the commodification, rape, and murder of women. It has existed in remarkably consistent forms for five thousand years. Medusa Rising means for this millennium to be its last. The Gorgons are a small, international team of women committed to the RadMatFem framework. While we base our feminism in different threads of the tradition, 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.