Maternal Gift Economy: Breaking Through -
Ongoing Salons

Every two weeks


Salon #102 - Restoring the Gifts of Indigenous Ways

Featuring Lucille Contreras & Cherilyn Spears

October 10, 2026

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Salon #101 - The Gift of Feminist Poetry: Two Continents

Featuring Bernedette Muthien and Annie Finch

September 26, 2026

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Salon #100 - Peace and Reprisal, Gift and Exchange. An Eye for an Eye makes the Whole World Blind

Featuring Jodie Evans and Starhawk

September 12, 2026

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Salon #99 - Settler Colonialism and Immigration, Whose Lives? Whose Land? Whose Gifts?

Featuring Jennifer Harbury and Winona LaDuke

July 4, 2026

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Salon #98 - The Gifts of the Women's Spirituality Movement to the Western World

Featuring Pat Cuney and Laura (lu) Miller

June 20, 2026

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Salon #97 - The Maternal Gift Economy from Matriarchal, Economic and Anthropological Perspectives

Featuring Francesca Lulli & Nergiz De Baere

June 06, 2026

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Salon #96 - Gifts and Gifters of the Foundation for a Compassionate Society

Featuring Sally Jacques, Chiquie Estrada, Frieda Werden, Maria Suarez Toro & Genevieve Vaughan.

May 09, 2026

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Salon #95 - The Relation between Marija Gimbutas' work and Modern Matriarchal Studies, Part 2 Q&A

Featuring Heide Goettner-Abendroth and Joan Marler.

April 25, 2026

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Salon #94 - The Gift of The Truth and the Scourge of Lies

Featuring Genevieve Vaughan, Susan Petrilli, Fatima Festić, Sophia Melanson Ricciardone, and Arianna Bellantuono

April 11, 2026

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Salon #93 - The Maternal Species

Featuring Heide Goettner-Abendroth and Joan Marler.

March 28, 2026

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Salon #92 - The Relation between Marija Gimbutas' work and Modern Matriarchal Studies

Featuring Heide Goettner-Abendroth and Joan Marler.

March 14, 2026

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Salon #91 - Love of a Person, Love of Humanity, Love of the Planet

With Annie Finch and Guadalupe Urbina.

February 14, 2026

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Salon #90 - SHE-EDE Ecovillage Design Education: A Matriarchal Ecological Vision for The Great Turning, Part 2.

Featuring Sabina Santovetti, Angela Cuevas Dolmetsh, Nyakio Kaniu-Lake, Angela Hagley and Rojda Yilmiz. With Genevieve Vaughan.

January 31, 2026

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Salon #89 - SHE-EDE Ecovillage Design Education : A Matriarchal Ecological Vision for The Great Turning, Part 1.

Featuring Sabina Santovetti, Francesca Lulli, Maddalena Ferraresi and Maria Carrasco. With Genevieve Vaughan.

January 17, 2026

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6th Annual Maternal Gift Economy Movement Conference - The Maternal Human

November 28, 2025

Featuring Darcia Narvaez, Pat McCabe, Sherri Mitchell, Miki Kashtan and Genevieve Vaughan. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #88 – Nested World for Maternal Gift Economy

November 15, 2025

with Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #87 – Honoring the Gifts of the Foremothers in these Perilous Times

November 1, 2025

with Vicki Noble & Rev. Areeya Sharpe. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #86 - Matriarchy and Men

October 19, 2025

with Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth. And Genevieve Vaughan. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #85 - The Gift of Food

October 4, 2025

with Indigo Pinedo and Bhanu Natarajan. And Genevieve Vaughan. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #84 - Reinterpreting Who We Are As A Species

September 20, 2025

with Genevieve Vaughan. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #83 - We Need a Matriarchal Revolution: Both In Theory and Practice

September 6, 2025

with Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #82 - The Gift of the Knowledge of Ancient Goddesses

July 12, 2025

with Joan Marler and Annine van der Meer. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #81 - Gift Giving and the Goddess

June 14, 2025

with Vicki Noble and Maya Vassallo Di Florio. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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Salon #80 - Q&A, Questions & Answers about the Maternal Gift Economy

May 17, 2025

With Genevieve Vaughan and Frieda Werden. Moderated by Letecia Layson.

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