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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ten years ago we celebrated the release of my first book, Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100. I began writing it in 1978. Video from 2016 book release event, with Judy Grahn, Arisika Razak, Mancha de Plátano, Evelie Sales Posch & more. oldwitch.substack.com/p/video-from...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

All this was being signaled, even before Project 2025 was published. But denial was strong, and now look, they’re doing it all. Along with blocking the Black vote.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The Potency of Old Woman: new video course surveying traditions and images of Old Woman, as creatrix, goddess, ancestor, cultural founder; legendary and historic women who were movers and shakers in their societies. Plus extra readings. Subscribe for $20 at maxdashu.freshlearn.com/checkout/Cou...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In Yakutia, the old Sakhá iduan Alykhardaakh confronted and overcame local Party cadres who were persecuting shamans, How she did it severely embarassed these men, and will make you laugh. The article goes into Russian colonial repression of Indigenous North Asians in the name of liberation.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New visual talk on women’s demos and initiatives worldwide: inspiration! 2 showings: Thu 2 April, 6pm, and Sat 12 noon (both California time). 90 min + discussion. Recording upon request til May 5. $20, register at www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... (No paypal? look for debit/credit card button.)

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Bits from Women's Power, Women's Oppression, Women's History, my keynote at Feminism in London in 2015: Never recorded, so I'm sharing some screenshots from the section on Re-Sisters. Begins with a few other images I like. Had to cut description, no space here. oldwitch.substack.com/p/stand-up-w...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Visual talk via zoom Thus 20 Nov, 6pm, and Sat 22 Nov, noon, (both California time!) on Old Woman as creatrix, goddess, ancestor; and also old women in history and world cultures. $20. Note: computer goes into shop tomorrow, so access links will go out on Thurs. www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

On Oct 27, I gave the 23rd Annual Pat Reif Memorial Lecture at Claremont Graduate University: RESTORING WOMEN TO CULTURAL MEMORY. Karen Torjesen, eminent historian of women priests, introduced my global visual survey of long-obscured treasures. youtu.be/3J6kW-PrH7k?...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Bishop Theophilus stands atop the Serapeum—with an African deity in the aedicula below him. He ordered its destruction, but the people of Alexandria opposed the demolition in pitched street battles, for years. See my book excerpt: open.substack.com/.../p/destro...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Also started publishing here, including excerpts from Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church: substack.com/@oldwitch?ut...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Found while researching something else: "End [Female Genital] Excision

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Made up, but I love it anyway.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Latest installment from The Imperial Church, chapter 7 in my unfolding online book: where the word "colonialism" came from. open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Mother Law is an Indigenous name for matricultural societies, their cooperative ethos centered on life matrix, mother-kin, sister and brother-kin. Visual talk & discussion. Two showings, Sun June 22 noon (PT) and Wed 25 June 25th at 6pm (PT), the 2nd zoom is recorded. Subscribe here: py.pl/2AsUYx

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

f you haven't seen them yet, check out my videos at www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/vi... There are almost 70 up there, and I'm about to add another one. And subscribe! I'm almost at 7000 now...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Ceramic Scriptures of Signs: 1st webcast of my new WOMANITY course, with treasures from the world archaeological record. Thurs 17 April, 6pm, Sun 20 April, noon (California time, so check a timeconverter for your local time). You can subscribe at: suppressed-histories.teachable.com/p/restoring-...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

listening to Gail Dines speaking on radical feminism at FiLiA conference in 2014. youtu.be/D_Hyi5gpWOk?...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Wisconsin is victorious over Musk election-buying attempt.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

He's still going. Here's the live feed. Bravo, Sen Booker!

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

My 2025 course begins April 7, and runs thru Dec. Includes: photo essays, articles, videos; audio commentaries; book excerpts; and monthly visual zooms on Ancient Spain, China, Mexico, Colombia, Ethiopia, and more. Subscribe (sliding scale) at: suppressed-histories.teachable.com/p/restoring-...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Touché, and LOL! but also: OMFG, arrrggghhhhh!!!

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Secret History of the Witches course is here! register at: advaya.life/courses/secr... 6 videos and 2 live zooms (Mar 10 & 31 (7pm UK / 2pm NY / 11am LA) 1: Legendary Witches 2: Witch Names 3: Herbal Lore 4: Wands, Cauldrons, Crystal Balls 5: The Witches’ Goddess 6: Witch Hunts and Legacies

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My visual talk Pagan Herbal Traditions of Europe is this Sat Feb 15, 1-4 pm US Central time. Our Own Hands Women’s Wellness Series (Midwest Women's Herbal Conference) began Jan 18 and runs through March 29, 2025. Register at www.midwestwomensherbal.com/inourownhands 10% with my coupon code : MAX10

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Found today: Garnet engraved with woman brandishing torch. They suggest Hekate, but not in my opinion: too naturalistic. More likely a priestess. 300-100 bce. Now in British Museum. Unfortunately some curator has defaced the gem by inscribing numbers on the back.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The absolute blatancy of this power-mad, greedy, sociopath. Acting out his imperial fantasies in true real estate mobster mode.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Also, I have many free women's history videos on youtube: www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/vi... and photo essays on the Suppressed Histories Archives page on FB.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The bravehearted and redoubtable Margaret Skinnider, feminist and Irish revolutionary shero, and butch lesbian (at center). Her Irish parents raised her in Scotland, where she became a math teacher and sharpshooter. She fought in the Easter Rising. More at www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Usual human rights violations in the ICE raids. They traumatized this woman and her baby by going after the wrong house.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Winged Etruscan lesbians, clad only in ankle boots, one holding a lekythos (libation vessel). Dig it!

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Experts on fascist takeover say the first year is the window where they can be stopped. Otherwise, they will cause immense suffering before finally being overthrown.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Just wait! it's being reconfigured, with 10,000 photo essays from my blogging on FB, this year. We're fundraising for the tech resources to tag all the content and make navigation pages. www.suppressedhistories.net/donations.html

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"Ketanji Brown Jackson Wore A Symbol Of Silent Rebellion At Inauguration" For Africans, cowrie shells carry protective properties and spiritual significance... seen as conduits of ancestral wisdom and protection, used in divination and spiritual ceremonies.” www.huffpost.com/entry/ketanj...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just hours after taking the oath of office, Donald Trump took down reproductiverights.gov — a website to help women find health care and understand their rights.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This month makes 55 years of researching global women's history, archaeology, orature. Most content is at www.facebook.com/profile.php?... (please follow if you're on FB) but we're going to migrate the 10,000 photo essays to www.suppressedhistories.net See videos: www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/vi...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

55 years of the Suppressed Histories Archives, since Jan 1970. Brochures from the 1980s, and a flyer for a 1985 series I did at UC-Berkeley. More content coming soon when we reconfigure www.suppressedhistories.net Visit the daily blog on Suppressed Histories page: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Beauty that popped up on Pinterest

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Time to burrow deep into the Dark of transformation and renewal. All blessings!

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Another clip from my interview with Linda Conroy of Midwest Women's Herbal Conference, talking about pattern recognition, as we search for buried women's history, and ways of reading through patriarchal and colonial written records. www.instagram.com/p/DD1E303iBV9/ link to full interview below.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Two showings: Wed 18 Dec, 6pm & Sun 22 Dec, noon (California time; check a timezone converter). Judea under Roman occupation, including these icons. Register sliding scale at: suppressed-histories.teachable.com/p/judaea-cap... With readings from Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Come to find out (via Carolyn Gage) that the late great Nikki Giovanni was a lesbian, portrayed here with Virginia C. Fowler, her partner for 37 years. rebelliousmagazine.com/nikki-giovan...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Here's a bright light: "Lesbians took over Piccadilly Plaza and firefighters were brought in to take them down. February, 1988. This fucking queen." Aliza posts lesbians on twitter. x.com/bengalesbian...

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Afghan woman artist (in the Diaspora?)

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Dum spiro spero: "As long as I breathe, I hope." Detail of Amazons / High Risk, Max Dashu, 1975.

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Finally got links to my videos, books, posters, and courses up on Linktree! + Suppressed Histories Archives on FB, my IG page (which includes current webcasts / interviews), and stream on demand courses. linktr.ee/maxdashu

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Max Dashu @maxdashu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Wed, Dec 4, free! Join herbalist Linda Conroy and historian Max Dashu for a Community Conversation about the work that Max has been doing since 1970: teaching global women's history via the Suppressed Histories Archives. And Witchen Herbal Traditions. herbwomenclassroom.podia.com/0a18e9be-85b...

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