Philosophies and principles of the agentic feminine
WISDOM • DISCERNMENT • INTUITION • COURAGE
MISSION STATEMENT
Creating space for those who have been socialized as female to REWILD.
Specifically, for us to understand and divest from capitalist, white supremacist patriarchy – thus, ending culturally and socially-imposed self-abandonment.
To experience a return to the sacred, divine ESSENCE OF SELF. To grow the psychological, spiritual, emotional musculature to honor the Self whilst navigating this existence. To reclaim deep, beautiful, soulful joy and alleviate our suffering.
AND THEN
Upon the reclamation of freedom and agency, the REWILDing now have the power – the sacred duty – to address, disrupt, and dismantle systems of oppression, exploitation, and extraction helping build socioeconomically and sociopolitical structures protecting and benefitting all of life.
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.
• • Fannie Lou Hamer • •
Everyone has a birthright to live their authentic
humanity free from harm and harassment.
Everyone carries with them the birthright of inherent wisdom and is entitled to walk toward their thriving life, in alignment with their Sacred Divine, where stability and meaning are ever-present.
Meaning is not something you stumble across or what someone gives you; you build it through every choice you make, the commitments you chose, the people you love, and the values you hold dear.
• • Maria Ressa • •
• • How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Everyone is entitled to access to resources to meet their basic needs of life – including, but not limited to, food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education, the internet, clean water, clean air, nature.
Humans are part of nature and in reciprocal relationship with Earth and all its inhabitants. We have a responsibility to all those with whom we share the planet.
We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don't have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgment of the rest of earth's beings.
• • Robin Wall Kimmerer • •
• • Braiding Sweetgrass
Humans are capable of thriving. But only in systems of reciprocity and mutual-benefit, absent of greed, power-hoarding, and societal structures of domination.
Personal psychological, emotional, mental, and spiritual improvement cannot stop on the individual level. It must also acknowledge and work to eliminate systemic oppression.
This includes current and historical power hierarchies and their realities relating to euro-centric, Western, “nuclear” family systems, religious, professional, academic, financial, medical settings, and broader society as a whole.
I began to use the phrase in my work 'white supremacist capitalist patriarchy' because I wanted to have some language that would actually remind us continually of the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality and not to just have one thing be like, you know, gender is the important issue, race is the important issue, but for me the use of that particular jargonistic phrase was a way, a sort of short cut way of saying all of these things actually are functioning simultaneously at all times in our lives...
• • bell hooks • •
White liberal feminism paved the way for white women to singularly gain power through protecting their proximity to white men by participating in white supremacist patriarchy. White women have a specific, grave responsibility to educate ourselves and examine our participation in upholding - and strengthening - these horrifically oppressive, inhumane, exploitative, and lethal structures.
The time for white women to divest from and dismantle systemic white supremacy, from which we have benefitted for centuries, is long overdue.
This is on us. Full stop.
The days of patriarchal hyper-individualism and gluttonous white narcissism are climaxing amidst the horrors and wreckage they perpetrate. Humanity stands at the precipice of oblivion if we do not choose another, more matriarchal way of coexisting.
Solutions are made through coalition-building, with a conglomerate of people working toward the same goal – through various methods, with differing points of view and life experiences.
There is no one way to solve any of the crises confronting us.*
*This is very, very specifically a note-to-self🙋♀️
There are no workable, sustainable solutions that do not primarily include leadership of women.
The nuclear family unit is not the most productive, nor healthy familial organizational structure for women or children. Quite often, marriages become prisons of repression and abuse. Healthy societies allow for much wider variation of family structure, providing thriving environments for its members to live authentically with love and support.
Every person has a duty to continual, perennial, eternal learning and growth. Proactive enhancement of wisdom and empathy is a responsibility incumbent upon all of us, most especially those of us experiencing societal privilege and raising future generations.
**NOTE: These are aspirational.
In a power infrastructure such as capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchy, the system is designed to force members to abide by and participate in to various degrees for survival. That forced capitulation is then used a cudgel to discredit any who might work to change the system. It is a purposeful, wildly successful manipulation and control tactic and we must overcome it.
Further,
None of these philosophies are radical or extreme. What is outrageous and abhorrent is that they are not normal. That we have been conditioned to swallow the putrid excrement of patriarchy and then demanded we show gratitude for it. Fuck that.
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world.
And you have to do it all the time.
• Angela Davis •