August 2026 S/HE Creatrix Studies Forum: Interweaving Matriversal Cosmology
Organizer: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Time: Saturday August 8 and August 22 at 12 PM – 2 PM PT
Registration: Free of charge, email the following information to Dr. Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com).
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Participants include:
August 8: Trans-patriarchal Matriversalism
Leslene della-Madre
Coral Wynter
Kaarina Kailo
Lynn Genevieve
Aidan Moore
August 22: Two Human-caused Colossal Catastrophes and Matriversal Soteriology
Leslene della Madre
Coral Wynter
Danica Anderson
Megan Freely Wong
Louise Pare
Summary: This forum unpacks Matriveralism (the Way of the Maternal Universe). (TBA)
Biography: Dr. Hwang is the founder of Mago Academy and the field of Creatrix Studies. She is a born poet, philosopher, and advocate for Life of ALL and has encountered Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of the Creatrix) through her doctoral research on Mago, the Cosmic Mother/Creatrix. She is currently leading the Matriversal Feminist Movement together with Mago Work volunteers. Dr. Hwang received an M.A. and a Ph.D. degrees in Religion with the emphasis on Women’s Studies. To support her research on Magoism (the Way of the Creatrix), she enrolled in an M.A. program in East Asian Studies and specialized in Korean Buddhism at UCLA. Authored, edited, and published many books and essays by Mago Books and the peer-reviewed academic journal, S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies, and Return to Mago E-Magazine. She is currently teaching the core and elective courses of Creatrix Studies.
Presenters on August 8
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
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Leslene della-Madre
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Coral Wynter
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Presenters on August 22
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
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Dancia Anderson Ph.D.
Title: The Matriversal Epigenetic Convergence of Herstory, Ritual, and Biology
Summary: This course examines the convergence of epigenetics, archaeology, film, and oral tradition through a matriversal lens that understands biology as fundamentally female, relational, and diverse. Drawing on Marija Gimbutas’ work on the Civilization of the Goddess, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum and Louise Pare’s scholarship on the Black Madonna, and contemporary filmmaking, participants explore how ancestral experiences become embodied and transmitted across generations.
Recent advances in epigenetic research demonstrate that environmental experiences and trauma alter gene expression and create biological memories that influence future generations. The course examines mitochondrial DNA, oral memory, ritual, and artistic expression as interconnected archives of human experience. By bridging social science, psychology, archaeology, and biological science, this course offers an interdisciplinary framework for understanding how women’s histories, cultural practices, and visual storytelling preserve and reactivate ancient knowledge systems that continue to shape identity, memory, and collective becoming.
Biography: Danica Anderson, Ph.D., BCFT, FAAETS, DAAETS, is a forensic traumatologist, social scientist, and founder of The Kolo: Women’s Cross-Cultural Collaboration. Her fieldwork across Afghanistan, Bosnia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Sri Lanka centers the forensic study of women’s war trauma, social epigenetics, and the transmission of embodied memory. A UNESCO Scientific & Education Council and former expert with the International Criminal Court, Dr. Anderson examines how female bodies archive collective trauma across generations. Her work interrogates dominant scientific narratives and reclaims somatic knowledge systems rooted in archaeology, gender-based justice, and intercultural interpretation of trauma.
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