Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives, will be at Landmark College on Tuesday, March 6th to present her show entitled “Mother-Right and Gender Justice.”
In “Mother-Right and Gender Justice” Max Dashu draws on her 14,000-slide archive to illustrate the egalitarian gender politics of indigenous mother-right cultures. These matrix societies are not patriarchy in reverse, but an entirely different paradigm. Reckoning descent in the female line means no "illegitimate" or homeless children. Matrilocal residence effectively prevents battering and rape in the home. Social motherhood spreads out responsibility for caring for children, the old and disabled. Surveying aboriginal cultures in Niger, Yunnan, Ontario, Surinam, Vietnam, Micronesia, India and New Mexico, this show explores the implications matrix cultures hold for a future of gender equality.
Since founding the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970, Max Dashu has photographed over 14,00 slides and created ninety slideshows on women’s history, including Women’s Power, Patriarchies, Female Rebels and Mavericks and Racism: History and Lies. She has presented hundreds of slide talks at universities, community centers, bookstores, schools, libraries, prisons, galleries, festivals and conferences around North America.
The program will take place on Tuesday, March 6th, in the Administration Building Auditorium, Landmark College, beginning at 7:00 pm.
The public is invited and admission is free.