The need for trans separatistic spiritual spaces

TW: transphobia, transmisogyny, castration I’ve been thinking a lot about the galli lately. Partly because I’ve read this book about the Mother Goddess Cybele and partly because I’ve had a few run-ins with transphobes in Pagan spaces. The galli, if you’ve never heard of them, were a class of priest/priestesses who worshipped Cybele. They were

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Dark days are ahead for Afghanistan’s religious minorities

If you’ve been following the news at all in the last week you have heard of the terrible thing that happened in Afghanistan: the Taliban have retaken control of the country. This means there will now be no rights for women and LGBTQ+ people and merciless persecution of religious minorities. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jews