The Matriarch's Guide To Surviving 2026

Plausible Deniability

We're only a few days into 2026 and already empire is blowing shit up everywhere. And it has absolutely nothing to do with us.

For 3,775 years, women had no meaningful say in the running of the world. War, borders, religion, ownership, technology and trade were decided without us. Which means we're are not invested in defending a failing system. And we’re certainly not bound to its myths of honour and conquest. We've carried the consequences of male power without owning the causes for too long.

Here are seven powerful actions from the 7th Tribe to keep your sanity

this year whilst the patriarchy crumbles.

1. Withdrawal of Free Labour

Stop over-functioning. Stop rescuing systems that were designed to extract us. Stop compensating for male incompetence, institutional neglect, and emotional illiteracy. No more unpaid organising. No more emotional management. No more smoothing the edges so others can feel comfortable. The rebellion begins when women let things break.

2. Economic Non-Cooperation

Women are the most powerful consumer group on the planet, we can make change simply by spending with intelligence. Let’s stop wasting our resources to soothe ourselves from the harm of a system designed to exhaust us. Stop overworking to prove our worth. Stop accepting ‘exposure’, ‘experience’, or ‘passion’ as currency. Let’s consolidate money, share resources, build parallel economies, and choose sustainability over approval. Patriarchy cannot survive if women stop funding it.

3. Refusal Of False Narratives

What women have achieved in the last 150 years is legendary. Since we won the right to an education we have uncovered a hidden history — our back story. And the next chapter is a reclamation of our truth and power. We need to reject the lie that freedom means fitting into men’s systems. Refuse the story that empowerment looks like copying male appetites. Stop performing confidence and start practising discernment. Let’s be ourselves with a vengeance.

4. Reclaim Time And Ageing.

The rebellion is women ageing out loud. No apology. No pretending. No shrinking. Age becomes authority again. Midlife women step out of invisibility and into leadership without asking permission or rebranding themselves as ‘relevant’. The matriarch returns. Not as a caricature, but as a strategist.

5. Build Parallel Systems

Let’s build networks that bypass gatekeepers: funding circles, learning circles, legal support, housing co-ops, shared childcare, skill exchanges. Quiet, durable, boring-looking systems that outlast trends. Patriarchy cannot defeat what it cannot see clearly.

6. Tell The Truth Without Apology

No softening language. No apology for anger. No flattening of reality to make it palatable. Women name what has been done to us — historically, economically, sexually, spiritually — and refuse to be gaslit out of our own memory. When we see injustice in real time we name it, study it and shout it from the rooftops. When women speak with one voice the whole world will listen.

7. Collective Discipline

The backlash to the rise of women has sent women back 50 years. Now it's the time for the matriarchy to rise. A matriarch is the most senior woman in a family, business or community, it’s not an ideology it's a system of human intelligence, memory and pattern recognition. In these times we need to have each other’s backs like never before. A shared agreement that the enemy is structural, not each other. That disagreement is not betrayal. That solidarity is a practice, not a vibe. This is not rebellion as chaos. It is rebellion as withdrawal of consent.

Patriarchy Survives Because Women Keep It Running

Men, if you find women are more snarky than usual this year, instead of attacking or punishing us please take the time to ask what is really going on, because patriarchy hurts everyone except those at the very top of the system. When women stop volunteering our bodies, our time, our emotional labour, our silence — the system does not collapse in flames. It simply starves. And that is how revolutions actually happen

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