by admin | Jan 17, 2024 | Folklore, Queering, Rites of passage
“And again at New Year, when the 12 strokes sound and we make our resolutions ‘I will be good; turn over a new leaf; be made anew’ – we are embodying, even if we do not know it, or perhaps being embodied by, the myth of eternal return; the periodic destruction...
by admin | Nov 8, 2023 | Deathcare, Funerals, Rites of passage
As we in the Northern hemisphere find ourselves in the descent towards darker days, heading down into Samhain1, it’s become a tradition of sorts that I spend some time contemplating this idea of the thinning of the veil between the worlds. Most of us are familiar...
by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Menstruation, Queering, Rites of passage
We were cycling late last Saturday night and I’d left the house ill-prepared. My hands stung sharply with the cold; the wind whipping my knuckles as we trundled up the hill. ‘Why the fuck didn’t I bring my gloves?’ I shouted, shaking my raw...
by admin | Oct 31, 2022 | Menstruation, Queering, Rites of passage
What might happen if we reimagined menarche? Or even queered it all the way up? As a parent to a small human who I assume will get her period one day, I think about this a lot. There’s also a growing movement of companies setting up workshops and education that...
