Aileen "The Gypsy"'s Page

What issues are most important to you?

Re-connecting to femininity and healing our Mother, and re-viving the time when the Goddess was not a legend whispered on the wind or behind hands.

What kind of social activism do you engage in?

I'm just starting out in human-related activism.

What organizations do you love or work with?

I don't know any.

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?

The Red Tent (book)
Petals (photo book of female genitalia)
Other Nick Karrass' works (helping people be comfortable with their bodies and sexuality)

Career: what do you do or want to do?

I want to be a Midwife or Doula and to offer prenatal fitness and feminine education.

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!

I'm not sure yet... Well, I write.

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!

I am 16 and I have had a son, but I had to offer his ashes back to the Earth almost a month after his birth into this world 2 months before the time he was meant to enter this world. I am a dancer, priestess and follower of the Goddess and an eclectic Earth-based religion. Feminine power is important to me and I fight for animals and their rights. I believe being at least vegetarian is the best thing you could do for your body next to not filling it with chemicals.

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?

When I realized how much the world shies against anything natural, traditional, etc. Such as midwifery, and the oppression of women in places like the church (the biggest thing that led me away from the church and to the Goddess), the work force, and in everyday culture.