Witches and Pagans

[fayanora]

So I just found out that my two favorite magazines, PanGaia and newWitch, are combining into "Witches and Pagans." I dunno what to think of this, I'll have to see the new issue when it comes out.1 SageWoman is remaining the same, and BBI Media, the group that makes all these magazines, has come out with a magazine I might get one of out of

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[fayanora]

I must have misremembered or something, or maybe not been out as trans. Anne says there's never been a policy excluding trans women from submitting writing to SageWoman.

[deaana]

BB, I have the issue of Witches and Pagans, the subject of the most recent one is something like 'sacred animals'. It's out on the shelves and stuff, I got one a couple weeks ago. Seems pretty good but I don't know the answer to your frustrations.

[fayanora]

Yeah, Anne told me they changed it last fall, and I was like, WTF? Because I bought PanGaia #50 in the store just a few days ago.

Also, see my second edit.

[baron_waste]

I'll be interested to hear what they say about all that. Women who claim to be wolves are taken seriously - especially since that book Women Who Run With Wolves came out; something of a trope-namer, that - so obviously biological, genetic identity can be set aside in favor of self-image. Seems like there's a precedent established there…

[fayanora]

I must have misremembered or something, or maybe not been out as trans. Anne Niven, the editor, says there's never been a policy excluding trans women from submitting writing to SageWoman.

A bit of a tangent

[lupagreenwolf]

FWIW, I'm the interviewee for that issue *waves*. I kinda wish we'd been able to get into more sex/gender related stuff in the interview; while more recently I've slid back more to the female end of the continuum, I engaged in a lot more genderfuckery in my twenties. We just covered so much stuff as it was that we couldn't get to everything. (Plus I'm not really one of the bigger names in queer media, despite being queer.) At any rate, my point is that I don't believe there would have been any problems if we had gotten into that area of discussion; the folks I know at at W&P/BBI are pretty supportive of varying sexes, genders, sexualities, etc.

Re: A bit of a tangent

[fayanora]

Heh, yeah. For a time, PanGaia was edited by Kenaz Filan, a trans woman who apparently still writes for them. At least until issue #50, anyway.