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This is a miscellaneous collection of writings. Some of them were floating around online years before there was a web. I've collected this stuff here because, well, it's my stuff.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Use notes: Some of these pieces have been printed in small press newsletters and distributed widely on the Net/Web. Take one copy for personal use. If linking to this site or taking a copy for use at your site, please credit this site rather than any other place you might have gotten this material.
A review of Ceremonial and Wiccan approaches to invocation, along with notes on my personal experiences.
Beyond Prostitution: The Sexual Priestess as Priestess
Sacred prostitutes are riding point for a new, sex-positive feminism and a native Western approach to sacred sexuality. I point out that there are also other ways to approach sacred sexuality.
On Pagan Speakers: The State of Pagan Scholarship
Transcript of a presentation given at the Seattle Pagan Scholars Position of Studies Tea in September 1997.
Delivered to the Parliament of the World's Religions on Friday, September 3, 1993 on behalf of Covenant of the Goddess. A theological definition of a pagan ground for discussion.
The Woman's Phallus: Possession and Power in the Worship of Dionysus
Reprinted in Think! The Best in Pagan Thought, Volume 3 Issue 2, Beltaine/Summer 1998, this paper was originally presented at Dionysia 1990 in Washington State. Sex, power, gender politics, invocation of deity--this paper has it all.
Things to consider when organizing a pagan event open to the public.
Some notes on modern Hellenic Pagans and approaches to dance as a form of sacred worship.
Coverage of the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999 and the protests against that meeting. I worked in downtown Seattle at the time, and having once been a newspaper reporter, I grabbed my camera and ran out to cover the event.