Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy (Rww): A Womancraft Publishing Compendium

If what we are experiencing right now are the death throes of patriarchy, how did we get here . . . and what comes next?

Taking the ancient women’s work of weaving as its framework, Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy is a collaborative text of voices woven from the Womancraft community--our own authors, both established and upcoming; aligned authors published elsewhere; and readers, ranging in age from twelve to over seventy. Through poetry, prose, letters, articles, and artwork, more than eighty women--authors, activists, artists, community builders, priestesses, poets, professors, teachers, witches, mothers, and grandmothers--reflect on what it might look like beyond patriarchy and how we might get there, from the big picture to the domestic details.

This diverse and inclusive compendium of contemporary women’s wisdom is bound to become a much-loved handbook to carry us forward through these strange and uncertain times, filled with words to encourage and inspire us and our sisters, daughters, granddaughters, friends, and communities.

Themes

• Revisioning patriarchal history from female and feminine perspectives
• Exploring what needs healing/transforming and how we can do this: practically, energetically, linguistically, psychologically, systemically, and politically
• What we long for and what we need during these transitional times
• How we can each divest ourselves from patriarchy
• Visions and dreams for what comes next, how we cultivate this in ourselves and others, and how might we get there collectively
• Community and belonging beyond patriarchy
• Evolving our relationship with nature and our embodied selves
• Moving beyond war, fear, shame, and the -isms as tools of control and oppression
• Practices, tools, prayers, blessings, rituals, and ceremonies to help weave our way beyond patriarchy

Contributors include Amy Wilding, Anne Reeder Heck, Carly Mountain, Caryn MacGrandle, Coco Oya Cienna-Rey, D’Vorah J. Grenn En-Kohenet, Jane Catherine Severn, Rev. Judith Laxer, Kay Louise Aldred, Lucy H. Pearce, Lyn Thurman, Molly Remer, Pippa Grace, Rhiannon Hasenauer, Sarah Robinson, Vanya Leilani, and many more.

Womancraft Publishing was founded on the revolutionary vision that women and words can change the world. We act as the midwife to transformational women’s words that have the power to challenge, inspire, heal, and speak to the silenced aspects of ourselves.

We share powerful new voices with new visionary ideas, empowering our readers to actively cocreate cultures that value and support the female and feminine.