VOTE.

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From this article in the San Francisco Chronicle: “It’s a week before Election Day, and most Californians couldn’t care less. Watch out: When few people vote, crazy stuff can happen. That’s because California is on track to have its lowest primary turnout in the state’s history — 29%, projects political analyst Paul Mitchell — in part […]

Don’t Call Me Mister

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Doing some research on Rachel Pollack, I found this article, “Don’t Call Me Mister You Fucking Beast”, a piece written by the Transvestite, Transsexual and Drag Queen group of the GLF at some point in 1972. It was transcribed to hypertext from Come Together – The Years of Liberation 1970-1973 by Autumn. According to Morgan […]

Standing in a Garage

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Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor And going to bløts no more makes you Heathen than standing in a garage makes you a car. Showing up is a start, but then what do you do with the experience afterward? Did […]

Rachel Pollack, Feminism, and Spirituality

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Pollack saw miracles in the world, and she was someone who taught other people to see them. Most famously, she did this through the Tarot; she was a world-renowned expert on the cards, consulted and cited by authors like Alexander Chee and Neil Gaiman. Her book on the Rider-Waite, 78 Degrees of Wisdom, is the […]

Heathener Than Thou: Eat Ancestrally

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Today in “Heathener Than Thou”, let’s look at the practice some heathens insist one must do if one is a “real” heathen: eat Ancestrally, aka, only eat what a Viking Era Scandinavian would have eaten. Setting aside that “ancestrally”, while technically correct, grates on the ears, let’s look at “eat as your ancestors did”. I’m […]

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