EPISODE · Jul 28, 2022 · 1H 6M
The Maternal Gift Economy with Genevieve Vaughan
from Home to Her
Want to know whose tribal lands you’re residing on? Visit native-land.ca to find out. And then make sure to tell your friends and family members! Righting colonial wrongs begins with awareness and land acknowledgment. Please check out my upcoming book, “Home to Her,” which is available from Womancraft Publishing! You can pre-order it here: www.womancraftpublishing.com. You can learn more about Genevieve and her work at her website, http://gift-economy.com/, where many of her articles and books are available for free You can learn more about International Feminists for a Gift Economy here: https://www.internationalfeministsforagifteconomy.org/ You can also learn more about the Maternal Gift Economy Salons and view prior salon gatherings here: https://www.maternalgifteconomymovement.org/salons/ Sekhmet is an ancient Egyptian Goddess. This article gives a bit of historical information about her: https://www.latimes.com/science/la-xpm-2013-apr-29-la-sci-ritual-drunkenness-sex-ancient-egypt-20130429-story.html. And here’s a link to another article, which includes images of some ancient Egyptian statues: https://www.arce.org/resource/statues-sekhmet-mistress-dread You can learn more about the Temple of Goddess Spirituality that Genevieve founded in honor of Sekhmet here: https://www.sekhmettemple.org/. If you'd like to schedule a visit, you can contact Gen at [email protected]. This is a great documentary about Genevieve’s life, for those who wish to know her and her work better! https://youtu.be/emAjQ8kO0wo For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher. To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode: 1:1 Coaching Available This show has ended, but I'm still available for 1:1 coaching. You can learn more and book a discovery call at www.hometoher.com.
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So many of us take the notion of exchange for granted – we pay for something, for example, and we receive a good or service in exchange. But what if our true nature isn’t based on equal exchange at all, but rather gifts given and received, as demonstrated by an infant’s earliest relationship with their caregiver, typically a mother? On the latest episode I discuss this fascinating idea and its implications with one of the leading champions of the Maternal Gift Economy, Genevieve Vaughan. Genevieve is an independent researcher, peace activist and a feminist who has long advocated the concept of the "Gift Economy," where goods are given among people rather than bought and sold. The Gift Economy uses the matriarchal mother-child paradigm as a key basis of its structure. She is the founder of the Foundation for a Compassionate Society, a multicultural all-women activist foundation which, during its time, initiated many innovative projects for social change based on the political use of ‘women’s gifting values’. Genevieve is also the author of several articles and books, including “For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange,” and “The Gift in the Heart of Language, the Maternal Source of Meaning.” She is the founder of the Temple of Goddess Spirituality, located in Nevada, USA, as well as a co-founder of International Feminists for a Gift Economy and the Maternal Gift Economy Salons. On today’s episode, we explore: • Gen’s spiritual background, and how she evolved from Catholicism to atheism and eventually Goddess spirituality • How an encounter with the Goddess Sekhmet while in Egypt inspired her to build a temple in Sehkmet’s honor, just miles away from a nuclear testing site in Nevada • What the Maternal Gift Economy is, and how our earliest experiences with language reflect gift-giving and receiving, not necessarily an exchange of information • How gift-giving is always happening in our capitalist society, even if it’s not necessarily discussed, acknowledged or valued • How we can begin to champion a gift economy in our own lives (hint: it begins with paying attention to the gifts we’re already giving and receiving every day, whether it’s a friendly glance from a stranger or the gifts of the Earth)
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