The girlies HATE when I refuse to share a link on TikTok. Refusing to divulge the full rundown of everything you do, everything you buy,...

IN THE BEGINNING, SHE WAS EVERYTHING. The Venus of Willendorf from The Collector Before the divine was divided, before light was split from darkness, there was only the feminine. She was never the passive “other” imagined by philosophers... she was the generative ground and the original pulse of existence. Across pre-patriarchal cosmologies, the feminine was the totality: birth, death, creation, and dissolution held in a single, breathing continuum. In the earliest sacred sys

Magical girl anime is built on the moment of becoming. The transformation sequence—be it Usagi’s ribbons of light, Akko’s Shiny Rod awakening in Little Witch Academia, or Vivio’s inherited power in Nanoha ViVid—is a ritual. The raised hand, the sacred words, the calling forth of an item bound to you alone. Transformation in this genre is not about hiding who you are; it’s about stepping into the fullness of it. In that moment, the mundane self & the magical self become one.

I didn’t expect to feel so much, though who am I kidding? On brand. I’d seen the Louvre in photographs, on postcards, in textbooks,...

Ernie Barnes on The Sugar Shack: “The experience that placed this image in my mind occurred when I was around 13 or 14. I snuck into a...

They tried to strip it from us. The power of beauty. The depth of ritual. The sacredness of our presence. But we remembered. We...