Herstory from Speakers by Steven Ball

and yet we all know
when you talk to a Christian
or a Muslim
or a Jew
they say
oh no no no no no no
God is male and female
you know
in Judaism it's Yahhhweh
but YES
but you read the scriptures
and you talk to people
and they will always refer to god as HE (HE)
always

how can the divine
be a HE

so
the spin doctors of their time
the patriarchal spin doctors of thousands of years ago
did their job very well
Moses schmoses
Abraham
the patriarchs

and before them
the pharoahs
actually
if you go back to Egyptian times
women probably had more
equality
than they do
right here
right now

they had more power
they had more sexual freedom
they had more voice than we have
right now
in the twenty first century
so the list of goddesses goes
in Judaism:
Shekhinah
and then it goes:
Isis
Astarte
Diana
Hecate
Demeter
Kali
Inana

in that order

Isis
Astarte
Diana
Hecate
Demeter
Kali
Inana

and these are the sacred feminine
and they're not just
sacred feminine
and it isn't just
about the sacred feminine

it's about the female archetype
that has been written out of history

and even the word
history
what does it mean?

His
Story

Feminists have reclaimed that word
now we talk about
Herstory

Her
Story

because history is exactly what it means

his story

written by Dwems mainly

a DWEM is a
dead
white
european
male

that's what we call them at university

a Dwem

and the pen
is mightier
than the penis

the pen
is

p n i s

is mightier
than the penis

yes it is

• Experimental
• field recording
• spoken word
• London