Paganism
Column: Spotlight on Queer Pagan Creatives
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Storm Faerywolf invites TWH’s readers to take a break from the doom and gloom by celebrating a collection of queer Pagan creatives.
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Storm Faerywolf invites TWH’s readers to take a break from the doom and gloom by celebrating a collection of queer Pagan creatives.
We may be living under a dark cloud that threatens to rain on our parade, but our symbol is the rainbow. Though it will be hard work, will endure as we have always done. And when the clouds part we will shine in all of our colors, bigots be damned.
I call the queer ancestors the Rainbow Dead. This term specifies their special place in our collective histories as well as in our spiritual practices. Ancestors need not be of our blood in order to be potent allies in our lives and work. It just takes us getting to know them, and a recognition of the work that they did to lay a foundation upon which we today may walk.
Storm Faerywolf surveys the recent set of attacks on marginalized identities that are part of the culture wars in the United States.
Nofra-Uaa draws from the natural world and expresses a religious experience not confined by establishments, traditions, or dogma, but instead draws from the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the body itself, to describe a religious state devoid of shame or spiritual fascism.