Tag: queer witchery
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Affirming Queer Pagans: Radical Love and Compassion
Categories: ArticlesTags: queer witcheryIn Paganism, we’ve come a long way from “gay people mess up the energy in circle”. There are a variety of traditions who are open to working with Queer folks. But we’re still largely in the stage of accepting Queer people. Encouragingly, there’s movement toward affirming Queer people, but it’s still working its way through…
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A Tale of Two Prides: Why I Needed Pagan Pride More Than Gay Pride
Categories: ArticlesTags: queer witcheryMy parents were very observant of the Episcopal faith when I was growing up. My father was a lay minister, my mother was a leader in our congregation’s St. Anne’s Guild, I was an acolyte and later a crucifer. The kids all went to Sunday School and Children’s Chapel. As we got older, we took…
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My Queer Life: A Coming-Out Story
Categories: ArticlesIn honor of National Coming Out Day, I wanted to tell my story. I have a secret. Sometimes I wish I were a straight woman. It would be so much easier, less complicated, more accepted than being a Queer person. I didn’t ask to be pansexual. I didn’t ask to be nonbinary. I didn’t ask…
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Embracing Queerness as a Witch: Subverting Norms and Gaining Power
Categories: ArticlesTags: queer witcheryOne of the great Mysteries of the Craft is that each of us is a perfect, amazing, flamboyant, paradoxical reflection of the Divine. Of course, this Mystery looks cheap on paper. Until its full power is realized through direct experience, it seems obvious, cliché, tawdry. The experience of the Mysteries is what makes them powerful…