Tell Me About Those Times

As a Butch Dyke Amazon Elder I talked about the times we were almost free to be. Where we had a place 5 to 10,000 Amazon Lesbian/ Dykes/ Womyn Gathered every year and expressed EVERY  aspect of Lesbian Love. Not only was there wild lovemaking in the woods, usually at night, away from the eyes of children, there was live music, the best our communities had to offer, rituals, workshops on every subject imaginable, and creativity,from body painting, stilt walking, fire eating  and fire dancing, to the constant sounds of drums,our steady Heartbeat.

There were Parades for all forms of womonhood,both for  Butches and for Femmes, redheads, girls on stilts and even a naked Parade right around dinnertime.

The explosion of creativity and honor and worship of the Female in EVERY aspect was IMMENSE. Beyond anything modern day. A total and complete Amazon Matriarchy.

I and so many other Lesbians and Females opened up to the deepest level of our Souls, accessed hidden psychic Powers that only come out on the Land,among womyn,where we are truly FREE. Some refer to it as " woo". But it is REAL.

When I came on the Land for the first time,I could put down my Weapons as an Amazon. Those heavy burdens and layers of protection I always carried in the world of men. I no longer needed to pour so much energy into Protection, I could Feel and connect with the sheer Gynergy...amongst the likeminded. I did not have to explain Myself .

I was Understood and ALL my Dyke communities came together, from Magical Goddess worshipping high Ritual of 400 womyn, to Leather Wildness in the Twilight Zone, to Dykes in recovery, to Matriarchal Jewish Dykes, to the Butch Parade which was BETTER than the Dyke March because we were surrounded by womyn. Males werent trying to crash it, we could flirt with each other as Butch on Butch, and Femmes flirted with us on the sidelines. They had THEIR moment in their parade...and us Butches led by Drummers and my Sister Butch DykeAmazons!!

Everywhere was Female and Lesbian art honoring our bodies, our minds, our Sacred Female Spirits. A Goddess statue 30 feet tall in a grove.

Closest to me were Matriarchal JewWitch Sisters at the Shabbat honoring the Shekinah. THAT was my ethnic Tribe...

Only in the company of a town, village, City of womyn and the erotic Magic between us,  do I come out of my cage and my Full WildWomyn Amazon Self emerges. I have to cut off so many parts of myself to just exist in the Patriarchy. So much of my deepest Self unacknowledged.

Unless we shake off now the last dying claws of Patriarchal rule, we will go back to the Dark ages, for Lesbians and for womyn as a whole. But WE Remember, when we were FREE!!!
         - MasterAmazon