Trista Hendren
@tristahendren.bsky.social
Trista Hendren founded Girl God Books in 2011 to support a necessary unraveling of the patriarchal worldview of divinity. Her first book—The Girl God—was a response to her own daughter's inability to see herself in the Divine. www.thegirlgod.com
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ~ Arundhati Roy
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
March 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ~ Arundhati Roy
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
“The Great Mother Goddess was honoured throughout ancient North Africa and the Near East, with many different names. In and around Canaan, she was known as Asherah, Mother of Creation, Queen of Heaven...” -Laura Shannon, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.
Art by Teresa Moorehouse
Art by Teresa Moorehouse
February 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
“The Great Mother Goddess was honoured throughout ancient North Africa and the Near East, with many different names. In and around Canaan, she was known as Asherah, Mother of Creation, Queen of Heaven...” -Laura Shannon, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.
Art by Teresa Moorehouse
Art by Teresa Moorehouse
“In the world’s oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active and autonomous creatrix of the world... the ancient Goddess was always there.”
― Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor
Art by Judy Chicago
― Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor
Art by Judy Chicago
February 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
“In the world’s oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active and autonomous creatrix of the world... the ancient Goddess was always there.”
― Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor
Art by Judy Chicago
― Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor
Art by Judy Chicago
“To become means fulfilling the wholeness of what we are capable of being. But as long as woman lacks a divine made in her image she cannot establish her subjectivity/achieve a goal of her own. She lacks an ideal that would be her goal or path in becoming.” –Luce Irigaray
Art: Elisabeth Slettnes
Art: Elisabeth Slettnes
February 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“To become means fulfilling the wholeness of what we are capable of being. But as long as woman lacks a divine made in her image she cannot establish her subjectivity/achieve a goal of her own. She lacks an ideal that would be her goal or path in becoming.” –Luce Irigaray
Art: Elisabeth Slettnes
Art: Elisabeth Slettnes
My newest on Patreon. Art by Dee Mulrooney
January 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
My newest on Patreon. Art by Dee Mulrooney
"in our own ways we all break. it is okay to hold your heart outside of your body for days. months. years. at a time. – heal"
— Nayyirah Waheed
Arna Baartz Artist
— Nayyirah Waheed
Arna Baartz Artist
January 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"in our own ways we all break. it is okay to hold your heart outside of your body for days. months. years. at a time. – heal"
— Nayyirah Waheed
Arna Baartz Artist
— Nayyirah Waheed
Arna Baartz Artist
"To remember her is to remember parts of our own nature that have been exiled and buried with her. To find her buried in the shadows is to work toward our own resurrection; it is to unearth ways of being and knowing that were exiled and buried long ago."
-Vanya Leilani, Ph.D.
-Vanya Leilani, Ph.D.
December 22, 2024 at 11:40 AM
"To remember her is to remember parts of our own nature that have been exiled and buried with her. To find her buried in the shadows is to work toward our own resurrection; it is to unearth ways of being and knowing that were exiled and buried long ago."
-Vanya Leilani, Ph.D.
-Vanya Leilani, Ph.D.
"In the Eden myth, no Goddess—no images of the feminine sacred—is allowed to exist. She cannot be named nor fought, since to name her, even if only to defeat her, would be to admit her presence and importance."
-Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit
Art by Lauren Raine
-Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit
Art by Lauren Raine
December 22, 2024 at 9:34 AM
"In the Eden myth, no Goddess—no images of the feminine sacred—is allowed to exist. She cannot be named nor fought, since to name her, even if only to defeat her, would be to admit her presence and importance."
-Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit
Art by Lauren Raine
-Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit
Art by Lauren Raine
“Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone... What I am saying is that every one of us has the responsibility to be the woman Marc Lepine wanted to murder. We need to live with that honour, that courage.”
-Andrea Dworkin
"We Remember" by Cheryl Braganza
-Andrea Dworkin
"We Remember" by Cheryl Braganza
December 6, 2024 at 8:45 AM
“Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone... What I am saying is that every one of us has the responsibility to be the woman Marc Lepine wanted to murder. We need to live with that honour, that courage.”
-Andrea Dworkin
"We Remember" by Cheryl Braganza
-Andrea Dworkin
"We Remember" by Cheryl Braganza
"A pause is not a ceasefire, and a ceasefire is not freedom." –Rafeef Ziadah
Art by Suzi Fadel Nassif
Art by Suzi Fadel Nassif
November 27, 2024 at 9:19 AM
"A pause is not a ceasefire, and a ceasefire is not freedom." –Rafeef Ziadah
Art by Suzi Fadel Nassif
Art by Suzi Fadel Nassif
Our words have the power to bring a new world into existence. They introduce us to worlds we might never encounter.
Books are the gateway to empathy for others and self-compassion for the shame we carry.
If only people would read them...
Art by Leticia Banegas
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Books are the gateway to empathy for others and self-compassion for the shame we carry.
If only people would read them...
Art by Leticia Banegas
www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...
November 26, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Our words have the power to bring a new world into existence. They introduce us to worlds we might never encounter.
Books are the gateway to empathy for others and self-compassion for the shame we carry.
If only people would read them...
Art by Leticia Banegas
www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...
Books are the gateway to empathy for others and self-compassion for the shame we carry.
If only people would read them...
Art by Leticia Banegas
www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...
Go, tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Goddess DID come first!
While Grandmas kept their watching
O'er precious babes by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a Holy light
Art: Andrea Redmond
Songs of Solstice, Trista Hendren.
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Goddess DID come first!
While Grandmas kept their watching
O'er precious babes by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a Holy light
Art: Andrea Redmond
Songs of Solstice, Trista Hendren.
November 21, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Go, tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Goddess DID come first!
While Grandmas kept their watching
O'er precious babes by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a Holy light
Art: Andrea Redmond
Songs of Solstice, Trista Hendren.
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Goddess DID come first!
While Grandmas kept their watching
O'er precious babes by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a Holy light
Art: Andrea Redmond
Songs of Solstice, Trista Hendren.
¨Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage... In anger, there is truth."
-Soraya Chemaly #ragebecomesher
Art by @tiril.valeur
-Soraya Chemaly #ragebecomesher
Art by @tiril.valeur
November 20, 2024 at 12:10 PM
¨Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage... In anger, there is truth."
-Soraya Chemaly #ragebecomesher
Art by @tiril.valeur
-Soraya Chemaly #ragebecomesher
Art by @tiril.valeur
This Songbook celebrates the cycles of Nature—Birth, Life, and Death—through the changing Seasons from Autumn's abundance to Winter's "Dead Time," when the world goes dark and cold. It is a celebration of both the Light & the Dark, since both are Sacred & needed for new Life to flourish.
#skybook
#skybook
November 20, 2024 at 9:41 AM
This Songbook celebrates the cycles of Nature—Birth, Life, and Death—through the changing Seasons from Autumn's abundance to Winter's "Dead Time," when the world goes dark and cold. It is a celebration of both the Light & the Dark, since both are Sacred & needed for new Life to flourish.
#skybook
#skybook
“Your ability to feel anger or rage is not an accident. On the contrary, it is a great gift.
Rage is an intelligent fire. It is infused with its own magic, and born of love. And we need this intelligent fire to unfreeze ourselves from the glaciers of time.”
~ Alison Nappi
Art by Jenny Hahn
Rage is an intelligent fire. It is infused with its own magic, and born of love. And we need this intelligent fire to unfreeze ourselves from the glaciers of time.”
~ Alison Nappi
Art by Jenny Hahn
November 20, 2024 at 9:13 AM
“Your ability to feel anger or rage is not an accident. On the contrary, it is a great gift.
Rage is an intelligent fire. It is infused with its own magic, and born of love. And we need this intelligent fire to unfreeze ourselves from the glaciers of time.”
~ Alison Nappi
Art by Jenny Hahn
Rage is an intelligent fire. It is infused with its own magic, and born of love. And we need this intelligent fire to unfreeze ourselves from the glaciers of time.”
~ Alison Nappi
Art by Jenny Hahn
''If God is the Mother of the Universe, then the Creation is of the same substance as her—it is of her, as the child is of its mother’s substance, and this means that the whole Creation is divine, and divinely related.''
-Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, TGCM
Art by Melissa Shemanna
-Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, TGCM
Art by Melissa Shemanna
November 19, 2024 at 1:52 PM
''If God is the Mother of the Universe, then the Creation is of the same substance as her—it is of her, as the child is of its mother’s substance, and this means that the whole Creation is divine, and divinely related.''
-Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, TGCM
Art by Melissa Shemanna
-Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, TGCM
Art by Melissa Shemanna
Scheduled for next year!
Call for Submissions: www.patreon.com/posts/call-f...
Pre-order: thegirlgod.com/asherah.php
Cover art by Lauren Raine
Call for Submissions: www.patreon.com/posts/call-f...
Pre-order: thegirlgod.com/asherah.php
Cover art by Lauren Raine
November 19, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Scheduled for next year!
Call for Submissions: www.patreon.com/posts/call-f...
Pre-order: thegirlgod.com/asherah.php
Cover art by Lauren Raine
Call for Submissions: www.patreon.com/posts/call-f...
Pre-order: thegirlgod.com/asherah.php
Cover art by Lauren Raine
Currently reading... so good!
November 12, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Currently reading... so good!