MADISON – July 6, 2026. PhoeniXX is back!

Thanks for tuning into another women’s music hour with Phoenixx! This month’s hour centers women who protect and defend that which is precious to us; that which we have nurtured and sustained, to include our own lives as well as the lives of our sisters, families, animals and the planet. If you tuned into Thistle’s roundtable discussion of the political Lesbian ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjjif6Rjqo), this music hour will be an enlivening follow up as Phoenixx features music and spoken word about both Lesbians and non-Lesbians who are fierce in their devotion to Female kind in the midst of misogyny and fascism. The energy and existence of The Amazon has an ancient cultural record:  some that has been preserved and discovered by archaeologists and archeomythologists like the late Marija Gimbutas; much has been kept alive by Max Dashu’s archival research (www.suppressedhistories.net) while some herstory of Amazon existence has just persisted through stories/fantasies of tribes of ferocious women. Women’s Culture and Spirituality must remember and include The Amazon to be both Radically effective and reflective of our lived experience and realities.   The work of Second Wave Radical Lesbian Feminists reignited these fires in the 1970s which have been, in most feminist and spiritual circles,  currently watered down with the use of the word feminine to describe women or the divinity of female spiritual power. Typically the fight/warrior/protector roles and ferocity under/in patriarchy have been reserved for men, with the exception of the expectation of mothers for their children. Implicit in that is, of course, girls and women need to be mothers in order to be sanctioned strong. The rest of us… well…you know those particular heinous insults and the prominence of compulsory heterosexuality.  Phoenixx has chosen dynamic music to accompany excerpts of a chapter on The Amazon read from The Wheel of the Year as a Spiritual Psychology for Women written by Radical Lesbian Feminist Dr. Kim Duckett.  You can find more information about her, her work and how to order her book here: http://www.kimduckett.org/.

Enjoy the hour! 

Stay tuned later this Summer for the top 100 Women’s Music results!