- Neanderthal Make-up Containers Discovered
- Scientists claim to have the first persuasive evidence that
Neanderthals wore "body paint" 50,000 years ago.
The team report in Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (PNAS) that shells containing pigment residues were
Neanderthal make-up containers. Scientists unearthed the
shells at two archaeological sites in the Murcia province of
southern Spain. The team says its find buries "the view of
Neanderthals as half-wits" and shows they were capable of
symbolic thinking.
Professor Joao Zilhao, the archaeologist from Bristol
University in the UK, who led the study, said that he... Read more >>
- Menstrual Blood as a Source of Multipotential Stem Cells?
- Since last November it has been reported that scientists are
researching menstrual blood as a possible source of
multipotential stem cells.
THE "monthly curse" may be anything but: menstrual blood
appears to be a rich and accessible source of adult stem
cells. The uterine lining is already known to contain adult
stem cells, but harvesting them would be as invasive as
getting them from other adult sources, such as bone marrow.
Now two separate groups led by Xiaolong Meng of the
Bio-Communications Research Institute in Witchita, Kansas,
and Julie... Read more >>
- METAFORMING LIVE! Judy Grahn opens for Ani Difranco
Joined by Animal Prufrock & Anne Carol. West Coast Tour. April 5-23, 2008.
- anitour Kicking off their first show in Los Angeles at the
Orpheum Theatre, metaformic theorist, Judy Grahn, will be
joined by some of the next generation of feminist artists,
Animal Prufrock and Anne Carol, as they open for the
unstoppable, independent rock star, Ani Difranco. Ani has
been performing "Detroit Annie" and other poems from Judy's
infamous collection, The Common Woman, at her concerts for
years now and recorded on her live album from Carnegie Hall
in 2002. Now fans will have the opportunity to hear Judy
perform her... Read more >>
- South Indian Filmmaker Takes on Metaformic Theory
- Vipin Vijay's 55 minute film, Poomaram, or A Flowering Tree
is a conscious tribute to Judy Grahn's Metaformic Theory.
Vipin is a south Indian filmmaker, from Kerala. His film is
not meant to teach the theory in any rote manner. Rather,
Vipin's cinematography powerfully illuminates crucial points
in Judy's book, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation
Created the World: the menstrual origins of sciences and
arts, such as geometry, time, painting, and cooking; and
also the violence, and the isolation that inevitably
accompany the loss of women's rituals within... Read more >>
- Red Web Foundation seeking Board Members and Executive Director Creating lifelong menstrual health through community and education
Creating lifelong menstrual health through community and education
- The Red Web Foundation in San Francisco is dedicated to
supporting a positive societal view of girls' and womens'
bodies and menstrual cycles from first bleeding through
menopause. In 2007 RWF became a main media resource
regarding choices to menstrual suppression pills now being
marketed. We hold that in order for girls and women to make
informed choices best suited for each personal menstrual
situation, they first need to know the innate value of their
cycle. When a girl or woman values her cycle, her
self-respect is deepened along... Read more >>
- A Metaformic Action at Union Square
December 17, 2007, 12:00 noon, across from Macy's front door (on Geary St.)
- Please come and help us spread the word that menstruation is
at the center of culture and needs to be honored.
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It is likely that menstruation generated abstract thinking
and most forms of human culture. Some examples in today's
world are such items as measurement, calendars, geometry,
mechanical devices, ritual, ceremony, law, royalty, skirts,
hats, jewelry, make-up, shoes and wine.
Awareness and honoring of woman's menstrual
flow, and all that is derived from it, sets humans apart
from animals. The conceptualizing of cyclical menstruation,
coordinated with that... Read more >>
- A Salon in the Grove - Metaformic Theory in Berkeley
Starting February 24, 2007
- Save The Oaks - The Public is Invited
Sunday Afternoons at 2:00 PM
Memorial Oak Grove, Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley Campus
Starting February 24, 2007
The Salon in the Grove offers a place and time to discuss
the meaning and implications of the tree-sitting protest.
Guests and tree-sitters will participate in the salon, which
will include discussions, games and experiential lessons
learned from the tree sitters and the trees. In the first
session of the Salon, the tree-sitters will tell their
stories of living alone in the trees to protect... Read more >>
- New Metaformic Theory in South America
- Report from Chile by Judy Grahn
- Dear Colleagues, Students, and Friends,
Metaformic Theory in South America
After an intense nine day trip to visit South American
activists, Annie Lapham and I returned Monday, January 29,
from Santiago, Chile. Surrounded by ripe apricot and plum
trees, we had a glorious time, and found the South American
women were eager to hear new theory, and in particular they
are very excited about Metaformic Theory (Teoria
Metaformica). Several took my powerpoint back to their
countries, which were Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela,
Ecuador, Brazil and of course... Read more >>