Tag: liberation politics
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Folkism: What Is It and How Do We Avoid It?
Basically, every tradition has a fascist element. This is because fascism is prevalent in our society. Just like Christianity and other religions, all forms of paganism will have fascist sects. Rather than tarnishing these religions with a brush of paint that symbolises that they’re all ‘evil’ or some such descriptor, we should instead acknowledge these…
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Words to Live By: Audre Lorde’s ‘A Litany for Survival’
I also think about the word “speak” and how it could be replaced with “act”. We should take action for the things we care about, including making a more equitable world. But this applies to our witchcraft, too. We are not supposed to be here, but here we are, and with our magic, we can…
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Invoking Balance: Why We Need to Complicate the Light/Dark Binary
Darkness has come to mean things in culture, often through metaphor, just as light has. But has the association between darkness and light as a binary opposition which then maps onto such concepts as fearful/awesome, evil/good, death/life, rebellion/order, primal/spiritual and others always been so? Well, in short, no it hasn’t. And is it a quite…
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The Gods Stand With You, Even in Defeat: Fascism, Crises of Faith, and Spiritual Allies
I will not tell you how to grieve. But I wish to share some UPG (unverified personal gnosis) on why the gods may not have been able to give us the result we want, and why they still stand with us in our fight against tyranny and oppression. Perhaps this may offer at least one…
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The Danger Within: A Critical Assessment of the Witch as a Monstrous Other
As walkers between worlds—that of life and death, here and the Otherworld, mundane and magical—the witch is naturally a monster. They also even traverse the lines between human and animal, with their ability to turn themselves or others into animals, thereby crossing even the border between the natural order of God and the unholy powers…