Oh for God’s sake! ‘Jacksonville First Baptist Church is requiring members to sign an anti-LGBTQ pledge, vowing adherence to “biblical sexuality… The pledge compels members to renounce LGBTQ sexual- and gender- expression in favor or “God’s standard for human sexuality,” which the Florida church insists means there are only two…

So, the Idiot’s ‘Thanksgiving dinner’ with the malicious, porn-addicted, misogynistic, antisemitic, abusive, demented fool, Kanye West, and the Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Holocaust denier (who advocates for Black citizens having to go back to the conditions extant in the Jim Crow South, including drinking out of segregated water fountains and being…

Recently, Lawrence O’Donnell claimed that the antisemitic trope postulating that Jews are responsible for everything that’s wrong with and in the world is “the oldest conspiracy theory of Western civilization.” (https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-trump-s-lies-prey-on-his-supporters-vulnerability-to-misinformation-152238661906) Lawrence is actually wrong. That distinction belongs to the claim that Woman is to blame for everything that’s wrong.

A Witch is someone who identifies with and reclaims the ancient Anglo Saxon name for a northern European shamanist healer and magician, from the Anglo Saxon root word for shapeshifter and generally magical wise person. ‘Wicce’ denoted a female practitioner and ‘wicca’ a male practitioner, pronounced ‘witch-eh’ and ‘witch-ah’ respectively…

When I came here for the second time in 1986, this time to stay, I knew that the magically creative forces afoot in Victoria could manifest great things. Vital life force pulsed through the elements — land, sea, and sky — like a hidden fire and light. The beauty of…

My paper, ‘Women and Death, Monsters and Menstruation in Hans Baldung Grien,’ is gaining a lot of readership on Academia.edu, with subscribers from all over the world–Prague, Hong Kong, Istanbul, and other locations: https://www.academia.edu/27740383/Women_and_Death_Monsters_and_Menstruation_in_Hans_Baldung_Grien It includes a portrayal of the earliest ‘devil’s handmaiden’ and original model for The Whore of…

The slavish devotion of the Secret Service command to one man, Donald Trump, over the office, the Constitution, the nation and their oaths; the eruption of unashamed anti-Semitism from GOP-touted Republican icons like Trump, ‘Ye,’ and Musk; Christian violence against women’s reproductive health care centres, Women’s Human Rights and bodily…

I wrote about Michael Flynn early into Trump’s juggernaut, when he was still hovering around the pinnacles of power, and everyone was wondering what the hell was wrong with Flynn besides battle fatigue and a violent case of Islamophobia. On balance, I think that Trump’s transition team, directed at every…

Sparked by the death of 22-year old Mahsa Amini, who was taken into custody by The Islamic State of Iran’s so-called ‘Morality Police,’ women across Iran have been spearheading rising protests. Women are burning their hijabs, cutting their hair, and making flags out of them in the fifth successive day…