Aristasia

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Aristasia was a British female-focused subcultural group, or shared worldbuilding project and role-playing setting, that combined Guénonian Traditionalism with elements of lesbian separatism. The group had its origins in the Oxford area in the 1960s or 1970s. They received the most media attention in the 1990s. Rejecting the modern world (and post-1960s culture in particular), Aristasians sought to recreate the lifestyles of the 1920s–1950s, wearing period clothes, watching period movies, etc. One anonymous member explained the nature of the group: "Aristasia is a game. But then schools, corporations, armies, nations are all games. They happen to be bigger and wealthier games than ours. But ours is better." Estimates of the group's size ranged from dozens to hundreds of followers. The writer Marianne Martindale was a prominent member, acting as the face of the movement. Her previous group, the Silver Sisterhood, had similar beliefs and practices. Aristasians created an elaborate cosmology...

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