Come Tuesday, a day after Remembrance Day, a multitude of trans and gender-diverse practitioners and pagans will set out on what could possibly be a difficult rite. At nine days long all the work comes together to end on the 20th of November, the Transgender Day of Remembrance, where those both within and outside the magic community often hold candle-lit vigils as they read out all the names of people killed for various transphobic hate related crimes. (content warning: mentions of death and transphobia)
Category: community
The Frustration of Gendering the Witch
Open up an article or book on witchcraft and 9 times out of 10 you’ll see it. In a craft practiced by everyone almost all the third person references about the reader make the assumption that they must be a woman.
The Mishandling of Mental Illness in the Witchcraft Community
A person is told they’re an empath, when really their seeming ‘knowing how people are feeling’ is being on high alert on the changes in people’s emotions as a way of coping due to trauma. They’re stressed for no reason and things go wrong, they have prophetic abilities rather than their anxiety always giving them stress and those were the few times something actually happened.
(content warning: mentions of ableism)
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