Number 151 Fall 2012 $9.95 Kawashaway’s 25th YearWhat do you think of when you hear the word "transgender"? Are there transgender faeries in your community? Stop and think about it. In this issue of RFD, we focus on transgender voices, bodies, sexualities, magick, experiences, perspectives, communities, playfulness, seriousness, exclusion, integration, resistance, and art. We encourage writings on culture-specific gender identities from people who have roots in those cultures. Suggested formats include: images of transgender peoples' bodies, first person expositions on navigating transgender experiences in community, erotica, poetry, visual artwork, stream of consciousness, personal histories, interviews, essays, spells, recipes, and comics. Transgender faeries and elders, this is your issue. What do you want to contribute? Unless you are transgender, we ask that you step back and listen through this issue and support the transgender faeries in your community as we bare our truths and share our stories and perspectives. To submit articles & artwork: www.rfdmag.org/upload Issue 152 / Winter 2012 TRANSGENDER FAERIES Submission Deadline: October 21, 2012 • Submissions upload: www.rfdmag.org/upload RFD 151 Fall 2012 1 Ritual, Feasting &Dragonflies Vol 39 No 1 #151 Fall 2012 I n the distance, we see a horizon. In this issue we delve into Kawashaway Sanctuary and the Northwoods tribe. The RFD Collective is thankful to Phoenix, White Ash and the Kawashaway community for their stories, art and visions. Documenting our lives is our story to tell and it is always mov- ing to hear others tell their truths. We also share a number of short stories and reviews—something we hope to provide more of in future issues. And as always we try to represent our community through its art and imagination with images and words. In the close to four years since RFD has moved to New England, the Collec- tive has felt a rejuvenated interest in people contributing to our pages. We have folk who want to push us into going “on-line,” but we are online, we’re here in your hands—a virtual horizon of hands reaching for and reading the same pages. It seems more sacred, more honest to continue as a print journal. We’ve been inspired by the positive feedback to our issues and we hope you’ll con- sider ways of supporting RFD’s goals with your financial support, your creative interest in making these pages appear in hands across the horizon. Some say RFD is expensive. At $25 a year for US subscriptions, it basi- cally covers the cost of printing and mailing. No one in the Collective is a millionaire and as always RFD is a labor of love, gratitude and laughter as we celebrate another wrap to another issue. Our only indulgence is a wrap party at the Mexican restaurant—a burrito amongst brothers. Tomar en los amigos horizonte como ordenar una margarita. —The RFD Collective Between the Lines Photo by Gregory Todd Wilkins2 RFD is a reader-written journal for gay people which focuses on country living and encourages alternative lifestyles. We foster community building and network- ing, explore the diverse expressions of our sexuality, care for the environment, Radical Faerie consciousness, and nature-centered spirituality, and share experiences of our lives. RFD is produced by volunteers. We welcome your participation. The business and general production are coordinated by a collective. Features and entire issues are prepared by different groups in various places. RFD (ISSN# 0149-709X) is published quarterly for $25 a year by RFD Press, P.O. Box 302, Hadley MA 01035-0302. Postmaster: Send address changes to RFD, P.O. Box 302, Hadley MA 01035-0302 Non-profit tax exempt #62- 1723644, a function of RFD Press with office of registra- tion at 231 Ten Penny Rd., Woodbury, TN 37190. RFD Cover Price: $9.95. A regular subscription is the least expensive way to receive it four times a year. Copyright © 2012 RFD Press. The records required by Title 18 U.S.D. Section 2257 and associated with respect to this magazine (and all graphic material associated therewith on which this label appears) are kept by the custodian of records at the following location: RFD Press, 85 N Main St, Ste 200, White River Junction, VT 05001. Mail for our Brothers Behind Bars project should be sent to P.O. Box 68, Liberty TN 37095. On the Covers Front & Back : Painting by Keri Pickett Inside Back: Marcia Rubin Production Bambi Gauthier, Managing Editor Guest Editors: Phoenix, White Ash and the Kawashaway Circle Matt Bucy, Art Director Paul Wirhun, Editor Eric Linton, Editor Jason Schneider, Editor Myrlin, Prison Pages Editor Submission Deadlines Winter–October 21, 2012 Spring–January 21, 2013 See inside covers for themes and specifics. “Bog Walk” by Braeburn Blue (Perry Ingli) For advertising, subscriptions, back issues and other information visit www.rfdmag.org Artists in this Issue Gregory Todd Wilkins........................1 Braeburn Blue (Perry Ingli).................2, 37 Orange......................................4 Dragon..................6-7, 9, 29, 32-33, 38-39 Keri Pickett..............................12-19 Donald Engstrom-Reese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 White Ash ..............................25,26 Teddy Bear .................................30 Alan Yount .................................40 Jim Jackson .................................41 Wave....................................42, 47 Marc DeBauch..............................49 Walt Cessna ................................57 Jean-Baptiste Carhaix........................59 RFD 151 Fall 2012 3 CONTENTS Letters & Announcements ....................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Stories & Articles From Gordon, WI to Mother Kawashaway: The Early Years of the Northwoods Radical Faerie Tribe .........................Husk (Michael Lecker) ............8 Faerie Names .................................Snake of the Northwoods Tribe ...11 Visions, Voices & Pretty Dresses .................Keri Pickett .....................13 The Red Dragon Dinner .......................Donald L. Engstrom-Reese .......20 The Flogging ..................................Snake of the Northwoods Tribe ...35 The First Angel of the Apocalypse ...............Alan Yount .....................40 From “Nine Threads: A Self-Portrait in Past Lives” ...............................Heron Saline ...................43 (Re)Defining Ourselves .........................Jodi Bon Jodi ...................50 FAEposium 3: Our Next Frontier ................Levi King ......................52 Christopher Bram .............................Franklin Abbott .................53 Telling Stories by the Fire (in Moonlight) .........Dharma ........................56 Fukt 2 Start With: Short Stories and Broken Werd ...........................Tyler Malone ...................57 Sisters Attend a Prayer Vigil at St Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco ..........Sister Soami ....................58 Remembrance: Sister Boom Boom ................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Brothers Behind Bars ..........................Myrlin .........................60 Poetry and Art Poems ........................................Beebalm .......................23 Given Name ..................................Sky ............................24 Poem ........................................Eureka .........................27 Kawashaway Lullaby ...........................Bill Phillips .....................28 Hear Mother’s Heartbeat Calling: A Faerie Drum Chant .......................Bill Phillips .....................31 And Still...We Keep On Loving ..................Two Bears ......................34 When I Am With My Tribe .....................Heron Saline ...................484 RFD 151 Fall 2012 “Ocean City” By Orange RFD 151 Fall 2012 5 LETTERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS The 23rd Annual GSV Fall Conference September 27-30, 2012 THE MOUNTAIN, Highlands, NC “Storytelling as Spiritual Practice” Keynote-Facilitators for 2012 Tom Spanbauer & Sage Ricci Tom Spanbauer is a critically acclaimed author and the founder of Dangerous Writing. As a writer he has explored issues of race, of sexual identity, of how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born. His four published novels Faraway Places, The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon, In The City Of Shy Hunters, and Now Is The Hour, are notable for their combination of a fresh and lyrical prose style with solid storytelling. As a teacher his innovative approach combines close attention to language with a large-hearted openness to what he calls ‘the sore place’—that place within each of us that is the source for stories that no one else can tell. His introductory workshop is an underground legend among emerging writers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The com- munity of writers that has formed around him is dedicated to the proposition that “Fiction is the lie that tells the truth truer.” Tom lives, writes, and teaches in Portland Or- egon. Michael Sage Ricci is a writer, teacher, and artist living in Portland Oregon. He has been tattooing for the last 16 years and runs a private tattoo studio specializing in ritual tattooing. He has taught with Portland’s Writers in the Schools, the School of Urban and Wilderness Survival, and has been with Tom Spanbauer’s Dangerous Writers since 2006. His short stories, poems, essays and interviews have ap- peared in The Frozen Moment anthology, Portland Queer, Death Magazine, White Crane Journal, Radi- cal Faeire Digest, Ellipses: Literary Serial and Narra- tive Culture, and Under A Silver Sky, an anthology of Northwest Poets. He is currently finishing his first novel Where the Jersey Devil Lives. RadFaeLA A CALL TO ALL MEN: RadFaeLA announces its plan to hold the 1st LA Gathering in many years on September 21-23, 2012, in celebration of the Fall Equinox at the beautiful Gindling Hilltop Camp, above the crashing Pacific Ocean on the cliffs of Malibu. The cost is estimated at only about $200 for two nights accomodations with three meals a day (plus snacks). Will you be there? Please indicate YOUR intention now, so we have an idea how many to expect! Any questions? —Barry <b123s@aol.com> November 8th - 11th, 2012 www.faeposium.org After a year’s hiatus, the cauldron is brewing again. This November 2012 in Portland, Oregon, FAEpo- sium returns to inspire our community towards a higher vision of itself. The four-day event, based on the classical Greek Symposium, is our op- portunity to come together to share, learn, muse, discuss and create. See page 52.“Will at Temperance River” by DragonNext >