Publisher's Synopsis
"When women come together, unique and powerful magic happens. We gather to tell the truth about our lives, to be authentic with one another, to sing, to vision, to drum, to dance, to make art, to organize, to cry, to recover and heal, to raise our voices, to make good trouble, to solve problems, to innovate, to lead, to mourn, to weave a blanket or build a new world. For millennia women have gathered in circles, in council and boardrooms, around cook pots and quilts, as royals and as slaves, in public and in secret, around fires and funeral pyres, during menses and menopause, as maidens, mothers, and elders, in PTAs and carpools, at churches and synagogues, temples and shrines, mosques and kivas, among standing stones, and in meadows. Everywhere women are, they find a way to gather. Why is it important for women to come together? In a world where women's voices have too often been silenced, diminished, invalidated, punished, ridiculed,
