(Disclaimer/CN: This post discusses such things as depictions of rape, theft, murder, kinslaying and incest. None of what of what I write here should be taken as approval of, or apologia in relation to these acts.)“You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call […]
Author archives: VI
VI on the Rendering Unconscious Podcast
Hello folks. I’ve been extraordinarily quiet, but some of the things I’ve been working on will soon be available to the public. Tonight I was interviewed by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair for the RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS Podcast. Join us, herein, where I she lets me talk, ramble, loop and riff about #cripkult, myth, disability writing, and things that are […]
Cold Albion Abides
Imagine something stirring, shifting as it raises a hoary head. It huffs awake, breath simultaneously freezing and burning, and with rolling eyes and crack of jaw being opened we may see a tongue feverishly slither over dolmen-teeth. We may feel something stir in the fields, under the skin of valleys; rivers may flex in their […]
Published in Dark Mountain Journal Issue 12: SANCTUM
Gentlefolk: It is with great honour on this strange day that I announce the birthing of SANCTUM. Mine is the sixth(!) of twelve officially commissioned pieces, but there are 13 voices. In the words of the editors: “As you follow us into these pages, the path will take you along the wild edges of belief, […]
Mama’s Big Table Animist Dinner Party Is A Carnival
At a dinner party, there are many dishes and many guests. Conversation flows, along with the drinks, and relationships are formed and re-fomed. This is the metaphor you need to keep in mind for this post, the central axis about the whole thing turns. It’s being front-loaded like this, precisely because it’s something I want […]
Mother’s Words
This blog isn’t dead, y’know? Neither am I – just missing half a foot, expertly removed by a team of surgeons led by a South Asian-extracted flesh-wizard whose last name means doing/getting. The health problems that have plagued me, apparently solved by skill with the knife. The name seems a little on the nose, if you […]
Gnostic Infidels?
The Greek word pistis is not at all what we understand by believing; it means the loyalty to the fact of the experience. – Carl Jung Pistis is also translated as faith, which is in the sense of being faithful. Having faith in a deity is being faithful to the fact of their existence, which is […]
Cast Down and Raised Up
This is probably going to get me a lot of trouble, and probably get me lumped in with the so-called “Piety Posse”of polytheists and magical types who I often violently disagree with, but I need to say this: There’s a tendency I’ve noticed within the neopagan, magical, and polytheist communities on tumblr and the occult […]
Cripple Magic: Adapting Ritual Magic For The Physically Disabled
This came to my attention earlier, on this scorching hot day in Albion. So as my first faltering steps towards Occult Uncle (Agony) , here’s my slightly sweaty response to a rather important question that’s close to my heart: So I’m curious, how does a person with physical disabilities perform movement intensive rituals like the […]
Honoured Dead
One flower for each person who died within 6 weeks of ATOS finding them fit to work. Photo by #WheelchairAccessible pic.twitter.com/oHQV9Ou4Hn — Tamsin Rosewell folk (@autumnrosewell) July 12, 2016 May they rest, May they rage, May they strengthen The arms of the living Against injustice, May they harden resolve As their memory remains May they […]