Gorgon Posse of Medusa Rising

Post Pod | Blood, Milk, Shen by Robin Anderson | read by Esmée

Medusa Rising audio pods are free, please consider : https://www.medusarising.org/donate [https://www.medusarising.org/donate] A personal essay where MR sees the price women pay in our bodies in a world that stole way women's community, women's wisdom, and women's centrality. Read it here: https://www.medusarising.org/p/ccf1879c-ab6a-4fac-b888-6dfa7aff8a48/ [https://www.medusarising.org/p/ccf1879c-ab6a-4fac-b888-6dfa7aff8a48/]  Robin Anderson, #postpartum, #breastfeeding, #ChineseMedicine, new mother, support for mothers

Ep 28 On a Materialist Spirituality | by Esmee Streachailt : post recording

Medusa Rising audio pods are free, making them is not :) https://www.medusarising.org/donate [https://www.medusarising.org/donate/] A view on questions from readers:  1. Does it always have to entail a spiritual belief/practice? 2a. Is a Wiccan path feminist? 2b. Do feminists need a goddess? 3. Can a feminist retain a sense of spirit when she believes in the power of material reality and rationality? Read it here: https://www.medusarising.org/p/582a5be9-3e77-4320-b2cf-4c30f7393a72 [https://www.medusarising.org/p/582a5be9-3e77-4320-b2cf-4c30f7393a72]  #womenswisdom #goddessculture #spiritualist #materialism #paradox #reason #feministspirituality #womenshistory #wicca #liberty #medusa #gorgonposse #medusarising

Post Pod | Being & Sistering in a Motherless World | by Jaclyn Lanae

Medusa Rising audio pods are free, please consider a donation  [https://www.medusarising.org/donate]ƪ⁠(⁠˘⁠⌣⁠˘⁠)⁠ʃ Jaclyn reminds us to be sisters to ourselves and each other by finding some stillness, touching grass, feeling all the way down, and relaxing in each other's company.  Subscribe to read this post [https://www.medusarising.org/p/27aa1318-ddbf-4c16-bb1f-b5a18110e80c/]. Get a membership for the full experience [http://www.medusarising.org/], access to our community server & live events, the Gorgon Posse Play List, and all the gorgeous design we put into our work.  Jaclyn Lanae is an author, spiritual pragmatist, and embodiment coach who came to this work through the rough and tumble education of loss and repair. She’s authored a couple of books on the decadent art of making mistakes and her part of her story was featured in an independent documentary. She writes and works for women reclaiming autonomy in love, identity, and self expression, and her work is available at JaclynLanae.Substack.com [https://JaclynLanae.Substack.com] and at authorjaclynlanae.com [https://authorjaclynlanae.com]. #selfcare #sisterhood #grounding #embodiment #feeling #stillness #laughtermedicine #energywork, #recovery #regeneration #selflove #gentlness

Ep 27 Movement and Embodiment | Victoria Gugenheim and Esmée Streachailt

Medusa Rising audio pods are free, please consider : https://www.medusarising.org/donate [https://www.medusarising.org/donate]  Victoria and Esmée range across the pressures on our bodies, the ways we push back in and from our bodies, the ways feminists do and don't welcome our bodies and what it might mean to shift away from policing each other (hint, we would have more feminists).  References:  Elaine Scary, The Body in Pain  [http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-body-in-pain-9780195049961?cc=us&lang=en&] Phillip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect, lecture at Google Talks [https://youtu.be/rUyDznt5V4I?si=LzRpAehNyNx0rYAG] Elaine Scary, On Beauty and Being Just [http://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691089591/on-beauty-and-being-just?srsltid=AfmBOoouZiRGOCCOLUgAwWGrmSzF66k1nQGkiLgXkdLHltFuv7MUNbMF] (it's medicine) Fibromyalgia and Pain Antibodies [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-study-shows-fibromyalgia-likely-the-result-of-autoimmune-problems] at King's College Victoria Gugenhiem is the founder of Painted Powerful and Women Create International, and a Gorgon at Medusa Rising. Esmée Streachailt, PhD,  is the founder of Medusa Rising: World Building Women.  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. #embodiment #pleasure #pain #sisterhood #feministmovement #feministschism #thesexwars #bdsm #dissociation #TheBodyInPain #fibromyalgia #LuciferEffect #Beauty #Adornment #Justice #radfem #radmatfem #worldbuildingwomen #womenbuildingworlds

Post Pod | Shaping Energy to Flow Is the Craft | by Jaclyn Lanae

The art of crafting a soul is, at its core, an exercise in energy management. A conscious, loving intentional awareness and adjustment of our own energies, perspectives, and belief systems in order to create a more wholly embodied energetic self. It’s a focused shift of state, not just mood. (*) .!. (*) Thank you, sisters & cousins, for listening and sharing. Full post at our Ghost [http://www.medusarising.org/] or Substack [http://substack.com/@medusarisingoutpost] sites.  Medusa Rising audio pods are free, please consider : https://www.medusarising.org/donate [https://www.medusarising.org/donate] Medusa Rising is a multimedia space for radical feminist storytelling, research, art, political education, & coaltion-building grounded in the radical materialist feminist (#RadMatFem) frameworks developed in THE RADICAL NOTION [https://theradicalnotion.org/?ref=medusarising.org]. We exist to take radical materialist feminism [https://feministgrounds.substack.com/?ref=medusarising.org] 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 promote new feminist work on women's needs, life-wisdom, ideas, culture, soulcraft, politics, art, economy, ecological work, and social movement.