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Chat In The CommonsOut in The Commons: FiLiA 2025 | 16A chat about our trip to FiLiA, the largest grassroots feminist conference in Europe.
Celebrating their tenth anniversary, FiLiA 2025 was held in Brighton, UK and hosted 300 speakers from 75 countries and nearly 3,000 attendants - and Elle was there to soak it all up.
In this episode Elle shares the inside scoop about what she saw and heard - the good, the bad and the ugly. From the powerful panel discussions (see list below), to women’s newfound global connectivity and solidarity, to frictions between feminists of different cultures, getting a 360º view of women’s oppression, and how we...
2025-12-041h 10
A Wild New Work158. Divination 101Divination is a very old folk magic practice that helps us to receive useful information from the unseen, whether it's the divine, our wise and well ancestors, or our own intuition. Autumn is a natural time to use divination, and in today's episode I'm covering more about what it is and isn't, best practices, and how it can change your life.
Resources mentioned:
*Needing More: a 4-week Pilgrimage into Darkness: https://mailchi.mp/awildnewwork/gd63pkceqy
*All my classes, events, and writing can be found at: awildnewwork.com
*Become a monthly supporter in Eagle Creek to access tarot readings, Needing...
2025-10-2847 min
The ReMembering and ReEnchanting PodcastEpisode 46 - Reclaiming suppressed histories of women: A conversation with Max DashuFeminist scholar and artist Max Dashu joins hostess Sara Jolena Wolcott to delve into matriarchal societies and the rich breadth and depth of histories of the divine feminine and various forms of female leadership. Max shares how to navigate colonial and patriarchal narratives in your own cultural lineage as part of uncovering the rich heritage of women's leadership, spiritual power, and cultural contributions that have been systematically erased or minimized. Don't miss Max's 56 years of research into suppressed women's histories!Key Topics DiscussedDecolonizing Historical Narratives [04:21 - 12:26]How mainstream...
2025-10-181h 12
The Kiki and CoCo Show Podcast"Witches" Episode 9Join Kiki and CoCo in this powerful episode on Witches, that is sure to bring your life more magic!Resources: Documentary “The Burning Times” by CFB (Canadian Film Board), Max Dashu’s “Witches and Pagans”, Starhawk’s “The Spiral Dance” & “Dreaming the Dark”, Elaine Pagel’s “Origin of Satan”, "If Eve Only Knew: Freeing Yourself from Biblical Womanhood and Becoming All God Meant for You to Be" by Kendra Weddle Irons and Melanie Springer Mock, FreeSophia.comKing James Bible, commissioned 1604-1611 Daemonologie, by King James VI/l, published1597 Exodus 22:18 (KJV) "Thou shalt not suffer a w! tch to live" Deuteronomy 18:10...
2025-10-151h 14
Gorgon Posse of Medusa RisingEpisode 8 Pragna Patel on Her Way to FiliA2025Pragna 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 nee...
2025-08-2046 min
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistoryMax Dashu - War Against The GoddessIn another installment of our continuing series called, "The War Against The Goddess," we welcome Max Dashu once again as she joins us to discuss the cults of Magna Mater (Cybele) and the Great Mother Goddesses in the Ancient World and the many attempts to destroy them from Ancient Rome through early Christianity. Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden co-host.
2025-06-231h 08
First Voices Radio5/25/2025 - Max DashuGuest Maxine Hammond Dashu, known professionally as Max Dashu, is an American feminist historian, author, and artist. Her areas of expertise include female iconography, mother-right cultures and the origins of patriarchy. Max founded the Suppressed Histories Archives (global women's history) and is the author of "Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture." https://www.suppressedhistories.net/Production Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerOrlando DuPont, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NYTiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio EditorMusic Selections:
2025-06-0457 min
Sky House HerbsThe Modern Goddess: Living Courageously With Pockets full of Plants and CharmsIn this episode, I’m wrapping up my Goddess series by diving into the world of the Modern Goddess—what she meant to our Neolithic ancestors and how she still lives in us today. Inspired by my journey through Old Europe and the work of archeomythologist Marija Gimbutas, I explore goddess-worshiping cultures and the rich symbolism they left behind—like the snake, the egg, and sacred water—as guides for understanding cycles of life, death, fertility, rest, and regeneration.But this isn’t just a look at ancient history. I share practical, grounded ways to embody the goddess in...
2025-05-1230 min
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistoryMax Dashu - Titanides - Encore PresentationRight now, the world needs goddesses, so there's no better time to give an encore presentation of our episode on the Titanides with Max Dashu! Tune in and enjoy!*****It is our pleasure, once again, to present a fascinating conversation with Max Dashu!Max Dashu has championed the various lost histories of women and championed female-centric civilizations for decades. Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in January of 1970 to research and document women's history on a global scale.In today's episode, we discuss chapter one of Max's new book Women In...
2025-04-211h 08
Sky House HerbsThe Snake Goddess of Old Europe: Rituals of Mint, Water, and Sacred SymbolsIn this video, I explore the ancient presence of the Snake Goddess in Old Europe, drawing from the work of Maria Gimbutas and her groundbreaking book The Language of the Goddess. I share images of Neolithic goddess figurines—dating from around the 10th to 8th century BC—and point out the hidden or stylized snake forms that appear on these sacred sculptures. Together, we look at how these images symbolized regeneration, rebirth, and deep ancestral connection, linking the snake to the underworld and to the living earth beneath our feet.I also talk about the beautiful relationship betw...
2025-04-2141 min
Female Frequency PodcastThe Chevron CodeThink the chevron pattern started with ancient Greeks ? Think again. In this episode, we go way back—Neolithic to Now—to explore the chevron as a sacred symbol of Divine Feminine, of bird energy, of intuitive communication that's been carried through generations of art, ritual, and meaning. This week's episode of Female Frequency is inspired by The Language of the Goddess by Maria Gimbutas (shoutout to my sister Kristin for pulling it from the library stack 🙌). We're diving deep into how a new wave of archaeologists, artists, and scholars like Max Dashu are...
2025-04-0813 min
The DALE ALLEN PodcastCaryn MacGrandle, Founder • the divine feminine appCaryn MacGrandle is the creator behind the Divine Feminine App: an online community since 2016 that has been connecting women in Circles, events and resources.In this podcast, Caryn MacGrandle talks about the roots of the divine feminine app and her vision of Version 3.0 including a Goddess library: a repository to protect and support the work of the many women (and a few men) who have worked decades to preserve and discover ‘herstory’ as the Goddess and more matriarchal balanced societies reemerge to balance the world. Such as Max Dashu who has spent decades compiling thousands of sli...
2025-01-0342 min
Healing WisdomMojo Rock Dust, Cave Temples, Spiral Carvings and Wassailing with Max DashuSend us a textIn this interview with author historian Max Dashu, we learn about the ancient and modern practice of scraping rock dust from ancient symbols carved into rocks, caves as spiritual temples used for birthing and funerary ritual and the significance of spirals. Learn how to wassail the way nature-centered pre-Christian ancestors did!
2024-12-2417 min
Healing WisdomThe Forgotten History of Women in Ancient GreeceSend us a textAuthor historian and artist Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives discusses the spiritual traditions of pre-classical Greece, female oracles, birthing and dream caves. Her book Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides delves into what we don't learn in school. In this podcast we learn about just some of the myths and literary depictions of women were revised to reflect the changing status of women and the patriarchal subjugation of women.Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides available at https://veleda.net/ along with ot...
2024-12-2429 min
Healing WisdomThe Forgotten Women in Greek Mythology with Historian Max DashuFeminist historian and artist Max Dashu founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives discusses the spiritual traditions of pre-classical Greece, female oracles, birthing and dream caves, and priestesses. Her book Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanidestackles what we don't learn in school and she examines how the culture shifted from a women-celebrating culture to a culture prescriptive of male-domination. We also discuss the sacred yoni carvings found throughout the world and winter solstice traditions.In school we’re taught that ancient Greece is a role model for democracy, “for all its subjugation of women, its slavery, its...
2024-12-2429 min
Making Meaning: Deep Conversations on Life, Purpose, and The Human ExperienceRelatives of Mother Earth and Chosen Family with Author and Activist Hilary Giovale Join host Reese Brown as she sits down with Author Hilary Giovale to discuss sacred activism, ecological justice, and her book Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Towards Truth, Healing, and Repair.A huge thank you to Hilary for her time, energy, and vulnerability during this conversation!Find Hilary: https://www.goodrelative.com/Find Becoming a Good Relative: https://greenwriterspress.com/book/becoming-a-good-relative/Resources:Guide to Making a Personal Reparations PlanDecolonizing Wealth ProjectJubilee JusticeLinks to order the book from...
2024-12-171h 07
Home to HerJourney to the Goddess with Annalisa DerrOn the latest episode I'm joined by Dr. Annalisa Derr, a goddess educator, Sacred Feminine embodiment teacher, and ritual theatre creatrix. Annalisa completed her doctorate in Mythological Studies with Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She also holds a BA in Theater with specialized training in masked and physical theater from international master teachers in Italy, India, and NYC. Annalisa's work explores the impact that negative cultural menstrual “myths” have on women, which her forthcoming book will explore in more detail. Annalisa offers an affirming alternative in the form of an ancient myth, “The Descent of Inanna,” which sh...
2024-06-211h 02
The Girlfriend God Podcast041: Intergenerational Learning: Getting Educated by Max DashuMax Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document global women's history. She built a collection of 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images, and has created 150 visual talks on female cultural heritages from the most ancient times to the present. She is internationally known for her expertise on ancient Goddess iconography; matricultures and female spheres of power; patriarchy and allied systems of domination; medicine women, female shamans, witches—and the witch hunts. http://www.suppressedhistories.net
Dashu’s first book is Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, 700-1100 (Veleda Press, 2016). She has just published Wome...
2024-04-301h 30
The Goddess ProjectGoddess Talks: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides - with Max DashuGoddess Talks is a short series of interviews with Goddess scholars and practitioners where we informally discuss all things ancient, sacred and divinely feminine.Max Dashu is a feminist historian, author, and artist. Her areas of expertise include female iconography, mother-right cultures, and the origins of patriarchy.In 1970, Max founded the Suppressed Histories Archives to research and document women's history and to make the full spectrum of women's history and culture visible and accessible. The collection includes 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images. Since the early 1970s, Max has delivered visual presentations on women's history throughout North...
2024-04-191h 59
Subject To PowerAs Above, So Below; As Below, So AboveIn many ways, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves in myths, religion, and history - are blueprints for our human lives. But the converse is also true - how we see ourselves, our attitudes, behaviors, and who holds power - in turn shape our stories. In Western culture, there is no story as powerfully influential as that of Greeks.
Historical researcher Max Dashu has spent decades looking for the women in our stories, across the timespan of human history. Collecting visual evidence of women’s lives from cultures all over the globe, she has amassed a vas...
2024-03-161h 09Subject To PowerAs Above, So Below; As Below, So AboveIn many ways, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves in myths, religion, and history - are blueprints for our human lives. But the converse is also true - how we see ourselves, our attitudes, behaviors, and who holds power - in turn shape our stories. In Western culture, there is no story as powerfully influential as that of Greeks.
Historical researcher Max Dashu has spent decades looking for the women in our stories, across the timespan of human history. Collecting visual evidence of women’s lives from cultures all over the globe, she has amassed a vas...
2024-03-161h 09
Female Frequency PodcastUnearthing Women's Legacy Worldwide with Max DashuWhat happened to our goddesses and grandmothers? Meet Max Dashu, founder of Suppressed History Archives, who since 1970 has been compiling one of the most comprehensive cross-cultural collections of documentation on female heritage throughout human history. Her research digs into archeological records, petroglyphs, paintings, iconography, orature, and other visual testimonies to women as culture makers and agents for the earth. Listen as we unpack her newest work, Women in Greek Mythography: Pithias, Melissae and Titanides, and learn about oracular women and priestess traditions that preceded the Olympian pantheon. Max unearths older, nature-based matriarchal societies across the world that existed before...
2024-02-2050 min
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistoryMax Dashu - TitanidesIt is our pleasure, once again, to present a fascinating conversation with Max Dashu!Max Dashu has championed the various lost histories of women and championed female-centric civilizations for decades. Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in January of 1970 to research and document women's history on a global scale.In today's episode, we discuss chapter one of Max's new book Women In Greek Mythography. Focused on the Titanides, the pre-Olympian goddesses, chapter one explores their original stories and the later patriarchal revisions. Female-centric, the mythology of the Titanides explained how the universe came into be...
2024-02-171h 08
The Nature of Invisible Things1.0 The Nature of Invisible Things with Astrologer & Mystic Erin KelleyIn this introductory episode of The Nature of Invisible Things (TNIT), I talk about the origin story of this podcast and how it intertwines with my own origin story. I hope you enjoy it!Erin Kelley (she/her) is a writer, ceremonial astrologer, and mystic with a feral heart. Her intuitive gift of right timing is the essence behind her work, affectionately called Slow Magick. Erin believes desire is holy, change happens when it is time, and eros is the driving impulse connecting this moment to the next. With an 8th house stellium, Erin is known for...
2024-01-2156 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Untold Story of Women Throughout HistoryGuest: Max Dashu is the founder of Suppressed Histories Archives. Since 1970 Max Dashu has been researching and documenting women’s history on a global scale. She is the author of several books including her latest Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissa, and Titanides.
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2023-12-0759 min
Feed Your Wild- Intuitive Healing, Akashic Records, Astrology for Healers, Holistic HealingAwaken Your Intuition: The Truth About Channeling and Your Natural Psychic AbilitiesContrary to popular belief, we ALL have intuitive channeling abilities…You just have to know what they are and how to connect + work with them the best and highest way. But where do you even begin? And how do you know you're not just "making it up"? You don't have to be a highly-trained psychic to unlock game-changing intuitive channeling gifts (in fact, most ancient healing practices were based on intuition). I'm here to demystify it! In this "meta" episode (that was channeled to me ;), I explore what channeling is and share enlightening, historical examples an...
2023-10-1255 min
Sex – Tantra and Kama SutraANCIENT ROOTS OF FEMININE EROS with Max DashuANCIENT ROOTS OF FEMININE EROS with Max Dashu, who founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in
1970 to research women's
history internationally and understand how
systems of domination established and perpetuate themselves. She has
built a collection of some 15,000 slides and 100 shows. In
this
episode, Max depthfully shares the lost vital principal of life &
how to reconnect to the nectar of the body. Recover what becomes
possible with reverence, & honor of the inner pulse & rhythms
of the spinal column. Reclaim the healing energy of the ancient &
indigenous Sacra Vulva. Delight in the invocations, stories &
nourishing mythos from around the world.
2023-06-0200 min
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistoryWho Were The Amazons? -- Max Dashu Interview -- Encore PresentationThe Amazons are our inspiration and we thought it would be good to introduce our new listeners to some of discussions on the topic. In a wonderful, spirited discussion, we present and encore episode in which Max Dashu discusses her research into the warrior women called "Amazons." How did the Ancient Greek conception of femaleness shape the stories of Amazons that we know today? What is the relationship of Amazon concept to the warrior tribes that existed in the Black Sea region? Was there really a standalone tribe of warrior women? Sean Marlon Newcombe and Da...
2023-04-221h 09
Night-Light RadioMax Dashú: Secret Histories of Witches and Pagans with Host Dr. Bob HieronimusIn this compelling exploration of language, archaeology, and early medieval literature, Max Dashú illuminates hidden cultural heritages. She shows that the old ethnic names for "witch" signify 'wisewoman, ' 'prophetess, ' 'diviner, ' 'chanter, ' 'herbalist, ' and 'healer.' She fleshes out the oracular ceremonies and archaeological finds that connect with wider European themes of goddesses, fates, witches, and female power. Witches and Pagans looks at women's sacraments in early medieval Europe, a subject that has been buried deep for centuries. Women set out offering tables for the Three Sisters or the "good women," chanted over herbs, and hea...
2022-11-281h 29
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistoryMax Dashu - Pythias and Classical Oracular WomenWhat was the oracular tradition like in Ancient Greece and what were its matriarchal roots? Join us we talk with Max Dashu about this incredible tradition.Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden co-host.
2022-11-131h 13
Magnify Your Miracles PodcastAncestral Magic & Miracles with Perdita FinnHow do YOU observe the Day of the Dead? Here's one way: join me and my guest, Perdita Finn, for a fascinating conversation about Ancestral Magic and Miracles! And if you have any fear about connecting with souls on the other side, this episode is for you!! Perdita Finn is one of my favorite people on the planet. She is also an expert on connecting and working with 'the dead' and how they can help us experience true miracles in our lives. If you are a fan of the podcast, you know she...
2022-11-0250 min
Home to HerMaking Matriarchy Great Again with Dawn Alden and Vicki NobleIf you’d like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/My new book, “Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine,” will be available beginning October 14 from Womancraft Publishing! To learn more, read endorsements and purchase, please visit www.womancraftpublishing.com. You can watch this and other podcast episodes at the Home to Her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK6xtUV6K7ayV30iz1ECigwYou can listen to all past episodes of the “Make Matriarchy Great Again” podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/p...
2022-10-091h 14
Weaving the Wild77. Q+A - Cyclical Living, Learning Astrology, Ancestral Connection Tips, Life UpdatesAfter a little break, I'm back with a chatty episode!
Grab a cuppa and settle in!
I'm sharing what's been stirring and percolating in my world recently and giving some life updates.
And I answers your questions, including:
➳ What IS feminine embodiment
➳ How to start with cyclical living
➳ Where to start learning astrology
➳ How I like to spend my 'free time'
☾ Plus so much more ☾
EPISODE RESOURCES:
Weaving the...
2022-08-1850 min
Medicine StoriesThe Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory (w/ special guest Kami McBride!)Sacred to the goddesses of old, known to all ancestors who occupied the Northern Hemisphere, and beloved by wise folk and herbal healers from the Ice Age until today, mugwort is one of the most magical and practical medicinal plants in the world. May we come into relationship with this potent ally in order to widen sensory gating channels, ground into our center, and remember who we are. With special guest appearance by Kami McBride! TOPICS: A knowing beyond knowing, ancient and ineffable Mugwort is a door opener, a wayfinder, a...
2022-04-251h 07
The Earth Keepers PodcastHidden Plant Practices of Ancient Witches & Pagans with Max DashuIn last week’s episode, we talked about how plants weren’t just important as food, medicine, and shelter to our ancient ancestors, but they were a key part of the entire religious experience in people’s lives. Today, I have an amazing guest who’s dedicated her life to researching and sharing the hidden, and largely suppressed stories about women’s spiritual lives in ancient times. Author and researcher, Max Dashu, founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document global women's history. I recently read her book called witches and pagans, women in Europea...
2022-03-011h 11
FiLiA#169 Making Feminist History Visible: Women’s Archives and RecordsIn this pilot episode of FiLiA’s new women’s history podcast series, we bring together four feminists from around the world to have an international and intergenerational conversation about the importance of women’s archives. We speak to American historian Max Dashu, Indian artist and activist Aqui Thami, and Algerian archivists Lydia Saïdi and Awal Haouati. Facilitated by Bec Wonders and translated by Natalya Vince.
2022-02-141h 05
Healing WisdomBee Priestesses with Historian Max DashuSend us a textBees were kept for their medicine, honey, propolis, royal jelly, wax, even their venom. Ancient peoples understood the healing properties of various forms of bee medicine, and their reverence reached epic proportions because both bee goddess and priestesses are depicted in many countries and multiple continents. From and rituals and rites depicting dancing and music on artifacts and cave walls, to the history of music imitating the humming and buzzing of hives, to the mythology of the Oracle at Delphi, Max shares insight into matrifocal and Goddess-worshipping cultures of Europe, Anatolia, The Mediterranean...
2022-01-1130 min
The Radical Sex WitchesOur Radical Sex Witch JourneyWe have a fun episode of the podcast for you today - Little Leah and Carla share about our Radical Sex Witch Journey in episode 19 of the RSW! If you are curious about how we got into this whole witchy thing, the kinds of things we did as kids and how we practice today, this episode is for you.And we would love to hear from you - do you consider yourself a witch? How did your journey begin? We want to know! Find us on our socials (below) and let's connect.*
2021-07-1722 min
34 Circe Salon -- The ParallaxMax Dashu - Helen of Troy and Women of the Trojan War“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,And burnt the topless towers of Ilium--Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--"So wrote Christopher Marlowe of one of the most famous names in history: Helen of Troy. But who was Helen and what was life like for women of that era?" Join us as we talk to again with Max Dashu, noted scholar of women in history, about Helen of Troy and women in that portion of the Bronze Age. Were there still strands of matriarchy in these highly phall...
2021-06-271h 12
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistoryMax Dashu - Helen of Troy and Women of the Trojan War“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,And burnt the topless towers of Ilium--Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--"So wrote Christopher Marlowe of one of the most famous names in history: Helen of Troy. But who was Helen and what was life like for women of that era?" Join us as we talk to again with Max Dashu, noted scholar of women in history, about Helen of Troy and women in that portion of the Bronze Age. Were there still strands of matriarchy in these highly phall...
2021-06-271h 12
Esoterismo On AirStreghe e Pagane, Max DashuUn significativo estratto da "Streghe e Pagane" di Max Dashu, "Le Donne nella Religione Popolare Europea."
Uno studio pubblicato da Venexia Editrice sul "Tempo di Mezzo" tra il Paganesimo e l'età dei roghi, quando il nome della donna significava ancora sapiente, guaritrice, fata o profetessa.
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2021-06-0400 min
Weaving the Wild26. Honouring Your Ancestors + Finding Connection in RemembranceIn this episode, I'm exploring the practice of connecting to and honouring our ancestors and loved ones who are no longer with us.
In a free-flow, impromptu chat with you, I sat down and hit record to talk about:
+ My relationship around connecting with ancestors, ancestral veneration, as well as honouring the people who have passed in my own life.
+ The significance of ancestor veneration within ancient cultures and why this practice comes naturally to us as human beings.
+ How we can ensure that our ancestors and loved ones can continue...
2021-04-2836 min
The Sage’s Cabin - Herbs & Liberation17 - Women healers in history with Max DashuTodays podcast episode is with Max Dashu, who is an author and women's historian. Max shares her amazing depth of information on our herstory.
We talk about:
Women healers
Patriarchy
The church
European saunas
The Witch
and much more.
Max has loads of information, talks and courses on her website www.suppressedhistories.net.
She has been researching and collecting information since the 70's and is an expert in this field, unearthing and piecing together long forgotten and suppre...
2021-03-1858 min
shea in the catskillsMarch 2021: Embracing ComplexityMentioned in this Episode:
What's Inspiring Me Now
Robyn Love’s Small Things Brought Together with Jody Hojin Kimmel
Radio Garden app.
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
Radio Oran FM 92.7
a link to a zoom talk with Manchán Magan about his book Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost words of the Irish landscape.
Here’s teeny taste, with instructions for ordering in the image caption.
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
If you want a taster, here’s a podcast episode with Yunkaporta
Witches and Pagans: Women in...
2021-03-0318 min
Fierce Womxn Writing - Inspiring You to Write MoreMarisa Acocella - Author of the graphic novel, The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the MotherMarisa Acocella is the author of The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the Mother, an Oprah Magazine book pick. Marisa highlights the ways womxn have been erased, vilified, and dominated for thousands of years, and uses humor and the graphic novel format to set the story straight.In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:Walking and creativityBeing compelled to tell stories that have been squelchedAnd moreFollow this WriterVisit her Website, Instagram, Twitter, and FacebookBuy her latest book, The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of...
2020-11-1931 min
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistoryWho Were The Amazons? -- Max Dashu InterviewIn a wonderful, spirited discussion, Max Dashu discusses her recent research into the warrior women called "Amazons." How did the Ancient Greek conception of femaleness shape the stories of Amazons that we know today? What is the relationship of Amazon concept to the warrior tribes that existed in the Black Sea region? Was there really a standalone tribe of warrior women? Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden discuss these concepts with Max.
2020-11-101h 06
Home to HerReclaiming Women's Histories with Max DashuThe Suppressed Histories Archives is an incredible wealth of information on women's and indigenous histories from around the world, and you'll find links to all of Max's courses and livecasts here. You can also follow Max and the Suppressed Histories Archives on Facebook, where Max shares a tremendous amount of her research. And, you can learn more about her book, Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, and purchase it a 20 percent discount, here. We covered a lot of ground in this episode - here are some links to related to some of our discussion:M...
2020-10-161h 28
Home to HerAmplifying the Voices of Women with Iris EveIris' social media page, She: On the Tip of Her Tongue, can be found here. You can also learn more about Iris at her website, Cunning and Keening. And you can also find Iris' album Bread and Circuses, which includes the song that plays at the end of the episode, here. Here are a couple more links related to our discussion during this episode:Max Dashu is an incredible source of wisdom related to the Sacred Feminine and to the lost history of women in general. She maintains the social media page Suppressed Histories Ar...
2020-10-011h 11
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistorySuppressed History Of Women - Max Dashu - Pt. 3In part three, we discuss with Max that current state of, and prospects for, matriarchy in the modern world. Is there a chance for a matriarchal movement today? Are some of the egalitarian concepts of matriarchy already in use by today's progressive movements? We Make Matriarchy Great Again in part three. Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden host.
2020-09-0530 min
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistorySuppressed History Of Women - Max Dashu - Pt. 2In part two, we talk to Max Dashu about the concepts of matriarchy and patriarchy in the context of the Ancient World. How did patriarchy arise and what about the matriarchy that predated it? How does our Western viewpoint affect how we view matriarchy in the Ancient World. Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden host.
2020-09-0526 min
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting HistorySuppressed History Of Women - Max Dashu - Pt. 1Max Dashu has championed the various lost histories of women and championed female-centric civilizations for decades. In part one, Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden interview Max about her own life story and how and why her mission to tell the forgotten history of women and of matriarchy came about.
2020-09-0529 min
Full Circle KPFAFull Circle 08 - 28 - 2020 Max DashuMax Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research women's history internationally and understand how systems of domination establish and perpetuate themselves. She has built a collection of more than 30,000 images and 100 visual shows. See the Visual Talks link for descriptions of the Suppressed Histories Series. Learn about the creation of the Suppressed Histories Archives, and about future projects, including books, dvds, and exhibits.
2020-08-2858 min
Full Circle KPFAFull Circle 07-03-2020Good evening everyone and welcome to Full Circle your Cultural Affairs Radio Magazine produced by members of the First Voice Apprenticeship program. On tonight's show; graduate apprentice Darlene Pagano returns in a conversation with femenist artist author and historian Max Dashu of The Suppressed History Archives about lifting up women's roles..We also get a youth perspective on police and policing from young women organizing and protesting in Antioch around police reform and out of control cops. I am your host Freewillin Franklin keep it locked right here to kpfa.
2020-07-0458 min
Black Box teater podcastSigne Becker & Ingvild LanggårdI denne andre episoden av podkasten, får du høre Ingvild Langgård og Elin Grinaker lese teksten Nytt Blikk – en tekst som er publisert i Black Box teater publikasjon 4.New Gaze begynte som en samtale mellom scenograf og kunstner Signe Becker, komponist Ingvild Langgård og dramaturg Elin Amundsen Grinaker. Samtalen dreide seg om inspirasjonskildene bak Becker og Langgårds samarbeider.Under samtalen snakket de om hvordan arkeologiske funn ble tolket av viktorianske menn. Disse mennene utelot en rekke gudinner da de skrev verdenshistorien – gudinner som var svært betydningsfulle i førhistorisk tid....
2020-04-1023 min
Future Primitive PodcastsThe Ancestral MotherMax Dashu speaks with Joanna about: 50 years of questioning patriarchy and systems of domination and reclaiming the matricultures; searching the history of indigenous cultures before the European colonizations; studying the cultural patterns of what we call patriarchy; the whore labeling, a patriarchal way of discrediting women; divide and conquer, the basic principle of systemic domination; the Mosuo culture of Yunnan, one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet; the historical - not inevitable - process of patriarchalization; a massive pattern across cultures of women, primarily, making clay figurines in the image of the ancestral Mother, the primary pattern...
2020-03-0747 min
Future Primitive PodcastsThe Ancestral MotherMax Dashu speaks with Joanna about: 50 years of questioning patriarchy and systems of domination and reclaiming the matricultures; searching the history of indigenous cultures before the European colonizations; studying the cultural patterns of what we call patriarchy; the whore labeling, a patriarchal way of discrediting women; divide and conquer, the basic principle of systemic domination; the Mosuo culture of Yunnan, one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet; the historical - not inevitable - process of patriarchalization; a massive pattern across cultures of women, primarily, making clay figurines in the image of the ancestral Mother, the primary pattern of...
2020-03-0747 min
Women's Liberation Radio NewsWitches & WitchCraft: WLRN's Edition 42 PodcastHappy Halloween to all of our WLRN listeners! This podcast is full of witch magic as the team at WLRN explores the witches of old and new.
Hear world news as written and delivered by April Neault after a haunting greeting by WLRN's resident female separatist, Sekhmet SheOwl. Following the world news, hear an interview Sekhmet did with Max Dashu, founder of Suppressed Histories Archives. Dashu speaks about the witches of old and puts into context the current state of witch resistance and culture today.
Then stay tuned for Thistle's interview with Ruth Barrett at the Mycelium Mysteries Women's Retreat...
2019-10-031h 01Future Primitive PodcastsNine Worlds in the TreeMax Dashu speaks with Joanna about: Staff-women, the völur; the oldest texts about female spiritual leadership in Europe; a window into the ancestral heritages of North: nine worlds in the Tree, the nine primordial women in Nature; a common cosmology from Siberia to Scandinavia; the first primordial seeress mentioned in the Völuspá; theories about the Vanir, Álfar, ethnicity, and conquest; “the first war in the world” between the Aesir and the Vanir, one of the core themes in the Völuspá; the demonization of the other and divide-and-conquer, the tools of patriarchy through history; strong parallels between th...
2019-01-071h 00Future Primitive PodcastsNine Worlds in the TreeMax Dashu speaks with Joanna about: Staff-women, the völur; the oldest texts about female spiritual leadership in Europe; a window into the ancestral heritages of North: nine worlds in the Tree, the nine primordial women in Nature; a common cosmology from Siberia to Scandinavia; the first primordial seeress mentioned in the Völuspá; theories about the Vanir, Álfar, ethnicity, and conquest; “the first war in the world” between the Aesir and the Vanir, one of the core themes in the Völuspá; the demonization of the other and divide-and-conquer, the tools of patriarchy through history; strong parallels between the Norse...
2019-01-071h 00
OneWoman RadioChapter 5: ...And She Shall Be Called "Beautiful One"Bibliography & Resources:Max Dashu’s Suppressed Histories Archive at www.suppressedhistories.netDashu, M, Witches And Pagans, Veleda Press, 2016Griffin, S, The Roaring Inside Her, Sierra Club Books, 1978Atwood, M Strawberries, an essayWalker, B, The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper Collins, 1983Walker, B, The Women’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Harper CollinsYuknavitch, Lidia; The Book of Joan, Harper, 2017Livingstone, G., Hendren, T., & Daly, P.; R...
2018-12-2400 min
WiddershinsTERF Wars II: Electric BoogalooThe Witch hunt for TERFs continues, Max Dashu gets Deplatformed again at the behest of an angry mob.And More!
2018-12-122h 01Future Primitive PodcastsWitch BurningsMax Dashu speaks with Joanna about: the long history of women suppression; withcraft accusation for land theft from women; the crusade agains the Cathars; the consolidation of feudalism and the early witch hunts; the influence of the Roman legal code in the Spanish persecutions; the medieval patriarchal mentality in the bound up accusation "witch and whore"; accusations as a tool of control on the female population; the chastity ordeal of fire back to ancient Vedic and Blibical times; the dynamics of scapegoating.
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2018-09-2858 minFuture Primitive PodcastsWitch BurningsMax Dashu speaks with Joanna about: the long history of women suppression; withcraft accusation for land theft from women; the crusade agains the Cathars; the consolidation of feudalism and the early witch hunts; the influence of the Roman legal code in the Spanish persecutions; the medieval patriarchal mentality in the bound up accusation "witch and whore"; accusations as a tool of control on the female population; the chastity ordeal of fire back to ancient Vedic and Blibical times; the dynamics of scapegoating.
2018-09-2858 minOneWoman RadioChapter 4: The Mother of All GodsBibliography & Resources:Max Dashu’s Suppressed Histories Archive at www.suppressedhistories.netDashu, M, Witches And Pagans, Veleda Press, 2016Griffin, S, The Roaring Inside Her, Sierra Club Books, 1978Atwood, M Strawberries, an essayWalker, B, The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper Collins, 1983Walker, B, The Women’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Harper CollinsYuknavitch, Lidia; The Book of Joan, Harper, 2017Livingstone, G., Hendren, T., & Daly, P.; R...
2018-07-1100 min
Feed Your Wild- Intuitive Healing, Akashic Records, Astrology for Healers, Holistic HealingUncovering Suppressed Histories: How Ancient Traditions Shape Our Future with Max DashuHave you ever wondered... how did we get here? Where are all of the women in history books? What about the true stories that have been left out of our school curriculum and kept hidden for centuries? How about cultures and societies beyond the patriarchal paradigm... What about cultures where women were not only equal, but people were living in a non-hierarchical paradigm that actually valued the maternal and revered Mother Earth? How different would our world be today if we still lived by these principles and ancient ways of knowing? That's what...
2018-07-0959 minOneWoman RadioChapter 3: Waking From The Sleep of Deadly ForgettingBibliography & Resources:Max Dashu’s Suppressed Histories Archive at www.suppressedhistories.net Dashu, M, Witches And Pagans, Veleda Press, 2016 Griffin, S, The Roaring Inside Her, Sierra Club Books, 1978 Atwood, M Strawberries, an essay Walker, B, The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper Collins, 1983 Walker, B, The Women’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Harper Collins
2018-06-1200 minOneWoman RadioChapter 2: The Fates and Our Female DestinyBibliography & Resources:– Max Dashu’s Suppressed Histories Archive at www.suppressedhistories.net– Dashu, M, Witches And Pagans, Veleda Press, 2016– Griffin, S, The Roaring Inside Her, Sierra Club Books, 1978– Atwood, M Strawberries, an essay– Walker, B, The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper Collins, 1983– Walker, B, The Women’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Harper Collins
2018-05-2800 minOneWoman RadioChapter 1: The Girl Who Might Be YouBibliography & Resources:· Max Dasuh’s Suppressed Histories Archive at www.suppressedhistories.net· De Shong Meador, B, Innana, Lady of Largest Heart, University of Texas, 2000· Wolkstein, D & Kramer, SN, Innana Queen of Heaven And Earth, Harper & Row, 1983· Perera, SB, Descent to the Goddess, Inner City Books, 1981· Dashu, M, Witches And Pagans, Veleda Press, 2016· Griffin, S, The Roaring Inside Her, Sierra Club Books, 1978· Atwood, M Strawberries, an essay· Walker, B, The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Harper Collins, 1983· Walker, B, Th...
2018-05-1200 min
Last Born In The Wilderness114 / Suppressed Histories / Max DashuIn this episode, I speak with Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archive and author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700–1100.
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2018-04-2254 minFuture Primitive PodcastsThe Swan-Footed QueenIn this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: Diana, the demonization of folk religion through a Latinized filter; the theme of devil worship as a way of explaining Pagan belief and practice; Herodias, the mythologization of the female villain; Holda the beneficent, a great Nature goddess; Frau Berthe and the time of the Old Goddess; praying to the Good Woman, a divine power that gives blessings to human beings and land; the Swan-footed Queen and Mother Goose; a substratum of folk divinity superseded by patriarchal order.
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2018-03-2455 minFuture Primitive PodcastsThe Swan-Footed QueenIn this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: Diana, the demonization of folk religion through a Latinized filter; the theme of devil worship as a way of explaining Pagan belief and practice; Herodias, the mythologization of the female villain; Holda the beneficent, a great Nature goddess; Frau Berthe and the time of the Old Goddess; praying to the Good Woman, a divine power that gives blessings to human beings and land; the Swan-footed Queen and Mother Goose; a substratum of folk divinity superseded by patriarchal order.
2018-03-2455 min
Medicine StoriesThe Motherline: Embodied Ancestry & Feminine Magic - Lara Veleda VestaThe scrolls are in our bones, and an embodied relationship with our ancestors can bring countless rewards and reveal things a merely intellectual path cannot. Through myth, ritual, and creative expression we can remember the feminine magic of our grandmothers and reap their blessings. Lara Veleda Vesta is an artist, writer, and educator with strong, well tended ties to her Northern European ancestors. Her works and offerings focus on folk spirituality, archaic magic, mythology, ritual, and women's remembrance. Our conversation runs deep and meanders from the cultural legacy of the burning times to the language of symbol...
2018-01-211h 32
Women's Liberation Radio NewsEdition 21: Ancient Gynocentric SocietiesGreetings and Happy New Year! The team at WLRN is proud to share our first podcast of 2018, Edition 21: Ancient Gynocentric Societies.
Photo of Babylonia, goddess Ishtar or Ereshkigal 'Queen of the Night' 18th C. BC by monopthalmos on flickr.
This edition focuses on the developments and relics of woman-centric societies throughout history. Our guests Max Dashu, Riane Eisler, and Starhawk shared what they know about the herstories of woman-centric communities.
Now is the perfect time to set a feminist resolution for the year ahead: let us move forward in strength and sisterhood toward a more gynocentric future!
This month’s podc...
2018-01-041h 20Future Primitive PodcastsThe Ancestral MotherIn this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: Cailleach, the Old Woman; her aspect as megalith builder; the bones of the Earth; drinking from the pool of regeneration; the Cow Mother from Ireland to India; the temple, astronomical observatory and ancestral sanctuary at Newgrange; recent genetic evidence supporting the work of Marija Gimbutas; an ancestral mother to many people; the mythical degradation of women following the political and economic shifts to patriarchy; the Germanic Blessing Goddess of winter nights.
2017-12-2551 min
Medicine StoriesLost Lineages & Ever Evolving Lore - Milla PrinceAs people and communities move and change with time, stories evolve and lineages are lost. But information always goes where it needs to in order to survive and resurface again when needed. Ancestral stories can guide us on our paths, and lost lineages can be remembered. Milla Prince is an herbalist, writer, and teacher who moved from Finland, where she had been deeply immersed since childhood in ancestral plant lore from that intact tradition, to the west coast of America about 10 years ago. Her blog, newsletter, Instagram account, Fireweed & Nettle herbal medicines, and The Cauldron zine reach t...
2017-11-271h 17Future Primitive PodcastsA Language of ConsciousnessIn this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about the chapter dedicated to the runes in her book "Witches and Pagans": her newest book "Deasophy", traditional images to contemplate and color; a broad range of meaning for the word "rune"; runes and ceremonial acts; cliches about the witches have basis in archaeological records; the origins of the word "heathen"; the modern reclamation of the Old Religion; Europe was wilderness; the mystics in the trees; the effect of language on the way we think; historic examples of the magical use of runes; haliorunnae, the women who commune with the ancestors...
2017-11-1157 min
Full Circle KPFAFULL CIRCLE 10 - 27 - 17 MYTHS AND HISTORY OF WITCHESGood evening, everyone … and welcome to Full Circle, your cultural affairs radio magazine produced by members of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program.
On tonight’s show, just a few days before Halloween, we will delve into both the mythology and known history of witches. I am pleased to welcome my guest Max Dashu, the founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives.
Tonight...
… We will learn why and how Max created the Archives and how it is used …
… We will discuss the history and mythology of witches in folk religions ancient and contemporary …
… And we will explore the pattern of persecution carried out against th...
2017-10-281h 00
Conscious Community PodcastBehind the Mask – The History of Witches and Halloween – Interview with Max DashuInterview by Janae Jean and Spencer Schluter – This month Spencer and I spoke with Max Dashu, noted historian, artist, speaker and author. She founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women’s history from around the globe. We discussed her life’s work, the history of Halloween, and her book, Witches and …
2017-09-3000 minFuture Primitive PodcastsThe Sacred Flow of LifeIn this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: Witchcraft, one of the starting points to track the roots of Western domination; recovering the cultural heritages around the world; 2017, thrown back into the older history of captivity and war; Native American prophecies about women reclaiming power; a living, spinning, sacred world; ancient, enlivening names of the wise woman; picking up insights from the living currents; Sardinia and the animated, spirit distaff of the witch goddess; a reverential relationship with the consciousness in trees and stones; the divinatory medicine of Raven in European cultures; the peace-making weavers; the origin of...
2017-08-1954 minFuture Primitive PodcastsThe Women Who KnowIn this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: the nectar of ancestral traditions; the sacred meaning of names for the wise women in Europe; demonization of the herbalist women through naming; a whole body of healing practices; life force medicine; seeress in the roof; witches as spiritual leaders; the women who see and know; cultural spells of patriarchy; the colonialist invention of white identity; honoring the indigenous names of the land.
2017-07-1457 minFuture Primitive PodcastsGoddesses, Fate and AncestorsIn this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: remembering other ways to live; "witch hunts" in Europe, the prehistory of our current socio-political situation; the Three Sisters spinning the webs of Wyrd; ancient Norse and German cosmologies and the curving nature of Time; the archetypal Tree and Well; the pan-global symbol of the holy matrix of Being; the Maidens on the sea of Knowledge; the Faery Faith and the ancestral religion; the break up with ancient knowledge at the time of Industrial Revolution; language and recreating the future web of meaning.
2017-05-2752 minFuture Primitive PodcastsAs The Witches TeachIn this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: researching the spiritual heritage of Europe; decolonization and the ancestral recovery work of Europeans and Americans; reweaving the web of culture; suppressed histories: women, peasantry, religious minorities; pan-European spinner goddesses, distaffs and Pagan women's weaving ceremonies; a long history of domination of women, people and Nature; the earliest written records of patriarchal misogyny; the mythological encoding of male domination; the higher accuracy of oralture (oral tradition culture); the megalithic womb-tombs; the sacred mugwort and the underworld journey towards a secret, healing name; understanding the demonization of the Earth-based sacred traditions...
2017-04-0856 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Max DashuMax Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women's history from an international perspective. She built a collection of 15,000 slides and 20,000 digital images, and has created 150 slideshows on female cultural heritages across human history. (For titles and descriptions, see the online catalog.) Read some of the enthusiastic responses to these dynamic presentations here. Her work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies. For over 40 years, Max Dashu has presented hundreds of slide talks at...
2016-11-272h 35
Voices of Women with Kris SteinnesVoices of Women with Host Kris Steinnes: Max Dashu shares her new book Witches and PagansSo an Old English scribe let us know that witches counseled the people to “bring their offerings to earth-fast stone, and also to trees and to wellsprings.” In this compelling exploration of language, archaeology, medieval literature and art, Max Dashu pulls the covers off of heritages known to few but scholarly specialists. She shows that old ethnic names for “witch” signify wise-woman, prophetess, diviner, healer, and dreamer. Scandinavian völur ("staff-women") ...
2016-07-2955 min
Kris SteinnesMax Dashu shares her new book Witches and PagansSo an Old English scribe let us know that witches counseled the people to “bring their offerings to earth-fast stone, and also to trees and to wellsprings.” In this compelling exploration of language, archaeology, medieval literature and art, Max Dashu pulls the covers off of heritages known to few but scholarly specialists. She shows that old ethnic names for “witch” signify wise-woman, prophetess, diviner, healer, and dreamer. Scandinavian völur ("staff-women") held oracular ceremonies with incantations, and "sitting-out on the land for wisdom. Archaeology shows that their ritual staffs symbolize the distaff, a spinning tool that connects with broad cultural themes of...
2016-07-2900 min
Feminist CurrentPODCAST: Max Dashu reveals the suppressed truth behind the witch hunts (and the implications for women today)The witch hunts are viewed as a thing of the distant past, assumed to have happened over a century or two in Europe. But the truth is that the witch hunts lasted much longer than…
2016-06-0349 minThe Hillary Raimo Show, Matters for Mind Body & Spirit Talk RadioMax DashuMax Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women's history from an international perspective. She has photographed some 15,000 slides and created 100 slideshows on female power and heritages transhistorically. (For titles and descriptions, see the online catalog.) Read some of the enthusiastic responses to these dynamic presentations here.
For nearly 40 years, Dashu has presented hundreds of slide talks at universities, community centers, bookstores, schools, libraries, prisons, galleries, festivals and conferences around North America. Her work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of...
2013-10-1800 minVoices of Women with Kris SteinnesVoices of Women with Host Kris Steinnes: Guest Max Dashu, on ancient women shamans and priestesses, and modern medicine women; drummers andMax Dashu will share about women shamans, priestesses, witches and dreamers; ecstatic paths to Knowing, trance and transformation of pain through movement and incantation; sacred icons and symbols; recovering women's lost heritages, female spheres of power; the politics of feminist spirituality
2013-02-2259 minVoices of Women with Kris SteinnesVoices of Women with Host Kris Steinnes: Guest Max Dashu, on ancient women shamans and priestesses, and modern medicine women; drummers andMax Dashu will share about women shamans, priestesses, witches and dreamers; ecstatic paths to Knowing, trance and transformation of pain through movement and incantation; sacred icons and symbols; recovering women's lost heritages, female spheres of power; the politics of feminist spirituality
2013-02-2259 minFuture Primitive PodcastsMax DashuMax Dashu is an artist, writer, and teacher . Max founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women’s history from an international perspective. She has photographed some 15,000 slides and created 100 slideshows on female power and heritages transhistorically. (For titles and descriptions, see the online catalog.) For nearly 40 years, Dashu has […]
2010-12-1746 minThe Hillary Raimo Show, Matters for Mind Body & Spirit Talk RadioMax Dashu LIVETonight LIVE we uncover the realities of women's lives, internationally and across time, asking questions about patriarchy and slavery, conquest and aboriginality. About mother-right, female spheres of power, indigenous philosophies of spirit-- and the historical chemistry of their repression. Even more important, their role in resisting oppression. A global perspective on womens history offers fresh and diverse conceptions of women's power, as well as of men and gender borders. It overturns stereotypes of race and class, and the structures of domination that enforce them. It digs under the usual story of lords and rulers, looking for hidden strands, and r...
2010-11-1200 min
Voices of the Sacred FeminineMax Dashu - Suppressed Histories Archives - Voices of the Sacred FeminineForemother and scholar, Max Dashu, founder and creatrix of the Suppressed Histories Archives is celebrating it's 40th Anniversary. We spoke about everything from contemporary matrilineal cultures, to what's wrong with Academia, to Mother Right and the real meaning of Sheela Na Gigs - and more. Tune in!
2010-04-291h 58
KPFA - Cover to Cover Open BookCover to Cover Open Book – December 4, 2009"Grandmother's Wisdom Way" includes history, poetry and music featuring original work by Mamacoatl, Mary Rudge, Max Dashu and Avotcja. Produced by Nina Serrano and Yvette Hochberg as one of the UN-mandated 16 Days of Action for the Elimination of Violence Towards Women and Girls '09.
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2009-12-0404 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover Open BookCover to Cover Open Book – December 4, 2009"Grandmother's Wisdom Way" includes history, poetry and music featuring original work by Mamacoatl, Mary Rudge, Max Dashu and Avotcja. Produced by Nina Serrano and Yvette Hochberg as one of the UN-mandated 16 Days of Action for the Elimination of Violence Towards Women and Girls '09.
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2009-12-0429 min
MOSA Radio NetworkWT - The Black DovesConversation with Max Dashu, Independent Researcher and Documentor of women's history from an international perspective - on the "Black Doves" and East African women of power. 08 Jun 19. 64 minutes.
2008-06-281h 14Future Primitive PodcastsSuppressed History of WomenJoanna Harcourt-Smith interviews Max Dashu -Independent scholar, artist and founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives. She has done extensive interdisciplinary research on the European witch hunts and folk traditions about witches.
2007-03-2157 min