Red Tent Los Angeles

Women are biologically created to lead in the world!

Wise Women is a documentary that reframes aging, power, and the female body.

This is an evolutionary story that rewrites the story of menopause. Women are not intended to fade from view as we age; Wise Women were made to lead in the world. This film is intended for adult women of ALL ages because women in their 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s have a lot of programming to overcome. Here the power of post-reproductive women are celebrated with all the wisdom she has harnessed for the collective.

“What if the very thing dismissed as decline was actually EVOLUTION’S greatest breakthrough?”

Register: https://tinyurl.com/ytu2p3wj

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Greta will open with a guided Kundalini Dance to engage the body. We will watch the documentary together, followed by discussion and celebration.

Location in West LA provided upon registration.

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Red Tent Los Angeles announces
Wise Women: Humanity's Untold Story, A Documentary
Thursday, April 16, 7 - 9:30 pm
With Greta Grace

Wise Women is a documentary that reframes aging, power, and the female body.
This is an evolutionary story that rewrites the story of menopause. Women are not intended to fade from view as we age; Wise Women were made to lead in the world. This film is intended for adult women of ALL ages because women in their 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s have a lot of programming to overcome. Here the power of post-reproductive women are celebrated with all the wisdom she has harnessed for the collective.

“What if the very thing dismissed as decline was actually EVOLUTION’S greatest breakthrough?”

Register: https://tinyurl.com/ytu2p3wj

We will open with guided Kundaline Dance to engage the body, share the documentary together, followed by discussion and celebration.

Location in West LA provided upon registration.

Share and bring a friend!

Thank you for joining us for “Chaos to Eros” to alchemize dense energies through dance and play into the lightness and beauty of our feminine essence. l It was pure delight to co-create with Georgianne Cowan! Together we navigated as a sisterhood into an arc of deep descent and refreshing return. The red tent is a powerful container of safety and support for big emotions to shift into nourishing, rejuvenating states for our mind and bodies.

We hope you can join us for our upcoming Red Tent on Thursday, April 16th, 7 - 9:30 pm where we will watch “Wise Women: Humanity's Untold Story”. This documentary rewrites the story of menopause and reveals how Wise Women are designed to lead in our world.

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In 1975, nearly 90% of Iceland’s women stopped working for one day.

Not just at their jobs, but across much of the unpaid labor that kept daily life running too. The impact was immediate. Schools closed. Workplaces struggled. Fathers brought children into the office.

For one day, Iceland was forced to see what had always been true: ordinary women were holding society together.

That is why this story matters now.

An individual may not be able to stop a war alone. But an individual can refuse to become emotionally numb. They can tell the truth when silence is easier. They can support the vulnerable, join with others, withhold their labor, redirect their money, and help build the kinds of systems that make cruelty harder to sustain.

Power does not live only at the top.

It lives in ordinary people too.

And when enough people act together, history can shift and decisions can be changed. Never forget that destiny belongs to those who have the courage to choose it and stand for it.

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When Yanar Mohammed returned to Iraq in 2003, there were zero shelters for women fleeing honor killings, trafficking, and abuse. She built the first one with her life savings. Over the next 22 years, that single shelter grew into a network of 11 safe houses across five cities -- saving 1,400 lives.

Last Monday, on March 2, six days before International Women's Day, Yanar was assassinated outside her home in Baghdad. The forces she had spent decades fighting finally silenced her -- but the international women's rights community has answered the call she always made: for solidarity, for visibility, and for her life-saving work for women to continue.

Born in Baghdad in 1960, Yanar Mohammed trained as an architect -- but it was the injustice she witnessed from childhood that would define her life. When war and economic collapse devastated Iraq in the early 1990s, she fled to Canada with her husband and young son, building a quiet life in Toronto. But exile never sat easily with her.

When the U.S. invasion came in 2003, she wrote to her mother explaining why she had to go back -- she could not watch Iraq go back to "the times of my grandmother," where the politics of the post-invasion era were handing power to men who would leave millions of women vulnerable. She crossed the Tigris River by rowboat to go home. She was done being an architect -- Yanar was going to build something else entirely.

What she built was unprecedented. Yanar used her life savings to found OWFI -- the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq -- the first organization to open women's shelters in central and southern Iraq, protecting women from honor killings, trafficking, and domestic abuse in a country where no such refuge had ever existed.

"My work is focused on protecting women in Iraq from the crimes of patriarchy," she said -- and the crimes were staggering. She wrote at the time: "Millions of women are being displaced in Iraq at this moment. They are vulnerable to trafficking because of poverty and having to feed their children. We also have extreme violence against women under ISIS. We try to deal with all of it."

And she did -- for years. She interviewed 200 women in Iraqi prisons, helping save at least one from a death sentence. She launched a feminist newspaper, a radio station, and courses training women to become human rights defenders themselves.

"Our shelters are not only a place for women to rest and feel safe," Yanar declared. "They are schools for social transformation -- for women to turn from victims into defenders of rights."

By 2024, her shelters had protected and empowered 1,400 women. Human Rights Watch called her "one of Iraq's most courageous advocates for women's rights." Agnes Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, called her simply "one of our icons."

She paid for that work by living in constant danger. Death threats arrived almost immediately -- from militias, from ISIS, from Islamist armed groups. The Iraqi government filed lawsuits trying to dissolve her organization, accused her of human trafficking, and forced her to flee the country more than once.

"The government starts with smear campaigns," she warned in 2023, "then court cases -- and if that doesn't work, they kidnap and kill you." But she always came back. "She faced constant threats," said Callamard after her death, "but she never stopped." Her colleague Arwa Damon, former CNN correspondent, remembered her as someone who "exuded a strength that gave strength to those around her."

Yanar Mohammed's assassination has sent shockwaves through the global women's rights community. This International Women's Day, advocates, governments, and human rights organizations around the world are demanding justice in her name. The European Union, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland issued a joint statement honoring her memory, reaffirming their commitment to "the values of equality, justice, and inclusion for which she stood."

Amnesty International called her killing "a calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders," and its Secretary-General Agnes Callamard declared: "She spent her life standing up for women's rights in the most dangerous environment. She faced constant threats, but she never stopped. And today we cry and mourn her energy, her commitment, her profound humanity, her amazing courage."

The Rafto Foundation, which awarded her Norway's prestigious human rights prize, called it "an attack on the fundamental values she dedicated her life to defending: women's freedom, democracy, and universal human rights." The Iraqi government has opened an investigation. The world is watching.

Even in the face of constant threats, Yanar Mohammed's defining belief never wavered: "We women are capable of knowing what is best for us, our families, and our communities." She proved it every day for 22 years -- in the shelters she built, the women she saved, and the movement she refused to let die.

That movement is still standing. OWFI has pledged to keep the safe houses open. And MADRE, Yanar's decades-long partner in this work, has launched the Yanar Mohammed Feminist Defense Fund -- "Yanar's Fund" -- to make sure they can.

The Fund covers emergency relocation for activists now facing threats, security upgrades, legal defense, and the leadership development needed to carry her work forward. The immediate goal is $500,000. The long-term vision is a permanent endowment that will honor Yanar's legacy for generations.

The most powerful thing we can do this International Women's Day is make sure the institutions Yanar built to protect and empower women survive.

To support Yanar Mohammed Feminist Defense Fund, visit https://support.madre.org/campaign/776576/donate

To learn more about the work of her group, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, visit https://www.owfiraq.org/

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For children's books about extraordinary global women, visit our blog post "50 Children's Books About Mighty Girls & Women Around The World" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=33102

To inspire children and teens with the true stories of girls and women who dared to fight for change throughout history, check out our blog post, "Dissent Is Patriotic: 50 Books About Women Who Fought for Change," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14364

For an excellent guide for girls on how to make real change on the issues they can care, we highly recommend "A Smart Girl's Guide: Making A Difference" for ages 8 to 12 at https://www.amightygirl.com/smart-girl-s-guide-making-a-difference

For kids in general, we also recommend "How to Make a Better World: For Every Kid Who Wants to Make a Difference" for ages 7 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/how-to-make-a-better-world

For both fictional and biographical books for children and teens that star courageous girls and women, visit our "Courage & Bravery" section at https://amgrl.co/2IUVSzW

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THIS is how we shift culture, through creating conversations and education about our menstural cycles. Lest anyone forgets, each one of us exists on the planet because of a women's bleed.

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After competing at the Winter Olympics this week, Team USA figure skater Amber Glenn did something almost no elite female athlete does: she talked openly about performing on her period. She spoke candidly about how menstruation affects energy, emotions, and performance -- and how the topic remains largely unspoken in women's sports. "It's something that we don't really talk about a lot for female athletes," she said, "and I think it should be a topic of discussion."

Her willingness to break that silence is just one of the many ways Amber Glenn proved herself a superstar both on and off the rink at these Olympic Games.

It started before she even competed. When a reporter at a pre-Olympics press conference asked the three-time U.S. national champion -- the first openly q***r woman to represent the United States in Olympic figure skating -- about the current political climate for LGBTQ+ Americans, Amber answered honestly. "It's been a hard time for the community overall in this administration," she said. "It isn't the first time that we've had to come together as a community and try and fight for our human rights."

"I know that a lot of people will say, 'You're just an athlete. Stick to your job. Shut up about politics,' but politics affect us all," she continued. "It is something that I will not just be quiet about because it is something that affects us in our everyday lives."

What followed was a torrent of hate. Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly called her "another turncoat to root against." Fox News's Laura Ingraham attacked her on air. J.D. Vance said Olympians are "not there to pop off about politics."

Amber reported quickly receiving a "scary amount of hate/threats for simply using my voice WHEN ASKED about how I feel" and said she would be "limiting my time on social media for my own wellbeing for now but I will never stop using my voice for what I believe in."

"I've never had so many people wish me harm before," she said, "just for being me and speaking about being decent -- human rights and decency."

Her sister Brooke published an op-ed defending her, pointing to the more than 400 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the U.S. so far this year: "This isn't criticism. This is an attempt to strip away someone's humanity."

Amber didn't retreat. She helped Team USA win gold in the team figure skating event, then posted photos of herself and teammate Alysa Liu wearing their medals with the caption: "They hate to see two woke b*tches winning. If 'Woke' means people who use their platforms to advocate for marginalized communities in the country that they are actively representing... Then yeah sure?"

Then came the individual competition. A costly error in her short program -- a double loop instead of a triple, scored as an invalid element -- dropped her to 13th place. MAGA provocateurs celebrated it as "karma." But Amber rallied. Two days later, she delivered a season-best free skate, climbing from 13th to 5th with a score of 214.91 -- one of the best of her career.

"It wasn't easy," she said afterward. "There's been a bombardment of attacks and hate on me, using my lackluster performance as fuel for hate, and that was disheartening." Then she added: "I'm a fighter, and I'm resilient, and you never know what's going to happen because I never thought I'd even be here, and to be top five is incredible."

And she wasn't done. After her free skate, Amber sat in the leader's chair for 90 minutes, cheering for every skater who followed -- encouraging the crowd to applaud for competitors from Kazakhstan and Japan, embracing her teammate Isabeau Levito after a difficult skate, and when Alysa Liu was crowned Olympic champion, Amber hopped onto the kiss-and-cry stand to raise her teammate's hand in victory. When Japan's Kaori Sakamoto broke down in tears after narrowly missing gold, it was Amber who shielded her from a cameraman and comforted her.

Amber then spoke up for all three American women, calling the online harassment they'd endured "really disturbing" and urging better protections for athletes: "It's hard not to see that stuff online. I hope we can work to have a safer place for athletes, especially people very young, like Isabeau."

At 26 -- the oldest American woman in Olympic singles figure skating in nearly a century -- Amber Glenn came to Milan and shined in every way that matters. She won gold. She landed a triple axel at the Olympics, one of only two women in the competition to attempt it. She climbed from 13th to 5th in one of the great comeback performances in recent Olympic figure skating.

But she also broke taboos that needed breaking -- speaking openly about the reality of menstruation in elite sport, about LGBTQ+ rights in an increasingly hostile political climate, about the toll of online harassment on women athletes. None of the vitriol, none of the threats, none of the political attacks silenced her.

"I will never stop using my voice for what I believe in," she wrote. She meant it.

Amber Glenn, we applaud you -- for the gold medal, for the astounding comeback, for shielding a crying competitor from the cameras, for speaking up for your teammates, for your community, and for every woman who's ever been told to just shut up and perform. You are exactly the kind of champion the world needs right now.

Together, let's drown out all the trolls and the negativity -- please share a note of appreciation for this mighty woman below.

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To help your Mighty Girl feel prepared for and better understand her period, we recommend many books and resources in our blog post “That Time of the Month: Teaching Your Mighty Girl about Her Menstrual Cycle” at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11614

For an uplifting picture book about an irrepressible Mighty Girl who won't let the criticism of others hold her back, we recommend "Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon" for ages 4 to 8 at https://www.amightygirl.com/stand-tall-molly-lou-melon

For an inspiring picture book encouraging girls to speak up and use their voices, check out "Raise Your Hand" for ages 5 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/raise-your-hand

For an excellent guide to help tween girls learn how to speak up and approach over 200 social situations with confidence, we recommend "A Smart Girl’s Guide to Knowing What to Say" for ages 9 to 12 at https://www.amightygirl.com/knowing-what-to-say

There's also a fantastic guide for teen girls on how to assert themselves and voice their opinions, "Express Yourself: A Teen Girl's Guide to Speaking Up and Being Who You Are" for ages 12 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/express-yourself-guide

For books for children and teens about girls and women who used their voices to fight for change throughout history, visit our blog post, "Dissent Is Patriotic: 50 Books About Women Who Fought for Change," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14364

For kids' books about female Olympians in a variety of sports, visit our blog post "30 Children's Books About Female Olympians" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=34101

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This gathering is totally unique ~ it is put on by our entire Red Tent Global Council of Elders with special guests! So excited!

Red Tent Global Launch Event:
Celebrating Sisterhood,
Women Evolving Together!
Sunday, February 15, 2026
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Joslyn Park, 633 Kensington Road, Santa Monica, CA 90405

Activate your feminine energy in Sisterhood as Red Tent Global launches into the world!

This is what you’ve been looking for if you’re hungering for a supportive sisterhood. We welcome you to a safe and sacred place to express your truth with other wise and powerful women of all ages.

This potent experience will inspire, nourish, support and expand you.

Enjoy a rich program that invites connecting, dancing, storytelling, expressing, energy activation, and sharing. Together, we will generate positive energy and strengthen our individual and collective voices.

We welcome your creative contributions: spoken word, songs, poetry, and stories that celebrate aspects of womanhood. Please contact Rina Daly Goode with your proposed offering. Email her at [email protected].

This exciting Launch is facilitated by Greta Grace, Founder of Red Tent Los Angeles and co-Founder of Red Tent Global in partnership with our Red Tent Global Council: SaRina Daly-Goode , Meloney Hudson, Annie Goeke, Heidi Funk, Reena Lalita Desai, Teri Bigio Berling, Joy WhitePeacock and Wowza Elisa Lodge.

This event coordinates with the One Billion Rising global event: Rise for our Bodies, our Future, our Earth. Learn more about One Billion Rising: https://www.onebillionrising.org/

Our co-host is Earth Rights Institute. Learn more at https://earthrightsinstitute.org/

Learn more about Red Tent Global at: https://redtentglobal.org/

This event is both LIVE and on ZOOM.

Red Tent Los Angeles has met monthly, at each new moon since 2016, and are now launching our non-profit, Red Tent Global.

Red Tent Los Angeles presents
“Cycling with Venus: Eploring the Rose Within"
January 18, 2026
4:00 - 7:30 pm
Facilitated by Greta Grace and Rina Daly-Goode

4:00 - 4:45 Sunset Social
4:45 - 5:15 Calling in 7 Directions and Water Blessing
5:15- 7:30 Our Inner Rose
7:30 - 8:00 Hugs and Goodbye

This New Moon we acknowledge the global cosmic cycle of Venus as an invitation to explore the myriad expressions of our rose within.

Dive deeply within the Sisterhood, through reflection, expression, and play. Together we will unfurl the mysteries of the rose as a living archtype that holds all rhythms of our feminine essence.

Link to Register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980346874812?aff=oddtdtcreator
Love Exchange: $22-44

Location: Aboard the Concordance, address provided upon registration.

Last entry before 4:45 as doors will close (there will be no one to let you in afteer 4:45!)

Wear warm clothes and layers as we will be outside for the opening. Wear RED and or dress up to feel-your-feminine as we tune into our collective sacred energies.

We will provide a veggie platter. Feel free to bring healty finger food to share. Plus, your water bottle, and an item for the altar to enhance your experience.