Fair Trade Organic…..Hookers
Have a read of this very poignant, tongue in cheek article by Bernadette Green in Spinifex Press' blog. http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/Blog/ Should prostitution ever become that self respecting and healthy I think many more women might take up the profession. In the meantime, lets be careful to not over romanticise [...]
Conversing with the Wise Womb
What I am discovering through my menopausal years (and through dozens of women I know in menopause) is the clear correlation between my personal experience of the early years of my menstruation, AND my menopausal process. It’s a whole picture, not just a physiological reminiscing or re-hash in [...]
When is enough Enough?? In praise of Melinda Tankard-Reist
Melinda Tankard Reist tells the truth that every adult already knows. Nevertheless, audiences are shocked. How dare she awaken me from my inalienable right to choose denial? She has simply and bravely collated the gruelling statistics of the damaging affects of pornography on our youth, and on us [...]
i am eleven
I went to see the Australian made documentary I Am Eleven on the weekend. Because I have worked with that age group for so many years I was very curious as to what the slant would be or the over arching theme. Staying with the tone of eleven [...]
Earth My Body
"welcome to your mother....... earth" artwork by Moana Pearl In the past and in present-day indigenous traditions, women have known that the womb houses the greatest power a woman possesses: the power to create on all levels. Utilized in the process of giving birth, this power of [...]
Belonging
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard Belonging is a natural human need. It's designed to keep us looking out for one another , to foster [...]
Feminised Capitalism?? *#@#*!
I was on my way to the dentist the other day in the Gold Coast. It's in a large corporate building with an expresso bar in the lobby. Lots of shine and glass, you get the picture. The whole place smells like expresso and floor polish. I feel [...]
Is there anything new?
I gave a public presentation a couple of days ago on Understanding the Importance of Rites of Passage for Teen Girls in Contemporary Culture. It was designed to be informative as well as promotional for the upcoming Pathways Into Womanhood, a 5-day Residential Rites of Passage camp for [...]
My prayer
My prayer is that my work fertilizes the rich and faithful soil in which each woman can nourish her elemental and spiritual self. As each of us as women come home to our innate wisdom, together we shall grow and re-member compassion and community. We are the elders [...]
“If the fires …
"If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth." Michael Meade