2007 Washington and Baltimore Area Pagan Leadership Conference

[johanna_hypatia]

I just spent the weekend in the company of some cool Pagan folks, a few like seer_eridanus I was already friends with, many more I just met for the first time, and I made some new friends. It was by invitation only, and since they extended me an invitation, I considered it an honor to accept. Not that I've ever considered myself as a leader of anything Pagan,

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[ninthraven]

Johanna, I don't think we've ever met-met/been introduced, but we've seen each other at events around town. It was a pleasure hearing your piano composition at the evening entertainment.

Blessings, ninthraven

[johanna_hypatia]

Angela was my grandmother's name. :)

[johanna_hypatia]

Angela, it was a pleasure hearing you speak and learning from you. Thank you so much!

[wylddelirium]

:waves and stuff:

[johanna_hypatia]

Hey, Del, good to hear from you, sweetie, I love you, stay in touch.

[jeywolf]

Doesn't it irritate you when people "classify" you as white when that is not entirely your racial make-up and/or identity?

[johanna_hypatia]

Some inaccurate classifications I can live with. Others I really need to fight to overcome, and you know just what I mean, brother. ;)

[johanna_hypatia]

> Jews and Muslims both know what unfair discrimination is like in this country.

At the last conference I went to, someone had something to say to that...

On the subject of Islam-Witchcraft relations: One woman in the audience at Starhawk's lecture said that the burning times came about as a direct result of repressive changes in laws made as a result of threat and fear to Christendom from Islam. First they made repressive laws to get the Muslims, then they turned around and used this repression on the Witches. She drew a parallel between that sequence of events and the Patriot Act in present-day America. It's enough to make a Witch feel uneasy.