Upcoming livecasts and events Snake Women visual livecast A visual journey with goddesses, ancestors, shapeshifters, seeresses and priestesses around the world. We look at rock art from Australia, Brazil, Utah, and South Africa; seals from eastern Iran, Canaanite gold, Egyptian stelae, Aztec statues, and masks from Nigeria to Ivory coast. We’ll go into the continent-spanning theme of the woman who grasps serpents in both hands, and also she who is belted with snakes. We'll discuss the python oracles of Greece, Malawi, and Surinam, and view snake goddesses from Egypt, Mexico, Germany, China, India, Benin Republic. And snaky women from Mali's Inland Delta of the Niger, Argentinian bronzes, Frankish ivories and Romanesque churches. It’s a free-for-all of fairies and saints and ancestors, Chinese wu and Santa Marta la Dominicana.



Two showings: Sun 20 Sept at noon, and Thurs 24 Sept at 6:30 pm (PST, San Francisco time, UTC-8). Check a time-converter for your local equivalent, because the link is date-time specific! (If you can't make either livecast time, registrants can request a link to the recording, which remains online for a month.) To register, first select a sliding scale rate from the dropdown menu below, then click Add to Cart. SlidingScale Suggested $15.00 USD Supporter $20.00 USD Sponsor $25.00 USD Low income $10.00 USD

Important: the deadline for registration is one hour before webcast. (It is done manually, not automatically!) You'll be sent an access link to the email you use to register. (Note: if you have trouble with the paypal link on mobile, try another device or browser. It accepts credit cards, just look below the paypal checkout button.) Shown, from left top and around: Crete; China; Iran, Guatemala, Mali, Francia, Argentina, Egypt. Sacra Vulva A very international view of ancestral women, sheela-na-gigs, Tantrik murthies, nagas, zemis, amulets, rock art, ceramics, and sculpture in wood, stone, and ivory. Vulvas engraved on the bones of Earth, signs of origin grooved into the rock by ancient hands; the place of Emergence painted with the blood of Earth, the blood that is life, coursing vitality: in remembrance of ancestors or the Creation in time-out-of-time. The Woman who stands at the Portals, who has within her an opening into the vastness, the Origin which is everywhere at the center. http://www.suppressedhistories.net/events.html Two showings: Thurs 20 Aug, 6:30 pm and

Sun 23 Aug, noon :: both US Pacific time. Visual talk by Max Dashu. 90 minutes plus time for questions, comments, discussion. Livecasts are date / time specific; check a timeconverter for your local equivalent. (If you can't make either livecast time, registrants can request a link to the recording, which remains online for one month.) To register, first select a sliding scale rate from the dropdown menu below, then click Add to Cart. Important: the deadline for registration is one hour before webcast. (It is done manually, not automatically!) You'll be sent an access link to the email you use to register. (Note: if you have trouble with the paypal link on mobile, try another device or browser. It accepts credit cards, just look below the paypal checkout button.) From left at top: Vanuatu, Ecuador, Brazil, Iroquoia, Cyclades, BaPende Country, and Gabon. In the middle: Egypt, Elam / SW Iran, Belau, Costa Rica, Rapa Nui, Dominican Republic, Colombia; at bottom: Nayarit / west Mexico, Canaan, Yolgnu Country Australia, south India, Congo, Nepal, and (I’m calling the Kilpeck sheela for) Wales. SlidingScale Suggested $15.00 USD Supporter $20.00 USD Sponsor $25.00 USD Low income $10.00 USD Racism, History and Lies How white supremacist ideology functions as a justification and ongoing template for domination. Narratives of supremacy in textbooks, novels, movies, advertising, comics, public monuments, and maps. Assumptions embedded in naming and language: “the March of Civilization,” “barbarism,” “progress.” What is communicated by phrases like “Old World” and “New World”? What is left out in talk about “The Ancient World,” “the Classics,” “the Canon.” We’ll look at pseudo-scientific race theories: Caucasoids and Others; whitening the Egyptians; stereotypes of Indigenous peoples in the Americas; Black South Asias and Australasians, and how narratives of “vanishing” peoples cover up historical genocides.

Thurs 23 July, 6:30 pm and Sun 26 July, noon (US Pacific time) Visual talk by Max Dashu. 90 minutes plus time for questions, comments, discussion. These livecasts are date / time specific; check a timeconverter for your regional equivalent. (If you can't make either livecast time, registrants can request a link to the recording, which remains online for one month.)

To register, first select a sliding scale rate from the dropdown menu below, then click Add to Cart. Important: the deadline for registration is one hour before webcast. (It is done manually, not automatically!) You'll be sent an access link to the email you use to register. (Note: if you have trouble with the paypal link on mobile, try another device or browser. It accepts credit cards, just look below the paypal checkout button.)

SlidingScale Suggested $15.00 USD Supporter $20.00 USD Sponsor $25.00 USD Low income $10.00 USD Italy Before Romans The oldest female icons of the paleolithic and forward, from the Riviera to the Alps to Sicily. Megalithic women from Sardinia, Foggia, and Lunigiana. Rock engravings of Val Camonica; breastpots of the Terramare culture, and the Nuraghic bronzes of Sardinia. Tanit stones, the Iblaean Mother, and the rock-cut Santoni in Sicily. In the northeast, stunning bronze discs of the Veneti, and inscriptions offered to their goddess Rehtia. Moving south, the Daunian limestone stelae, mostly women who are tattooed and richly arrayed, and the scenes of weaving and ceremony engraved on them. (The Etruscans are an entire show on their own, so not included here.)

Two showings: Sun 14 June, noon PST, and

Thurs 18 June, 6:30 pm (both US Pacific time = UTC -8) Visual talk by Max Dashu. 90 minutes plus time for questions, comments, discussion. These livecasts are date / time specific; check a timeconverter for your regional equivalent. (If you can't make either livecast time, registrants can request a link to the recording, which remains online for one month.)

Female Icons, Ancestral Women The ancient female figurines are classic icons of cultures around the world, from the paleolithic into recent time. We explore forms of female potency expressed through these primal images—and what they can tell us about women’s ceremonies long ago — in all their diversity and global relatedness. These images shouldn't be rare or hard to find; but they have been hidden away, which is why it took 50 years to assemble a collection that shows the global scale of this iconography.

Two showings: Thurs 14 May, 6:30 pm, and

Sat 16 May, noon (both US Pacific time = UTC -8) Visual talk by Max Dashu. 90 minutes plus time for questions, comments, discussion. These livecasts are date / time specific; check a timeconverter for your regional equivalent. (If you can't make either livecast time, registrants can request a link to the recording, which remains online for at least one month.)

To register, first select a sliding scale rate from the dropdown menu below, then click Add to Cart. Important: the deadline for registration is one hour before webcast. (It is done manually, not automatically!) You'll be sent an access link to the email you use to register. (Note: if you have trouble with the paypal link on mobile, try another device.)

Prophetic Women In this international visual journey, we call back into memory the seeress, dreamer, sibyl, oracle. She has many cultural names; but the word “prophetess” comes from the Greek prophemi, “to speak forth, assert, make clear.” Prophecy might be defined as declaring something that cannot be known by ordinary means, or communicating profound insights about the nature of reality. The prophetess does more than “predict the future”; she is a speaker of sacred truths (“soothsayer”) who interprets reality in an inspired voice. The prophetic woman becomes a channel for wisdom, “sitting out” on a stone, under a tree, beside the river. She is a diviner who casts lots, throws the bones or kernels or shells, and finds remedies and pathways in the dark. She may attain profound states of spiritual inspiration by chanting and dancing, or by abiding in silence. She is also a guardian of culture, and sometimes a leader who defends her people against invasion and domination. Exemplars like Essie Parrish (California), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), Muhumusa (Uganda), Mauricia la Bruja (Venezuela), and Teresa Urrea (Mexico), known as la Santa de Cabora. We'll talk about Aztec diviners, female oracles from Malawi and Zimbabwe and Greece; Germanic seeresses, Algonquin mashkiki-kwe, French and African-American fortunetellers, the Caribbean madama, and South African izangoma. Most of us have been starved for knowledge about these women, and search ways of knowing that stand beyond the systems of domination, that subvert them, and liberate us.

Visual talk by Max Dashu. 90 minutes plus time for questions, comments, discussion. These livecasts are date / time specific; check a timeconverter for your regional equivalent. (If you can't make either livecast time, registrants can request a link to the recording, which remains online for at least one month.) To register, first select a sliding scale rate from the dropdown menu below, then click Add to Cart. Important: the deadline for registration is one hour before the webcast. (It is done manually, not automatically!) You'll be sent an access link to the email you use to register. Previous Events Suppressed Histories Archives | Articles | Max Dashu