Latest Matriarchy Podcast Episodes
International Women's Day Episode with Vicki Noble
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - March 08, 2023 15:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJoin us as we celebrate the history and relevance of International Women's Day (IWD). From it's inception as an outgrowth of socialist labor movements in the early 20th Century to it's modern incarnation as a global day of awareness of the struggles of women, International Women's Day ...
John Colarusso -- The Women of the Nart Sagas -- Encore Presentation
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - February 26, 2023 14:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWe present an encore presentation of John Colarusso's discussion of the the fabulous Nart Sagas. As our following has grown, we'd like to acquaint our new listeners with some of the foundational topics of this podcast. The Nart Sagas touch upon many of the foundational concepts explor...
In Praise of the Goddess-- Winter Goddesses
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - February 19, 2023 19:43 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhile there is still a chill in the air, let us take a moment a praise the Goddesses of Winter! Join Dawn "Sam" Alden as she regales us with tales of the Frosty Feminine Divine. You'll hear stories of winter goddesses from cultures around the world-- including a few places that you mig...
Native American Matriarchal Culture - The Lenape
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - February 12, 2023 04:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe Lenape people are the original inhabitants of a region that stretched from southern New York State through New York City to the state of Delaware. (They are also known as "The Delaware Nation.") They were eventually displaced to Oklahoma by colonialist encroachment, but their cultu...
Podcast Takeover - Home To Her - Liz Childs Kelly, Vicki Noble and Dawn "Sam" Alden
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - January 22, 2023 08:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAn exploration of why we want to "make matriarchy great again," with our own Dawn "Sam" Alden and Vicki Noble joining Liz Childs Kelly on her "Home To Her" podcast. Liz Childs Kelly created the Home To Her podcast in order to, in her words, "Remember and reconnect with the Sacred Femin...
Feminine Divine - Rev. Dr. Kate Cress
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - January 15, 2023 08:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsMake Matriarchy Great Again returns for 2023 and our first episode of the new year is part of the Feminine Divine series. In this episode we interview the Rev. Dr. Kate Cress, an Episcopal priest who talks to us about her journey from a non-religious upbringing to a life of faith and t...
Max Dashu - Pythias and Classical Oracular Women
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - November 13, 2022 22:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat was the oracular tradition like in Ancient Greece and what were its matriarchal roots? Join us we talk with Max Dashu about this incredible tradition. Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden co-host.
Female Revenge Movies - Thelma & Louise (1991)
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - September 19, 2022 09:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe 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 film and its effect on culture.
Vicki Noble - Marija Gimbutas Symposium - Encore Presentation
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - September 11, 2022 10:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWe 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 foundational topics of this podcast. Without question, the matriarchal scholarship of Marija G...
Blood Mysteries
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - September 03, 2022 10:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsVicki 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, our connection with Mother Earth and the moon, and with the powerful shadow aspect of th...
Women Have Always Fought - Encore Presentation
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - August 31, 2022 07:51 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDawn "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 foundational to what we’d like to achieve in this podcast. These are the stories we’d like t...
Rematriartion - Voices of Indigenous Women
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - August 21, 2022 07:10 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJoin 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 of reclaiming ancestral remains, spirituality, culture, knowledge and resources in a ma...
Female Revenge Movies - Promising Young Woman (2020)
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - August 03, 2022 09:28 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsReferred 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 for Best Original Screenplay) and starring Carey Mulligan, "Promising Young Woman" is a...
Fifth Sacred Thing - Novel by Starhawk
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - July 17, 2022 19:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAn 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, the other on repression-- such is the novel "The Fifth Sacred Thing" by Starhawk. Join D...
Fearless Nadia-- Female Action Hero!
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - July 03, 2022 09:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJoin 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 British woman slipped through the conventions of colonial Anglo-Indian culture to become one o...
Genevieve Vaughan and Vicki Noble - The Gift Economy
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - June 28, 2022 20:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsCould 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 Noble, to discuss the Gift Economy with special guest Genevieve Vaughan. Genevieve Vaugha...
Dr. Ping Yao - Women, Gender and Sexuality in China
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - June 09, 2022 08:08 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsReturning 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 aspects of gender systems and gender practices throughout Chinese history, from the earliest...
Circe - A Novel By Madeline Miller
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - May 29, 2022 20:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsMadeline 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 female character-- and does so with insight and poetry. Join Sean Marlon Newcombe and D...
In Praise of the Goddess - Freyja - Blood Eclipse
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - May 16, 2022 09:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsSex 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-encompassing. Join Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden as they extol the great Lady of ba...
Constance Tippett - The Goddess Timeline - with Vicki Noble
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - May 09, 2022 15:41 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe 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 her creation of the timeline, its historical significance and its relevance to the matria...
Women Heroes of Aviation - The WASPs
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - May 02, 2022 10:11 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWe 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 women brave aviation trailblazers who served a crucial role in the war effort. It would tak...
Ellen Snortland - Beauty Bites Beast
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - April 25, 2022 11:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsEllen 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 film and chronicles not only her own journey in self-defense, but the journeys of women acr...
Misogyny In The Ancient World - Ep. 3 - Hesiod Was An A**hole
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - April 18, 2022 12:57 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn 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," you ask? Women. And so begins our journey into the world of Hesiod, a man whose writing...
Elaine Pagels - Women in Gnosticism and the Early Church
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - April 11, 2022 10:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsElaine 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: The Secret Gospel of Thomas." Dr. Pagels talks with Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sa...
Vicki Noble - War Against The Goddess - Echoes In Ukraine
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - April 03, 2022 09:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIt 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 rivers of Old Europe, so we watch a conflict between two countries take place eerily in th...
In Praise of the Goddess: Artemis
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - March 28, 2022 08:43 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsMatron 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 praises. All hail Artemis!
Mary Mackey -- Novelist and Poet
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - March 21, 2022 10:59 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsMary 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. Join us as we discuss with her about her matriarchal writings, her relationship with Mari...
In Praise of the Goddess - Ishtar
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - March 12, 2022 08:45 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAn illuminating and deeply personal discussion with an Assyrian priestess of Ishtar. One of the Great Goddesses, she was also known as Inanna in Sumer, and is a counterpart of the goddess Astarte. Lady of love and of battle, fertility and storms, she was goddess of the storehouse - ov...
The tale of Gallus Mag & Sadie the Goat
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - March 09, 2022 00:44 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHave you heard the tale of Gallus Mag and Sadie the Goat? These two very colorful characters lived in the 19th Century in New York City, and despite their rocky beginning, eventually found peace with one another. Enjoy their rollicking tale! Written by: Sara Ataiiyan Directed by: Li...
Vicki Noble - From Priestess To Bride
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History - February 22, 2022 20:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJoin us as Vicki Noble guides us through the story of how the religious rites of The Goddess were turned into the wedding rituals of the patriarch. Long ago, the wheeled-wagon invaders overran the matriarchies and coopted and subverted the matriarchal lineage of female spiritual and tem...
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