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November 2017

November 29, 2017
...we are often forced either to adapt the myths and symbols the past to meet...
November 16, 2017
Zakroff has taken the time and effort to ground her work in both legitimate art...
November 11, 2017
"...we're responsible for what's done with our power, whether we claim it or deny it....
November 08, 2017
What we call "politics" is, like any other realm of human endeavor, a way in...
November 03, 2017
Politics is, in short, another word for talking about and negotiating power... and if I've...

October 2017

October 28, 2017
I don't much relish being treated like Mrs. Hughes or Carson the butler, especially if...
October 25, 2017
Consent's a funny thing. It has the potential to start or end relationships, to create...
October 19, 2017
Samhain. Halloween. The night before the first day of Winter, the beginning of the slide...
October 18, 2017
I'm not saying you have to nerf your badass spooky darkling witchself, or hold strong...
October 13, 2017
If we're more concerned with social capital than with gnosis, that's what we'll find. On...
October 11, 2017
Many of us are "out"—visible, vocal, and open—and many of us are still invisible, still...
October 07, 2017
Perhaps most telling is that, whenever I try to explain to someone what it's like...
October 04, 2017
If we assume Valiente is the author of the Charge, she is clearly allowed some...

September 2017

September 29, 2017
Witchcraft is inherently queer, deriving much of its power from its transgressive queerness, and any...
September 26, 2017
What these artists share in common is the glimmering thread of mystery and magic shot...
September 21, 2017
The imminent arrival of the Autumnal Equinox makes this as good a time as any...
September 18, 2017
If, after a careful examination of both our traditions and our consciences, we come to...
September 14, 2017
If she was telling the truth—if there really were druids and witches and magicians still...
September 11, 2017
Gender essentialism isn't a Wiccan problem, nor even a Pagan problem. It's a human problem,...
September 07, 2017
Pagans and polytheists like to think we're free from gender-based bigotry, but are we really?...
September 05, 2017
Heretical feminism, stark confessionals, afterlife speculations, and fey witchery: welcome to the beautiful, terrifying world...

August 2017

August 31, 2017
My first exposure to books on real magic, the first grimoires I encountered as a...
August 28, 2017
Like many of my contemporary practitioners of the dark arts, I am forced to confess,...
August 24, 2017
The TL;DR version is that I'm a geeky, queer, feminist Faery witch and sorcerer with...
August 22, 2017
When confronted with the actual awfulness of life in America for anyone who isn't white,...
August 18, 2017
This wasn't supposed to be my first post. I was going to introduce myself and...
August 10, 2017
Misha Magdalane is a native of central California, happily transplanted to the Pacific Northwest. They...
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