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GivingTuesday is Dec 1st – an international movement

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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.
 
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“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.”



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Scholar Salon 17

ASWM Scholar Salon 17 with Normandi Ellis "Hieroglyphic Thinking", moderated by Simone Clunie, Wednesday November 18, 2020, recording available now for members only.

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Scholar Salon 16

ASWM Scholar Salon 16 with Jeannette Kiel, PhD "Beyond the Trees: Ecofeminism and Connections to Current Movements for Change" on Wednesday, November 4 , 2020.

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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 

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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

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

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

Matriarchal Gift Economy: Breaking 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

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

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