#Witchcraft Gender & Marxism

[author-in-denial]

i watched a philosophy tube video about witchcraft, gender and marxism. and it put into words something that i knew already. capitalism can not exist in a magical realm because there is nothing to exploit. magic is by definition the creation of something from nothing. in my magical world, at the time of [D2], there is turmoil. there is a growing movement to capitalise the world, to industrialise. this is at odds with the small local communities who want to live at peace with the world, and i think it raises an interesting question. the ethics of scale and the idea that humans were not designed to live such a widely connected life. people live in large scale communities, but never alone. it's more... a whole village combined into one building. and the social system has shifted to accommodate this change of state.

i feel this utopian ideal of a tight knit community designed to help each other out is at odds with the systemic flaws needed to cause and effect my way into a tight story. maybe the situation can be.. government is insisting the ways of old are correct, and the people refusing to accept.

though with magic being able to fix most social issues, i think people would be more aware of political issues.

omfg i completely forgot about contract magic. exploitative capitalism is back on the table bois. now the bougousie has an extremely literal way to control you, through magic that binds you to remove bodily autonomy in the name of "protecting yourself" all so that you can consume product.

this then evolves into a greater control of people and bodily autonomy in E set through the use of [redacted]

[theda-rison]

Thursday Night Link Roundup - October 29th Halloween Edition!

I was about to start this and then realized: Halloween is Saturday! 

And when I say “realized,” I mean “remember, forgot, and then remembered again.” 

So instead of making a list of things I’ve watched this week, here’s a list of Halloween or Halloween adjacent things :)

So this is one of my favorite Philosophy Tube videos: Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism. I love the costumes, the atmosphere, and the crackling fire, and the “if you take this line of thought too far you can end up in a bad place” jokes in the form of random conservative types calling him. I love his facial expressions then like, “That way is the primrose path of dalliance... also, griftery.”

It made me buy one of the books he mentioned to learn more, and of course I had to go look up a bunch of papers to read them, lol. I’m sure my professors thought I was bloating my papers with Too Many Citations, but I’m really just a fan of researching.

I found this by watching a video about Peter Kropotkin’s book Mutual Aid (which I think I’ve posted before).

[EDIT: I took the section about “witches and beer” out because I found out later that it was wrong. The Halloween TNLR from 2021 has a video explaining the actual history of the witch hat.]

It’s sort of wild just how much of capitalism had to be violently forced on people, to the point of - after realizing that beer making could be profitable - priests making sermons about how women shouldn’t be in commerce. It’s just fucking wild. Like: when your economic philosophy is so far removed from what makes people happy and what lets them enjoy life that you need to use your religion to brainwash them into thinking otherwise? Wild.

I still haven’t watched the second season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I’m not even sure how, like, it’s there, I can watch it, I think I’ve just been way too busy. Which I know is probably partly an excuse, but when you have no time, you really want to expend what you do have on stuff that needs to get done, you know?

Anyway, I do have time to watch Nightmare Masterclass’ Sabrina and the Economics of Necromancy… because it’s not an entire season of a show, lol.

I had not really put together the “liberal progressives” vs “regressive conservatives” aspect of the show together. Like, I probably got some of it (it’s been a while since I watched the first season and I have no memory, I don’t remember), but I don’t think I had put it together in so many words as NM.

I need to watch it again. I miss my girl Prudence.

Aspirations.

We all have them. 

Here’s mine:

Though I will admit, I love the campy nature of the 60s show way more than the 90s movies. I love the 60s brand of vaudevillian weirdness that just doesn’t find them weird, and I find the 90s versions maybe a smidge too malicious. Though, I will walk into anyone’s house and question their choice of pastels - or, lately, grey - grey is not a color, it is a shade. Even the original Addams set was awash in hues:

Now you might be thinking, “Isn’t it just colored that way because each of those colors reads as a different grey in black and white TV?” And you wouldn’t be wrong, that’s definitely a reason. Or you might think, “What? That’s garish!” And - if you were one of those people who’s currently remodeling their kitchen/living room/bathroom, in shades of grey I would tell you that, while your logic is sound to you, it is not correct. Also, if you’ve ever had the pleasure of being in a Victorian Era home (I grew up in one and I’ve been on tours of quite a few in addition to Victorian Home magazines being the only magazines my mother subscribed to), that decor isn’t garish by any means. It’s actually quite normal; I’ve been in houses that looked like that. The Victorians were wild about color.

Also, I just adore John Astin as Gomez. What a Mensch. I need to find the Halloween Anniversary TV movie. I used to watch it constantly as a kid.

Anyway, for the last of the videos that will embed, here’s some idiots:

They’re so dumb and also drunk. Watching it made me feel like I’m drunk, and also, a little spooked because I’m sitting here drinking a matcha latte as I type this.

On crashing weddings: 

“We can find one.” 

“That would be a little hard.”

“Now, currently, in this climate: yes.”

“Also you’re ten thousand feet tall.”

[Wheeze] “I’m not ten thousand feet.”

“They won’t be like, ‘Look at those two guys mingling in the crowd,’ they’ll be like ‘Hey, who’s that fucking squatch.”

“We’ll just find a-- a tall wedding.” [Wheeze] “Then they’ll be like, ‘Who is that little boy over there?’ 

“We just can’t win!”

“We can’t win!”

I love that they roast each other, lol.

Songs of the Week:

Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) (Extended Mix) (Spooktober Theme Song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mrGdGMNsv0

That’s it. That’s the post.

LACUNA COIL - Swamped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOuxOUYycoU

What does this song have to do with Halloween? You can hear it in a certain vampire-related RPG. Hello to my Malkavian brothers and sisters.

Night On Bald Mountain - Fantasia (1941)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCuL-K39eQ

Mussorgsky had absolutely no right going this hard… but it’s a good thing he did. I sort of love Russian composers because they’re big believers in just… whatever this large, bombastic style is called. “It’s less ‘oui oui,’ and more ‘dasvidaniya.’”

I also was in love with the way the ghosts floated out of their graves as a kid, they’re so wispy and like smoke and didn’t look like animations, but magic to a five year old in the 90s. But the things flying at the viewer in the last third used to scare the hell out of me.

[tetsufierro]

Hexerei, Geschlechter & Marxismus | Philosophy Tube

[abbys-only-softstan]

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes...”

Witchy Olly edits for Halloweve !! 

Bonus:

[stubbornjerk]

on magic and sin

EDIT (16 Sept 2019): Now on Ao3 with a few tweaks!

The philosophy of magic isn’t to answer questions but to solve problems.

This is the point of Heaven. Contrary to popular belief, no bureaucracy exists in Heaven. It just becomes the lens we humans see the order through, what we think order looks like, all the corporate-looking things: the suits, the windows overlooking humanity, the hierarchy of the Hosts etc. Because Heaven's philosophy really is not to question. It’s to just be, to just do.

So Aziraphale doesn’t really have paperwork, because paperwork is Hellish and humane. That’s not to say it’s beneath them, but angels aren’t terribly fond of human things, and human concepts are just so primitive. Heaven has order because they believe order to be what Heaven should be about and therefore, they have it.

It’s not terribly efficient, of course, because one lie could cripple the system. But since a whole Host of angels believe in order, no one, not even the fledgling angels, think to disobey or lie.

Except for Aziraphale.

Earth is a grey area. There are limits to Heaven (and Hell and magic) out there. One needs a funnel to carry that magic into a plane of existence without killing people with how Eldritch it is with incomprehensible power (a corporation, in this case). Aziraphale, one of the first four angels assigned on Earth, changed.

This, of course, is bad in Heaven’s eyes.

For example:

The first sin was committed by an angel. Lucifer did not lie. They bore in their heart, or the celestial equivalent of it, the fruit of contempt for humans despite being a being of Love. They gave out the seeds of doubt like free samples in a market. The first meteor shower, as it was seen on Earth, looked beautiful but smelled of brimstone that did not waft into the gates of Eden.

The second sin was committed by a human. Eve did lie, but only later on. She was tempted with the taste of forbidden fruit and gave out the Knowledge it served her as a death sentence to her and Adam, not out of contempt, but out of concern for him. A doubt expressed once lead to mortality and suffering, a hand guiding the sword of skin-of-the-teeth-survival with a tight grip of desperation.

The third sin was committed by a part time bookshop owner/angel. Aziraphale lied, over and over and over until the words of it became him. ‘Where is the flaming sword I had given you,’ asked God, but the question came more as a dare, a temptation. And Aziraphale—held with the conviction that he'd done the right thing and bearing contempt in his heart at the cruelty subjected on humanity for the sin of Knowledge—bit into the fruit of this temptation with the gusto of Heaven's only food enthusiast, licking every last drop with the self-satisfaction of the right.

Magic exists in Heaven to solve problems, favours, to keep questions at bay, to clear away lines of hierarchy and power. Archangels are not more, seraphim are not more, principalities are not more. Hierarchy is Hellish and humane. Heaven is neither and nothing. Aziraphale, who has seen power reveal wrong, knows that this is bullshit.

And so, the principality Aziraphale stayed on Earth for millennia after Eden. The reports are prayers, the deeds of the day whispered through gritted teeth. He falls, not from grace, but hard and fast for the messiness of the humanity he sacrificed for. He courts a demon who loves just as, if not more fiercely and steadfastly than he.

He stops the apocalypse because he believes it should be stopped and goes humbly back to his bookshop, magic singing ineffability into the order Crowley demands from it.

[gwydionmisha]

Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism

[theabigailthorn]

TOMORROW AT 18.30 Brit-time - Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmk47kh7fiE

[stuckwith-harry]

“i watched a video essay on it!” might as well be my catchphrase at this point so i hope you all saw this coming. part 1!

capitalism, poverty, and ratatouille

a queer look at the great gatsby

jennifer’s body & the horror of bad marketing

framing megan fox

witchcraft, gender & marxism (note: uploaded before coming out as a trans woman. her name is abigail now!)

explaining what went weird with ron weasley

chances to change - a happy death day video essay

facades and the fourth wall - a fleabag video essay

good vibrations: the beach boys’ pop masterpiece

the liberal escapism of bridgerton

deep cuts: society and queer horror

tracing the roots of pop culture transphobia

songs that use 5/4 time (or, what “from eden” by hozier and the mission impossible theme have in common)

the chord that makes christmas music sound so christmassy

[upthewitchypunx]

PBW Witch Shop & Zine Distro

The PBW Witch Shop is a curated selection of witchcraft and magic related zines, books, pin-back buttons, tarot cards and more.

We focus on traditional and folkloric witchcraft, animism, chaos magic, secular witchcraft, magical herbs and plants, queer witchcraft, tarot & Divination, witchcraft & magic in politics, history, culture, and social & racial justice,  and aspects of non-Wiccan forms of witchcraft, magic, and paganism.

Pre-Covid the Portland Button Works primarily made custom pinback button. Selling zines and books was secondary and more of a hobby for me to share things I’d like to read. Right now our business is pivoting to focus on books and zines that people can read in the comfort and safety of their own homes. Some items are from well known witchcraft and occult publisher and some are titles from small publishers with interesting items I don’t see in other shops but I’m excited to elevate.

Not everyone has income to buy books right now, we totally understand that, but I would love it if you were able to reblog this post or share Portland Button Works and PBW Witch Shop with your friends.

If you have been looking for a book about something specific, or if you think something would be a good fit for our catalog, get in touch. We can order almost any book in print, even if it isn’t witchcraft or magic related.

With that being said, here are some categories of items we carry:

Some good books to get you started studying witchcraft:

Grovedaughter Witchery by Bree NicGarran

Making Magic by Briana Saussy

Magical Power for Beginners- How to Raise & Send Energy for Spells That Work by Deborah Lipp

Weave The Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Some creative books to help build your witch craft practice:

Spellcrafting- Strengthen the Power of your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

D.I.Y. Magic -a Strange & Whimsical Guide to Creativity by Anthony Alvarado

Psychic Witch- a Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick, & Manifestation by Mat Auryn

Urban Magick by Diana Rajchel

Standing and Not Falling - a Sorcerous Primer in Thirteen Moons by Lee Morgan

Tarot Books

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Tarot for Troubled Times by Shaheen Miro & Theresa Reed

Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea

Tarot Decks

Next World Tarot (regular and pocket sized)

Science Tarot

Rider-Waite-Coleman Smith Regular sized and Mini sized

Crow Tarot

Modern Witch Tarot

Cat Tarot

Check out the tarot and divination books in our catalog and also check out tarot and divination decks in our catalog here.

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman

Chaos Protocols by Gordon White

Hands on Chaos Magic by Andrieh Vitimus 

Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter Carroll

Other books in the Chaos Magic section

Anthologies: Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels, Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community, Shades of Ritual: Minority Voices in Practice

Magical Resistance: Witchcraft Activism by David Salisbury, Magic for the Resistance by Michael Hughes, Revolutionary Witchcraft by Sarah Lyons

Witches and Feminist Perspectives: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, Witches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English , Witches Sluts Feminists by Kristen J. Sollee

Pagan Anti-Capitalism: Pagan Anarchism True to the Earth: Pagain Political Thology by Kadmus, All That is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Ryhd Wildermuth, A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer

Queer Witchcraft: Witchcraft and the Gay Counter Culture, Sapphomanteion a Lesbian Oracle, Queering the Tarot

Check out the Witchcraft Culture and History and Witchcraft Politics and Resistance sections of our website.

Green Witchcraft: The Green Witch by Arin Murray-Hiscock, Green Witchcraft by Paige Vanderbeck

Plants and Herbs: Under the Witching Tree by Corinne Boyer, Under the Bramble Arch by Corinne Boyer

The Poison Path: Veneficuim: Magic, Witchcraft and the Poison Path by Daniel Schulke, Pharmo/Gnonsis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path by Dale Pendell , Plants of the Devil by Corinne Boyer

Witchy Crafts: Pestlework: a Book of Magical Powders and Oils by Bree NicGarran, Sew Witchy by Rachel Henderson, Sigil Witchery by Lara Tempest Zakroff

Other books in our Plants, Herbs, and Magical Crafts section

Books on Atheopaganism

Godless Paganism (anthology)

Atheopaganism by Mark Green

Other Pagan Perspectives

Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality by Lasara Firefix Allen

The Wakeful World: Anismism, Mind, and the Self in Nature by Emma Restall Orr

Circling the Star by Anthony Rella

All That Is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Rhyd Wildermuth

All Other Pagan books

Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways by Gemma Gary

A Deed Without A Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft by Lee Morgan

Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft by Keldon

Backwoods Witchcraft by Jake Richards

Besom Stand and Sword A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft the Six-Fold Path the Hidden Landscape by Christopher Orapello & Tara Love Maguire

Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South by Aaron Oberon

Folk Witchcraft by

The Flame in the Cauldron by Orion Foxwood

Craft of the Untamed by Roger Horne

Check out the rest of the books in our Traditional & Folkloric Witchcraft Section

What are zines? Small independently made magazine and pamphlets filled with stories and unique ideas that you won’t find from major publishers!

Some topics you will find in zines we carry are Secular Witchcraft, the fantastic Fiddler’s Green Pamphlets and lots of zine on the places where Politics, Paganism, and Witchcraft intersect.

Check out all of our witchy zines here.

Other Stuff

witchy buttons

 magnets and hand mirrors

We carry more than just witchy books.

Here are some of the other titles we carry:

You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas

When Language Runs Dry: An Anthology for People with Chronic Pain and their Allies

What is Gender Nihilism?

Be Gay Do Crime by The Mary Nardini Gang

Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher

You Black Friend by Ben Passmore

Learning Good Consent an Anthology edited by Cindy Crabb

How To Talk To Your Cat about Gun Safety and Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism and Other Dangers that Threaten Their Nine Lives

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Honoring your Ancestors by Mallorie Vaudoise

Do-it-Your Self Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfucking Sad by Adam Gnade

Yes, I’m Flagging: Queer Flagging 101 by Archie Bongiovanni

Full online catalog of books, zines, buttons and more can be found at PortlandButtonWorks.com and the PBW Witch Shop can be found here.

All items are shipped from Portland, Oregon in plain packaging or United States Postal Service Flat Rate envelopes or boxes with the return address as Portland Button Works. We ship daily and most order come with small fun gifts of buttons or magnets.

Thank you so much for supporting your local witch!

[everymlmhybrid]

I can't stop thinking about the quote "Harry Potter is a bourgeois fantasy" because like.... Yeah. Damn right.

[henrykathman]

The Owl House and the History of Witchcraft

In the spirit of the season, this video will be discussing Disney's new series The Owl House and its relationship to the history of witchcraft and magic? How do the characters of this modern cartoon comment upon the subjugation marginalized people have suffered under the suspicion of witchcraft? 

Music masterfully composed by Molly Noise (check out her Bandcamp)

Special voice appearances by DrawpinionDump and Laura Crone 

My Twitter, The Pink Aisle Podcast, My Patreon 

Bibliography Below

“American Family Association.” Southern Poverty Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center, 2005, www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-family-association.

Barnett, Errol. “Witchcraft in Tanzania: the Good, Bad and the Persecution.” CNN, Cable News Network, 27 Oct. 2020, www.cnn.com/2012/10/05/world/africa/tanzania-witchcraft/index.html.

Bever, Edward. “Witchcraft Prosecutions and the Decline of Magic.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 40, no. 2, 2009, pp. 263–293. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40263656. Accessed 23 Aug. 2020.

Blair, Judit M. De-Demonising the Old Testament: An Investigation of Azazel, Lilith, Deber, Qeteb and Reshef in the Hebrew Bible. Vol. 37. Mohr Siebeck, 2009.

“Branded 'Witch', Nepal Woman Force-Fed Human Excreta: Police.” Hindustan Times, 19 Aug. 2019, www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/branded-witch-nepal-woman-force-fed-human-excreta-police/story-N0US7FHSNSKv3RxymAWRiM.html.

De Carteret, D. “Modern Witch Hunts Terrorize New Guinea Highlands.” AFP News Agency, YouTube, 3 Jan. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwcBmpHsUU.

Ellis, Lindsay. Loose Canon: “The Wicked Witch of the West” Lindsay Ellis. Youtube,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZB4WgjJmA March 16, 2015

Epure, Ioana. “The Women of Ghana's Witch Camps.” VICE, Vice Media, 1 Feb. 2016, www.vice.com/en/article/3dxg4v/the-women-of-ghanas-witch-camps.

Federici, Silvia. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women. PM Press, 2018. ISBN-10 : 1629635685

Jacobs, Ryan. “Saudi Arabia's War on Witchcraft.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 27 July 2015, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/saudi-arabias-war-on-witchcraft/278701/.

James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Daemonologie : In Forme of a Dialogue : Divided into Three Bookes. Edinburgh :Printed by Robert Walde-grave, Printer to the Kings Majestie, 1597. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25929/25929-pdf.pdf  June 29, 2008

Little, Becky. “Native Americans to J.K. Rowling: We're Not Magical.” National Geographic, 11 Mar. 2016, www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/160311-history-of-magic-in-north-america-jk-rowling-native-american-stereotypes/.

Neubauer, Ian Lloyd. “Why Is Papua New Guinea Still Hunting Witches?” The Diplomat, James Pach, 18 Jan. 2018, thediplomat.com/2018/01/why-is-papua-new-guinea-still-hunting-witches/.

Speaks, Angie “The Politics of Witchcraft and the Archetype of the Witch” Angie Speaks. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aaxbFIw8oU Oct 30, 2018

Suuk, Maxwell, and Isaac Kaledzi. “Witch Hunts: A Global Problem in the 21st Century: DW: 10.08.2020.” Deutsche Welle, 2020, www.dw.com/en/witch-hunts-a-global-problem-in-the-21st-century/a-54495289.

“Tanzania 'Witch Killings' Claimed 479 Lives from January - June 2017: Report.” Africanews, Reuters, 1 Aug. 2017, www.africanews.com/2017/08/01/tanzania-witch-killings-claimed-479-lives-from-january-june-2017-report/.

Thorn, Oliver “Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism” Philosophy Tube.  YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmk47kh7fiE, Oct 26, 2018

Yasmin, Seema. “Witch Hunts Today: Abuse of Women, Superstition and Murder Collide in India.” Scientific American, Springer Nature, 11 Jan. 2018, www.scientificamerican.com/article/witch-hunts-today-abuse-of-women-superstition-and-murder-collide-in-india/.

[kopicha]

Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism | Philosophy Tube

[whatthetranspod]

Episode 32 notes & references

1. Lisa Power talk

Lisa Power is great, here she is talking about founding Stonewall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmPo4LGJAQE

2. Lisa Power and Duncan Campbell info

Follow them. They are great.

https://twitter.com/alisapower

https://twitter.com/dcampbell_iptv

3. Dawn butler calls out the government at the Pink News awards

NEVER STOP SWEARING DAWN!

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/17/dawn-butler-gender-recognition-act-delay-pinknews-awards-labour-mp-community-group/

4. Boris Johnson/Downing Street statement

What we asked:

The Mail on Sunday reported on the 5th of October that a senior government source told them that Lizz Truss was handed the women & equalities brief by Dominic Cummings in an attempt to "strangle" the issue of GRA reform. Is this true?

At the Pink News awards last week, former women & equalities minister Penny Mordaunt said that she believes the British people are "good" and she knows that because (in her words): "Unlike you, I have seen the results of the consultation." She also went in to seemingly call for the release of the consultation results. Has the Prime Minister seen the results? Is he involved in the decision in reguards to when the results will be released?

What are the Prime Ministers current views on Gender Recognition Act reform?

Statement they sent to us:

A Downing Street spokesperson said:

"The PM has a long and strong record on LGBT rights, and he is a proud champion of equality. He has been repeatedly clear that we must do more to ensure that trans rights are protected.

"That’s why we have consulted on potential reforms to the Gender Recognition Act. It is vital that any next steps are carefully considered and have the right backing in order to have a positive impact on the trans community in the UK.

“The Government received more than 100,000 responses to the consultation and met with 140 organisations to ensure concerns were heard from all sides of the debate. We’ll set out next steps in due course.”

5. Liz Truss/Government eqaulity office statement

Questions we asked:

The Mail on Sunday reported that a "senior government source" told them that Lizz Truss got the women & eqaulities brief from Dominic Cummings because the minister is against "children being helped to seek transition" thinks giving her the brief will "strangle" the issue. Is this true?

What are the minister's views on GRA reform?

What are the minister's views on transgender children?

Last week Penny Mordaunt heavily implied that the results of the GRA consultation were "good" and called on the government to release the results of the consultation. Can we get a comment from the minister on this? Is it true that the results are in favour of GRA reform?

Can we have a copy of the consultation results? If not, why not?

It has been just over a year since the consultation came to a close, why haven't the results been released yet? Is Downing Street ordering the GEO to hold back on releasing the results?

Statement they sent to us:

It is vital that the next steps on any potential reform of the Gender Recognition Act are carefully planned, and have the right backing so they can have a positive impact on the adult trans community in the UK.

We had more than 100,000 responses to our consultation and have met with 140 organisations to ensure that we have taken into account views and concerns from all sides of the debate. We will announce more detail on our proposed next steps in due course.

At the Pink New Awards, Minister for Equalities, Baroness Williams, said:

"I remain committed to the reform of the GRA...I want as minister [of state] for equalities to live in a world where people at work and at home can be who they are."

In July, as part of the LGBT Action Plan, the Government announced its intention to publish a call for evidence on the experiences of people who have a non-binary gender identity.

This is an emerging and complicated area of policy, and one in which the Government is still developing its research and understanding.The evidence gathered from this exercise will inform the Government's next steps in this area.

6. REGISTER TO VOTE

Seriously, fucking vote ya jabroni.

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

7. Trigger warning and the safe spaces

This band are amazing. Go get their album (pay what you want!)

https://triggerwarningandthesafespaces.bandcamp.com/releases

8. Witchy Reading list.

History and theory

Political/Feminist aspects Becoming Dangerous - edited by Katie West & Jasmine Elliott

Buy: https://fictionandfeeling.com/pages/becoming-dangerous

Witches, Sluts, Feminists - Kristen J Sollée

Buy: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780996485272

Caliban & the Witch - Silvia Federici

Free PDF!: https://libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf

Straight-up witchcraft;

Casting a Queer Circle: Non-Binary Witchcraft - Thista Minai

Buy: https://www.asphodelpress.com/index.php?q=book.html&title=queer-circle

Queer Magic - edited by Lee Harrington & Tai Felix Kulystin

Buy: https://www.waterstones.com/book/queer-magic/lee-harrington/tai-fenix-kulystin/9781942733799

Witchcraft for Tomorrow - Doreen Valiente

Buy: https://www.waterstones.com/book/witchcraft-for-tomorrow/doreen-valiente/9780709052449

9. Philosophy Tube - Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmk47kh7fiE

[forgottenbones]

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Witchcraft, Gender & Marxism | Philosophy Tube

[lilnasxvevo]

i joked that olly philosophy tube’s last video on transphobia was a new addition to his ongoing courtship of madame natalie “contrapoints” wynn but his new video on “witchcraft, gender, and marxism” genuinely seems custom-made to seduce natalie wynn

[gnosticgnoob]

Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism | Philosophy Tube