How many stories have we lost due to our limited lens of what constitutes “history”? There is so little we are told and taught about women’s lives. Yet despite tremendous efforts to erase women's stories, they do exist, and my guest on this episode has dedicated more than 50 years of her life to building an impressive visual record of our global past. Max Dashu is the founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives,an incredible resource for gaining a true global perspective of women’s history. In creating the Archives, Max has amassed more than 40,000 images from the global cultural record which she has woven into hundreds of talks on female cultural heritage. On today's episode, we discuss the well-documented connection between women and the sacred, the tremendous cultural forces that have suppressed our stories, and how reclaiming our history can help us visualize a more just and equitable world.
The Suppressed Histories Archives is an incredible wealth of information on women's and indigenous histories from around the world, and you'll find links to all of Max's courses and livecasts here. You can also follow Max and the Suppressed Histories Archives on Facebook, where Max shares a tremendous amount of her research. And, you can learn more about her book, Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, and purchase it a 20 percent discount, here.
We covered a lot of ground in this episode - here are some links to related to some of our discussion: