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I’m Kathryn.
GlobalWoman Creator and Curator
I am a red-headed white woman of Irish ancestry living on Gadigal land of the Eora Nation. You may know this land as Sydney Australia.
There comes a time in every woman’s life when she has to decide to change herself to fit the world or change the world itself.* I was that woman.
I was exhausted with changing myself to fit a world that didn’t nourish me, and I no longer wanted to participate in upholding it.
I know I’m not the only woman who is done, possibly exhausted, with doing the work of fixing/bettering/improving herself to fit into a world that wasn’t made for us.
Which is why I created GlobalWoman.
To live a creative luminous life.
“To be creative means to connect.
It’s to abolish the gap between the body, the mind, and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.”
Nawal El Saadawi
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In March 2023, 6 days after Saturn made its ingress into Pisces, I decided to write a book.
My first book.
A book that eventually became 215 pages, focused on Saturn’s nearly three-year transit in Pisces, from March 8th, 2023 to February 15th, 2026.
A book called LUMINOUS Wonder.
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“A mother, a musician, a writer, a Scottish Grenadian Canadian – a mixed heritage, queer, black woman.
I’m a survivor of 10 years of severe childhood sexual, physical, and psychological abuse. My primary abuser was my adoptive father. A white American man – twisted by intergenerational violence – raised in a white supremacist family, in a sundown town, in Southern Indiana. We are all connected. What happened to him as a child, in America – harmed me – decades later – as a child, in Canada. I left home at 15 – run, or die. I’ve slept in cemeteries. On park benches. I’m not a college graduate. I’m not famous. I’m not rich. But I am the hero of my own story.
We all are. We all have a sphere of influence, a voice, and a perspective that matters. We all carry our scars.”
- The poetry of Mary Oliver:
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
- Tarana Burke and the Me Too movement. This is what a trailblazer looks like.
- Layla Saad of Wild Mystic Woman and her writings on centering the stories, art and magic of women of colour.
- Tori Amos’s ‘Songs for Pele’: “An alternative, bloodletting record of a woman confronting the patriarchy”.
- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza who coined the term ‘Kyrarchies’. Ms Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, a Roman Catholic feminist theologian, is a radical feminist who studies liberation theology. Kyriarchy is a term that extends patriarchy to encompass and connect to other structures of oppression and privilege, such as racism, ableism, capitalism, sexism etc.
- Muriel Ruskeyer: “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
- *Laurie Penny’s ‘Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution’.
“There comes a time in every woman’s life where she has to decide to change herself to fit the story, or change the story.’
- This 32-minute Facebook video from Brené Brown on power and privilege.
- A long time ago, in what now feels like a galaxy far far away from my current life, I spent a lot of time in India being a ‘seeker’. Read more here.
- Carol Gilligan’s ‘In a Different Voice’ and the ethics of care:
“If patriarchy is an idealization of a past that requires silencing and lies, radical listening is the reckoning.”
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk, ‘We Should All Be Feminists‘.
“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?”
Because that would be dishonest.
Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.
It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.
It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.
We teach girls shame.
“Close your legs. Cover yourself.”
We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something.
And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire.
They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think.
And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretence into an art form.”
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