A woman is a person who is an adult human female (XX).  Being a woman is to be free to be herself, and express herself as a full human being. This means seeking to live her life free from the internal or external limitations of binary gender stereotypes for females dictated by the dominant culture. 

A woman is a person who is an adult human female (XX).  Being a woman is to be free to be herself, and express herself as a full human being. This means seeking to live her life free from the internal or external limitations of binary gender stereotypes for females dictated by the dominant culture.

“Women's Mysteries” means the lived experiences of the female body from birth, girlhood, into womanhood, and elderhood. These Mysteries include our uterine blood mysteries  (birth, menstruation, birthing, menopause, and death), female sexuality and spirituality, and all the ways that our female bodies inform our diverse life experiences. Part of our work as feminists  is to keep conscious of, and heal from the insidious ways that living our lives in patriarchy affects our lives. This includes our self-perception through the misogynistic views of the dominant culture, religion, and cultural inheritance. The commonality girls and women share based on our biological sex transcends other differences in race, ability, ethnicity, and class. For women, the exploration and celebration of Women's Mysteries is an embodied experience that defies words, and can only be experienced by female individuals.  We affirm our right to gather as female individuals within our female-only circles.

In the current climate where transgender activists seek to eliminate protections based on biological sex, we will not participate in our own oppression and erasure by pretending that

our bodies are insignificant to what makes us female, as girls and women. As spiritual feminists in community with women from diverse backgrounds of race, ethnicity, and class, our common threads that weave us together has been our courage and mutual support to confront our personal and collective historical experiences of physical and sexual violence, and social, political, and economic oppression – all because of our sex -- and to reclaim our female bodies as sacred and as a source of divine wisdom.

We support male individuals in honoring their unique Mysteries of the male body from birth, boyhood, into manhood, and elderhood.

We encourage males who are trans identified to create their own rites of passage that address their significant life cycle events from birth into elderhood. We welcome females who have de-transitioned and wish to reclaim their female being free of patriarchal collusion.