About Us

Medusa Rising is a small, international team of women who see combinations of authoritarianism and woman-hating on the increase in conservative and progressive movements around the world. We create and support international and intergenerational feminist work responding to these developing threats in radical materialist feminist tradition (#radmatfem) developed by THE RADICAL NOTION Collective.

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Men's systems and grids of organization (from national borders to nuclear families) fracture women's living connection in solidarity. Medusa Rising works on the diagonal, the swerve, the spiral to connect women around intersections of possible building and cooperation – women building worlds. We do this by modelling generative differences - a way of working together that deepens our strengths where we can cooperate and supports our specificity where we need to work separately.

Supporting women in resistance and increasing women's thriving requires both political and cultural work. Medusa Rising feel that welcome, joy, and deep witness are essential to this world building.

Founder, General Editor - Dr Esmée Streachailt has published work in feminist critical theory, cultural hermeneutics, comparative religion, and poetics (under another name). Esmee was a contributing editor at THE RADICAL NOTION, where she started the RE: Framing Radical Feminism series and edited the women's poetry anthology The Body Cannot Be Cancelled. She is based near Washington, DC.

Written Genres - A'Ja Lyons – is a writer, historian, teacher, and performer. She was born in the warm waters of Texas' Gulf Coast and naturalized in the Iowa cornfields. A'Ja's work utilizes environmental imagination to communicate historical, physical, and emotional context. Her work has been published in several print and online publications including Sinister Wisdom, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Lucky Jefferson. When not writing, A'Ja can be found at local theater productions, poetry readings, book clubs, museums, art shows, and out hiking. More information on A’Ja’s research and publications is at ajalyons.com.

Media & Marketing - Zara CachePas – is a radmatfem focused on the Global South, a web design, marketing, and buisness consultant, and tweets at cache_pas.

Art & Tech - Victoria Gugenheim – Victoria’s art, both mainstream and alternative, has been part of a lifelong exploration of adorning and “de-othering” people through art and personal aesthetic choice. Her activism and public speaking focuses on the consequences of "othering" because othering dehumanizes, objectifies, and makes human beings targets for everything from stereotyping at best to violence, poverty and death. Through connecting art, science, visual representations of the self, with her human rights activism Victoria explores what we can become both aesthetically and intellectually. She crafts an activism supporting detransitioners everywhere, ex-Muslims in the UK, and feminist projects the UK and Europe. Visit gugeneheim.co.uk.

Erin — Erin is a Japanese doctoral student in analytic metaphysics. She is interested in bringing second wave materialist feminist analysis to working class Japanese women.

Everyone on the team reviews, edits, and produces work here. Everyone consults on our movement building work. Everyone hosts the podcasts. Everyone gives energy to our outreach efforts. Listed areas are only concentrations, never limitations. We are all the vision and voice, all the admin and the support staff.

Medusa Rising is currently liscenced as a sole proprietor, limit liability coproration in US. We operate like a collective and non-profit, however. If this project grows legs, we will establish a board of directors and reincorporate as a non-profit literary organization. Here's to growing legs!