Starhawk
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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 17 June 1951
- Works
- 31
Top works
- The Empowerment Manual
- Exploring the Pagan Path
- The twelve wild swans
- Truth or dare
- City of Refuge
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There are two known artists going by the name Starhawk: 1) Starhawk (born Miriam Simos) (June 17, 1951) is an American writer, anarchist activist,[1] and self-described witch. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism, a columnist on Beliefnet.com, and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Starhawk lives in San Francisco, where she works with Reclaiming, a tradition of Witchcraft that she co-founded in the late 1970s. <a href="https://www.last.fm
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- Person.name
- Starhawk
- Person.image
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- Person.caption
- Starhawk at a Sicilian workshop in 2007
- Person.birth_name
- Miriam Simos
- Person.birth_place
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
- Person.awards
- Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award
- Person.education
- UCLA (B.A.)Antioch University West (M.A.)
- Person.website
- starhawk.org
- Person.spouse
- David Miller
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Miriam
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Saint Paul
- Occupation
- environmentalist
- Educated at
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Unitarian Universalism
- Movement
- modern paganism
- Official website
- starhawk.org
- Image
- Starhawk 2.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1951-06-17
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- Starhawk
- P8168
- 1716 in music
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Early life
- ''The Spiral Dance''
- Beliefs
- Feminism
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- Non-fiction
- As coauthor
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- Filmography
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- Personal life
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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.
==Early life== Starhawk was born in 1951 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her father, Jack Simos, died when she was five. Her mother, Bertha Claire Goldfarb Simos, was a professor of social work at UCLA. Both of her parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.
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