Kali
Friends,
The excerpt this week is by Annalisa Merellion entitled, “Kali is the feminist icon the world desperately needs.”
“Consider Kali, the Hindu goddess. Wild, naked, her tongue sticking out—an uncomfortable, feral image of force, bursting sheer power…. There’s blood—that unsettling substance with which women are intimately familiar—everywhere on and around her:… There lies the beheaded demon, too, and next to it, her husband—Shiva, the destroyer, snake and all…. Kali embodies the boundless and existential freedom to be—without seeking permission….”
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