RAW Voices: Sheela Na Gig by Debra Hall
Show notes
In this RAW Voices episode, Debra Hall reads her poem "Sheela Na Gig Speaks" — an invocation of the ancient carved figure found across old church walls, and what she represents for women reclaiming their wildness after 5,000 years of being shaped into someone smaller.
Debra traces Sheela Na Gig as storm, mountain, and threshold all at once — a figure who "speaks" without words, stirring something ancestral back to life. It's a call to step past shame and perfectionism, and into the raw, unclaimed edge of yourself.
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Show transcript
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00:01:22: The veneer of civilized peels back, our creaturely comes alive.
00:01:29: She is stormcrack and moist.
00:01:31: cave the paps where memory sleeps.
00:01:34: she speaks in a way.
00:01:36: a mountain speaks In the dialect of tectonic shifts Ecstasy, the leaf-bud's radiant green.
00:01:58: From the start The artisans who still knew how to trap old magic in the throat of stone looked along their chisels and saw something uncontainable that astonished even them.
00:02:15: Sheila Nagig was making herself dangerously whole.
00:02:22: Why do we need her now?
00:02:24: For five thousand patriarchal years, the wild expanse of womanhood has been shoehorned into a tight synthetic reflection on what men want.
00:02:38: Sheila is a wrecking ball swinging at that altar of perfectionism forced.
00:02:45: She's the steady north for women striding home to the sovereignty themselves Her raison d'etre, a deliberate ritual of revelation.
00:02:58: With fingers like ancient roots and the complete absence of shame she holds wide her petal threshold And says over and over again This raw edge is yours.
00:03:17: Step through Be
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