Probing Femininity

Feb. 7, 2010
Santiago Pin-ups

WOMEN’S CONCERN

Thinking about the question, “What are the things women reveal to you in consultations about themselves, and their struggles?”

I see women struggling with mirrors: the mirrors of their children, their pasts, and how they are seen by other women, and judged by bosses, and co-workers, and men who may or may not want them. They wrestle with the reflection of God where they cannot see the Goddess for seeing a God who judges them, and their decisions contrary to the dictates of the patriarchs. Women wrestle with the meaning of the Punany in the context of fears.

My mother’s conversations were often probing and deep. One conversation spoke earnestly about not having the language for ritual and ceremony to have embraced to pass on to her daughter. Young women, often referred to as ‘hood rats’, struggle to find language that asks for the same connection to the divine forces that welled up within them during and after pregnancies. - Gregory E. Woods, 4.28.13 

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