“These men were scared, although what they were scared of was far from clear. They were defending a statue, although they had done nothing to defend it while it was still possible to save it. The scene on their end was empty theater, the meaningless display of a now impotent power.”

from Alley Valkyrie and Rhyd Wildermuth

Your military doesn’t colonize for me,

The people on the streets fight for me

Sojourner Truth, come lead us please,

Out of the dark canyon of fear.

We are beset by enemies,

We want you for our brigadier.

Raise thy snuffling snout;

Raise, cast about,

Enrage and grunt

O bristled screamer

Fitting Into Gender Categories As A Non-Binary Person (From Nox)

“there are several ways to practice magical activism, and one of the most important is to build, feed and protect the communities we are a part of.”

I am reminded of those who, believe it or not,

with no awe, reverence or kinship feel like trashing it all

preaching on the divine...

It’s easier to think it’s the other, those ‘bad apples’, because we don’t want to come to realization that pretty much every white American is unprepared for what it really means for their Nation to give up being a world power fueled by racial injustice.

I can clearly remember the moment when I realized what I was doing, the moment when I was able to let go, to stop trying to fight Death.

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Civilized societies are not less violent than non-civilized societies–-though they may appear to be the more privileged citizens. One of the defining characteristics of civilization is the depersonalization of violence.

We are rediscovering that we have always been wild, we are remembering the power we have. We are reforming and building bonds with those like us, who no longer wish to be tame, who no longer wish to accept the injustices of this world that favours money over all else. We are ‘agents against history’. We are ’unbinding a supposedly bound totality’. We are becoming iconoclastic.

Though they’re often used synonymously, civilization is not the same thing as culture. Many of the things that are attributed to civilization, such as art and healing, existed before civilization and outside of states. And many of the lauded “improvements” brought by civilization were not really improvements, or else they were improvements which came at a terrible cost.

There will be no final victory, nor defeat. There is only the endless repetitive revolutions of the gyre, which are destined to grow, contract, and begin again in moments of discord and strife.

According to many biologists, there is as much cooperation in nature as there was competition. The story we have been taught about our innate selfishness is only part of the truth. As such, it is capitalist propaganda, and something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

“Rather than running off as the police intended, the protesters stood their ground. When they were forced back by tear gas, they advanced again as soon as it cleared. They reclaimed ground repeatedly, and it took the police more than an hour to drive them back. This was only the beginning...”

A poem by Missy Malverde.

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Wine making is pure magic, the kind akin to cooking. I make several types of wine each year, indeed it is one of the easiest things I make and yet perhaps the one that people think is the hardest, perhaps they too think it’s a kind of magic, one that’s out of their grasp, but I’m here to tell you everyone should try the art of fermentation at least once in their lives.