[Un]Conscious Colonialism – Why is “Native Spirituality” a Pagan Genre?
Being placed within Paganism for quite a few decades now, the genre of “Native Spirituality” has been a convenience entirely directed by white people.
The Tragedy of Brazil’s National Museum Started Much Before the Fire
If we're gonna talk about the carelessness with which we deal with valuable artifacts, we must also talk about how we attach value to those artifacts, and the undeniable Ethno/euro-centrism involved in that process.
Place of Discourse and Folklore of the African Diaspora
On being white and talking about racism. How to witness and learn from Afro-Brazilian stories of resistance, through lenses free from the objectifying effects of the white gaze.
Dreams in Fire
What is needed now is reconsecration, for there are no longer any paths for us to follow. Let us proudly declare to the mountains and the rivers: we renounce the cult of humanity, we renounce the world of techno-industrial society, and we bind ourselves in reverence and service to the living gods of earth and sky.
It takes a village, not a European, to raise a child
"White people, through systematic oppression, actively create, profit from and maintain a market that institutionalises children throughout Africa." (From Jacqueline Tizora)
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.
The Apocalypse Will Be Brought To You by Car, Not Truck
“Cars are bourgeois and trucks are proletarian.” An analysis of the truck-driver’s strike and diesel crisis in Brazil.
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.
The Leadership and Legacy of Indigenous Women
April was Indigenous Month in Brazil. This article reports on the Leadership of Indigenous Women conference in Salvador, and explores the personal and communal journey of indigenous women through generations.
No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs, Or The Windrush Scandal
“The government shredded landing cards and other documents that would have outright proven these people’s right to stay. These folks, mostly the children of the Windrush generation, are and always have been British citizens, heck, the passport my father came over with even says British Passport on the cover!”
A Tribute to Winnie Mandela
Winnie Mandela passed away April 2nd, 2018. Here is a note, and tribute, by the Pan-Africanist school in Brazil that was named after her.
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)
Note on Violations of Prisoners’ Rights
Fighting “against the genocide of black people, and its derivations, such as the prison enterprise which drives forward the process of African enslavement; outstanding in memory, history and in the bodies of black people in Brazil.”
The Identity Politics Glitch
“When neoliberals ask for “diversity”, or more opportunities for the disenfranchised to franchise themselves, what they want is to hand out “white masks” to people of colour as if it’s charity.”
State Terrorism: A Genocidal Tool of Social Control
An article that explores the culture of fear as a tool for establishing the Power of a capitalist, neocolonial, and genocidal governmental system.
In the Terreiro of Old Black Iaiá, Let’s Saravá
On Paganism of the African Diaspora (From Karina Ramos)
Mourning a Tree and Denouncing a System
From the microcosm of personal grief, to Western civilization's atrocities throughout the ages.
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
White Privilege in Dutch Anarchism
From Mirna Wabi-Sabi, on race, colonialism, and identity.
On the Wings of Birds
The phrase ‘Gods & Radicals’, was something of a koan to me when I first considered submitting material to this journal. I’m wary of the term ‘radical’ which so often slips from its original meaning of ‘seeking change from the root up’ into the values-empty ‘change by whatever means necessary’. On a recent walk, however, I found the two words ‘Gods’ and ‘Radicals’ suddenly coming together very naturally…