6.14 | Starving the Machine, Matriarchally

And I want to speak directly to the precise political moment we're in on the timeline.

We are entering eclipse season.

There is a war on women, and it's probably the most literal definition of the word war.

It's unfortunately not hyperbolic.

Um, women are being hunted down and arrested for aborting fetuses while men get absolutely nothing for destroying the bodies, minds, and spirits of children who have landed earthside.

There's a systematic dismantling of every protection that has taken generations of women's labor, suffering, and sacrifice to build.

And it's so much bigger than that.

You know, the war is not actually on women.

It's a war on humanity.

And I've been thinking about a question that a big name hypnotherapist asked in her reels yesterday about how to starve the machine under martial law, right? Because that is sort of the direction that we're going in with all of the surveillance and all of that.

And she threw the question out there as an invitation for her audience to post ideas in the comments, and I started to wonder, okay, so what does it look like to starve the machine from a matriarchal perspective? Because I absolutely mean it when I say making the patriarchy obsolete, right? Because we're not just withdrawing from it, we're also creating systems outside of it, right? So the question of how to withdraw from it strategically, structurally, collectively is really one of the most practically urgent questions available right now.

So that's what we're talking about today.

And I'm offering this as a synthesis of structures and movements that have already existed and continue to exist.

I'm just organizing it as a map.

And it's not something that I've fully implemented myself.

I want to be clear about that.

I've only practiced some of these, and mostly on a more personal level.

So I want to be clear about that.