February 2012
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Liberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids: Why Teaching... →
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“This overheated hostility toward public schools runs throughout the new literature on liberal homeschooling, and reveals what is so fundamentally illiberal about the trend: It is rooted in distrust of the public sphere, in class privilege, and in the dated presumption that children hail from two-parent families, in which at least one parent can afford (and wants)...
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hair and spirituality
Right now I’m letting some red dye set in my hair. When I rinse it out in a little while, the long part at the top of my head will be a bright orange-red color. For now, I’m sitting around in naught but my undies, drinking rum and apple cider and listening to Black Sabbath while the spouse-unit plays video games. Just another typical Wednesday.
The other day, after asking to see my...
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freibiergesicht:
I like how the person responding to you both denied privilege while reveling in it at the same time. But I have a sort of tangent on this and I hope you take it in the spirit in which it’s meant:
I’ll admit as a white person that it make me uncomfortable when white SJW use “white” in a derogatory way - not because it’s not apt, but when other white people do it, it seems like...
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yurtthesilentchief:
So, what, do people like you expect white males to feel guilty for simply being white males? Disgusting. Horrendous. Mortifying. Now let me post a funny reaction image and feel superior to you cause of my massive amounts of white male privilage
DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE WHITE
Wow, gosh, what was I thinking, being white and making a brief comment on a trend in the...
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I do get really tired of all of the...
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missvoltairine:
and especially of depression, because it’s like, depression is, I feel, my BIGGEST OBSTACLE to productivity and creative self-expression.
Like, if I had to write a song while in a depressive episode, it would go:
I’m not getting up
I’m not getting up
fuck you
I’m not getting up
that’s my song.
And certainly, mental illness has/does inform a lot of my work, and...
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it constantly amazes me how many cis pagans...
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lindentea:
and then when trans pagans want inclusion the cis pagans claim we’re trying to limit ~religious freedom~ and stifle free expression and we’re the mean bigoted ones who just won’t ~tolerate~ their bigoted beliefs and if we try to get the community to acknowledge that bigotry is unacceptable then we’re just as bad as the Republicans and—
—wait all this is...
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PantheaCon: Unity, Diversity, Controversy (The...
pagannews:
On Monday I returned from the 2012 PantheaCon in San Jose, the largest annual indoor gathering of modern Pagans in North America. This is my third year attending the event, and for me it has become not so much about the panels and presentations, though they are often wonderful, enlightening, and oft-times challenging, but about connecting and reconnecting with the people I write...
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detective-inspector:
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it constantly amazes me how many cis pagans...
and then when trans pagans want inclusion the cis pagans claim we’re trying to limit ~religious freedom~ and stifle free expression and we’re the mean bigoted ones who just won’t ~tolerate~ their bigoted beliefs and if we try to get the community to acknowledge that bigotry is unacceptable then we’re just as bad as the Republicans and—
—wait all this is...
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Dear PantheaCon: Bigotry in the Name of Diversity...
pagannews:
THE NEWS: I recently had the unsettling experience of dealing with someone in the Pagan community who saw fit to defend Z Budapest’s inclusion at PantheaCon in the name of “diversity.” For the uninitiated, Budapest has repeatedly spewed hate-filled speech toward men and transgender individuals. The latest example, in her blog, is the absurd contention that women are “universally...
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yessssss. yeeeeeeeeesssssssssss.
1. I got really witchy in the kitchen and made organic masala chai rum. I’m not going to say what the purpose of the witchbrewing was but I am very pleased with it and I can’t wait to drink it. It’s going to be hibernating in the fridge for a couple weeks before I uncork it again.
2. I got a package in the mail today with the Forest Spirit Ointment I ordered from Stang and...
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Letter to the Editor: Cis [ ] Women only ritual at... →
Thing is, “trans women’s penises are (potentially) triggering!” is a trope that has long been used to exclude trans women from women’s spaces. This is not merely a harmless act — this means that trans women have been (and continue to be) turned away from from homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers as well. There is real violence...
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so you know what gets me about the whole...
is that it’s gonna be like, WOOOOO TIME FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF CIS PEOPLE’S OPINIONS ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE
you know what would be a better idea, cis people? instead of waxing philosophical on the mystery of why trans women would even want to attend a Dianic ritual, WHY DON’T YOU ASK THE TRANS WOMEN WHO WANT TO BE THERE
WOW WHAT A NOVEL IDEA THAT WOULD BE
SHUT THE FUCK UP CIS...
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Should There Be Freedom Of Religion Within... →
So basically this blog post is about how meanie trans women are calling bullshit on a “cis women only” ritual at PantheaCon and apparently wanting to make a public ritual more inclusive is, like, totally religious persecution.
Yeah.
I can’t. I just can’t even.
“Freedom of religion!!!1!” IS THE SAME FUCKING BULLSHIT EXCUSE THAT BIGOTED POLITICIANS USE TO...
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Re: "Gender and Transgender in Paganism" anthology
widdershinsgirl:
I’ve finally managed to concatenate my feelings of betrayal regarding the inclusion of Ruth Barrett’s essay in “Gender and Transgender” as the final essay before the conclusion into thoughts and words. Here they are:
If the book is intended to spark dialogue, the last thing you want is someone dogmatically stating that trans women are men. And that’s exactly what Barrett takes...
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My experiences and thoughts protesting the Sacred... →
thegreenwolf:
I went to the protest at the Sacred Body of a Woman ritual tonight here at PantheaCon, and you can read about my experiences here. First, I want to emphasize that this is only my opinion, not that of any organization I am a part of or write or otherwise work for. This is me, as an individual, speaking. Second, this is raw material—emotionally and otherwise. PantheaCon ends...
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Every time someone says: JUST COMMUNE WITH NATURE
mythotica:
All I can think to say is: I would love to but I can’t afford the medical bills!
Nature is a beautiful, wonderful, exquisite thing that is nearly instantly connected to the gods, and can bring us to the same state. That said, it is deadly. I am not going at the poisonous, the tornadoes and earthquakes, and those beasties with big and chompy teeth. For some of us nature can be deadly...
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freibiergesicht:
velocidarling:
I actually sincerely appreciate the fact that you posted a ton of resources. I’ve read the majority of these arguments before, but I skimmed these again.
I also think it’s a different conversation when I’m talking to a queer person as opposed to someone on the ace spectrum who has decided they are queer BECAUSE right now we’re discussing things in-community.
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