Number 161 Spring 2015 $9.95 Rewildingii RFD 161 Spring 2015 Issue 162 / Summer 2015 OUT FOR HIRE Submission Deadline: April 21, 2015 www.rfdmag.org/upload Often queer people are engaged in a process of leading a separate life when it comes to their work or how they bring money into their lives. We want to hear from you about how being part of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities has shaped how you make money or earn your living. But we’re also interested in how integrating your queer- ness fits into your economic life. Obviously, we’re not all earning our money in gay / queer only contexts but in some way our identities at times influence our work but we at times also influence our work environment. So how does your queer self reflect on your work? Does being queer at work break down the idea of a mainstream world? Or are there big distinctions / barriers to how “out” you can be at work? Another approach to this theme is asking if being an LGBT person has impacted the type of job you sought out. Beyond the stereotypes of the kinds of employment gay people take on - what has being out and gay / queer meant in terms of your spiritual career path? Has being gay or trans identified meant getting by, becoming richer, or created challenges for how you shape your own personal economy? In what ways has the larger gay community shaped your em- ployment choices or shifted your think- ing in terms what were viable options for surviving financially and spiritually? An early idea of the gay movement was take it home with you meaning live your politics. Being out was a way to shape a healthy balanced life. But how does that interface with our work world? We’re more “out” at work, but does it work “out” for us? In what ways have you helped in creat- ing a queer economy? Sorta along the lines of “Shop Locale” have you sought to network with other like minded LGBT people to create economic opportunities. We’ve all played the role of fundraiser, community booster but for some of us it’s meant a career as a “promoter”, a DJ, working in a gay organization, or em- ploying people in a gay owned business. Ultimately, how does being a LGBT person empower you to bring riches to yourself. This obviously means many things to all of us—actual cash wealth or earnings, a happy work environment, work to survive but flexibility to enjoy life, or working in an environment which creates change in your life or the lives of others. tWANT A BATHROOM COPY? Subscribe to RFD Print and recieve RFD in your mailbox every quarter for as little as $6.25/per issue (37% off bookstore price). Paypal and cred- it cards accepted. www.rfdmag.org/subscribePhoto by Scratyr Casale Keep this magazine going! We’re a 100% volunteer organization and rely on your gifts to make the magazine available here free. Thanks! www.rfdmag.org/donate RFD 161 Spring 2015 1 Radical Feral Droppings Vol 41 No 3 #161 Spring 2015 Over forty years ago, RFD was started by faggots living in the country as a way of sharing seeds: be they semen, ideas, or literally, seeds! “Radical Faeries” meant going to the root to find the true self: sissy, qweer, translings of all types. The relationship of ourselves as outside the box of normative culture always included deep connection with the Mother, she who sustains us as we walk on this planet. This issue is a radical call out to our community to examine that connection, especially how we feed ourselves, and that relationship between our bodily suste- nance and the ecology of the Earth. In these pages are challenges that goes to the roots, of our culture, and the ways we are in sync (or not) with Nature’s rhythms. This issue grew out of a conversation I had with Dinner and Neisan over dinner one night last June in Dos Rios, CA. They were cooking delicious food for the Sex Magick workshop I was co-facilitating on gorgeous land on the Eel River in northern Mendocino that had been tended by gender qweers of all stripes since the 1970s. They were sharing adventures from the Hoop, while I likened our workshop to a form of inner rewilding of our sex selves. Sharing our hearts in qweer space over delicious food showed us parallels in our paths, how our bodies desire connection with that from which we came, each other, and that to which we all shall return. We noted how our experiences in what is known as the ‘civi- lized’ world had disconnected us from natural cycles, leaving us poorer in spirit, less healthy, and more lonely. There are many types of rewilding. The word rewilding was coined in the Earth First organization as a term for reintroducing parts of an ecosystem that were important for that systems healthy continuance. The term has been taken up and passed about spawning inspiration for a movement of people returning to direct connection and symbiotic life ways with the earth. In these pages we are drawn back into the cycle of life = sex/seed, eat, shit, die, decompose, and then start all over again and again! Feel the sap rise up as Spring (in the northern hemisphere) returns, in the trees, in our loins, the flowers renewing the growing season. While in production for this issue amidst persistently cold weeks this winter, Sr. Mish pointed out that RFD had dedicated several pages in issue 133 (Spring 2008—Rewilding Fey Diggers) to stories from the Hoop. Herein are further developments of those journeying in those ancient ways. We thank the Goddess for the cultural memory shared by our elders. We are blessed to have many in our communities who carry stories that teach us how to walk and live on our Mother, ever fecund, ever giving to all her children. Here are perspectives meant to re- align our bodies within the promiscuous abundance offered us by Nature herself. —Rosie Delicious for The RFD Collective Between the Lines2 RFD 161 Spring 2015 RFD is a reader-written journal for gay people which focuses on country living and encourages alternative lifestyles. We foster community building and networking, 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 volun- teers. 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. 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On the Covers Front and Back : Photographs by Adrain Chesser and White Eagle Production Managing Editor: Bambi Gauthier Assistant Editor: Rosie Delicious Assistant Editor: Cameron Castro Art Director: Matt Bucy Submission Deadlines Summer–April 21, 2015 Fall–July 21, 2015 See inside covers for themes and specifics. For advertising, subscriptions, back issues and other information visit www.rfdmag.org Artists in this Issue Keith Johnson 2, 8 Lawrence Brose 7 Sigh Moon 12, 14, 38 Phase 19 Adrain Chesser and White Eagle Covers, 21, 30, 39 Amara 40, 43, 49 Sawyer 45 Scratyr Casale iv, 46, 48 Hyperion Twing 54, 55 Photo by Keith Johnson RFD 161 Spring 2015 3 CONTENTS Letters & Announcements ....................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Gatherings for 2015 ............................Bambi ..........................5 Queer Filmmaker Lawrence Brose Sentenced .....Keith Gemerek ..................6 The Return ...................................Fagus ..........................8 Return to the Land ............................Mateo Olson ...................11 Mother Loving ................................Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi .........12 Wanna Get Free-Key ...........................Seda and Amara ................16 Getting Rooted ................................Phase ..........................18 Camas Refugee Relocation ......................Lila Brown .....................20 Letter of Intention and Invitation ................Finisia Medrano ................21 Interview with Finisia Medrano .................Walker, Seda, Neisan ............22 Ox To Buffalo Dreams .........................Wild Rose ......................31 Rewilding and Hoop Glossary .................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 REad Wild ....................................Seda, Amara, Sigh Moon, ...........................................Artemis and Spyder .............36 Singing into Rewilding .........................Heron Vertabrae ................38 The Sand Crane Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spyder .........................39 Hoop Recipies ................................Coyote Camp ...................40 Coming Out to Hoop ..........................Sigh Moon .....................44 Queer Forestry Camp ..........................Sawyer .........................45 When In Wild Mode ...........................John Clayton ...................47 Feral Desire ...................................Scratyr Casale ..................48 Parks and Recreation ..........................Eden ...........................50 Re Wilding Oneself— Or Be Careful What You Shit For .............Cupcake .......................52 Return to the Mother ..........................Hyperion Twing ................54 A Communiqué From a Feral Faggot Witch .......Elixer ..........................56 Ring City To Groundside .......................Bruce P. Grether ................57 Re-wilding or Re-civilising? .....................Acorn Godtree .................604 RFD 161 Spring 2015 LETTERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Happy to Have You Back Bless me, RFD, for I have sinned.... It has been 10 years, Fall 2005, #123, to be spe- cific, since my last subscription. My first issue was Fall 1984, #40. You sent me a 40-year post card many months ago which I recently found again on my desk. It prompted me to take a look after 10 years. WOW!!! What a wonderful transformation! So I re-sub- scribed via PayPal and am looking forward to reac- quainting myself to what will be the new RFD. Restless for delivery—Phil [Ed: We’re thrilled to have you back!] Euro Faeries Turn Twenty Folleterre Turns Ten This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary since faeries arrived in Europe and the 10th birthday of our sanctuary Folleterre. Gatherings in June and July at Folleterre sanctu- ary this year will focus on our connection with na- ture. Celebrating the Summer Solstice (June 19 -26), directly followed by the Pan Gathering, the forest god, a playful search for plant, animal and faerie spirits (June 27 -July 2) and the Tribal Vision gather- ing July (4 -13) finding, exploring and celebrating our tribe, through dance, sweat lodge rituals, guided meditation tours to the middle world, discovering the abundance of medicinal plants on our land and so much more. The annual Summer Gathering will happen from August 3-12, preceded by our Great Circle (August 1-2) and community week (July 24-31). At the end of summer (August 29-September 6) a Tantrastic gathering with tantra, massage, nude yoga. For more information about these and other gatherings, please visit our website. www.folleterre. org/gather. Spring Community Week - April 21 - 30 Open Days - May 11 - 31 Summer Solstice Gathering - June 20 - 26 Pan Gathering - June 27 - July 2 Tribal Vision Gathering - Jul 4 - Jul 13 Summer Community Week - July 24 -l 31 Great Circle - August 1 - 2 Summer Gathering - August 3 - 12 Tantrastic Faerie Gathering - August 29 - Sept 6 British Columbia Celebrates Fifth Anniversary Gathering The Call for the Fifth Annual B.C. Radical Faerie Camp—Homecoming of Kindred Spirits—has been issued! The gathering will be on the Victoria Day weekend, May 15-18, 2015, at the Evans Lake Forest Camp near Squamish, BC. For three days we will frolic and prance in the green and secluded meadows, hills, and woodlands of southwestern British Columbia. We will have heart circles, rituals, dancing, and music around the fire. We’ll eat together, we’ll play on the lawn together, we’ll share in workshops. We’ll create new connections, and reaffirm and renew constant ones. Together, we’ll make a home… for three and a half days. And then we’ll pack up our freshly polished homemaking skills, and head back into the world of everyday life to use them. The Call, general information, and registration form can be found here: www.bcradfae.ca. Sex Magick Workshops The Circle of Loving Companions is pleased to an- nounce the 2015 schedule for Sex Magick Work- shops. These 7 day workshops, originated by Harry Hay in 1990, are an intensive exploration of emo- tional and physical intimacy using the magick of the Heart Circle and facilitated by those who have done the workshop for many years. Through the work- shop we expand our capacity to give and receive love and experience new levels of Eros. For more information go to faeriesexmagick.org. 23 May - 30 May Dos Rios, Northern CA 4 Jul - 11 Jul Wolf Creek Sanctuary, Wolf Creek OR 11 Jul - 18 Jul Pfaffenseifen, Germany 15 Aug - 22 Aug Faerie Camp Destiny, Grafton VT 19 Sep - 26 Sep Dos Rios, Northern CAAwakening Faerie Consciousness 3 - 6 Apr Faerieland Sanctuary, Nimbin, NSW, Australia Tennessee Dance For All People 8 - 12 Apr / www ncpc info La Vergne, TN Spring Community Week 21 - 30 Apr Folleterre, France Spring Vision / Gay Spirit Visions 24 - 26 Apr / gayspiritvisions org Highlands, NC Beltane 28 Apr - 7 May Short Mt Sanctuary May Day Gathering 29 Apr - 3 May Saratoga Springs CA Beltaine 1 - 3 May Amber Fox, McDonalds Corners, Ontario Beltane 1 - 7 May Zuni Mt Sanctuary Open Days 11 - 31 May Folleterre, France BC Radical Faerie Camp 15 - 18 May Squamish, British Columbia Victoria Day Gathering 15 - 18 May Amber Fox, McDonalds Corners, Ontario Walt Whitman Gathering 22 - 25 May / www faeriecampdestiny org Faerie Camp Destiny, Grafton VT Spring Workout 8 - 16 May Zuni Mt Sanctuary Family Gathering 19 - 21 Jun Faerie Camp Destiny, Grafton VT Summer Solstice 20 - 26 Jun Folleterre, France Pan Gathering 27 Jun - 2 Jul Folleterre, France Fourth of July Gathering 29 Jun - 5 Jul Saratoga Springs CA July Fourth Gathering 2 - 5 Jul Faerie Camp Destiny, Grafton VT Tribal Vision Gathering 4 - 13 Jul Folleterre, France Faerie Witch Camp 16 - 19 Jul Faerie Camp Destiny, Grafton VT 34th Annual Midwest Men’s Festival 21 - 30 Jul Near Lawrence KS Generate Tribes Gathering 21 - 30 Jul Saratoga Springs CA Summer Community Week 24 - 31 Jul Folleterre, France Lammas 25 Jul - 2 Aug Faerie Camp Destiny, Grafton VT 28th Annual High Summer Gathering 27 Jul - 3 Aug Amber Fox, McDonalds Corners, Ontario Summer Gathering 3 - 12 Aug Folleterre, France Shamans Gathering 7 - 16 Aug Zuni Mt Sanctuary Lammas 7 - 16 Aug Kawashaway, Minnesota Summer Gathering 12 - 16 Aug Breitenbush OR 2nd Austrian “Sound of Faeries” Gathering 15 - 25 Aug Hochkonig, Austria Tantrastic Faerie Gathering 29 Aug - 6 Sep Folleterre,Ternuay-Melay-et-St-Hilaire, France 35th Annual Blue Heron Gathering 31 Aug - 7 Sep / www facebook com/blueheron gathering Blue Heron Farm, New York Labor Day Gathering 3 - 7 Sep Northern California Summer Community Camp 4 - 7 Sep / www thecmg org California Community of Men, Angelus Oaks CA Kink Gathering 4 - 7 Sep Faerie Camp Destiny, Grafton VT Fall Workout 21 - 30 Sep Zuni Mt Sanctuary Fall Foliage Gathering 9 - 12 Oct Faerie Camp Destiny, Grafton VT Thanksgiving Gathering 9 - 12 Oct Amber Fox, McDonalds Corners, Ontario LumBearJack Work Weekend 5 - 8 Nov Amber Fox, McDonalds Corners, Ontario Gatherings for 2015 It’s that time of year again—our annual listing of gatherings—it’s our handy guide to gatherings throughout the year We cull together listings from sanctuaries and gathering communities as well as referencing www radfae org where you can check for additional listings and updates Next >