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July 2014

July 11, 2014

Wild Wise Women of Science Fiction: Inara and Number 6

Sacred Sensual: Now and Always The sacred and the sensual go hand in hand, hand...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Orange is the New Black Puts On Santeria Whites

Rarely do we get a portrayal of the Santeria Religion, more correctly known as La...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

8 Reasons Why We Hate Psychics

We have all seen THOSE psychics. I had one chase me around the supermarket with...

May 14, 2014

Wild Wise Women of Science Fiction: Guinan

One of the things we see most often, especially in the Science fiction of the...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Why I’m Different Than Other Voodoo Priestesses

Hollywood is all over Voodoo like white on dirty rice, and maybe that's a good...

April 04, 2014

La danza de la realidad—Sagrada, Irreverente y Eterna

This is the experimental film and Spanish translation of my post Tarot, Jodorowsky, and Questions...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Maya Deren: Art, Magic, and Voodoo in Transfigured Time

The true beauty of Maya Deren is that she was a renaissance woman. She was...

March 21, 2014

Tarot, Jodorowsky, and Questions from a Crippled Hand

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a genius. I thought that way before I was blessed with the...

March 15, 2014

Otherness, Power and Privilege: Vampires Are Us

I met a gentlemen at a pagan event who claimed to practice the Vampire religion....

March 03, 2014

A Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau Musicology

People have been singing about Marie Laveau probably since the time she was born. This...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Battles and Big Chiefs: More History of the Mardi Gras Indians

The Mardi Gras Indians are the prettiest, baddest, the toughest... they used their wit, wisdom,...

February 23, 2014

Lessons From a Voodoo Priestess On Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

Tonight I will be reading Voodoo tarot cards and Walking Dead Zombie watching at Snake...

February 11, 2014

Farewell to Stuart Hall “Godfather of Multiculturalism”

...a rainbow of realization went off in my brain. Here was an educated Black man...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Voodoo Priestess Says Bye Bye American Horror Story Coven

Zombies, Witch Hunters, Red-Eyed Papa Legba, and Blood Bathing Marie Laveau, honestly even if I...

January 12, 2014

Legba Is Different From The Barons: We All Look Alike to You?

There are a lot of divinities, or Lwa, in the Voodoo pantheon -- some say...

January 10, 2014

The Voodoo Truth About Papa Legba

The portrayal of Papa Legba in this week's episode of American Horror Story: Coven left...

December 2013

December 22, 2013

Krampus Is Cool This Christmas!

Krampus is cool. The Nazis hated him, and he has had two appearances on network...

December 13, 2013

Why Voodoo Is Like Gangsta Rap…. Say Whaaa?

I realize Gansta Rap is probably one of the more controversial topics out there, as...

December 07, 2013

Spiritual Lessons from Science Fiction: Oh Captain, My Captain….

Rough, rogue and randy we love these leaders. The Science Fiction lessons they teach us...

December 05, 2013

Voodoo Priestess Predicts Bad Things for Legba’s Arrival on American Horror Story Coven

Joining the American Horror Story Coven cast in the role of, you guessed it, Papa...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

The Horrors of American Horror Story Coven: A Voodoo Priestess’ Perspective

The season is full of tropes, tricks, and trash and it's time to get real....

November 07, 2013

Death and Deals at the Crossroads: Voodoo Thoughts on Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson is one of the most legendary figures in Blues music history. His mythic...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

Ten Worst Voodoo Films of All Time

Most people's exposure to the Voodoo religion comes unfortunately in the form of horribly bad...

September 2013

September 22, 2013

Gumbo is Gumbo: The Enmeshment of N.O. Voodoo Performance and Ritual

Performance and ritual, these entities can be as far apart or as close together as...

September 11, 2013

Hoodoo, Voodoo, We do!

Voodoo, Santeria, Obeah and the other Afro-Caribbean Pagan traditions, because of their all-encompassing nature, obviously...