Outside the Charmed Circle
Heretical feminism, stark confessionals, afterlife speculations, and fey witchery: welcome to the beautiful, terrifying world of Tori Amos. Read more
Heretical feminism, stark confessionals, afterlife speculations, and fey witchery: welcome to the beautiful, terrifying world of Tori Amos. Read more
My first exposure to books on real magic, the first grimoires I encountered as a wee slip of a child in early 1980s California, were books I found at my local library and at home, on my very own mother's bookcase. Read more
Like many of my contemporary practitioners of the dark arts, I am forced to confess, after all these years, that Jack Chick was right: Dungeons & Dragons led me to witchcraft. Read more
The TL;DR version is that I'm a geeky, queer, feminist Faery witch and sorcerer with a degree in gender studies, a sense of humor, and an opinion or three to share. The longer version is... well, longer. Read more
When confronted with the actual awfulness of life in America for anyone who isn't white, straight, cisgender, and otherwise within the "charmed circle" of cultural acceptance, many people—myself included—have asked, "What can I DO about any of this?" These are some things to read, think about, and do now that you've decided to Do Something. Read more
This wasn't supposed to be my first post. I was going to introduce myself and generally just ease us into the flow of things, in hopes of attracting new readers. And then Charlottesville happened. Read more
Misha Magdalane is a native of central California, happily transplanted to the Pacific Northwest. They first stumbled across modern Paganism in the deep South in the mid-1980s and have held onto it ever since... Read more
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