Two weeks ago, one of my short stories got published by Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. Editorial by the creative arts director: “The first contribution is an ecofeminist retelling of a Flemish […]
Tag: restorying
Digging in the stones, trees, mud, wetlands and folklore surrounding the Belgian Black Madonna (de Zwarte Madam)
(Originally I planned this as an academic article, but I decided to rewrite it into a blog and share it publicly on this website; I refer to previous work by other researchers. I also used […]
Ecofeminism anno 2024: Painting easter eggs with water from local wells and colors from the local land
March is Women’s History Month, a time I’ve traditionally used to share reflections inspired by my ecofeminist perspective. This month, I contemplate learnings, unlearnings, actions, explorations, and future plans. Coinciding with Easter celebrations in Europe, […]
From Celtic source cult and tree devotion to worship of local female saints in Flanders
From Celtic Source Cult and Tree Devotion to Worship of Local Female Saints in Flanders Introduction:The woven tapestry of Flanders’ history is a rich blend of myths, legends, and tales that often go unnoticed. My […]
The mermaids of the Sun Moon Lake are Taiwanese Circular Society actors
In August 2023, I spent two weeks in Taiwan. The primary reason for my visit was to attend the wedding of two friends—interestingly, a pair whom I had introduced to each other, back in Japan […]
Amelberga, the river and the sturgeon’s lifecycle
In May 2021, my father found a good book from the 1980s: Roeck and Marquet (1980). “Belgian sagas and legends”. Illustrations by Henri Lievens. In the chapter “the virgins,” Dymphna came back, who has inspired […]
Dimpna, a story about an uprooted irish princess rerooting in Flanders, and a 6 centuries old method of care for the mental ill
On a July day, in 2021, I was in Geel, with a fellow offspring of a witch that did not get burned in the 17th century, to “dig up some bones”. That’s what we call […]
There is no such thing as an Empty Landscape.
Last summer, I was for a week in Czech Republic, visited Prague and dreamed about a rewilded story of Sarka. Afterwards, I participated in the Summer training school programme “Tracing & dwelling in post-anthropocentric landscapes“, […]
Rewilding Cinderella
One of the outcomes of the global pandemic is that people discover that digital technologies can create a new space of gathering and storytelling. Today I attended an event organised by the George Ewart Evans Storytelling […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 