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New research finds that religious trauma is experienced by up to 30% of US adults, with LGBTQ+ individuals bearing the brunt of the damage. Mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be an official diagnosis.
As a child, I imagined myself in these stories with the funny, out-of-place man. I identified with him because I also felt out of place, and his not-typically masculine demeanor felt safe and somehow familiar to me. As a queer adult, I can now see myself represented in these stories even more clearly, a validation that I didn’t know was needed.
The witch was a figure of both disgust and fear, but, paradoxically, also of sexual desire and temptation. The witch represented that which was forbidden in all its forms. And for that, she was reviled, even as she titillated the minds of the repressed. Very queer, indeed.
TWH speaks with Heron Michelle, owner of The Sojourner Whole Earth Provisions and author of Elemental Witchcraft, about her Pagan path and the challenges of creating and running a store that caters to “the paths less traveled.”
Luke Babb celebrates a revision to the bylaws of the Troth that will allow for members to conduct rituals in honor of all beings connected to the ancient Germanic polytheistic tradition.