Lectures and Presentations
Workshops
Panels
Film
Ceremonies and Rituals
Poster Sessions
| Scheduled | Name of Event | Event Description | Presenter(s) |
| Sunday 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Chicana ‘Her-Story’: You’ve Heard ‘History’: Now Hear Hers | Maria has created a multi media presentation of oral history, including teatro, music, rap, and storytelling through the characters of several pre-Colombian women. She presents a feminine perspective of what has transpired over these last 500 plus years since 1492 when Columbus invaded the America’s | Maria Ramirez |
| Saturday 9:45 am - 11:00 am | Creating Goddess Art and Activism | Cristina Biaggi shows and discusses her large-scale projects—the Great Goddess Sculpture, the Goddess Mound and The Web—and her feminist and Earth-defense activism. Max Dashu shares her early drawings of ecstatic dancers, Witch Dream Comix, Tarot arcana, political posters, and paintings that re-envision shamans, goddesses, and women’s history. | Cristina Biaggi & Max Dashu |
| Saturday 3:45 pm -5:00 pm | Pancha Kanya: Five Inspired Heroines of Hindu Mythology | This project is a multimedia presentation that integrates narrative storytelling with Indian classical dance and music to illustrate the divine femininity of Pancha Kanya (Ahalya, Draupadi, Kunti, Tara, Mandodari) – five inspiring heroines in Hindu mythology. Their strength and resilience to overcome traumatic trials and tribulations will be highlighted by weaving together common themes of duty, loss, and empowerment in their stories. The innate energy or shakti within each of these ancient kanyas will be drawn on as inspiration for women all over the world. | Aishwarya Subramanian |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Rise Up! Living Boldly from the Sacred Space of Authentic Self-Expression | Now is the time for women and people of difference to rise up into their power of authenticity for deep healing and transformation. This interactive session engages participants to better understand upon what authenticity means to them and how they can embrace and express it more deeply and consistently in the world. This powerful session includes a diverse pedagogy of contemplation, activities, lecture, discussion, and ritual to evoke a sacred space of radical transformative knowing. | Rev. Sunshine Michelle |
| Sunday 11:00 am -12:00 pm | The Non-Toxic Masculine and the Archetype of the Green Man | A new paradigm of masculinity is urgently needed if we are to stop the destruction of our planet by the militarized, dominator masculine which has us all in its grip. This presenters will show images and talk about the archetype of the Green Man as a guide to a non-toxic masculine that predates the Enlightenment in the West. | Rachael Vaughan and Jack Gescheidt |
| Saturday 3:45 pm -5:00 pm | Wise Hands: Art as Sacred Practice | In the word “Ineffable”, the English language admits its own limitations. This word bespeaks an entire realm of experience that is, by definition, beyond words. Our desire to evoke this ineffable realm calls forth the language of art, the colorful, shapely language of the mythic imagination. Our artful Wise Hands can access and express profound mythic consciousness. | Rose Frances |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Women's Sacred Practices at the Center of Old European Civilization: | This lavishly illustrated presentation pays homage to the Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas by presenting visual evidence of the centrality of women's rituals within the long-lived, indigenous societies of Old Europe (c. 6500-3500 BCE). The predominance of Neolithic female imagery preserved throughout southeast Europe shows ensembles of women in ritual postures, incised or painted with signs and symbols, evidence of ceremonial costumes, often with animal masks, indicating a sacred kinship with all of life. Women's ancient practices of tending to peoples' spiritual needs, honoring the cycles of birth, death, and the regeneration of life, are deeply rooted in the timeless reality of the sacredness of the living Earth. | Joan Marler |
| Scheduled | Name of Event | Event Description | Presenter(s) |
| Saturday 9:45 am - 11:00 am | Feeling Yes & No in the Body | Our culture teaches us--women in particular--to be in antagonistic relationship with their bodies. We are taught to override what the body wants, needs, and says. Yet our intuition can only be fully developed through a cooperative relationship with the body. Our power as human beings comes through our connection with our bodies and our ability to facilitate the strengthening of our intuition. All of our decisions and our boundaries hang on these two words, yet what do they even mean to us? In this active workshop, you will discover through movement and partner work where "Yes" and "No" live in your body, so you can unpack the baggage you've been using to weigh them down and even bury them. Once they're free, you will be too! | Jacqueline Freeman |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Goddess Oratory and Public Speaking | Every woman has a voice, but to often it had been blocked as we grew up. With simple exersizes we call out the voice of the Spirit, and practice giving short but effective speeches. 50 years of effective experience, come and learn to use this tool. | Z. Budapest |
| Saturday 3:45 pm -5:00 pm | Healing & Owning Your Activism: A Guided Energy Healing Meditation | This workshop is a guided energy healing meditation. The participants will be guided through a series of visual tools to help move out inappropriate energy in the form of belief systems, other people’s information and acknowledge any trauma, so that you as a spiritual and physical being can be more in present time and be in affinity with who you are in these challenging times. The mediation will focus on your personal connection to activism. This is not only a personal healing, but as a group guided meditation, it is a collective healing as well. | Rev. Alice D. Martin |
| Saturday 3:45 pm -5:00 pm | Indigenous Prophecy and the Role of Women’s Circles in Co-Creating and Visioning the New World: | Women everywhere are rising and bringing forth their visions for a life-affirming world. Join us for a brief introduction to indigenous prophecy about the times of shift we are in, and the important role Women’s Circles are meant to play in exciting transformations taking place. Women from Moons Rising will share about the power of circle in unleashing the incredible leadership of women. When women shed old paradigms in circle, they create a container for sacred witnessing, profound healing, and individual and collective visioning. In this workshop, you will be guided to cultivate practices for inner power and dignity, and be given tools for finding or starting a women’s circle. We will also collectively vision and call in the world we want to build together. | Brenda Salgado & 1 circlemate |
| Sunday 9:45 am - 12:15 pm | Living the Dream Forward | In this two-hour workshop, Starhawk will lead us on a guided visualization to image the world that we want, and then through a set of exercises and conversations to identify how best to get there, what our key priorities might be, and how to overcome obstacles that stand in our way. A little magic—a little strategizing—a lot of commitment and support. | Starhawk |
| Saturday 9:45 am - 11:00 am | Sit at the Table or Be on the Menu: Women in Leadership | In this session, I provide the audience the steps they need to take position themselves to get appointed on boards and local and state commissions to become major game changers and influencers in their communities. I also provide a list of opportunities for them to get involved within their local school boards, commissions, nonprofit boards and political office. I teach them how to build their influence and platform in order to create effective change in communities and policy. | Chandra Brooks |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Supporting Muslim Women in Their Struggle to be Free of Patriarchy | In this atmosphere of change, we use interfaith as the platform to bring disparate people together to try and bridge gaps, and to build bridges of faith, the problem is Muslim women increasingly are left out in the cold because allies fear being called Islamophobes if they critique the patriarchy that keeps Muslim women frozen out and silenced. We will explore how to address this, what the barriers really are, and how to be supportive of Muslim women who are struggling to gain a voice and a place in male-led society. | Rabi’a Keeble |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | The World is Your Oracle: Empowering Women to Empower Themselves: | In this interactive workshop, we will use divinatory methods that Nancy has gathered in her book The World Is Your Oracle to explore several ancient, indigenous, and contemporary means for tapping into our inner wisdom. The techniques we will investigate employ the three major intuitive senses: the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Experiencing the voice, vision, or physical presence of the Divine within us empowers us on our spiritual paths as well as in our daily life. | Nancy Vedder-Shults |
| Scheduled | Name of Event | Event Description | Presenter(s) |
| Sunday 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Ancient & Contemporary Goddess Spirituality | In this workshop, I will cover the history, iconography, myth, place history, and modern interpretation of these Goddesses. There will be a meditation and time for journaling. Through their myths and iconography, we will explore the rich stories and visual representations of four ancient Mexican Goddesses: Coatlicue (She of the Serpent Skirt); Coyolxauhqui (She who is Adorned with Bells); Xochiquetzal (Precious Flower), and Tlazohteotl (The Spirit of Divine Love). We will end the session with a meditation and time for journaling. | Dr. Anne Key, Constance Tippett, Anique Radiant Heart, Hallie Iglehart Austin, Max Dashu |
| Sunday 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Birthing and Mothering for Post-Patriarchal Lives | What is the role of birth in creating post-patriarchal, post-racist, post-classist, post-neoliberal, and decolonized futures? This academic lecture and discussion will explore this question. We will examine the ways birthing people are systematically dispossessed of their civil and human rights, and how birth justice advocates and activists are defying oppression and reclaiming birth. The dichotomies of the birth process will also be explored for their radical, disruptive, spiritually transformative potential and social justice implications. | Chandra Alexandre, Nane Jordan, Elisabeth Bolaza, Mariam Tazi-Preve |
| Saturday 3:45 pm -5:00 pm | Black Feminist Research Warriors: A Successful University Collaboration | Black feminist scholar collaborations have the opportunity to simultaneously advance quality research data and create impact in the field of Black Psychology. In this workshop, we describe and discuss the factors that made the Black Psychology as a Professional Gateway Project successful and beneficial for all. Academia for Black women can be fraught with unique experiences and struggles related to how race and gender have affected the way in which they are perceived by others –culturally, politically, sexually, and socially. Black scholars succeed by creating mentorships and collaborations that inspire, encourage, and compassionately challenge each other to achieve personal and professional goals. We will share best practices and how to address the challenges faced by Black scholars in university settings. | Denise Boston, Rachel Bryant, Adeeba Deterville, Lynesha Kately |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Crafting the Story of the Feminine in the Media | As women rise into a new way of BEING, we are modeling a new story of women, connected to spirit, our hearts, and the earth. The old media model inparted upon us a program of separation. Given the tools we have today and the power of social media, in what ways can we weave a new story, and shift the paradigm of media to reflect who we are, and what we are becoming? | Cindy Ma, Julia Maryanska, Sara Moncada Madril |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Heeding the Call: Contemporary Women Retrieving and Reclaiming Ancestral Traditions for Our Current Times | While the term “Women’s Spirituality” is sometimes used to describe the twentieth century revival of Euro-American Goddess spirituality, many contemporary women of color base their spiritual practices on ancestral traditions. While women-honoring, goddess-reverencing, nature-based traditions were significantly challenged by Christianity, patriarchy and colonialism, many of these traditions survived, enabling oppressed communities to retain traditional values including: respect for women and the Earth; kinship with all beings; the use of ceremony, traditional plants and spirit allies in healing; and ritual practices involving music and dance. In this panel, diverse spiritual practitioners, educators and artists review the evolution of traditional spiritual practices, their reframing to meet the needs of contemporary people, and the respectful integration of diverse traditions. | Arisika Razak, Brenda Salgado, May Elawar, Shylah Hamilton, Inhui Lee, Leilani Birely |
| Saturday 9:45 am - 11:00 am | Matriarchal Politics and the Vision of a New Society | Heide Gottner-Abendroth opens with an exploration of the economic, political, social, and spiritual patterns of extant matriarchal societies, and what they can teach us about collaboration, gender balance, and non-violence. Genevieve Vaughn examines the model of matriarchy and the maternal gift economy as a tool for deconstructing patriarchal-capitalist economy. Erica Starks focuses on education, beginning at the elementary school level, as the most effective way to create matriarchal societies in a post-patriarchal world. | Joan Cichon Genevieve Vaughan, Heide Goettner-Abendroth Ericka Stark, Letetia Layson |
| Sunday 11:00 am -12:00 pm | Navigating Death and Loss from a Spiritual Ecofeminist Perspective | Journey with me as I discuss the dual processes of grief and powerful transformation at the intersection of maternal loss and Divine Feminine spirituality. Together we will deepen our connection to the Goddess, to our own internal mother, and to ourselves. This program will explicate my journey of powerful transformation during the process of grieving. It will look at the relationship with the Great Mother and the earthly mother. I will discuss the power inherent in riding the waves of grief with the Goddess at my side. I will discuss the rebirthing process that I am undergoing. My hope is to tell this story in such a way that you as participant join me on the journey and together we deepen our connection to the Goddess, to our own internal mother, and to ourselves. | Diane Martin, Emy Tafelski |
| Saturday 9:45 am - 11:00 am | Restoring Sacred Relationship: Visions of Post-Patriarchal Food Systems | Our current food regime, based on the exploitation of animals, workers, and the Earth, is grounded in the dominator values of patriarchy. What are some steps we can take to shift this food paradigm to one that is sustainable and respectful of all beings, human and nonhuman? Our panelists will draw upon both ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge to offer varied perspectives on animal ethics, food justice, and spirituality. | Alka Arora, Lauren Ornelas, Michelle Boyle, Kasia Pereira |
| Sunday 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Sexual Healing and the Sacred Female Body | This workshop will present an opportunity to learn about the healing practice of Surrogate Partner Therapy; hear stories that illuminate and complexify our understandings of patriarchy and sexuality; and give participants the option of engaging in awareness exercises that invite us to listen to the wisdom of our bodies. | Emiko Yoshikami, Starr Goode, Mandy Benson |
| Saturday 3:45 pm -5:00 pm | She Can Be Silenced No More! Sacred Drama as a Tool to Transform the World and Bring Goddess Alive | Incorporating moments of live performance, music, and slides, the panel begins with Alexandra Cichon, director, actor, and depth psychologist, sounding a call to reclaim the Goddess’ ancient rite of sacred drama, using as an example, Gathering of the Ancient Goddesses: Return of the Top Girls, the sacred drama she co-created in 2017 for the Glastonbury Goddess Conference. Archaeomythologist Joan Cichon discusses how sacred drama can address each of archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas’s key points and communicate them in an embodied way. Writer and dramaturg Jade Kelly examines three core aspects of the writer’s craft that may be of use to writers of sacred drama in other contexts. | Joan Cichon, Jade Kelly, Alexandra Cichon |
| Sunday 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Spiritual Art as Prayer and Activism | This ritual took place at Arcadia Point, on the shores of the Salish Sea, in the Olympic Peninsula, USA. Among the many tribes that inhabit the region, it is known that the T'peeksin and the Sa-Heh-Wa-Mish inhabited the Totten and Hammersley Inlets where Arcadia Point is located. | Batya Weinbaum, Marni Rothman, Gail Williams, Annette Williams, introducing Natasha Redina’s film, The Crossing of a Threshold |
| Sunday 11:00 am -12:00 pm | Womanist/Feminist Voices & Activism | Black Womanist/Feminist voices advocating for healing by affirming spirit, liberation, truth, and justice. Exploring the depth of being in right relationship with the power of our inner Spirit, Mother Earth, and Community. | Kimberly Davis, Keyona Lazenby, Beverly Oye Reed Scott |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Women’s Ancestral Wisdom, Witches, & Spiritual Connections to Nature | Drawing from the folk wisdom of our Ancestors, ancient traditions, historic rituals, and magical realms, in relationship with all of nature, our panel recalls and calls forth voices and visions, serpent energies, and elements of nature to embody healing and imagine possibilities for a better future in communion with the Earth. | Mary Beth Moser, Elisabeth Sikie, Patti O’Luanaigh, Monica Mody, Marguerite Rigoglioso |
| Saturday 9:45 am - 11:00 am | Women’s Spirituality in Education | Women’s Spirituality in education is introduced with a film by Deborah Santana about the Women’s Spirituality Program at CIIS. The panel goes from theory to action with presentations that discuss Historical Consciousness, Goddess Consciousness, women’s spirituality in community college, and an experiential presentation on the power of the arts. | Jeanette Kiel, Jessica Bowman, Gina Rizzo, Jennifer Ortiz, & Deborah Santana’s film, Women in Higher Education |
| Saturday 3:45 pm -5:00 pm | Women's Visionary Arts & Culture | Panelists will provide insights into the emergent genre of women’s visionary arts, sharing illustrations in poetry, literature, visual arts, photography, and film. Presentations explore artistic expressions where women encourage and inspire resistance to oppression, violation, and limitation, in order to create new possibilities, despite adversity, for survival, endurance, and love. These works invoke an understanding of the interconnectedness of humans to one another and to the rest of nature, and they provide vivid embodiments of non-patriarchal and post-patriarchal cultural possibilities, of a compassionate culture closer to our hearts’ desires, one of eco-social justice, peace, prosperity, and creative fulfillment. | Mara Keller, Arisika Razak, Mary Mackey, Cristina Biaggi, Irene Plunkett, Shah Noor Hussein |
| Scheduled | Name of Event | Event Description | Presenter(s) |
| Sunday 9:45 am - 12:15 pm | The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson | Film Screening and Discussion with Joy Tomchin, President of Public Square Media, Victoria Cruz, and Michelle Marzullo, CIIS Human Sexuality chair |
| Scheduled | Name of Event | Event Description | Presenter(s) |
| Saturday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Enheduanna's Birthday Celebration | Enheduanna, the earliest known author of written literature, was a priestess and poet in ancient Sumer. For over twenty years women and their friends in the Bay Area have been celebrating her birthday with poetry, song, and the community reading of the "me", the powers of the goddess Inanna. This year Enheduanna will be the grand old age of 4368. Please join Judy Grahn and Dianne Jenett, accompanied by singer-songwriter Anne Carol Mitchell, in learning more about this glorious priestess and continuing this tradition. Everyone welcome! Cake will be served! | Judy Grahn, Dianne Jennette, Evelie Posch |
| Saturday 9:45 am - 11:00 am | Grove of the Wild: Renewing and Reweaving Relationship with our Tree Kin through Sacred Dance and Story: | Interrelationship with our tree kin often remains unacknowledged. Through sacred dance and story the cross-cultural history and mystery of trees shall be honored and expressed. Women's connections to trees as tree spirits, motherly guardians, and magical guides will be explored, as well as the importance of trees to the sacred center of heart, hearth, and home, both worldy and otherworldly. | Patti O'Luanaigh, and Anna Knox |
| Saturday 3:45 pm -5:00 pm | Ma Yoni at Womb Yoga: Embodying the Kemetic Goddess | This workshop will be an experimental journey through embodying the Kemetic Goddesses in a MaYoni’at Womb Yoga practice. This form of yoga was designed by Maati Sanovia Muhammad and inspired form the ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) Yoga tradition. We use sacred word vibrations, affirmations, breath coordination with movements, and postures inspired from the tombs, pyramids, and ancient writings of Kemet. We focus on the female energies from the ancient ancestors who were cosmic forces. | Mysty Moon |
| Sunday 11:00 am -12:00 pm | Praise Singing Ritual for Female Orishas | Praise Singing Rituals celebrate Orisha with songs and prayers. I am a visual Artist, Iya l’Orisha (Priestess) and Akpon, Orisha ritual song leader. I will introduce Orisha Praise Singing ritual elements and teach songs. Then we will create a simple altar, and enact a ritual of gratitude, connection, and celebration for female Orishas Yemoja, Oya, and Oshun, African Diaspora Mothers of Oceans, Winds, and Rivers. It will be fun and beautiful. | Gail Williams |
| Sunday 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Reclaiming the Power of Our Voice: Using sound and song to heal ourselves, each other, and the planet | In a post-patriarchal world, all humans know how to use their voices and music to heal and transform ourselves, each other, and the planet. We have remembered that peace is found through music and community is woven together with song. In this workshop, we will gather together in circle to learn tools for embodying the power of our voices to heal, connect and transform. We will gather together in sound and song to reclaim our power as singers and divine resonant beings. | Annie Herring |
| Saturday 9:45 am - 11:00 am | Resting in the Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Shabbat as Radical Practice | In a capitalist society that overemphasizes productivity, rest is a radical and transformative practice. The ancient Hebrew/Jewish tradition of Shabbat provides a powerful weekly ritual for regeneration in community. Do your work toward tikkun olam - the repairing of the world - for six days, the Torah teaches. On the seventh day, rest, renew, unplug from capitalism, be present with one another, and live as if the world is already whole. In this Shabbat morning ritual and service, we will drum and chant our way through the elemental Four Worlds of Jewish Mysticism. During our co-created Torah service, we will connect with archetypes (netivot) of womxn's embodiment and leadership as expressed throughout Jewish tradition to provide guidance and strength for our work for justice throughout the week. All are welcome; no experience with Hebrew or Judaism required. Prayers will be printed in Hebrew, English, and transliteration. This ritual service will be co-led by Kohanot Cedar Ranney and Yael Schonzeit who received smicha / ordination through the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. | Kohenet Yael Schonzeit and Kohenet Cedar Ranney |
| Scheduled | Name of Event | Event Description | Presenter(s) |
| Saturday 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Baba Yaga as Shaman | Where a woman in story or myth has been made a witch or demon, there we have the archeological remains of a goddess. That is just as true with the ambiguous Eastern European character of Baba Yaga. In this session, explore the shamanic characteristics and tools of this (in)famous witch of the wood, and hear what she has to teach us today. | Jacqueline Freeman |
| Saturday 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Eris: Sister Outsider and Shadow Other | The goddess Eris in Greek mythology was the ultimate female warrior and the representation of discord and chaos in the ancient world. In our modern consciousness she can be understood as our enemy-making mind. Her myth speaks to many current patriarchal dynamics including the creation of scapegoats at the collective level of nation, race, and religion as well as the creation of female rivalry. This lecture will draw on the works of Audre Lorde, Susan Griffin, and Naomi Wolf and explore the archetypal dimension of how this goddess can inform our process of co-liberation among “outsider” identities. | Rebecca Farrar |
| Saturday 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Healing the Lineage through Cultural Practice: Traditional Tattoos as Therapeutic Tool for Collective Trauma | This presentation emphasizes the importance of integrating cultural practice into therapeutic work, particularly when working with collective trauma. We will look at the traditional tattoos of the Balkan region, which are considered Europe’s oldest living tattoo tradition. The tattooing ceremony at the beginning of spring served as a rite of passage among women, and became almost extinct during political oppression. Today, due to the diaspora following the Bosnian War, this tradition is experiencing a global revival. | Vesna Westbrook |
| Sunday 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Icons of Ancestral Mothers | Imagery of women ancestors, from very ancient figurines to recent Indigenous icons, to ceremonial breast pots and vulva stones. See the magnificent luli altars of Maluku (eastern Indonesia); kishikishi of the BaPende (Congo), statue-menhirs of neolithic Europe and Ethiopia; and Gyáa'aang posts of the Haida; and Cihuateteo statues of Mexico. | Max Dashu |
| Sunday 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Personal Empowerment is an Act of Love and the Key to Our Collective Evolution | Lisa Young, M.A. offers performance and an interactive experience of freestyle vocal and somatic expression through exploration of empowered choice and its essential role in effective leadership. Drawing on her unique perspective as a polyglot forensic linguist, four year global nomad, Diversity & Inclusion consultant, corporate marketing lead, and love/relationship coach, Lisa demonstrates how our collective power starts with consistent personal empowerment, and how love in its many forms can serve as its source. | Lisa Young |
| Sunday 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Returning to the Temple of the Luminous | This presentation is a continuation of an organic inquiry discussed in The Motherlines of Asclepius: Ancestral Female Healers in the Origins of Medicine (Weappa). I share the myth of Greek god Asclepius while discussing the subsumed motherlines of this god evident in symbols representing the cyclic processes of birth, life, death, regeneration, and the union of microcosm and macrocosm. A slide show of images will accompany the discussion and a somatic meditation will conclude the presentation. | Jessica Weappa Spring |
| Sunday 9:00 am - 9:40 am | The Patriarchy and our Ancestors: Healing our Wounds and Moving Forward | The patriarchal system is the foundation of the Western world. It is one of dominance, control, and hierarchy. All of us have ancestors who have been harmed by this system. All of us carry these wounds within us; they are in our bones, our DNA. This workshop creates a safe and sacred space to explore how the wounds caused by patriarchal oppression and subordination have manifested within our ancestral lineage and ourselves. We will learn that we all have ancestors who practiced earth-based spirituality. We will learn how to create a relationship of reciprocity with our ancestors and the natural world. We will learn that when we heal ourselves, we heal our ancestors, and when we heal our ancestors, we can heal the world. All genders are welcome. | Erin Sweeney |
| Sunday 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Women’s Leadership and PoWR, the Parliament of the World’s Religions | The Parliament of the World’s Religions is committed to peace, social justice, and ecological sustainability. This poster will present PoWR’s Declaration of the Dignity and Equal rights of Women; a statement from Elizabeth Ursic, leader of the PoWR Women’s Task Force. We will also feature the project conjointly shared: the “1000 Women in Religion Project” –co-sponsored by the Women’s Task Force of PoWR and the Women’s Caucus of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature to add spiritual women’s profiles to Wikipedia: at the beginning of 2018, only 17% of the biographies were about women! Mara Lynn Keller’s PoWR plenary speech on “The Freedom to Worship Goddess is a Social Justice Issue!” will also be displayed. | Mara Keller and Elizabeth Ursic |