Day of Gifterhood: A followup from the Global Day of Sisterhood after 2023 ASWM Conference

Sunday, March 30, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ

The Maternal Gift Economy Movement invites you to a day of gifterhood on Sunday March 30. We will gather from 9:00 to 4:00 local time at the same venue as the ASWM conference. Meet members of the MGEM network and enjoy the gifts of discussion, sharing and ritual. Debrief the conference, bringing in the gifts of ideas, of stories and of song, rooted in maternal gift economy. Join the conversation to shift the paradigm and link to a deeper understanding of nature, nurture, and the need for radical social change. Chat about how to create an ecovillage, promote citizen science, or organize a protest, and, in general strategize Where To Go From Here. We will close with a Gifterhood ritual.

There is no charge for this gathering, but in order for us to spend the whole day together, the hotel will charge about $50 for lunch. Let us know if this is an issue for you, or, on the other hand, if you are willing to provide a lunch for (an)other participant(s) as well as yourself.

Please email to register or get more information: materalgifteconomy@gmail.com so we know how many to expect. More details about the program and logistics will be sent to you as they are available.

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Drawing on Maternal Gift Economy theory, the suppressed wisdom of women, and the traditions and ethics of Indigenous societies, this integrated programme of presentations sponsored by the International Feminists for a Gift Economy Network will offer new insights, perspectives, and challenges to the underlying market-based mentality of the dominant world order.

In this time of crisis and systemic upheaval, the model of the Maternal Gift Economy on which our survival depends at the beginning of life, is being revealed and celebrated. The interdependence of all living beings can now be made visible and honored.

Mother Earth provides the model of an economy based on gifting that we receive as young children from our nurturers—before we are alienated into market exchange. We must make the transition from the exploitive Euro-American patriarchal/dominating and capitalistic ideology to a gift-based economy and culture grounded in the values of nurturing and care rather than competition and greed.

We invite you to join us in exploring the possibilities in this series of presentations and dialogues that bring together those who have been laboring to articulate the principles of the Maternal Gift Economy, protect Indigenous values, and practice peaceful and just community building. The time is now for all humans to cooperate rather than compete. Please join us!