Ik ben een Afrikaander – al slaat de landdrost mij dood, of al zetten hij mij in de tronk, ik zal, nog wil niet zwijgen! (I am an African – even if the magistrate were to beat me to death, or put me in jail, I shall not be, nor will I stay, silent!) Hendrik Biebouw, […]
Featured Image: Graffitti painted on a Confederate monument, Augusta, Georgia, 2009 An NPR poll released on October 24, 2017 found that a majority of Whites say discrimination against them exists in America today. This has, predictably, led to much crowing about “fragility,” “lost privilege” and “victim complexes.” A closer look at the poll — and […]
On an unseasonably warm mid-September Friday I learned that I was a dangerous racist White Supremacist transphobe. I discovered this third-hand. My friend Aden Ardennes, editor of Horns magazine, got the information straight from some part of the horse’s anatomy. So did pretty much everyone else involved with Horns. I have a regular column in Horns, “FagGods” wherein I […]
In August 2016 Pagan priest and activist Rhyd Wildemuth opened his piece, “Confronting the New Right” with this warning:m What is the New Right? The New Right is a Anglo-European intellectual, political, social, and cultural movement gaining influence within Paganism, Polytheism, Heathenism, and the Occult communities. Generally called either ‘proto-fascists’ or ‘crypto-fascists,’ their ideology mirrors […]
A Facebook friend recently sent me a link to this Tumblr exchange between an anonymous querent and Sian, a self-described “25-year-old queer girl from England. Scientist, feminist, Heathen & devotee of Odin, Sif & the Morrigan.” I generally avoid Tumblr, but since this conversation name-drops me and raises a few interesting questions, I decided to respond […]
It is November 2004. I am standing in a circle at the main ritual of Between the Worlds, a Wilmington, Delaware conference organized by Ivo Dominguez Jr. and his Assembly of the Sacred Wheel. Inner Traditions recently purchased the manuscript which will become The Haitian Vodou Handbook. I have begun sketching out another book on trance possession, […]
Galina Krasskova recently posted an interview with yrs. truly for her Polytheistic Voices series. This describes my philosophy and how I came to it in reasonably good detail: it may also help clear up any misconceptions about my political leanings or my feelings on race. Gangleri’s Grove is excellent and well worth reading: I highly […]
On April 6, 2017 a New Orleans jury voted 11-1 to convict Wiccan Priest and musician Kenny Klein of 19 counts of possessing pornography involving children under 17 and one count of possessing pornography involving children under 13. Sentencing is scheduled for April 20: he faces a minimum of 5-20 years on each of the […]
(The picture above was taken at the White House Hotel. I knew the resident who owned this picture: his entire cubicle was wallpapered with pictures of the Madonna). I came to New York because I had nowhere else to go. Growing up in Montrose, Pennsylvania the Village Voice was culture, wit, sophistication — everything Montrose wasn’t. […]
“Why do poor White people vote against their self-interests every election?” The people wondering this would never think to ask “why don’t more Black people vote Republican?” The answer is obvious: for decades the Republican Party has used Blacks to get out the White vote, promising to protect things like “States’ Rights” (to discriminate) and cutting […]
Europa’s Children 