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MY NEW BOOK: Sacred Choice
Are you tired of anti-choice people telling you that your views on abortion have no historical/religious support? Me too. So I wrote a book proving them wrong. “An exploration of the history of contraception and abortion in witchcraft and paganism. This celebration of the history and spirituality of reproductive freedom combines thorough research, reflection, and…
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If You Have a Uterus, You Need to Read This Book
A Woman’s Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486 by Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer was recommended to me by a friend the day after the news broke that the US Supreme Court was voting to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate federal abortion protections. She knew that, like a lot of people, I was…
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A Woman’s Book of Choices by Carol Downer and Rebecca Chalker
A Woman’s Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486 by Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer is one of the most informative books I have ever read (and I read a lot of books). I learned more about my own reproductive organs, about abortion, and about birth control from this one book than I have from…
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What You Need to Know About DIY Abortions
[Note: This is a repost from my Tumblr. The original post was published on May 3, 2022.] This knowledge might save a life someday. That might sound like an exaggeration, but like I mentioned in my last post, the Supreme Court’s pending decision to overturn Roe v. Wade opens the door to new state laws…
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The Day Our Grandmothers Warned Us About
[Note: this is a repost from my Tumblr. The original post was published on May 3, 2022.] Just a head’s up: this isn’t going to be as polished as my usual blog posts. I didn’t plan this post in advance, so this is kind of just a stream-of-consciousness thing to help me process what’s going…
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“Queer is a slur” is anti-trans rhetoric. No, really.
Note: This post is a written transcript of my most recent YouTube video. Remember how, in my video about Nazis in Norse Paganism, we talked about how most of the ideas held by modern white supremacists can be traced back to a handful of bigots hiding behind a facade of academia? Turns out, that’s also…
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Currently Reading: White Rage
I just finished White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson. This isn’t the first book I’ve read about the history of systemic, anti-Black racism in the United States, but it is the most hard-hitting I’ve read so far. Anderson refutes the conventional narrative of linear progress towards racial equality that most Americans, myself…
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Samhain ritual to honor victims of COVID-19 and police brutality
This is an interfaith ritual that I created with the help of several friends, which we will be conducting as a public vigil this weekend. The ritual includes Wiccan, Religio Romana, Celtic, Norse, and Anglo-Catholic elements — but feel free to make any changes you see fit. Some parts of the ritual were adapted from…
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