by Stephanie Davies

Surviving a Patriarchy on Steroids came out of a massive two-week long migraine attack, triggered by the inauguration of a sexual predator to the presidency of the United States. I woke one morning, sat at my computer, and vomited up the title, outline, and first chapter. 

My migraines stopped as the writing kept flowing.  

The book captures the myriad ways that one queer woman has navigated the first year of these turbulent times so that I can stay grounded, centered, and true to my values; generate a sense of hope in the young people in my life; engage in the resistance meaningfully while maintaining a sense of joy, purpose, and spiritual growth; and not succumb to the gloom, doom, and catastrophizing that can so easily immobilize. As Cole Arthur Riley writes in Black Liturgies, “If you aren’t in your body, someone else is.”