I love to read, I also read for a living (thanks Facing North!). So you’d think these reading challenges would be easy. . .
Here’s how I’m doing so far in 2016:
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2016 Reading Challenge (June update)
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Transgender and Hatred
A storm is brewing, perhaps already broke about a fundraising effort by the (Budapestian) Dianic Witch, Ruth Barrett for her anthology, Female Erasure.With entries like “Transgender Rights: The Elimination of the Human Rights of Women,” “The Attack On Female Sovereign Space In Pagan Community,” and “Destruction Of A Marriage: My Husband’s Descent Into Transgenderism” it’s clear that this will be a manifesto of hate and exclusion.
Childhood
From a ‘meme’ that came across my FB feed earlier:
(trigger warning: childhood trauma)
Oysters I Like
The oysters of my youth were huge things, briny and thick — I hated them and couldn’t see why people made such a fuss over them.
Dealing with ‘Others’
June is Pagan Values month, and unlike previous years, I’ve actually been given a topic I can write about. (I’m not great with overly broad topics, it doesn’t usually stir my creative juices.) Today’s writing is “others and othering. What are your philosophies of conduct when around those very different from yourself?”
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the large vast scene we call ‘paganism’ is also immensely diverse. There’s an old line you may have heard that sums it up beautifully: ask 10 pagans what paganism means and you’ll get 13 answers.
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2016 Reading Challenge (May update)
Here’s how I’m doing so far in 2016:
What do I need to know now?
Dark thoughts
It’s a dark time in the world, and I find myself musing on the last time it felt this way to me.
Camp NaNoWriMo — goal achieved!
I’ve been meaning to write a book, a follow up to Magickal Connections, for years now. But it’s a daunting task, and I couldn’t get my ‘handle’, my thesis if you will. Then in late March I realized I had the title and all at once the whole outline came to me.
(Sometimes I hate my muse, but she’s kickass when she comes through.)
2016 Reading Challenge (April update)
Here’s how I’m doing so far in 2016: