Maybe the Angry Women - 5

art by Aaron Paquette,

Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022...

Owl and the Moon on Facebook in 2022

"Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage. It is rational thought and irrational pain. Anger is freedom, independence, expansiveness, and entitlement. It is justice, passion, clarity, and motivation. Anger is instrumental, thoughtful, complicated, and resolved. In anger, whether you like it or not, there is truth.

Anger is the demand of accountability. It is evaluation, judgment, and refutation. It is reflective, visionary, and participatory. It’s a speech act, a social statement, an intention, and a purpose. It’s a risk and a threat. A confirmation and a wish. It is both powerlessness and power, palliative and a provocation. In anger, you will find both ferocity and comfort, vulnerability and hurt. Anger is the expression of hope.

How much anger is too much? Certainly not the anger that, for many of us, is a remembering of a self we learned to hide and quiet. It is willful and disobedient. It is survival, liberation, creativity, urgency, and vibrancy. It is a statement of need. An insistence of acknowledgment. Anger is a boundary. Anger is boundless. An opportunity for contemplation and self-awareness. It is commitment. Empathy. Self-love. Social responsibility. If it is poison, it is also the antidote. The anger we have as women is an act of radical imagination. Angry women burn brighter than the sun.

In the coming years, we will hear, again, that anger is a destructive force, to be controlled. Watch carefully, because not everyone is asked to do this in equal measure. Women, especially, will be told to set our anger aside in favor of a kinder, gentler approach to change. This is a false juxtaposition. Reenvisioned, anger can be the most feminine of virtues: compassionate, fierce, wise, and powerful.

The women I admire most—those who have looked to themselves and the limitations and adversities that come with our bodies and the expectations that come with them—have all found ways to transform their anger into meaningful change. In them, anger has moved from debilitation to liberation. Your anger is a gift you give to yourself and the world that is yours. In anger, I have lived more fully, freely, intensely, sensitively, and politically. If ever there was a time not to silence yourself, to channel your anger into healthy places and choices, this is it."

~ Soraya Chemaly, "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger"

Angela Yarber of Tehom Center, "Protest Goddess"

https://tehomcenter.org/prints

https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/npr-pbs-newshour-marist-national-poll-the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade-june-2022/

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And in 2024 many women (and many men) did put efforts to elect Kamala Harris to the presidency of the US.

We are members of the 8 billion humans alive today...

But did you know this?

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Today's Goddess:

800 BC, Aomori prefecture Japan. Dogū

We tend to look for greatness
always in somebody else
rather than yourself.
Go inside and
get your sound.

Carlos Santana

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A day in infamy...June 24, 2022

 Fellow blogger, HecateDemeter posted this:

What can you do?

Well, first of all, go ahead and feel your feelings: rage, fear, sadness, numbness. It’s OK. If you need it, I give you permission.

Second, do something nice for yourself. Take a walk, pet your cat, call your bestie, make yourself a cup of tea or a STIFF drink, smoke up. Take a minute.

Then, when you’re ready, here are some concrete actions you can take.

• Women are going to need to be able to leave states where abortion’s been outlawed and get to abortion sanctuary states. You can help them by donating to an abortion fund RIGHT NOW. Only have $5? That’s fine – every little bit helps.
• Get familiar with the ins-and-outs of medication abortion, particularly Reuters’ very useful and timely reporting that our neighbor to the south stands by ready to assist, and there’s not much the US or state governments can do to stop them.
• Look to ESTABLISHED, KNOWLEDGEABLE groups that have been putting in the work for YEARS about larger strategy, folks like NARAL and Planned Parenthood. DO NOT jump on whatever hot take by some jackass on Twitter goes viral. That person has no idea what’s he’s talking about, I promise. NARAL and PP do.
• Watch The Janes and get inspired, then ask yourself: What are you willing to risk?
• See last week’s post and, if I may quote myself, GET THE FUCK TO WORK.

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a village witch posted this on FaceBook

From the old ways...

many a young woman should know these things!

She Is Of The Woods

Let's talk about herbs that must be avoided during pregnancy

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Good ol penny royal tea will destroy your liver, please don't drink it. However it's also important to know that a strongly infused oil should not be rubbed on the pelvic area as it may, with repeated use, cause loss of pregnancy

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Cotton root bark, this one should never be drunk as a tea, it has a long history of being problematic during early pregnancy. It also has a capacity to thin blood so women who accidentally ingest this will need to counter this with something like shepherds purse or vit K

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Black cohosh, blue cohosh, & angelic root should absolutely never be taken during pregnancy especially alongside one another. These three have the capacity to disrupt hormone development & will typically cause bleeding to begin in just a handful of days in very early pregnancy

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Queen Anne's lace should be avoided by anyone who's attempting to conceive, she has a tendency to make the uterine wall slippery & prevents the precious egg from implanting. It's also important to know that during pregnancy if the egg can't implant the pregnancy won't continue

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Mugwort should also be avoided as small amounts consumed in early stage pregnancy may cause uterine contractions, it's also worth noting that infused body oils may have the same effect albeit a bit safer for the liver

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Rue, while not a commonly used herb, is showing up more in tea blends. This one can also be really problematic during pregnancy so much so that women for thousands of years have known to avoid it during pregnancy

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Parsley, while safe in food level amounts, should be avoided in large quantities such as broths as it may cause spontaneous loss of pregnancy. Especially if the person happens to be taking larger doses of vitamin C which can also endanger an early pregnancy

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These are just a handful of herbs that may disrupt hormones, cause uterine contractions, & that should be avoided by anyone wanting to keep a pregnancy viable

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Keep learning about these & other herbs you may have access to that cause these situations

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I mean how else will we avoid accidental miscarriages?

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You're smart enough to do this too

And another quote for this post:

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.

MALALA YOUSAFZAI