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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 17, 1951) is an American writer, activist and Witch. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism and is one of the foremost voices of ecofeminism. Starhawk lives in San Francisco, where she works with the Reclaiming tradition of Witchcraft she helped found, through classes, workshops, camps, and public rituals in earth-based spirituality, with the goal to "unify spirit and politics".
She is internationally known as a trainer in nonviolence and direct action, and as an activist within the peace movement, women's movement, environmental movement, and anti-globalization movement. She travels and teaches widely in North America, Europe and the Middle East, giving lectures and workshops.
She is currently working with United for Peace and Justice, the RANT trainers' collective, Earth Activist Training, and other groups.
Authorship
Starhawk is the author of numerous non-fiction best-selling works: The Earth Path (2004), The Spiral Dance (1979, 1989, 1999), Dreaming the Dark (1982, 1988, 1997), Truth or Dare (1988), Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising (2003). She is the author of a widely read essay, “How We Shut Down the WTO" as well as her web writings.
With Hilary Valentine she wrote A Journey Into Magic, Healing and Action (2000) a resource book for Pagans. With M. Macha NightMare * and Reclaiming Collective, she wrote The Pagan Book of Living and Dying (1997). Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition (1998) was co-written with Anne Hill and Diane Baker.
Starhawk's fiction includes The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993), and Walking to Mercury (1997) ISBN 0553102338.
Films, music, etc.
Starhawk has been consulted or contributed to the films The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas*, Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. She participated in the Reclaiming CDs Chants: Ritual Music, and recorded the guided meditation Way to the Well.
Early life
Starhawk's father, Jack Simos, died when she was 5. Her mother, Bertha Goldfarb Simos, was a professor of social work at UCLA. Both her parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. While a film student at UCLA in 1973, Starhawk won the Samuel Goldwyn Award for her novel, "A Weight of Gold," a story about Venice, California, where she then lived. Starhawk married Edwin Rahsman in 1977. She is currently married to David Miller.
Scholarly analysis
- Jone Salomonsen, Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco (London and New York: Routledge, 2002) ISBN 041522392X
External links
1951 births | Living people | American anarchists | Neo-Pagans | Feminist writers | American occultists
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