l-r, Michael York, Judy Harrow, Patrick McCollum, Macha NightMare, Laura Wildman, Murph Pizza, and Marion Mason. Photo by Sarah Whedon
Murph (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) gave a paper called “Sharkey’s End: Paganism’s Public Challenge and the Limitations of Legitimacy in the Minnesota Twin Cities,” and Judy Harrow presented an utterly brilliant panel discussion with Amanda Wolfe of Georgia State Univ. on Paganism and the psychological establishment.
Reclaiming also had a strong presence, both among the attendees and within the context of papers read. Laura Zwissler, Univ. of Toronto, referenced Reclaiming in her paper, “Public Spirituality, Personal Religion: Pagan Activists and Political Community,” and SpiralHeart's Pam Turtle Detrixhe, Temple Univ., spoke on “Performing ‘Religion’ in Public: The Pagan Cluster at the Interfaith,” in which she spoke of Katrina Messenger.
Besides Macha (CA) and Pam (PA), other Reclaiming folks in attendance were Katrina (DC), Ishtar (NY), Endora (VT), Yarrow (VA), Grove (MA), Jone (Norway), Sarah Whedon (CA) and whoever else I may be missing.
My thanks to Cat McEachern for organizing the conference, and to everyone there for joining in this ground-breaking work.
I’m having so much fun!!!!!
3 comments:
Macha, thanks for sharing these updates on the conference. I just thought I would add for your list on Reclaiming presence that myself and a colleague of mine there (we both presented at Pagan Studies panels) were members of the New Moon collective (which is no longer active) in southern Ontario and I am still involved with Wild Ginger as a Witchcamp organizer and attendee.
Sorry I missed it again this year. Maybe someday!
Anne
MM!
I always like to get in touch with friends in Art.
in one of these days, one local wiccan told me that you give an interview to the III Annnual Witches Meeting here, in Brazil, were you say that you are gardnerian.
I would like to know if this is true, if you want to answer me.
beto-brazilian seeker
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