So! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Happy Spring Equinox! [there follows the transcription, lightly edited, of an ex tempore lecture to students delivered during the Plague Years, and thus recorded for them as a video, in a playground full of Spring flowers, birdsong, and the sound of playing children, rendering the Continue Reading
Politics
Emily’s Malawi Journal – Summer 2005
MALAWI JOURNAL PART ONE It wasn’t really part of the picture in my head of what it would be like to come to Africa: grey skies, frequent rain, sometimes torrential, sometimes just a soft, intermittent drizzle. Shivering beside a one-bar electric heater, wearing two jumpers. Sometimes I have to pinch Continue Reading
DREAMS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD : REFLECTIONS ON FASCISM AND OCCULTISM, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, AND THIS MESS WE’RE IN
It was mid 2019. We were all talking about the End of the World. Like many other people I spoke to, I had been having crazy dreams as well. I had been on a Writer’s Retreat a few months earlier, and while there, overlooking a stormy bay on the West Continue Reading
A Deed Without A Name
THE POLITICS OF HOLDING THE DOOR
You’ve all heard it, haven’t you? How now, if you hold a door for a woman, you’re some kind of a “sexist”; how now, if you compliment a woman, or flirt with a woman, or tell a woman she’s looking sexy today, or just gently brush up against her breast, Continue Reading
Credo : Rage and Love – Plan for Utopia, Act for Apocalypse
Ace of Swords – Eight of Wands Reversed – Queen of Swords Reversed : Our Lady of Pain, Obstacles Foreseen, Sword in the Hand So. I’ve been doing some pretty demanding soul-searching on the question of what to call myself, how to identify, spiritually and philosophically. Someone started discussing the Continue Reading