Career
In 1970, she founded the Suppressed Histories Archives, 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. Dashu makes feminist paintings, posters and prints.
She has been influential in opening up space for consideration of egalitarian matrilineages through her critique of Cynthia Eller"s book "The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory" (2000), which critique is titled "Knocking Down Straw Dolls" (2000), and republished in Feminist Theology 13.2 (2005), Sage Publications, United Kingdom. She has also written many feminist blog posts.
Her movie "Women"s Power" has been screened in the United States, Britain, Netherlands, Italy, and Australia. lieutenant shows women"s history throughout the world.
On the eve of the 2008 election, shaman Vicki Noble convoked an All Hallows Eve procession through the streets of San Francisco, and along with Dashu, Krissy Keefer, Starhawk and others, created a gathering of wild women and yoginis to call in the power of change and social justice. Dashu made a poster to commemorate this event, using a photo of dancing skeleton dakinis in Tibet taken by Vicki Noble.
