Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

What did you read this weekend? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it? (Reminder link to intended weekend reading post)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Pretty much what it says on the tin. Essays by various authors, some trans of one or another description and some cis, on the intersection of gender identity and Pagan practice. Several of the essays were in reaction to a women-only thing at Pantheacon a few years ago that explicitly excluded trans women on the basis of being men. Because apparently that's just how Dianic Wiccans roll. I'm still fuming over the essay from a Dianic Wiccan defending that decision and that trans-exclusionary stance; it felt a lot like finding bits of catfish in my chocolate cake. (Catfish. Yech.)

Memorable for good reasons: the essay about queering up fertility rites. Goddesses who impregnate, gods who conceive, and so forth. I'd go grab the book and quote more extensively from that essay except for obvious reasons it's rather lewd, and I'm not sure who might be reading this comment!

[dhampyresa]

Okay, but what does "Pagan" include? Because it's always struck me that it's always "Minerva spoke to me" and never "Tages sent me a vision" (replace with appropriate mainstream/obscure deities as needed).

I would love to read that essay, if you were willing to quote from it.

Tages is an (the) Etruscan prophet/god of haruspices.

[alexseanchai]

Shrug. Paganism is a BIIIIIG tent. Hard to define.

I don't have the book on me at work and will be offline for at least a few days once I leave work tonight.

[dhampyresa]

I'd appreciate it if you could at least name the main belief systems the book focuses on and type up the essay about queering fertility rites.