Description
Book SynopsisIn a wide variety of pagan paths, many forms of modern magic and mystery hold an expectation that all parties are heterosexual, cisgender, and, in many cases, white. In Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, Lee Harrington and Tai Fenix Kulystin bring together a diverse and passionate collection of authors and artists who break out beyond that belief and explore how being LGBT+ is not just acceptable when exploring magic, but powerful.
Using the diverse tools of queer activism, education, and storytelling, through academic essays and first-person narratives to comics and poster-style art, this intersectional group exposes a world beyond what so many magical practitioners have presumed is "normal." The reality is that magic, whether in Wicca or Vodou, Heathenry or Polytheism, has been fueled by people and systems beyond the binary for millennia. For many within, magic and queerness are not separate, but deeply entwined pieces of identity, worldview, and culture experienced together, always.
Drag queen magic, Inclusive witchcraft, and magic for healing and survival. Gender transition in Rome, possession practices, and DIY divination. Social justice, queer black tantra, and polarity beyond gender. Honoring ancestors, fluidity of consciousness, and reimagining the Great Rite. Queer sex magic, power sigils, deities that reflect diversity... and more.
Whether you identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, agender, genderqueer, or some other queer orientation, or you are curious about tools to access magic beyond what is often discussed, this book is for you. Each piece is a unique and passionate chance to look into your own relationship with magic, break out of the tales of what your practice "should" look like, and expand your awareness into the queer magic as well as your own power beyond boundaries.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Introduction: A Journey Into Queer Magic(s) 1
Lee Harrington and Tai Fenix Kulystin
Hex the Patriarchy 6
InÉs Ixierda
Inclusive Wicca Manifesto 7
Yvonne Aburrow
Wai-Water 15
Adare
QUEERING TANTRA:
A QUEER BLACK WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE 16
Maisha Najuma Aza, MSW
The Glitterheart Path of Connecting with Transcestors 28
Pavini Moray
It’s not the End
Papacon 34
From “The Initiate,” by J. Schwartz
Queer-Fire Witchery:
The Rainbow-Flame that Melts the Soul-Cage
The Emerging Fluidity of Consciousness 35
Orion Foxwood
For Thou Art Goddess: Creating Affirmative Goddess Community 42
Susan Harper, PhD
Bear Woman 53
Malcolm Maune
The Queer Gods of Alchemy 54
Steve Dee
Interview with Clyde Hall, Shoshone Two-Spirit Elder 64
wolfie
Protect All Queers sigil 76
InÉs Ixierda
Walking With Mystery 77
W. L. Bolm
Creation: Step One 85
Adare
Living in Attunement with Sensation Rather than Identity 86
Z Griss
UmsnÚa: Ergi and inversion in Old Norse magical practice 99
Abby Helasdottir
CityHearted 107
Stan Stanley
The Passion of Agdistis:
Gender Transgression, Sexual Trauma, Time Travel, and
Ritualized Madness in Greco-Anatolian Revival Cultus 111
Alder Knight and Rocket
Between Starshine and Clay: DIY Black Queer Divination 125
Almah LaVon Rice
Manx poderosx: queer abundance 130
InÉs Ixierda
Finding the Unnamed Path 131
Michael Greywolf
Anba Dlo/Under The Water 136
Alex Batagi (Bonkira Bon Oungan)
Watch Out Tree 142
InÉs Ixierda
A Drag Queen Possessed And Other Queer Club Magic 143
Aaron Oberon
Castro Madonna 150
Adare
Embodying the Phoenix: The Transformation of Queer Erotic Alchemy 151
Tai Fenix Kulystin
thaMind-Sol Lady’s Revenge 162
M.C. MoHagani Magnetek
Gentle Affirmation 168
Dmitri Arbacauskas
The Magic of the Eight Queer Deities 169
Adrian Moran
Talk Story 173
Adare
Redefining and Repurposing Polarity 174
Ivo DomÍnguez, Jr.
Power Sigils for Our Time 180
Laura Tempest Zakroff
chapter 23: the plague years 181
wolfie
Blood, Body, Birth, and Emptiness
Queer Magic in My Life and Work 192
Yin Q
Power from the Edges:
An exploration of magical to support justice workers 198
Charlie Stang
Candlespell 208
InÉs Ixierda
The Maypole and the Labyrinth: Reimagining the Great Rite 209
Sam ‘Eyrie’ Ward
Sharing a Sacred Meal 216
Thista Minai
Adapted from “Casting a Queer Circle: Non-Binary Witchcraft”
Towards a Healed Femininity In Every Body 220
By Michaela S. Creedon
Release Ritual 232
InÉs Ixierda
Hunting Lions & Slaying Serpents: An Execration Rite 233
Jay Logan
Golden Waves & Priestess Bodies: Establishing a
Queer-Centric Poly-Normative Aphrodite Cultus in Cascadia 239
Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi MSW
Non-Binary Witches 251
EJ Landsman
The Queer Journey of the Wheel 253
Steve Kenson
Edge 264
Adare
Interview with Blackberri, Queer Activist and Lucumi Elder 265
wolfie
I Am God/dess: Possession and Gender Identity 277
Doug Middlemas (Ade Kola)
Fragile Masculinity 2 284
Malcolm Maune
The Unfettered Mind Allows for The Free Flow of Spirit. 285
Cazembe Abena
Queer Elements: Working with Interstitial Energies 293
Lee Harrington
Banishment Sigil 303
Dmitri Arbacauskas
The Endlessly Enfolding Mirror:
An Introduction to the Queer Sex Magic of Traditional Witchcraft 304
Troll Huldren
Altar 313
InÉs Ixierda
Fluid Magic 314
Lucecita Cruz
The Fluidity of Spirit 319
Laura Tempest Zakroff
Biographies 320
