Sublime

Because matrilineal lines of initiation—older women teaching younger women certain psychic facts and procedures of the wild feminine—have been fragmented and broken for so many women and over so many years, it is a blessing to have the archeology of the fairy tale to learn from. What can be derived from those deep templates echoes the innate patter

The year 1961 is also the year in which the great Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez took a Greyhound trip through the South and found the region to be akin to his own: I saw a world very similar to my home town of Aracataca in Colombia. As a company town built by United Fruit, Aracataca has the same wooden shacks with roofs made of zinc and

Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered, Wild Woman comes back. She comes back through story.

Psychologically, to be without the pelt causes a woman to pursue what she thinks she should do, rather than what she truly wishes.

power of mother-love,

What the White South confronted in the movement era was a paradigm shift. There was a model for sustaining White supremacy: terrorizing Black folks, the dispassionate acquiescence of the White North and the federal government, economic control, and an ideological hold on its ranks managed by humiliation and cruelty. But a model only holds as long a

A woman’s life may die away in the fire of self-hatred for complexes can bite hard and, at least for a time, successfully frighten her away from coming too near the work or life that matters to her.