by Asphodel Long | Gender Politics
“Spiritual, consecrated, wonderful, incomprehensible; said also of women at the menstrual period”. This is an American Indian definition of tabu, itself a word derived from the Polynesian, and the basic form of the more common English spelling, taboo. And... by Asphodel Long | Gender Politics
In the name of the Mother of Heaven, Mother of Earth, Creator of Life, Queen of the Sky, Queen of the Night, the Great Womb, the Throbbing Vulva, the Yoni, Most Gracious, Star Goddess, the Great Breast from which flows the milk of kindness, Goddess of Grains and... by Asphodel Long | Gender Politics
When I remember 1968, what still hits me are the pictures on television of Russian tanks rolling through Prague. You could see those people in the streets, stopping the tanks, arguing, waving their arms about, trying to tell the soldiers that this was not a...