Tag Archives: sex

Authors you want to love, but can’t

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

I’ve been reading more Dion Fortune as part of my research. She’s an intriguing author. I want to like her work, I really do. But I can’t. There’s not a whole lot of magical fiction, and she writes it pretty … Continue reading →

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Review: Lale, Asatru for Beginners

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

Lale, Erin. Asatru for Beginners. e-book second edition, 2009. 157 pages. Asatru for Beginners is by Erin Lale, an Asatruar who has run for office as a candidate for the Libertarian party. Lale moderated an MSN group for Asatruar for … Continue reading →

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Janet Porter wants me to die

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

That’s the message she rallied her supporters to send to the Ohio legislature today. And Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, and Mike Huckabee all agree with her. Trigger Warning: difficult pregnancy, death I used to live in Ohio. If I were … Continue reading →

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Social change, socialization, and the end of DADT

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

How ending DADT will spread the idea of equality for people of all orientations among parts of the US population which have previously been most homophobic. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” compromise which allowed gays and lesbians to be members … Continue reading →

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Wiccans worship Goddess and God – RD revises article

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

Religion Dispatches corrected an article that said that Wiccans “don’t worship a dude at all, but a female goddess,” after readers wrote in to say that Wicca usually involves interpreting the divine as having both male and female forms. Gary … Continue reading →

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Beltane, botany, and desire

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Hecate recently asked how we know it’s almost time for Beltane. She has an answer in terms of the deep relationship she has with the oak trees in her location. I haven’t lived in one place long enough to have … Continue reading →

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What strippers taught me about unions

Posted on March 12, 2011 by

Most of what I know about unions I learned from Live Nude Girls Unite! That’s a film documenting the successful labor-organizing efforts of the strippers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady peepshow in 1996 and 1997. (A summary of the workers’ … Continue reading →

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Tolerance, pluralism, and safe space

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

There’s been some major upheaval on another blog I read frequently: the blogger has moved to the Patheos portal, and a lot of his very active and tightly-knit community of commenters are seriously upset about this, because Patheos does not … Continue reading →

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Protected speech: Ur doin it rong.

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

Slacktivist recently argued that If [groups spouting anti-gay diatribes] have been arguing in good faith all along, then they will be gladdened by yesterday’s decision. They will be happy to learn that they need not fear any abridgment of their … Continue reading →

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Trans inclusion

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

A very necessary conversation is starting to take place in Pagan and Wiccan communities because of an unfortunate incident of exclusion and prejudice at the most recent Pantheacon: trans women were excluded from a ritual for women. The Wild Hunt … Continue reading →

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