"Many women express a sense of identity and/or communication with trees.
The
intuition that women are like trees in our Rootedness was inspired by a
letter from Io Ax, in which she commented that trees communicate with
each other from root to root. They are Radical! So also women radically
communicate with each other.
The closeness
between women and trees becomes more evident when we consider other
aspects of Rootedness. It has commonly been observed that trees are
difficult to uproot when their roots are deeply and widely intertwined
with those of other trees. That is, the trees, like Radical Women, are
most strongly bonded to each other in their roots They "hold on to each
other."
Another important aspect of
Radicalness is manifested in certain trees, whose roots--even after the
trees have been cut down--continue to grow/travel. From these traveling
roots new trees can continue to sprout. Similarly, Feminist Foresisters
who have been cut down by the patriarchs continue to be Radically Here
with us--in their writings, in the recorded examples of their personal
and political Feminist Acts, and through the exercise of their Elemental
Presentiating Powers.
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