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 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 -- 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 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.
Feel something's off about #postfeminism ? Something is off. Need a Rebuttal? Here it is! Part 1 introduces you to Therese's journey into her own radical materialist feminism. Wondering how to begin your feminist journey without the capitulations of post- or liberal feminism? Here's one model. Therese Doherty Reads Asymmetrical Re-Worlding, Part 1 is also here: https://www.medusarising.org/p/bda570c0-b3fb-4d30-bd7a-63f2af4e7d51/ _____ (*) _____ Like all our podcasts, this one is free to all. We are a reader/listener supported project, women led, women run, for women. Buy the Gorgons a coffee, ya? Find more movement building and feminist awesomeness at medusarising.org. Want to chat or suggest a guest? Tell us all about it! --- This episode was produced by Esmée Streachailt, and you can tell ;) #radfem #worldbuildingwomen #medusarising #podcast #gorgonposse #radmatfem #smashpatriarchy #goddess #matriarchy #multisolving #omnicrisis #farright #care #ecology #partnershipsystems #hyperlithic #womenswisdom #solidarityeconomy #sustainableeconomics #secondwave #womenswriting #womensart #feministphilosophy #bookreviews #artsculture #reviews #poetry #fiction #longform #essay #memoire #microfiction #coalitionbuilding #coalition #strategicintersectionality #intersectionality #womensthought #feministtheory #theory #continentalphilosophy #globalfeminism #womensmovement #womensliberation #liberation #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #BindingChaos #FuckICE #NoKings #Trumpedo #MAGAPO #MVAWG #Femicide
Sometimes we publish posts as pods. Subscribe at https://www.medusarising.org/subscriptions/ to get all pretty stuff and all the posts we don't share here. Subcriptions start at $2 USD per month.Support without subscribing if you like :) This episode grows from a series published in the spring called It's Fascism! New Rules! And from our belief that saving the world will grow out of saving women like oak trees grow out of deep rich soil.
Esmee reading the post of the same title from Medusa Rising. Want the links? Sweet. Sign up! --- Like all our podcasts, this one is free to all. We are a reader/listener supported project, women led, women run, for women. Support without subscribing if you like :) Find more movement building and feminist awesomeness at medusarising.org. Want to chat or suggest a guest? Tell us all about it! --- This episode was produced by Esmée Streachailt, and you can tell ;) #radfem #worldbuildingwomen #medusarising #podcast #gorgonposse #radmatfem #smashpatriarchy #goddess #matriarchy #multisolving #omnicrisis #farright #care #ecology #partnershipsystems #hyperlithic #womenswisdom #solidarityeconomy #sustainableeconomics #secondwave #womenswriting #womensart #feministphilosophy #bookreviews #artsculture #reviews #poetry #fiction #longform #essay #memoire #microfiction #coalitionbuilding #coalition #strategicintersectionality #intersectionality #womensthought #feministtheory #theory #continentalphilosophy #globalfeminism #womensmovement #womensliberation #liberation #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #BindingChaos #FuckICE #NoKings #Trumpedo #MAGAPO #MVAWG #Femicide
SHE IS WE | SHE-EDE with Sabina Santovetti & Maria Esperanza Carrasco Gaia Education Ecovillage Design Education After the first She-Ede held in Magliano Sabina in 2023 and a series of She-Ede of a week each held in Italy and Portugal in 2024 that are still happening and will run cyclically, now, SHE-EDE goes to South America. SHE-EDE NASHIRA COLOMBIA – 31ST OF OCTOBER – 29TH OF NOVEMBER 2025 Information and Scholarships available at Dancing Goddess and Feminine Wisdom MatriCulture School. Inquiries, and to make contact: she-ede@dancing-goddess.org GAIA EDUCATION ECOVILLAGE DESIGN EDUCATION HELD IN A MODERN MATRIARCHAL COMMUNITY IN COLOMBIA We teach the knowledge and skills that WE need as WOMEN to design truly regenerative Matriarchal Communities which thrive within planetary boundaries, empowering each other as a collective for the new story of the Great Turning to happen. Open to WOMEN OF ALL AGES, FROM 18 TO 99, this SHE-EDE- NASHIRA 2025 is 30 days in place program that follows Mother Earth seasonal rhythms of life, Matriarchal Wisdom, the Spiral Wheel of the Work that Reconnects, Maternal Gift Economy and the Wheel of Gaia Education, Ecovillage Design Education program. This last is an award-winning provider of holistic learning for Sustainable Development. Besides Gaia Education and the Work that Reconnects, the course is meant to empower women to see the interconnections of life by learning to design Matriarchal sustainable communities, restoring balance to our planet in the urgent transition to a more regenerative future, reversing the climate crisis. --- Like all our podcasts, this one is free to all. Like us, share us! Making the logarithm feminist is a post-modern form of magic!! We are a reader/listener supported project, women led, women run, for women. Support without subscribing if you like :) Start a newsletter membership at medusarising.org. There is so much more feministing over there! Want to chat or suggest a guest? Let's get introduced! :) ___ #feministfuture #radfem #worldbuildingwomen #medusarising #podcast #gorgonposse #radmatfem #smashpatriarchy #makethematriarchy #goddess #goddessculture #matriarchy #multisolving #omnicrisis #farright #care #ecology #partnershipsystems #hyperlithic #womenswisdom #solidarityeconomy #sustainableeconomics #secondwave #womenswriting #womensart #feministphilosophy #bookreviews #artsculture #reviews #poetry #fiction #longform #essay #memoire #microfiction #coalitionbuilding #coalition #strategicintersectionality #intersectionality #womensthought #feministtheory #theory #continentalphilosophy #globalfeminism #womensmovement #womensliberation #liberation #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #BindingChaos #MVAWG #Femicide
Pragna Patel is an icon of the UK feminist movement, working in immigrant rights and violence and against women and girls. She’s the founder of Project Resist and a founding member of the Southall Black Sisters. Esmée interviewed Pragna for the keepsake magazine profiling conference speakers for this 10th anniversary gathering at FiLiA. This episode is the whole, we think important, conversation shared here because the magazine edit had to be around 1200 words. We talked about threats to immigrants and migrant people, the strengthening global far right movement, a fractured left that needs to focus on issues and values rather than identity, the joy and energy of FiLiA2025. Pragna reflects on the conference as a chance for feminists to sharpen each other's skills and beliefs, to seek alignments in our differences including generational ones. Feminists really can do a better job of welcoming the next generation of feminists. She shares a little of how she learned to be the effective activists that she has been, about how none of us knew exactly or much of ‘how to do this’ when we started. Learning on the job is feminist tradition. We talked about feminists taking positions on the far right, on matters of war and genocide, how to have a feminist position on travesties like the destruction and genocide of Gaza because these positions help us build solidarity across differences. Pragna hopes feminists will find a deeper principled solidarity.
FiLiA2025 happens in Brighton, UK in October. Tickets and Speakers here: https://www.filia.org.uk/tickets This 10th anniversary conference is focused on Femicide, Male Violence Against Women, and women’s survival and thriving in the teeth of male supremacy. The line up of speakers and workshops includes renowned feminist elders like Max Dashu and Genevieve Vaughn, and younger activists and artists like Blessing Okoedion and Angela Wild. --- Like all our podcasts, this one is free to all. We are a reader/listener supported project, women led, women run, for women. Support without subscribing if you like :) Subscribe for more movement building and feminist awesomeness at medusarising.org. Want to chat or suggest a guest? Tell us all about it! --- This episode was produced by Esmée Streachailt, and you can tell ;) ___ #radfem #worldbuildingwomen #medusarising #podcast #gorgonposse #radmatfem #smashpatriarchy #goddess #matriarchy #multisolving #omnicrisis #farright #care #ecology #partnershipsystems #hyperlithic #womenswisdom #solidarityeconomy #sustainableeconomics #secondwave #womenswriting #womensart #feministphilosophy #bookreviews #artsculture #reviews #poetry #fiction #longform #essay #memoire #microfiction #coalitionbuilding #coalition #strategicintersectionality #intersectionality #womensthought #feministtheory #theory #continentalphilosophy #globalfeminism #womensmovement #womensliberation #liberation #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #BindingChaos #FuckICE #NoKings #Trumpedo #MAGAPO #MVAWG #Femicide
Outtake from Esmée's article For 40,000 Year the World Did Not Hate Us, serialized in THE RADICAL NOTION issues 11 & 12. What were Paleolithic Women, what was that Double Goddess? --- Like all our podcasts, this one is free to all. We are a reader/listener supported project, women led, women run, for women. Support without subscribing if you like :) Subscribe for more movement building and feminist awesomeness at medusarising.org. Want to chat or suggest a guest? Tell us all about it! --- This episode was produced by Esmée Streachailt, and you can tell ;)
Oh, experiments in production! How's the music? Did the leveling work out? Is this little sidetrack into some heavy-ish theory working for you? Let me know. --- Like all our podcasts, this one is free to all. We are a reader/listener supported project, women led, women run, for women. Support without subscribing if you like :) Find more movement building and feminist awesomeness at medusarising.org. Want to chat or suggest a guest? Tell us all about it! --- This episode was produced by Esmée Streachailt, and you can tell ;)
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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.
