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November 2017

November 29, 2017

Kings, Queens, Dukes, and Lords: The Perils of Hegemony in Pagan and Polytheistic Praxis

...we are often forced either to adapt the myths and symbols the past to meet...

November 16, 2017

Book Review: “Sigil Witchery” by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Zakroff has taken the time and effort to ground her work in both legitimate art...

November 11, 2017

The Veil of Ignorance: Reclaiming Our Power, Understanding Our Privilege

"...we're responsible for what's done with our power, whether we claim it or deny it....

November 08, 2017

The Politics of (Spiral) Dancing, and Giving Away Your Power

What we call "politics" is, like any other realm of human endeavor, a way in...

November 03, 2017

Apoliticality and Other Comfortable Lies We Tell Ourselves

Politics is, in short, another word for talking about and negotiating power... and if I've...

October 2017

October 28, 2017

Agency and Agenda: Notes Towards a Consent-Based Approach to Praxis

I don't much relish being treated like Mrs. Hughes or Carson the butler, especially if...

October 25, 2017

Some Thoughts on Consent in Magical Praxis and Community

Consent's a funny thing. It has the potential to start or end relationships, to create...

October 19, 2017

The Dead Are With Us Still: A Meditation on Samhain

Samhain. Halloween. The night before the first day of Winter, the beginning of the slide...

October 18, 2017

Some (Obviously Belated) Administrative Rules

I'm not saying you have to nerf your badass spooky darkling witchself, or hold strong...

October 13, 2017

Knowledge, Expertise, and the Life-Changing Magic of Saying “I Don’t Know”

If we're more concerned with social capital than with gnosis, that's what we'll find. On...

October 11, 2017

Coming Out and Staying In: A Rumination on National Coming Out Day

Many of us are "out"—visible, vocal, and open—and many of us are still invisible, still...

October 07, 2017

Mixtape of Shadows: Edward Ka-Spel (The Legendary Pink Dots, The Tear Garden)

Perhaps most telling is that, whenever I try to explain to someone what it's like...

October 04, 2017

The Queerness at the Heart of the Charge: Gnosis and Exegesis

If we assume Valiente is the author of the Charge, she is clearly allowed some...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

The Intrinsic Queerness of Witchcraft, and Why It Matters

Witchcraft is inherently queer, deriving much of its power from its transgressive queerness, and any...

September 26, 2017

Mixtape of Shadows (Three Different Ones): serpentwithfeet, Wolves in the Throne Room, Anomie Belle

What these artists share in common is the glimmering thread of mystery and magic shot...

September 21, 2017

Mabon and Everything After, or, Learning to Love the Equinox

The imminent arrival of the Autumnal Equinox makes this as good a time as any...

September 18, 2017

Clouds in My Coffee: Addressing Some Criticisms, and Offering a Few More

If, after a careful examination of both our traditions and our consciences, we come to...

September 14, 2017

Meeting My First Pagans: An Autobiographical Interlude

If she was telling the truth—if there really were druids and witches and magicians still...

September 11, 2017

Tracing the Thread: Critiquing Gender Essentialism in Paganism, Polytheism, and Magic

Gender essentialism isn't a Wiccan problem, nor even a Pagan problem. It's a human problem,...

September 07, 2017

“How It Ought to Be”: The Problem of Gender Essentialism

Pagans and polytheists like to think we're free from gender-based bigotry, but are we really?...

September 05, 2017

Mixtape of Shadows: Tori Amos, “Little Earthquakes”

Heretical feminism, stark confessionals, afterlife speculations, and fey witchery: welcome to the beautiful, terrifying world...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Memories of the First Books: A Treasury of Witches

My first exposure to books on real magic, the first grimoires I encountered as a...

August 28, 2017

Memories of the First Books: Dungeons, Dragons, and the Dark Arts

Like many of my contemporary practitioners of the dark arts, I am forced to confess,...

August 24, 2017

A Belated Introduction, with Roadmap and Coming Attractions

The TL;DR version is that I'm a geeky, queer, feminist Faery witch and sorcerer with...

August 22, 2017

Start as You Mean to Go On: A Coda and a Prayer

When confronted with the actual awfulness of life in America for anyone who isn't white,...

August 18, 2017

Start as You Mean to Go On: A Prelude for the Work to Come

This wasn't supposed to be my first post. I was going to introduce myself and...

August 10, 2017

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