Lunatic Mondays, a bilingual podcast from the Circle Sanctuary Network Podcasts, hosted an interview with me on Monday, September 28, 2020 at 5pm Pacific time. The one hour conversation most focused on the importance of centering gender diversity in my pagan writing. It is available to listen to anytime.
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It is common to see acceptance and tolerance treated as synonyms, but this creates a false equivalency that distorts the core meanings of both words.
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“Closed” traditions, cultural appropriation, race, ethnicity, who does or does not have the right to engage in certain traditions or practices, and how those issues all play into each other, is an incredibly complex topic. Long as this article is, I feel it only barely begins to scratch the surface, but that surface needs to be scratched.
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Balance is always a moving target, which you might be able to find for a bit, but usually spins away from you again as life circumstances inevitably change.
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When organizing for or presenting at public events, please don’t allow exclusionary events or presenters, ever, no matter the justification. Public spaces are inherently not curated or are minimally curated. That’s what makes them “public”, and thus open to all. When you attempt to curate public spaces by excluding groups, you create an antagonistic situation where there are “worthy” people, and “other” people. These exclusions are going to be based on things such as sex, gender, sexual orientation, skin color, ethnicity, ancestry, religious path, age, etc. You know, things that are ideally legally protected from discrimination in all aspects of public life and welfare.
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A spiritual argument against aggressive moral veganism. Don’t be a food gatekeeper. Be hospitable, inclusive, and accepting. We all have valid reasons for choosing the foods we eat. I will happily make space for any special diet at my feast table, including vegans, unless they are on a high horse about it.
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We all have personal Truths, whether we have no idea yet what they are, we are figuring it out, or we fully understand and embrace them. All of us have more than one. That is one of the appeals of paganism – the foundational belief that we can find our own Truths.
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How do you perceive energies? Do you predominantly filter those perceptions through one physical sense, or multiple senses? How strongly do you perceive information that defies interpretation through physical senses?
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