LGBTQ activist Mark Segal just donated his papers to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Starting with the Stonewall Riots, Segal has been “…helping open doors for the LGBTQ community that were not imaginable a half-century ago. From organizing… Continue Reading
“Sarah Nunn and Rosie Ablewhite, 29, are a tantalising mystery to sexuality researchers. They are genetically identical and were brought up in the same household. Their nature is the same and so was their nurture. But Sarah is straight, Rosie a… Continue Reading
Sex and spirit: the many faces of ecstasy The Ecstasy of St Teresa of Avila (1647-52) by 17th-century Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is one of the most famous images of the Baroque period. Located in the Cornaro Chapel, Church… Continue Reading
Out Magazine’s Justin Moran interviews queer New York filmmaker Tristan Reginato about his debut short, “The Cost of Change.” The film probes at the concept of being able to change your sexuality, following Yuri (Gabriel Sommer) in the wake of his boyfriend’s overdose.… Continue Reading
I have been excited to start reading some of Manon Hedenborg-White’s analysis of gender within Thelema and O.T.O. as it comes into official publication. Hedenborg-White is a scholar from Sweden who has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the United States on… Continue Reading
from http://www.weiserantiquarian.com/cgi-bin/wab455/50294.html?id=7XfKQfhv Fine blue cloth with illustrated paper panel laid on upper board, spine and upper board lettered in white and gold. Colour frontis, and over 75 full colour illustrations, many of them full page plates, List of Exhibits. The… Continue Reading
from Albion Calling Ethan Doyle White’s personal blog – devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship on religion, magic, and the preternatural…http://ethandoylewhite.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/call-for-papers-female-leaders-in-new.html Call for Papers: “Female Leaders in New Religious Movements” University of Gothenburg doctoral student Chris Giuduce has asked me to pass… Continue Reading
Via http://boingboing.net/2014/06/26/gallery-the-dark-sexy-polaro.html From Antennae Books, “Polaroids: H.R. Giger.” A collection of personal snapshots by the late Swiss artist and Academy Award-winning film designer best known for Alien. 032C Magazine explores the book, which was released earlier this year (and is… Continue Reading
“Tobias Churton has done it again! Exhaustively exploring the Beast’s sojourn through the kaleidoscope of cultural tumult that was the final years of the Weimar Republic, Churton’s astute eye and clarity of composition provide the lucky reader with a riveting… Continue Reading
My favorite historian of religions, Henrik Bogdan, has a new exciting tome on the horizon. Judging from his previous Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism and Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley. A Correspondence it will be another fantastic addition for thelemites. Bogdan… Continue Reading