RadioActive: July 10, 2017

Blindspot: The End of Poetry, and the Role of the Divine Feminine in Our Current Socio-Political Climate

Hosted by Lara Jones and Dr. David Derezotes, tonight's show included:

Andrea Himoff, co-founder of Action Utah, a non-partisan community network committed to providing factual information on state and national issues and meaningful calls to action that ordinary people can take to impact them.
- Weekly action emails (subscribe here)
- Daily and urgent calls to action (via our Take Action! page, Facebook and Twitter)
- Quarterly community meetings (like “Elections, Candidates & Delegates and Finding Your Voice” on May 2)
- Community workshops and educational events (join our “Intro to the State Legislature” on May 17th)
Blindspot, the storytelling series about issues affecting the lives of Utah women and girls, made possible by a generous grant from the Utah Women’s Giving Circle. With their support, we’ve been able to share the work of award-winning journalist and Changing Our Stories podcaster Andrea Smardon. Tonight, The End of Poetry: An author of erotic poetry loses her desire to pen verses after the election of Donald Trump.
A panel on the Divine Feminine and its role in our current socio-political climate, featuring:
- Poet Kristen Shill. Suggested reading from Shill: Nayyirah Waheed, Rupi Kaur
- Feminist theologian Maxine Hanks. Suggested reading: Judith Butler
- Shamanic practitioner Sean Patrick McPeak. Suggested reading from McPeak: The Great Mother, by Erich Neumann

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