I haven’t written because I’ve been sad and confused with my commitments. Exiting portals isn’t easy. Even harder when support is divested and more debt is accumulated. Burn out is incredibly real. The pandemic is majorly exhausting. All my gigs are freelance. I had the most horrible housing nightmare. I’m scared to do my taxes and I still haven’t quite managed to rank up much in my savings. And yet, I feel like I’m on the right path somehow somehow.
I’ve been working on imagining what cyber witch practices are and can be and have synthesized some of my insights into writing and additionally into a project called Portal.Web (which will be done as part of my residency with Culture Hub)!
🔮PORTAL.WEB is an alternative space to gather and engage intimately and deeply with our radical imagination, ancestral knowledge, ritualistic practices, and magic. As a cyber coven we seek not to establish a hierarchy of technologies but rather reimaginine our cyber powers through the use of emerging, indigenous, and ancestral technologies.
The introduction piece to this world will finally be out next week on The Processing Foundation blog. I am thankful for my time as a Fellow with them this past summer and am thankful for my Fellowship mentor Johanna Hedva who provided so much insight, encouragement, and deep edits for the piece. I’ve never worked so intimately with someone when it came to my writing and it was quite a vulnerable experience. Writing is not my strength (I fundamentally do not understand grammar) and yet it continues to call me forward. So sometimes, I answer.
Links and Updates
Starting a separate eco-erotic intimacy + research journal, for more vulnerable reflections. subscribe to that here!