ecofeminism

“He says that woman speaks with nature…He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself apart from woman and nature…We are women and nature. And he says he can not hear us speak.” - Susan Griffith, Woman and Nature

Ecofeminism says that the patriarchy has women, nature, emotions, and all that dark messy stuff mixed up. Rather than seeing women or their own habitat as, well, women or habitat, the patriarchy defines us as resources to be exploited for the furtherment of the civilization that is, quite literally, killing the planet. This requires our entire culture to be collectively encultured to hate women, wildness, our bodies, and our emotions.

In short, to the patriarchy, women represent wild nature, physicality, sexuality, and emotions, all of which are constantly under attack.

whore

Whores used to be priestesses. They could bring you into balance, repair your relationship with the divine, and bring you closer to the fertility and abundance we all depend on.

Today whores are reviled and worshiped. Prostitutes are killed, dismembered along the roads in Mexico, fed to pigs on Canadian farms, and hunted in Alaska, and no one cares. People throw money at strippers on stage and set fire to them later. High dollar escorts can get thousands of dollars for a night of cultured companionship, and crack whores are lucky to get paid at all.

ecowhore

“In the front lines in the battle of the sexes, prostitutes are “the only street fighters we’ve got,” - Carol Leigh, the Scarlot Harlot, quoting Ti-Grace Atkinson

Ecowhores recognise the ancient association of women and earth, and have stopped caring if it’s spiritual or sociological. Naked in a hundred laps, stages, and beds, we understand the full implications of our role.

I live on a wild river in remote Alaska doing phone sex, hunting and gathering food, making homemade porn, and learning to make fire without matches. Sometimes I travel and strip or escort, and sometimes I teach kids about herbs. Always I’m falling more in love with my landbase. Always I’m a whore. I write about it all here.

It’s private. I no longer want my life and musings out there on the internet for any googler or the guy who lives up the river from me or my one and only dedicated stalker to read.

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This is a post I made on ecowhore that I also wanted to share with some internet people, so I stuck it here too.

I always feel kind of silly making these posts. It’s like, “YES, I can make a TOOTHBRUSH!” but then when you look at it it’s just this little thing, not very elegant or anything like that. But it is still a toothbrush.

A few months ago when I was hanging out at the dumpster with John The Baptist he showed me his toothbrush. It’s a big old branch with the end frayed, and I wondered how he could get it far enough into his mouth to actually brush with it. John The Baptist lives with no plastic and only certain kinds of metal. The lord has spoken to him and said that the oil is meant to stay in the ground and the earth is not meant to be raped and the animals are not meant to be killed. So in all his two shopping carts of possessions hidden in the woods, there is no plastic. His shoes are made out of cardboard and wool and canvas, and his toothbrush is a stick.

This is how I make toothbrushes. Basically, you’re going to take a stick and fray the end so that it becomes bristles. If you were more handy or had more electricity than me, you would then cut that stick off and insert it into a hole in a handle stick. I prefer to have a more natural handle by taking the stick at a natural curve. So.

First find a birch tree. I’m rather limited to birch and spruce, but I really do think that birch is the best for this. Find a big branch with a little branch coming off it - about as big around as your middle finger. When you break the little branch from the big branch, do it slowly and let it peel some of the wood underneath it away with it. This will be your very short handle.

Now, use a knife to cut the branch evenly about two thumb-widths from the little handle.

Then, very carefully, you are going to peel just a little of the bark. Once you’ve made the bristles be there, the bark is what will hold the whole thing from falling apart. So, about one thumb-width down, where the bristles will end, peel the bark evenly around the stick:

Now the hard part is done and the tedious part is begun! Take your sharp knife and cut down through the grain to the bark. Turn, repeat, turn, repeat, turn, repeat. Then do it every which way there is to do. Just do it a lot.

When things start to look very bristly, stick it in your mouth and rub it back and forth on your molars to separate the bristles more. Then cut some more, then rub some more. Soon, a toothbrush:

(My phone camera sucks. There are more bristles here than it looks like.)

Yay! If you’re me you’re all done, but if you want something prettier, carve a handle to somehow hold it.