Max Dashu is a teacher, writer, historian, and artist who founded the Suppressed Histories Archives, which is a collection of over 14,000 slides she has photographed and 100 slideshows she has created on global women's history, archaeology, Goddess traditions, female priests and female shamans. She has presented these slideshows throughout North America for over 40 years. Max Dashu has also created several feminist paintings, posters, prints, etc; her art has appeared in Daughters of the Moon Tarot, in books by Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn

Judy Rae Grahn is an American poet. She has written many lesbian / feminist works.-Activities:Judy Grahn is a poet who writes about women's lives, including lesbian experience. She was a member of the Gay Women's Liberation Group, the first lesbian feminist collective on the west coast, founded...

, Diane Stein

Diane Stein

Diane Stein is a feminist, Wiccan, a Reiki practitioner, and an author.Stein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Duquesne University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science in Education and English Literature...

, and Martha Shelley

Martha Shelley

-Life and early work:Martha Altman, later Martha Shelley, was born on December 27, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Russian-Polish Jewish descent. Samuel R. Delany was a Bronx High School of Science friend. She was involved in a group based on the work of Harry Stack Sullivan which led to...

, and in her own Witch Dream Comix (1975), as well as in many feminist, lesbian, and pagan publications over the years. She has been influential in opening up space for consideration of egalitarian matrilineages through her critique of Cynthia Eller's "The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory" (2000), titled “Knocking Down Straw Dolls" (2000), and republished in Feminist Theology 13.2 (2005), Sage Publications, UK. She has also written many feminist articles. Her movie "Women's Power" has been screened in the US, Britain, Netherlands, Italy, and Australia; it shows women's history throughout the world. On the eve of the 2008 election, Vicki Noble

Vicki Noble

Vicki Noble is a feminist shamanic healer, author, scholar and wisdom teacher. Originally from Iowa, she arrived in Berkeley, California in 1976. In the 1970s she created, graduated with honors from, and subsequently taught in, the first women's interdisciplinary studies program at Colorado College...

 convoked an All Hallows Eve procession through the streets of San Francisco, and along with Max Dashu, Krissy Keefer, Starhawk

Starhawk

Starhawk is an American writer and activist. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism, and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and On Faith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion...

& others,
created a gathering of wild women and yoginis to call in the power of change and social justice; Max Dashu made a poster to commemorate this event, using a photo of dancing skeleton dakinis in Tibet taken by Vicki Noble.