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.
Fascism Against Time: Nationalism, Media Blindness, and the Cult of Augustus Sol Invictus
From journalist Shane Burley, an account of an interview with Augustus Sol Invictus with uncomfortable implications for Paganism & Polytheism
We Are the Dreamers of the Day: Capitalism and the Failure of Imagination
We need the courage and creative resources to imagine things can be different, and Paganism can help us imagine new possibilities … and then create them.
A Witch’s Reflections on “Self-Care” Under Capitalism
A short and useful guide for spiritual self-care. from Simcha Bensefis
Bell Unrung
I've discovered a thick bell inside of me
that elegiac poetry rings
a terribly deep booming
knell
The Cutting Edge
'The Cutting Edge' from Accipiter Nisus: "reclaiming our bodies and minds must start with intimately knowing the tools which we use and engage with in our daily lives."
The Revolutionary Dead: Karl Marx (part 2)
From Rhyd Wildermuth, the second piece in his series on revolutionary ancestors.
An Apparently Impossible Problem
"The way past the impossible usually just involves giving up some certainty that is keeping you on a snow-bound bus at the bottom of a hill"
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…
Being good storytellers isn’t enough
From Accipiter Nisus: Why matching your frame to your values matters ...
Revolution At The Witching Hour: The Legacy of Midnight Notes
Sylvia Federici's "Caliban & The Witch" radically transformed our understanding of the witch burnings. Here are other books from her and the Midnight Notes Collective of deep interest to Pagan Anti-Capitalists
Why Do Radicals Need Gods?
From James Lindenschmidt: "The world is bigger than the mechanistic, reductionist viewpoint upon which capitalism depends."
Valdres Roots: Enclosure, Ancestral Displacement, & Domestication
From James Lindenschmidt: "Ancestral connection to place was strong enough to withstand centuries of hardship, famine, plague, warfare, and a thousand harsh Norwegian winters, only to be destroyed by something so insidious that people have to be taught what "enclosure" means."