Sublime

We are not goddesses or matriarchs or edifices of divine forgiveness; we are not fiery fingers of judgment or instruments of flagellation; we are women forced back always upon our woman’s power.

Adrienne Rich’s book of poems, The Dream of a Common Language.

Ecology came out around the same time, suggesting that the “patriarchal foreground” of the visible world can be overcome by contemporary women “moving beyond the boundaries of patriarchal space” into the “matriarchal background” of our re-membered ancient past.

The framework of radical self-love seeks to engage people in the process of individual transformation. But as importantly it seeks to dismantle the structural and systemic emotional, psychological, and physical violence meted out against “different” bodies all over the planet.