"Feminism on the Borderlands" with Dr. Monica Mody April 16, 2019 moderated by Gayatri Devi PhD How do we move into the borderlands to reclaim our full relationship with modernity, secularization, and the shadow spaces in our own psyches? How do we relate to the shadow produced by European and western modes of being, thinking …
Tuesday, April 16, 2019, Â 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time
Neolithic Women’s Figures
ASWM is hosting conversations with scholars about issues relating to women and mythology.  In order to be eligible to participate, renew your membership before April 13, 2019. We will send the  Zoom call in information to all current members on April 14.
How do we move into the borderlands and reclaim our full relationship with modernity, secularization, and the shadow spaces in our own psyches? How do we relate to the shadow produced by European and western modes of being, thinking and relating to the world, to each other and to ourselves? What do we need to give up? What do we reclaim and bring to the surface?
Let’s have a lively discussion on these questions that transcend disciplines and affect our daily and creative lives as women.  Join Dr. Monica Mody for an inspiring discussion on discovering the shadow projects of modernity and secularization from the perspective of feminist and borderlands spirituality and scholarship.
Monica Mody
Monica Mody holds a PhD in East West Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, where she worked on a cross-genre dissertation on the decolonized feminist consciousness in an Anzalduan framework of the borderlands. Monica is a trained dancer and an internationally published poet.
Our salon is moderated by Dr. Gayatri Devi, Associate Professor of English at Lock Haven University, and longtime member of the ASWM Board.
Featured ASWM artist Lauren Raine is holding a retrospective art show of her beautiful Masks of the Goddess Project. She describes her work this way:
In May I will be concluding the 20 year MASKS OF THE GODDESS PROJECT, which began as an Invocation to the Goddess at Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance in San Francisco in 1999. I have been so privileged to collaborate with Priestesses, Playwrights, Dancers, Ritualists, Community Organizers, Photographers, Choreographers, Writers, Singers, and Psychologists in sharing the “Faces of the Goddess”. The spirits of so many collaborators are in every mask and photograph. It’s my hope that as the masks leave me, they’ll go out to be used by others, to continue their work in some way.Â
Just want to thank you and all of the amazing women I met at the Women and Mythology Conferences I have attended. If you or anyone you know will be in SF at that time, please be most cordially invited to the Opening, or to see the show.
Feminist visionary artist Rae Atira-Soncea passed away ten years ago. Now in a new retrospective show, her dynamic work will be on display again in the Spring of 2019. A longtime leader of the arts community and a disability rights activist, Rae was featured at the first symposium of ASWM in 2008. Her work also appears in ASWM’s proceeings volume, Vibrant Voices: Women, Myth, and the Arts.
“Still Powerful: feminist revisioning of domestic objects by Rae Atira-Soncea,” will be March 23-31, 2019, on the 3rd floor Common Wealth Gallery, 100 S Baldwin, Madison WI 53703 Open 10-4 weekdays, and 9-5 on the 24th, 30th and 31st.
Reception will be Saturday, March 23, 2018 4-7:30PM. Much of the art featured in her blog will be on display and on sale.
ASWM Winter Warmers Film Festival 2019
ASWM Biennial Conference Film Series 2018
Synopsis
La Frontierra Chingada is a poetic non-fiction film about motherhood on the US-Mexico border. These figures (mythic and otherwise) manifest themselves at Friendship Park–a space where families on either side of la frontera can come together, but under extreme conditions of surveillance. Guided in part by conversations with the filmmaker’s matrilineal family, this Spanglish film concerns itself with relationships between bodies, space, and the shared land and history in the San Diego-Tijuana region.
Trailer
"A huge part of my trepidation in making this film was about not wanting to presume to be able to make a relevant film about the border as an Anglo American filmmaker. But I think it’s incredibly important for white artists to make reflexive work about the border, given that we are implicated in its existence, and that our understanding and perspective shift is necessary to improve the situation (which includes death, dehumanization, and forced separation of family). At some point I gave myself permission to trust that I could make meaningful art about the border, and that the story I had to tell was important." - Emily Packer
Bio
Emily Packer is a non-fiction filmmaker with a focus on women's stories and an interest in Border Culture and Border Theory. Her documentary style ranges from observational to reflexive, experimental, and poetic. Emily graduated from Hampshire College in December of 2015. The following year, she organized the three-day event Arte on the Line in San Diego and Tijuana, where she screened her second feature-length film La Frontierra Chingada. Emily’s first film, Nationless, explored the unique socio-political situation of Tibetan refugees in Nepal. In addition to her independent work, she has consulted and edited for Deliberate Healing Productions and Ashbourne Films. She works as a media manager for Zero Point Zero Productions in New York City, and in her spare time volunteers for Tribeca Film Festival’s programming team. Emily collects voicemails for future use; consider yourself notified.
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