U.S.
Wildfire smoke impacts Wolf Creek Radical Faerie Sanctuary
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The Radical Fairies’ Wolk Creek Sanctuary in Oregon has experienced heavy smoke during the Oregon wildfires.
Living
Cyber cemetery honors the Radical Faerie dead
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TWH- Many people first became involved with Paganism in the 1960s and 1970s. Now those Pagans have aged into their 60s, 70s, and 80s. The aging process means that many Pagan groups will soon have to work more closely and more frequently with death. One Pagan group has already had a great deal of experience dealing with its member’s deaths:The Radical Faerie tribe. The HIV epidemic has devastated this tradition.
Paganism
Column: Into the Traumatic Breach, Radicalism, Paganism and Sexual Liberation
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I’m not sure if the stand of poison oak surrounding my campsite these last three days has gotten onto my skin. I’m covered in dirt, sweat (my own and other’s), a few bruises, at least one small cut from rocks along a stream, and it will take me several weeks to shed all the plant matter which clung to what little clothing I wore during Beltaine week. I’ve spent most of this week at a Radical Faerie sanctuary in southern Oregon, surrounded by queer Pagans of every gender imaginable, watching them dance, cry, laugh, eat, urinate, and unabashedly copulate amongst the grasses and trees of the land which hosts an indescribably serene and beautiful sanctuary from the world from which those of us gathered had come and must return. The Radical Faeries are known for many things, but the one thread of their existence which is often most discussed is their embrace of queer sexuality. A sex-positive community of displaced and alienated left-leaning queers, informed by, composed and embracing of spiritualities which align well with other Pagan traditions, but without a specific central tradition, the Radical Faeries were the first pagans whom I encountered, and the first people with whom I truly felt a sense of home. It is interesting, then, to consider their existence and what they represent through the current lens of tensions over sexual ethics and scandals in several Pagan traditions.