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Come As You Are To… The Rainbow Moon Circle’s Yearning Moon A Full Moon Circle Honoring and Celebrating Gender Diversity Saturday,...
The mxgender Priestxes of Come As You Are Pagan Congregation invite people of any and all genders - or none - to join us in exploring our divine nature as children of the stars. Together, we open our hearts to mystery and make a wish for the future.
If you are working with gods and goddesses or even spirits, learning more about them and their alignments can open you up for more thorough understanding of your belief system, and find ways to be more inclusive. Are only goddesses nurturing? Are only gods protective? Are there beings who do not identify as either, already present in the history?
(via Beyond the gender binary in Pagan practice)
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRGRevIUswI)
To learn more about David's Two Spirit Society you can go to this website: https://www.mttwospirit.org/
Being transgender today is still unreasonably hard, but it is far from hopeless. This is the first in a series looking at the challenges ahead.
Much has changed since this article came out two years ago. And more needs to change, for sure. Sending love and blessings to all the courageous trans, agender, enby, mxgender and other non-conforming folx who are making these changes happen!!!!
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYZu9oCVjw)
Standing with the original people of this land today.
Come As You Are to... The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe's Rite of Release & Remembrance Saturday, November 18 Doors open at 7:00PM, circle is cast at 7:15PM (Please arrive on time, no one is admitted after the circle is cast.) Home of Truth Cottage (behind the Sanctuary) 1300 Grand Street, Alam
Queer magick honoring our Beloved Transcestors. Tonight in the East Bay! NOTAFLOF:
The mxgender Priestxes of Come As You Are Pagan Congregation invite people of any and all genders - or none - to join us in celebrating our beloved transcestors and ansxtors, especially those whose lives ended in violence. We Release that which blocks us from our fullest potential, in order to live in ways that honor the legacy of our transcestors and ancxtors. We call on Dionysus, God of Liminal Spaces and Protector of Trans People, to liberate us from the constraints that silence and diminish us. You are invited to bring ancestral items and images to charge on the altar, rattles and drums, and a treat to share for cakes and ale after we open the circle.
CAYA Coven’s Grove of the Goddess presents the Giving Moon A Full Moon Circle for Women Saturday, December 2, 2017 Doors open at 7:00PM, circle is cast at 7:15PM No one is admitted after circle is cast Home of Truth Sanctuary 1300 Grand Street, Alameda $10-$20 donation requested Come As You Are Paga
Come As You Are to a ritual celebrating gender diversity in self, in community, and in divinity. NOTAFLOF. Alameda, CA:
CAYA Coven’s Rainbow Moon Circle and Brotherhood of the Moon present the Giving Moon A Combined Full Moon Circle for Honoring the Full Spectra of Gender Diversity Saturday, December 2, 2017 Doors open at 7:00PM, circle is cast at 7:15PM No one is admitted after circle is cast Home of Truth Cottage 1300 Grand Street, Alameda $10-$20 donation requested Come As You Are Pagan Congregation's Brotherhood of the Moon joins together with the Rainbow Moon Circle to create a sparkling combustion of magick! People of any and all genders - or none - are invited to join us in exploring how our personal gifts and generosity can improve our community/world, and how we can work together to co-create a world of mutual respect and love. Chairs will be provided. Please feel free to bring a cushion if you prefer to sit on the floor. You may wish to bring something shiny to charge on the altar, and a treat to share for cakes and ale after we open the circle.
(via DelhiQueerPRIDE 2017: A Defiant Celebration of Dignity and Diversity | Planet Transgender)
November 13 – 17 individuals and organizations around the country will participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise the visibility of transgender and gender non-conforming people, and address the issues the community faces.
Five artists, five writers, one vision: a world where trans people of color thrive. See it here.
Artist statement: Sophia Zarders and jayy dodd
Trans/GNC folks manifest joy & mourning simultaneously, thus our rage must look & act differently. The Imprecatory prayer is one that calls for the destruction of enemies. We used the visual / textual imagery of joy & possibility to affirm the needs of the Trans community.
The Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation: FAQ
What is it?
a nine-day, non-denominational ritual honoring transgender individuals who have passed on
an act of solidarity with the lineage of transgender ancestors who have come before us and paved the way, as well as with the descendents who will come after us when we are gone
a chance to share tenderness and kindness with the restless spirits of transgender people who lost their lives to violence
an opportunity for living transgender folks, including those who have lost trans loved ones, to grieve, mourn, and pray
a labor of love from a multiracial group of trans spirit workers, each at various stages of study in ancestor veneration practices, who have been putting on this ritual since 2014
Keep reading
Tomorrow begins the 9-day ritual to honor our beloved transcestors and ancxtors.
2017 Witches of Transgression Working: BORN IN THE FIRE The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Circle within the CAYA Pagan Congrega...
The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Circle within the CAYA Pagan Congregation devoted to exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the experience of identity beyond the gender binary, and celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence that is Powerful, Delightful, Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative, Magickal, Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite people of all genders or none, but especially mxgender and non-binary people, to join us in our first year of doing a public, world-wide working to bring a better world into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces all over the world each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the Divine, toward a shared vision of intentional change.
HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy is the newest anthology from P&M Press.
Across time and cultures, humanity has spun tales about the forest: tales of caution, adventure, rites of passage, and discovery. Some of those stories persist as the folklore and fairy tales that delight our imaginations today, and the forest remains a symbol for facing the unknown and emerging transformed.
This anthology is for everyone who’s walked through the undergrowth, in the silence of nature, and longed for an adventure of their own to unfold. These stories of modern-day sylvan fantasy will showcase the best non-binary cartoonists of our day, guiding characters like us into the woods and back again.
Submission Period
Submissions will be open to the public from October 16th - November 13th. (A line-up of preselected creators will also be unveiled throughout this period!)
Who Can Participate
We want submissions from people who identify as nonbinary, genderqueer, agender, bigender, neutrois, twospirit, genderfluid, demigender, trans femme or trans masc, and other genders outside the “man or woman” binary.Â
For team submissions, at least the writer must meet the above criteria. If two submissions are equally matched, the all non-binary team will be prioritized. Use #TeamHeartwood (Tumblr or Twitter) to find teammates!
Age Restrictions
All contributors must be 18 years or older. All content must be suitable for readers as young as 14 years old.
Specifications
Comics from 4 - 12 pages long
6” x 9” trim size (template provided)
Bleed? Yes.
Black & White or Grayscale (no screentones please)
600 dpi
Timeline
Selection Process (October 2017 - December 2017)
Project Announcement - 2 weeks
Open Submissions - 4 weeks
Final Selection - 2 weeks
Work Period (December 2017 - July 2018)
Creator Portraits - 1 week
Script + Thumbnails - 8 weeks
Pencils - 10 weeks
Inks - 6 weeks
Grayscale - 6 weeks
Letters - 2 weeks
Bios - 1 week
Kickstarter (Fall 2018)
Compensation
Contributors to our first anthology were paid $100/page plus Kickstarter bonuses. In keeping with P&M Press’ founding goal of increasing pay with each successive campaign, HEARTWOOD contributors will be compensated at $105/page plus any Kickstarter bonuses.
Contributors also receive a minimum of 10 complimentary copies of the anthology, royalties on all digital sales, and royalties on any print runs of the anthology after the first printing sells out.
Rights
Creators will cede exclusive first worldwide print and digital rights to their stories for a full calendar year from the date of publication, and non-exclusive worldwide print and digital rights in perpetuity. Ownership remains with the creators.
What We Want
Previously unpublished stories.
Forests. Jungles. Decaying structures reclaimed by nature. Trees, trees, and - oh yeah - more trees! Deep, lush settings that have character. (If you absolutely hate drawing backgrounds/characters interacting with their environment, you may want to sit this one out.)
At least one protagonist must be non-binary.
At least one non-binary protagonist must be human (they can be half magical-species-you-made-up, but their gender should not be portrayed as a “fantastical” result of that).
Stories set now-ish (a hard date isn’t necessary, but keep the human fashion and any tech to post-1990 and pre-2030).
Movement from one space to another (entering, leaving, traveling), literally and/or metaphorically.
Personified aspects of the natural world (e.g. whispering winds, walking plants, talking animals, etc).
Original fantastical creatures/beings.
Discovery and Understanding.
Tests (of will, wits, ethics, etc).
Person Allied With Nature.
A spirit of adventure!
What We DON’T Want
No fan works. No auto-bio. No prose. No one-off illustrations.
Stories that basically amount to “protagonist realizes they are non-binary and explains gender to the other characters/the reader.” Your character can come to understand their gender better by the end of the story, but there should be a plot beyond that.
Meet-cutes. (“Two people meet and crush at first sight, the end.”)
Horror: this includes horror tropes, body horror, classic horror monsters like werewolves or vampires, popular cryptids/urban legends like Slender Man or the Jersey Devil, and so on. Your story can use fear and danger as plot elements, but if instilling fear/existential dread in the reader is the overarching theme, this is the wrong anthology.
Tolkienian fantasy: no elves, dwarves, orcs, etc. We won’t freak out if you make something up that’s very loosely(!) inspired by any of these (unless it replicates the problematic elements of Tolkien’s work, in which case your work will not be accepted).
Cursing is permitted as long as words aren’t used literally (i.e. “Shit, you scared me!” as opposed to “Let’s go shit in the woods!”) and are used very sparingly when used at all. In general, we’d prefer not.
No porn. No references to specific sexual acts. No explicit nudity whether sexual or non-sexual (sorry, folks). “Consensual fade-to-black sex between legal adults” is fine.
No depictions of abuse (sexual, physical, psychological) whether pictorial or written. Characters may vaguely reference (in non-graphic language) abuse that they have suffered in the past if doing so serves the story or is integral to the character (i.e. maybe the story is about a survivor working on their agoraphobia by going on what they believe will be a brief, non-magical hike…).
No gore. People can get hurt, bleed, die, etc, but not in a grossly over-the-top way that fetishizes violence.
No slurs, no racism (not even “fantasy racism”), no misogyny, no transphobia, no ableism, no xenophobia, no white supremacist nonsense in general. (And please, no stories whose sole purpose is to teach that these things are bad.)
Ready? Here’s How To Pitch
Send us an email at [email protected] with the subject line “Heartwood Pitch” that includes the following information/attachments:
The name, pronouns, and role of everyone on your team (or just yourself for solo submissions). Give the name(s) you want used during communications with you, marketing of your contribution, and credits in the book (even if those are all different).
A working title and page count for your comic (doesn’t have to be exact).
A synopsis of your story, including a beginning, middle, and end. Spoil everything, but try to keep it under 500 words.
Preliminary sketches associated with your pitch: character ideas, important creature designs, environment concepts (the latter is especially important if your portfolio lacks strong examples of background art), etc. These don’t need to be final or polished pieces! Just detailed enough to give us an idea.
Links to any relevant publishing credits (whether you’re writing the comic, drawing it, lettering it, or doing everything yourself). Self-published works and webcomics count as credits! Choose examples that best reflect the style you intend to use for this comic. You may simply include a link to your portfolio if you have no pre-existing credits, but please note that folks with sequential storytelling examples will receive preference.
Tell us about yourself, your cultural and artistic background, and why you want to be in HEARTWOOD. Short and sweet is best!
More Questions?Â
Check out the FAQ. If your answer isn’t there, Ask away!
This looks so wonderful! Can’t wait to see all the lovely loveliness!!!
“Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features an intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to usher in more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity.
(via India's Transgender Pilgrimage to Durga: A Yearly Victory of Good over evil | Planet Transgender)
The community has a message for the world: We aren’t disordered and we aren’t ashamed.
So excited for this article, featuring the amazing Hann Lindahl sporting her trademark #intersexbun !
“Did you know that a group of people in Granbury, Texas are trying to ban your book?”
Banned Books Week always gives me some great ideas about what to put on my reading list. The Top 10 in 2016 are overwhelmingly LGBTQ+ in subjects. Thank a librarian today for fighting in the name of intellectual freedom!
