Dark Matter: Women Witnessing: Dreams Before Extinction - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lise Weil, founder and editor of Dark Matter Women Witnessing, was founder and editor of the US feminist review Trivia: A Journal of Ideas (1982-1991) and co-founder of its online offshoot Trivia: Voices of Feminism, which she edited through 2011. Her short fiction, essays, reviews, literary nonfiction and translations have been published widely in journals in both Canada and the U.S. Her collection of Mary Meigs' writings on aging, Beyond Recall (2005), was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in biography in 2006. Her memoir, In Search of Pure Lust (2018), a long meditation on lesbian desire, was an International Book Award Finalist. Until the college closed in 2024, she taught in Goddard College's Graduate Institute. She co-edited-and has a chapter in-Teaching Transformation: Progressive Education in Action (2016), a collection of essays by faculty, students and alumni about Goddard's embodied pedagogy and the ways it challenged the hierarchical dissociated structures of traditional academia. She lives in Montreal and spends summers in a cabin in the woods north of the city where she host annual retreats for women writers centered around dreamwork. www.liseweil.com

Gillian Goslinga is a cultural anthropologist, feminist science studies scholar and ethnographic filmmaker. She practices shamanic and systemic constellation healing. Her first essay for Dark Matter: Women Witnessing in 2015 coincided with the beginning of her healing journey from cancer, Lyme, mold, electromagnetic and chemical neurotoxicity, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Her academic essays on gestational surrogacy in the US and spirit possession in South India and her award-winning Ph.D. dissertation The Ethnography of a South Indian God can be found through Google Scholar. Her films The Child The Stork Brought Home (1996) and The Poojari's Daughter (2006) are at www.der.org. In recent years, Gillian has successfully led community efforts to keep cell towers out of her valley, a rare high desert greenbelt in Arizona that is also a ceremonial First People's landscape. She lives with her old horse Feather Spirit and her cats on sacred land.

Kristin Flyntz is an assistant editor at Dark Matter: Women Witnessing. Her work has appeared in Dark Matter, Cloud Women's Dream Society Quarterly Journal, The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action, The Corona Transmissions: Alternatives for Engaging with COVID-19 from the Physical to the Metaphysical, Psychology Today online, and on Living One, the video series from the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence. She has directed The Vagina Monologues and I am an Emotional Creature by V (formerly Eve Ensler) and acted in numerous local and regional theater productions. She extends her heartfelt gratitude to Nora Jamieson, Deena Metzger, Sharon Simone, Gay Bradshaw and the many wise women (including those who appear in this anthology), for their teachings and modeling of how to live in right relationship with the Earth, the ancestors, and our nonhuman kin.