Max Dashu
@maxdashu.bsky.social
Restore women to cultural memory, political analysis, spiritual awareness, globally. Founder, Suppressed Histories Archives: http://suppressedhistories.net and on FB. Books: www.veleda.net
https://www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/videos
Grandmother Stones video on female statue menhirs in Europe, 4000-900 BCE. The deep history is in the icongraphy! Missed the live sessions? you can view the recording up until Feb 9 by registering here, only $20: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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Grandmother Stones zoom
Newly expanded visual talk on female statue menhirs in Europe, 4000-900 BCE. Iconography of the ancestor-face; breasts-and-neckace motif, and other symbols. France, Portugal, Spain, Guernsey, Sardini...
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January 12, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Grandmother Stones video on female statue menhirs in Europe, 4000-900 BCE. The deep history is in the icongraphy! Missed the live sessions? you can view the recording up until Feb 9 by registering here, only $20: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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Video of my visual overview of women's history can be streamed here:
A #NewYearsDay treat from #FiLiA2025: Centring Women: Our Global Histories and Activism.
📺 youtu.be/4MLLj-Icqx8
Restoring Women to Cultural Memory – an inspirational session with @maxdashu.bsky.social 🔗 suppressedhistories.net
#WomensHistory #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2026
📺 youtu.be/4MLLj-Icqx8
Restoring Women to Cultural Memory – an inspirational session with @maxdashu.bsky.social 🔗 suppressedhistories.net
#WomensHistory #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2026
January 12, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Video of my visual overview of women's history can be streamed here:
Screen cap essay! "Advisory from ancient Sumeria: “Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.”
Conditions in the US are alarming as all hell. Click over and read it, screen caps of public statements from the current govt tell the story.
oldwitch.substack.com/p/were-in-fo...
Conditions in the US are alarming as all hell. Click over and read it, screen caps of public statements from the current govt tell the story.
oldwitch.substack.com/p/were-in-fo...
We're in for it now
The absolute state of things
oldwitch.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Screen cap essay! "Advisory from ancient Sumeria: “Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.”
Conditions in the US are alarming as all hell. Click over and read it, screen caps of public statements from the current govt tell the story.
oldwitch.substack.com/p/were-in-fo...
Conditions in the US are alarming as all hell. Click over and read it, screen caps of public statements from the current govt tell the story.
oldwitch.substack.com/p/were-in-fo...
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At my joint - other's wisdom before my own reminders how not to crumble inward. #DismantleICE #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinSurvivors #FashHateWomen #FeminismOrDeath
Thread of Fuck ICE - A Feminist Version
I'm not finding the words, so I'm sharing other people's. Renee Good should be alive today. The kidnapped should be brought home.
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I'm not finding the words, so I'm sharing other people's. Renee Good should be alive today. The kidnapped should be brought home.
bsky.app/profile/imno...
January 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
At my joint - other's wisdom before my own reminders how not to crumble inward. #DismantleICE #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinSurvivors #FashHateWomen #FeminismOrDeath
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Pam Bondi needs to obey the law. The laws says to release ALL of the Epstein Files. She has not yet done so. She is a big part of a massive government cover up to protect Trump, who was a very close friend of Epstein’s for years, from being exposed.
January 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Pam Bondi needs to obey the law. The laws says to release ALL of the Epstein Files. She has not yet done so. She is a big part of a massive government cover up to protect Trump, who was a very close friend of Epstein’s for years, from being exposed.
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We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Noem Says ‘Hundreds More’ Agents Will Be Sent to Minnesota Over ‘Corruption’
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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First thought: we are boycotting Target so please shop elsewhere if you can. That store should rightly be empty. Second thought: ICE is not welcome ANYWHERE where decent people are. Not even in boycotted stores.
ICE at Midway Target and seem to possible be leaving. Lots of community members here
January 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
First thought: we are boycotting Target so please shop elsewhere if you can. That store should rightly be empty. Second thought: ICE is not welcome ANYWHERE where decent people are. Not even in boycotted stores.
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.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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.
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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?...
youtu.be/3J6kW-PrH7k?...
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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?...
youtu.be/3J6kW-PrH7k?...
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...
July 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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...
New chapter excerpt, War on Pagans, in my book on church-state authoritarian repression, Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church. "Firmicus Maternus exhorted the emperor to suppress “the lethal infection of a vanquished idolatry.”
oldwitch.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
oldwitch.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
The War on Pagans
Smashing goddesses, temples, and other persecutions
oldwitch.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
New chapter excerpt, War on Pagans, in my book on church-state authoritarian repression, Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church. "Firmicus Maternus exhorted the emperor to suppress “the lethal infection of a vanquished idolatry.”
oldwitch.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
oldwitch.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
Diabolism: Ideologies of Domination: Th 24 July 6pm & Sat 26 July noon, US PT. Check timezone converter for your local time! If you can't attend either session can request a link to recording of the second session. $20 Register at py.pl/4jvowPHRxi8
More info: oldwitch.substack.com/p/diabolism-...
More info: oldwitch.substack.com/p/diabolism-...
Diabolism: Ideologies of Domination
(new visual webcast, July 24 and 25, 2025)
oldwitch.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Diabolism: Ideologies of Domination: Th 24 July 6pm & Sat 26 July noon, US PT. Check timezone converter for your local time! If you can't attend either session can request a link to recording of the second session. $20 Register at py.pl/4jvowPHRxi8
More info: oldwitch.substack.com/p/diabolism-...
More info: oldwitch.substack.com/p/diabolism-...
Found while researching something else:
"End [Female Genital] Excision
"End [Female Genital] Excision
July 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Found while researching something else:
"End [Female Genital] Excision
"End [Female Genital] Excision
Goddess Seals and Priestesses of Iran, free excerpt from Ancient Iran video. youtu.be/suc1-S_2iuE
Snake goddess, grain goddess, horned goddess, and women's ceremony in the cylinder seals of Kerman, S. Iran, ca 2400 bce. These important cylinder seals are rarely seen except by academic specialists.
Snake goddess, grain goddess, horned goddess, and women's ceremony in the cylinder seals of Kerman, S. Iran, ca 2400 bce. These important cylinder seals are rarely seen except by academic specialists.
Goddess Seals and Priestesses in Kerman, Iran
YouTube video by Max Dashu
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July 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Goddess Seals and Priestesses of Iran, free excerpt from Ancient Iran video. youtu.be/suc1-S_2iuE
Snake goddess, grain goddess, horned goddess, and women's ceremony in the cylinder seals of Kerman, S. Iran, ca 2400 bce. These important cylinder seals are rarely seen except by academic specialists.
Snake goddess, grain goddess, horned goddess, and women's ceremony in the cylinder seals of Kerman, S. Iran, ca 2400 bce. These important cylinder seals are rarely seen except by academic specialists.
Made up, but I love it anyway.
July 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Made up, but I love it anyway.
Kourt: fine for Trump to send immigrants to third party countries where they might be tortured or killed (and, in most cases, do not even speak the language).
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Supreme Court Just Cosigned One of Trump’s Most Lawless Immigration Moves
Deporting people to countries where they might be tortured or killed? All good, according to the six GOP justices.
www.thenation.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Kourt: fine for Trump to send immigrants to third party countries where they might be tortured or killed (and, in most cases, do not even speak the language).
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cambridge anthro prof Alison Murray discovered that prehistoric women were buff... their bone structure was 11-16% stronger than today’s elite rowers. The modern cultural obsession with thinness is very recent, born of fashion, patriarchy, postwar consumerism.
time.com/7293999/body...
time.com/7293999/body...
Becoming a Bodybuilder Taught Me Women Aren’t Meant to be Thin
"We’ve been taught to disappear, but our true power lies in taking up space," writes Anne Marie Chaker.
time.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Cambridge anthro prof Alison Murray discovered that prehistoric women were buff... their bone structure was 11-16% stronger than today’s elite rowers. The modern cultural obsession with thinness is very recent, born of fashion, patriarchy, postwar consumerism.
time.com/7293999/body...
time.com/7293999/body...
Devastating illustration of the rhetoric used first against Iraq, and now against Iran—and Los Angeles. No, really, watch the historic and current clips: youtu.be/l8c8q8vhEnM?...
Jon Stewart & Klepper on Trump's Response to Israel-Iran and MAGA's War Pushback | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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June 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Devastating illustration of the rhetoric used first against Iraq, and now against Iran—and Los Angeles. No, really, watch the historic and current clips: youtu.be/l8c8q8vhEnM?...
Reposted by Max Dashu
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
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Americans are giving off a real “Aw, hell no!“ vibe right now. This weekend should be interesting.
June 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Americans are giving off a real “Aw, hell no!“ vibe right now. This weekend should be interesting.
Latest installment from The Imperial Church, chapter 7 in my unfolding online book: where the word "colonialism" came from. open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch...
June 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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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"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included
The mainstream/centrist punditocracy seems to exist in an alternate universe around discussing protests where 1) BLM happened while Joe Biden was President and 2) it resulted in an electoral wipeout for Dems
June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included
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
June 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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
Secret police in the USA
June 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Secret police in the USA