The Prison and The Key: Pagan Perspectives on Suicide (Part 1)

The 1st part of a 2 part series on the extremely painful subject of suicide. We hope this can help everyone who has had to deal with it one way or another. This section includes an Intro and The Value of Autonomy.

Long-Form Essay, Paganism, Article, PolytheismAnthony RellaMarch 5, 2019suicide, christianity, mental health, paganism, spirituality Comments

Alchemizing the Lead of Masculinity

2018 was a fascinating year. Its subtitle seemed to be: “Men are trash.”

Cultural Commentary, Feminism, Long-Form EssayAnthony RellaJanuary 4, 2019#MeToo Comments

Cancer, Technology and an Ineffable Visceral Space

Everyone was a cancer patient and everyone was--like all those people who go to cancer hospitals, have the best care in the entire fucking world and don’t make it--going to die. This was an all-consuming thought. And really, what was the point of it all? Why had I bothered to go through all that, if it was just going to be a less intense version of that for the rest of my time alive?

Cultural Commentary, Liberation, Long-Form Essay, UncategorizedGods&RadicalsOctober 11, 2018cancer, life, death, primitivism Comment

The Factory Floor & The Witches Stake

To accept Empire is to deny the dead, the tortured witches of our past and the tortured rebels dying in Empire’s prisons. To not fight Empire is to defy our own bodies, defile the land and destroy the bodies of others. To accept Empire is to become Empire.

Colonialism, Feminism, Long-Form EssayRhyd WildermuthJune 2, 2018Witchcraft, Anarchism, History, Silvia Federici, Witches in a Crumbling EmpireComment

Binding the Wolf

Practical steps that universal/independent Kindreds and Heathens can take to: Combat the overall appearance of collusion with the Odinist racist ideology by no longer keeping a shameful silence.

Colonialism, Cultural Commentary, Decolonization, Fascism, Gods, Long-Form Essay, Mythology, Pagan Anarchism, Paganism, Politics, Polytheism, UncategorizedGods&RadicalsMay 19, 2018Heathens, Odinist, religion, White Supremacy Comments

A Standing Rock Story Part 2

"We [White people] have no sense of shared identity with our neighbors, and no sense of shared purpose. We have no notion that our wellbeing is tied up with that of the people we live next to or share a building with. It is the ultimate in alienation. So much else flows from that." (From Eli Sterling)

Colonialism, Commoning, Community, Decolonization, Environmentalism, Long-Form Essay, Protests, UncategorizedLisha SterlingApril 16, 2018community, Oceti Sakowin, Prayer, religious experience, Standing Rock, Standing Rock Sioux, Water Protectors Comments

A Standing Rock Story Part 1

From Eli Sterling

Community, Decolonization, Environmentalism, Long-Form Essay, Protests, Report, Struggle, Uncategorized, WarriorsLisha SterlingApril 2, 2018Native Peoples, personal stories, Standing Rock, Standing Rock Sioux Comments

A New Luddite Rebellion

From Rhyd Wildermuth

Is It Any Wonder?

From Tahni J. Nikitins

A Beautiful Resistance, Heathenism, Heathenry, Long-Form Essay, PaganismGods&RadicalsFebruary 9, 2018A Beautiful Resistance The Crossing, Angrboda, Fenrir, Gerdr, Gods, Hela, Jörmungandr, Loki, Sigyn, Tahni Nikitins Comments

Do Trees Have Rights? Toward an Ecological Politics

John Halstead proposes an alternative holistic theory of rights, one in which we can ground the rights of nature.

Animism, Community, Environmentalism, Long-Form Essay, Philosophy, PoliticsJohn HalsteadJanuary 30, 2018Law, Locke, natural rights Comments

In the Terreiro of Old Black Iaiá, Let’s Saravá

On Paganism of the African Diaspora (From Karina Ramos)

Ancestors, Colonialism, Long-Form Essay, PolytheismGods&RadicalsJanuary 29, 2018português, African DiasporaComment

Fascism Today (an excerpt)

The following is excerpted from Shane Burley's new book: Fascism Today: What It Is And How To End It, published by AK Press. A review by Christopher Scott Thompson will appear 15 December here at Gods&Radicals.

Book, Fascism, Long-Form EssayShane BurleyDecember 8, 2017Asatru, book excerpt, Fascism Today, nationalism, Odinism, racism, Shane Burley, Stephen McNallen Comment

The Red Champion

What has been won by our liberation from these outdated delusions? What has been gained? Are we free? Are we at peace? Even by the standards of modernity, twisted and obscene, we are undoubtably the poorer. Without the gods, now there is only ourselves to fear.

Animism, Environmentalism, Feminism, Long-Form Essay, Magic, Polytheism, Radicalism, Theoryramon elaniNovember 13, 2017Carl Jung, Ceridwen, morrigan, Robert Graves Comment

The Wyrd of the Weorld is to be Mere-Deap: The Return to Mythic Time

There is a feeling of strangeness that has come over the world. We have a sense, scarcely articulated, that something is coming. And that the world we have become familiar over hundreds of years of capitalism and industrialism, has suddenly become surreal and bizarre. We suddenly become aware of the shadow that walks alongside us.

Ancestors, Animism, Capitalism, Climate Change, Cultural Commentary, Environmentalism, History, Long-Form Essayramon elaniOctober 26, 2017Climate change, Floods, Mythic Time, Ramon Elani, Wyrd Comments

The Problems of Liberal Anti-Fascism

If we want a fascist-free world, we need to break from what we have and build a better one. From O. Berkman

Anarchism, Capitalism, Colonialism, Long-Form Essay, The New Right, TheoryGods&RadicalsSeptember 22, 2017Anti-fascism, Arendt, Chris Hedges, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Fascism, liberalism, O Berkman Comments

The Scream Over Annwfn

From Lorna Smithers: an essay on 'the mysterious ritual frenzy' of the scream over Annwfn and its modern manifestations.

History, Industrialisation, Long-Form Essay, Ritual, TheorylornasmithersSeptember 18, 2017Annwfn, Brythonic Mythology, Gwyn ap Nudd, Lludd, The Dispossessed, The Scream Over Annwfn, The Spirits of Annwfn, Welsh Laws Comments

Propaganda in the Age of Fascism

Political and aesthetic theory, from Alley Valkyrie

History, Long-Form Essay, Theory, UncategorizedAlley ValkyrieJune 1, 2017Aesthetics, Cards Against Humanity, Fascism, Guy Debord, propaganda, Situationist, Situationist International, Walter Benjamin Comments

Rebellion and the Gods

"The only appropriate answer to a test of faith is to fail."

Gods, History, Literature, Long-Form Essay, Paganism, Philosophy, Politics, Polytheism, Struggle, Uncategorizedkadmus - hMarch 30, 2017Abraham, Alyosha, Dostoevsky, Elie Wiesel, Euthyphro, Ivan, Plato, Rebellion Comments

Rainbow Heathenry: Is a Left-Wing, Multicultural Asatru Possible?

For pagans drawn to the Aesir and Vanir, the avenues are available for building a Heathen foundation that is friendly to a multi-ethnic and progressive community.