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
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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.
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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?...
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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...
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The War on Pagans
Smashing goddesses, temples, and other persecutions
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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.
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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.
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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?...
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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
"what is happening now in America is absolutely, they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state. We This is huge amounts of data on every single person in America that can and will be used in opaque and unaccountable ways. And it is terrifying.
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Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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June 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"what is happening now in America is absolutely, they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state. We This is huge amounts of data on every single person in America that can and will be used in opaque and unaccountable ways. And it is terrifying.
youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...
youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...
Video on Judea under Roman rule; the Hasmonean queen Shlomtzion, aka Salome Alexandra; Yeshua of Nazareth and his followers (who were not “christian”). Pagan influences in synagogue mosaics and in the female figurines from a ceramic workshop at Beit Nattif in the 200s CE.
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Judea Capta, Shlomtzion, and the Female Icons of Beit Nattif
YouTube video by Max Dashu
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May 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Video on Judea under Roman rule; the Hasmonean queen Shlomtzion, aka Salome Alexandra; Yeshua of Nazareth and his followers (who were not “christian”). Pagan influences in synagogue mosaics and in the female figurines from a ceramic workshop at Beit Nattif in the 200s CE.
youtu.be/eFCZ8QiS18Q?...
youtu.be/eFCZ8QiS18Q?...
Rachel Maddow talking with Stacy Abrams on How to Fight Fascism in America; and how autocrats scam populism in order to rip off the Commons. Worth a listen!
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Rachel Maddow on How to Fight Fascism in America
YouTube video by Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams
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May 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Rachel Maddow talking with Stacy Abrams on How to Fight Fascism in America; and how autocrats scam populism in order to rip off the Commons. Worth a listen!
youtu.be/7nBKMEbOaVc?...
youtu.be/7nBKMEbOaVc?...
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The government can now restrict the books that you and your family are allowed to read in public libraries just because it dislikes or disagrees with the content.
STATEMENT: Rejecting Government Speech Doctrine in Public Libraries in Little v. Llano County
On May 24, 2025, in a sharply divided 10–7 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government can restrict access to books in public libraries simply because it dislikes or…
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May 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The government can now restrict the books that you and your family are allowed to read in public libraries just because it dislikes or disagrees with the content.
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New post!
Fairness is NOT overrated: It's the prerequisite for inclusion of a diversity of bodies in sport.
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Fairness is NOT overrated: It's the prerequisite for inclusion of a diversity of bodies in sport.
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Sex, Sport & Trans-Identified Males in the Female Category
Why fairness is not "overrated" and where liberals and progressives get it wrong.
katherinemacosta.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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There are almost 70 up there, and I'm about to add another one. And subscribe! I'm almost at 7000 now...
May 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
f you haven't seen them yet, check out my videos at
www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/vi...
There are almost 70 up there, and I'm about to add another one. And subscribe! I'm almost at 7000 now...
www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/vi...
There are almost 70 up there, and I'm about to add another one. And subscribe! I'm almost at 7000 now...
"the church doctors—John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine—agreed that Eve led Adam into sin, therefore all women should be put under obedience to their husbands and priestly authority. They saw women as temptresses, seducers into sin, with weak and evil natures."
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Patristic Misogyny
Preaching female body-hatred, fasting, veiling, and virginity
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May 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"the church doctors—John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine—agreed that Eve led Adam into sin, therefore all women should be put under obedience to their husbands and priestly authority. They saw women as temptresses, seducers into sin, with weak and evil natures."
open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch...
open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch...
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Shame! Shame! Shame!
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…
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May 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Shame! Shame! Shame!