GivingTuesday is Dec 1st – an international movement

On December 1st, we will combine our powers into a one day sprint of giving. This year, we are joining a generous global movement called GivingTuesday.

Please donate here or via our secure PayPal button below.

Help us find new ways for the collective support of our Members and Friends to grow our organization. With potential PayPal matching donations and fee waivers, we are still discovering all the ways Businesses are supporting 501c3 nonprofits like ours each year on December 1st.

“GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past eight years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

In an era of global crisis and disconnection, we need new rituals to connect us. As the world’s largest giving movement, we believe we can go further, faster when we unleash generosity together. GivingTuesday strives to build a world in which the catalytic power of generosity is at the heart of the society we build together, unlocking dignity, opportunity and equity around the globe. We believe that generosity leads to greater civic participation and other pro-social behaviors. Our mission is to build a more just and generous world.”

Auction

We have many talented members. Occasionally ASWM holds art or service auctions.

This December 22nd, 2021 Auction has ended. Congratulations to the lucky winner!

Thank you all for your participation in our Auction Fundraiser. We so appreciate your generosity. 100% of the winning bid provides support for ASWM’s 2021 Symposium.

A very special thanks to Vicki Noble for offering this Motherpeace Tarot Reading opportunity.

Chariot

World

Judgement

Crone

Justice

High Priestess

Vicki is one of our favorite Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Community! Vicki Noble, artist, feminist, scholar, along with Karen Vogel, is creatrix of the MotherPeace Tarot Deck. Vicki offered a one hour Tarot reading to the winner of this fundraising Auction.

Visit VickiNoble.com and Motherpeace.com for more information.

2022 ASWM Symposium

“Hearing the Invisible: Lessons from Sentient Beings and Inter-relational Ecosystems”

ASWM Online Symposium: Sunday, April 10, 2022

DID YOU MISS OUR SYMPOSIUM? You can now purchase recordings for the concert or the whole event–

Concert only/General public all recordings here.
Members sign in and get $50 discount here.
Join/Renew your ASWM membership here.
Questions? events @ womenandmyth. org

“The Caretaker of the Precious” by Denise Kester

SYMPOSIUM DETAILS:

Schedule at a glance: 2022 Schedule Final
Symposium Program Details All panels and sessions featured.
“Songs for All Sentient Beings” Concert April 9 Free with registration or $30 concert only ticket (ticket sales support our fund for Native American and Indigenous scholars and performers)
Symposium Attendee Quick Start Guide: How to use the symposium site–step by step with photos!

Jane Goodall has pointed out that human global disregard for nature brought on the current pandemic, documenting that mistreatment/exploitation of sentient beings can result in an exponential crisis for the whole planet.

Our 2022 biennial Symposium focuses on meanings found in the relational reality among science, culture, and mythology in regards to animals, the green world, and ecosystems.

With our primary focus on interconnectedness, we feature academic and artistic work that addresses collaborations between humans and other sentient beings, foundational myths about earth’s response to misuse, and scientific solutions to transgressions against the balance of nature.

Read about Denise Kester and “The Caretaker of the Precious,” the featured artwork for this event.

November 7, 2020January 9, 2024

Auction Bidding Starts November 9th

Primordial Egg 2 by Simone Clunie

Laskowski-Saraswatis-Sigil-corrected-resized

Spiral by Helen Klebesadel

October 23, 2020January 9, 2024

Announcing Scholar Salon 18: Register for December 2

Deep Economy: the Maternal Gift

with Genevieve Vaughan

Wednesday, December 2, 2020
12 pm (Noon) Eastern Standard Time

Patriarchal Capitalism/Capitalist Patriarchy is an artificial system that is destroying the Earth and her children. We need to return to the deep economy of the mother, based on the model of unilateral giving to needs, that every child has to experience in order to survive. Recognizing and validating this model puts us in alignment with Mother Earth and allows the creation of community on that basis. Unilateral gifting has not been seen as structural but recognizing it in the structure of language as well as of the economy, can restore it to the central place in our lives as the source of shared meaning and reveal a newly understood sense of who we are as a species. This will allow us to unite to transition toward alternatives to Capitalism and Patriarchy under the leadership of those who recognize and promote the maternal model. most of whom are women.

Genevieve Vaughan (b.1939) has lived between Texas and Italy most of her life. She founded the all-women multicultural Foundation for a Compassionate Society 1988 – 2005 in Austin, the International Feminists for a Gift Economy network 2001-ongoing and the Temple of Sekhmet in Cactus Springs Nevada (1992-ongoing). She is the author of For-Giving(1997), Homo Donans (2008), The Gift in the Heart of Language(2015) and the editor of Il Dono/the Gift (2004), Women and the Gift Economy(2007), and The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy (2018). An Issue of the Canadian Women’s Studies Journal: Vol. 34, Feminist Gift Economy: A Maternalist Alternative to Patriarchy and Capitalism (2020) has just appeared. See www.gift-economy.com

The week before our Salon, check out this free webinar on the Gift Economy:

Matriarchal Gift Economy: B re aking Through

November 27 2020 4 pm to 7 pm GMT

with Vandana Shiva (India), Darcia Narvaez (USA), Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany), Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot Nation), Mary Condren (Ireland), and Genevieve Vaughan (USA/Italy). Moderated by Letecia Layson (USA)

and — Save these dates for upcoming ASWM Salons:

January 13 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Like a Tree: How Trees, women and Tree People Can Save the World

Jean Shinoda Bolen

January 27 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Title TBA: Animal mysteries in the Paleolithic
Susan Moulton

February 10 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Living in a Sentient World
Judy Grahn

The Salon recording will also be available to members after the event.