inclusive Wicca

  Commemorating Queer Ancestors is very important to the queer community. It’s vital to know our history and the people who fought for LGBTQ+ rights. Light a candle for these and other queer ancestors. Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist known as the Mother of Pride . Close to my heart because she was bisexual and because Pride is important. Marsha P Johnson, instigator of the Stonewall riot and protector of trans youth Mark Ashton, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) . More about Mark Ashton . Barbara May Cameron, Hunkpapa Lakota, LGBT rights activist, founder of Gay American Indians Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson , gay Pagan writer, political scientist, and philosopher, had the idea for the League of Nations which ultimately became the United Nations 🇺🇳 Sylvia Rivera , American LGBT rights activist (1951–2002) Which queer ancestors will you honour during Hallowstide?

Some years ago, I started the festival of Borrowed. It’s on February 28th or 29th, and is a reminder that the Earth is precious and ecosystems are fragile. It seems even more relevant in the face of the climate emergency. The festival of Borrowed highlights the idea that we do not own the Earth or the trees, animals, birds, and waters — we only “borrow” them, and share them with all other life. They are entities in their own right, flows in nature.

New from Microcosm Publishing and author Sage Buch : "In this new guide to physical transition for transmasc folks, author Sage Buch offers the reader guidance and advice on safe ways to feel more like yourself. Written with trans men, nonbinary folks, and other masc genderqueer folks in mind, Buch covers everything from chest binding and packing, to hormone replacement therapy, to the ins and outs of surgery, all in terms accessible to the layperson. Check it out !"   

  Queer Pagan Reading List 2023 New titles this year: Mat Auryn’s  Mastering Magick , books by Jack Chanek,  The Pagan Heart of the West  by Randy P Conner,  The Witches of Thistle Grove  series by Lana Harper, books by T Thorn Coyle,  Chaos Monk  by Steve Dee, two new books by Casey Giovinco,  Traversing Gender  by Lee Harrington,  Sacred Gender  by Ariana Serpentine. Continue reading  →

Recently some transphobic people claimed that they are more traditional than Gardnerians who are welcoming and inclusive.  Several people have written or spoken to refute their transphobic nonsense and their claims to be more traditional, including me, Mortellus, Jack Chanek, Jason Mankey, Ash the Gardnerian Librarian, and Dylan.  I’m going to try to collect all the YouTube videos, Instagram videos and posts, blogposts, and tweets over at Dowsing for Divinity in my blogpost Gardnerians speak! Let me know in the comments if you have a public post that you would like me to add there.

  Inclusive doesn’t mean that we have to include everybody who asks to join; it means that we don’t exclude whole classes of people due to their innate or acquired characteristics (such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or physical characteristics).   Some people may not be suited to Wicca because they are drawn to a different path. Some people might not be suited to coven life because they don’t play well with others, or because they are not kind and considerate of others. Inclusive covens definitely have the right to exclude anyone with bigoted views such as racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, fatphobia etc. As Karl Popper pointed out, the paradox of tolerance is that it cannot tolerate intolerance.  Some people may not be a good fit for your coven because they have a very different approach to the divine / deities than you, or are interested in a different mythology.  I think I can safely say that I coined the phrase inclusive Wicca, and although I w...