34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History
Smashing the falsehood and omissions of women of action, warrior women and great queens, past, present and future. Amazons, War Goddesses and Matriarchy. Truths shall be revealed, myths demolished and empires restored. Join us for an exciting ride!
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Female Revenge Movies - Thelma & Louise (1991)
The iconic film Thelma & Louise debuted in 1991 and changed the cinematic landscape forever. Join Vicki Noble, Dawn "Sam" Alden and Sean Marlon Newcombe as they examine this legendary female revenge…
Vicki Noble - Marija Gimbutas Symposium - Encore Presentation
We present an encore presentation of Vicki Noble's discussion of the Marija Gimbutas Symposium from 2021. As our following has grown, we'd like to acquaint our new listeners with some of the foundat…
Blood Mysteries
Vicki Noble & Marilu Shinn - Women's Blood Mysteries
Vicki and Dawn speak with Marilu Shinn about menstrual blood - its beginning, its end, and how it is entangled with the cycles of life and death, o…
Women Have Always Fought - Encore Presentation
Dawn "Sam" Alden talks with Sean Marlon Newcombe about the myriad of women warriors throughout history and how their stories have been erased. What we talk about in this episode is in many ways found…
Rematriartion - Voices of Indigenous Women
Join us for a wonderful discussion of the rematriation movement as it impacts Native American people. According to the women leading the this movement, "rematriation" refers to the Indigenous concept…
Female Revenge Movies - Promising Young Woman (2020)
Referred to as, "A black comedy told in pastels," the film "Promising Young Woman" initiates our series on female revenge movies. Written and directed by Emerald Fennell (for which she won the Oscar…
Fifth Sacred Thing - Novel by Starhawk
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, t…
Fearless Nadia-- Female Action Hero!
Join us as Dawn "Sam" Alden regales us about the colorful and incredibly exciting life of Mary Ann Evans, the woman known in India as "Fearless Nadia." A pioneer of women's action films, this Britis…
Genevieve Vaughan and Vicki Noble - The Gift Economy
Could matriarchy provide an alternative to the predatory corporatism that defines the global economy? Join us as we bring bring back our third member of the Make Matriarchy Great Again team, Vicki No…
Dr. Ping Yao - Women, Gender and Sexuality in China
Returning to chat with us again is Professor Ping Yao of Cal State Los Angeles. A specialist on gender and religion in Premodern China, Dr. Yao joins us to do a deeper survey into the important aspe…
Circe - A Novel By Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller's beautiful and lyrical novel, "Circe," Is one part mythology, one part biography and one part half-remembered dream. It is a work that explores Greek myth from the perspective of a …
In Praise of the Goddess - Freyja - Blood Eclipse
Sex and war. Magic and death. These are the realms of the great Goddess Freyja. Seemingly rising from the chthonic myst of power in the matriarchal past, Freyja is both unknowable and all-encompas…
Constance Tippett - The Goddess Timeline - with Vicki Noble
The Goddess Timeline is a chronological record of archaeological images of women and goddesses on a uniform time scale from 30,000 BCE to the present. Join us as we talk to Constance Tippett about h…
Women Heroes of Aviation - The WASPs
We chat with filmmakers Matia Karrell and Hilary Prentice about their documentary on the American female military aviators of World War II, the WASPs. Overlooked then erased from history, these wome…
Ellen Snortland - Beauty Bites Beast
Ellen Snortland is a writer, director and producer who has been a women's self-defense advocate and instructor for most of her career. Her seminal work, "Beauty Bites Beast" has gone from book to fil…
Misogyny In The Ancient World - Ep. 3 - Hesiod Was An A**hole
In describing the punishment that Zeus would levy upon the world for the "transgression" of man using fire, Hesiod wrote, "At once he made an affliction for mankind..." What was that "affliction," y…
Elaine Pagels - Women in Gnosticism and the Early Church
Elaine Pagels is one the most celebrated scholars of early Christianity in the world. She is the author of such popular works as "The Gnostic Gospels," "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" and "Beyond Belief…
Vicki Noble - War Against The Goddess - Echoes In Ukraine
It is a tragic echo of earliest civilizations that an army would sweep out of the Crimean to attack a people in Ukraine. As when the Indo-European warriors stormed the towns along the shores and riv…
In Praise of the Goddess: Artemis
Matron of the Amazons. Goddess of the moon. Sister of the hunt. The OMG-- Original Mother-Goddess. She is Artemis and we LOVE her. Join Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden as they sing her …
Mary Mackey -- Novelist and Poet
Mary Mackey is a beloved novelist and poet whose work centers on matriarchal and ecological subjects. Her historical novels take place in the matriarchal, goddess-centered cultures of Old Europe. J…