1. Starhawk was born on Miriam Simos on June 17,1951 and is an American feminist and writer.
22 Facts About Starhawk
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Starhawk is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism.
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Starhawk's mother, Bertha Claire Goldfarb Simos, was a professor of social work at UCLA.
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Starhawk received an MA in Psychology, with a concentration in feminist therapy, from Antioch University West in 1982.
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Starhawk became active in the Neopagan community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and trained with Victor Anderson, founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with Zsuzsanna Budapest, a feminist separatist involved in Dianic Wicca.
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Starhawk wrote a book, The Spiral Dance, on Goddess religion, which she finished in 1977 but was unable to publish at first.
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Starhawk believes that the Earth is a living entity, and that faith-based activism can reconnect oneself to basic human needs.
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Starhawk posits core religious values of community and self-sacrifice as important to eco-pagan movements, as well as the broader environmental justice movement.
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Starhawk's activism is deeply rooted in an anti-war philosophy, as she believes that war teaches one to see people culturally different than themselves as inhuman and dangerous.
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Starhawk calls for a reconceptualization of the way we think about power that is different from what she posits as our typical understanding of 'power over' others, and believes that patriarchal systems of oppression are dying out and will be replaced by more egalitarian structures that have existed previously with many women in positions of power, including as priestesses, poets, healers, singers, and seers.
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Starhawk argues that our patriarchal culture of domination has confused the erotic with domination and violence.
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Starhawk continues to work with Reclaiming, a tradition of Witchcraft that she co-founded.
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Starhawk was influential in the decision by the Unitarian Universalist Association to include earth-centered traditions among their sources of faith.
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Starhawk led numerous workshops for, and was an active member of The Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, an interest group of Unitarians honoring goddess-based, earth-centered, tribal, and pagan spiritual paths.
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Starhawk has taught in several San Francisco Bay Area colleges and universities, including John F Kennedy University, Antioch University West, the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names University, and Wisdom University.
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Starhawk is presently adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and is currently affiliated with United for Peace and Justice, the RANT trainers' collective, Earth Activist Training, and other groups.
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Starhawk has written a number of books, and has contributed works in other media.
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Starhawk's works have appeared in translation in Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese.
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Starhawk participated in the Reclaiming CDs Chants: Ritual Music, and recorded the guided meditation Way to the Well.
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On YouTube Starhawk speaks on spirituality and activism at the Unitarian Universalist Association.
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Starhawk wrote the call-to-action for the women's peace organization Code Pink.
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Starhawk is currently married to David Miller, and they live in San Francisco.