Our cups may be made of fine bone china, but we are not. Women over 50 across Australia have been let down at every stage of our development—by society, by the systems that were never built for us.
The world has expected older women to shrink, become invisible, and fade away, and has looked away as older single women age into poverty.
Yet we have risen with a fire in our belly. We have watched our mothers and grandmothers go through it, and we are the cycle breakers. We are the rebels, and we are the women who draw a line in the sand for every young woman.
And together we create the Matriarchal Rise the world has been waiting for.
At the heart of this rise stands The Crone, the original word for the wise woman, the elder, the one who holds the lineage. A word that once meant strength, insight, authority, later twisted into an insult. We reclaim it, we restore it, we give it back its beauty.
Our Aunts are the modern day Crone. Wild, wise and wonderful women as bold and colourful as the clothes we wear!