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Michelle's avatar

Wow, loved this article.

Lindsey Melden's avatar

Putting the conversation of consent back on men/boys is exactly what we need. πŸ‘πŸ½ so much good stuff here and can’t wait to read the book!

Cindy DiTiberio's avatar

Yes, so much of this work falls on our shoulders when it should be both. Her book goes into so much more depth. I hope you read it!

Angela Briles's avatar

This idea of β€œchanging policy” is futile. As long as patriarchy is the only choice, women are not free because our so called β€œchoices” in a patriarch are designed by men. Self-agency is about intentionally deciding where our energy goes right? But as long as we are fighting against a patriarchy for feminine rights, we are wasting our energy and exhausting our valuable resources and it’s this consumption of our feminine energy that keeps patriarchy in power. The only way is to participate in the design of an equal Matriarchal system that serves Mothers and Children. When the women free themselves from men, men will be free from his desire to control.

Mother Lands Foundation and Villages- ia Matriarchal system - designed to build upon itself after the first initial funding- a system designed to become its own investor and philanthropist as an equal partnership to Patriarch yet a separate and sovereign entity of her own.

Cindy DiTiberio's avatar

I agree that it is hard to create what we need within the structures that have been designed to hold us back.

Tracy Clark-Flory's avatar

Love this q (and the answer it inspires): β€œWhy do you think motherhood feels so violent and violating? Could there be a version of motherhood in some realized utopia that isn’t? What would that look like?”

Angela Briles's avatar

Mother Lands Foundation and Villages

Hannah Lacy's avatar

Wow loved this a and a so much!! Especially this line- Both mother and wife are forms of work, not identity positions.” Why do you think these roles are venerated as lofty positions when the reality is, they are just fucking work?

Cindy DiTiberio's avatar

Thank you! I'm so glad it resonated.