Feminist historian Riane Eisler describes how our Neolithic and Paleolithic ancestors imagined a woman’s body and pussy as a magical vessel. As she explains, our ancestors marveled at the way it bleeds in rhythm with the moon, miraculously creates life, and produces milk to feed its offspring. Not to mention the magical way a woman can cause a

One of the main observations made about the ancient archaeological figures of women is how sexual they are, pointing us to a way of expression that was both sacred and actively sexual at once.

The turn away from beauty was a way for female artists to reject a racist, othering patriarchy, embodied in a classical aesthetics that were not their own – that cast them, like Schneemann, as beautiful bodies, as muses, or as servants and sex objects, and never as artists. In order to claim authority as artists, they believed they needed to make