Max Dashu

Max Dashu (born 1950 in the United States) is a teacher, writer, historian, and artist who founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970; they are a collection of over 14,000 slides she has photographed and 100 slideshows she has created on global women's history, archaeology, Goddess traditions, female priests and female shamans.^[1][2] She has presented these slideshows throughout North America for over 40 years.^[1] Max Dashu has also created several feminist paintings, posters, prints, etc.; her art has appeared in Daughters of the Moon Tarot, in books by Judy Grahn, Diane Stein, and Martha Shelley, and in her own Witch Dream Comix (1975), as well as in many feminist, lesbian, and pagan publications over the years.^[2][3] She has been influential in opening up space for consideration of egalitarian matrilineages through her critique of Cynthia Eller's book "The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory" (2000), which critique is titled “Knocking Down Straw Dolls" (2000), and republished in Feminist Theology 13.2 (2005), Sage Publications, UK.^[1] She has also written many feminist articles.^[4] Her movie "Women's Power" has been screened in the US, Britain, Netherlands, Italy, and Australia; it shows women's history throughout the world.^[5] On the eve of the 2008 election, Vicki Noble convoked an All Hallows Eve procession through the streets of San Francisco, and along with Max Dashu, Krissy Keefer, Starhawk & others, created a gathering of wild women and yoginis to call in the power of change and social justice; Max Dashu made a poster to commemorate this event, using a photo of dancing skeleton dakinis in Tibet taken by Vicki Noble.^[6]

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