The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/perspectives/opinion)
Transgender Americans have been under unrelenting assault since the Trump administration entered office. But queer lawmakers in Montana led their Republican-dominated legislature to defeat two anti-trans bills this week, proving this is no time for despair.
One Halloween, when I was young enough to still go trick-or-treating with my parents, a pair of boys from my school ran around my block chanting “Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!” while I stood there in my out-of-the-box Darth Vader or Spider-Man costume. When my dad was the age that I was then, he was in an extermination camp.
With the state of the world the way it is today, there’s no time like the present to fully commit to a demonic contract, aimed at dismantling the global empirical systems of capitalism and oppression. It’s time to get radical.
Like the followers of Odin in the long-ago time, we must be strategic. We must form the wedge that can break through the shield-wall that the richest of the rich have trumped up for themselves, a barricade built with filthy lucre and made of men willing to be bought.
Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reviews last week’s oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, emphasizing the critical role our community must play as a bulwark against oppression.
Last week, Amy Hardy-McAdams invoked Medusa as a champion for the oppressed during a prayer at the Tulsa Oklahoma City Council meeting. It didn’t take long for the state’s Republican governor to attack her for it. What does this incident say for the future of Paganism in public life?
