I love this story because we don’t hear about the people who tried to stand up to power and quietly lost their battles. The character of Sister Beauvier is perhaps functioning as a wish-fulfilment character, but I like to think there were many strong nuns just like her. RESONANCE Why w...
the future always possible, and we lived in both. This idea is very strong in indigenous culture … I was sent an extraordinary essay by a young Youngu woman. They’re an Aboriginal people who live in North East Arnhem Land. They’re quite a ...
On BBC Woman’s Hour (before it went full transphobic) there is an interviewwith a woman who spends part of the year living in the Kingdom of Women in China. This is the only matrilineal culture in the world. It’s difficult to imagine what such a culture looks like, but we are tol...
“Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time.”They discuss the importance of viewing thehuman evolutionary storyas one that isinextricably linked with culture and kinship, and so much more.