diff --git a/archetypes/default.md b/archetypes/default.md index 00e77bd..e81e7bb 100644 --- a/archetypes/default.md +++ b/archetypes/default.md @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}" date: {{ .Date }} draft: true --- - + diff --git a/content/posts/2019-09-13-statement-of-intent.md b/content/posts/2019-09-13-statement-of-intent.md index f3f2548..f0d6d4c 100644 --- a/content/posts/2019-09-13-statement-of-intent.md +++ b/content/posts/2019-09-13-statement-of-intent.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags: East Coast Thing 2019 was a transformative experience for me. In the wake of that, I felt inspired to start writing down some of my thoughts about the gods, community, my beliefs, and belief and religion more generally. This is where I will do that. + + Who I am: Anna, a 30-something Freyjaswoman living in Upstate New York with my weird little polyamorous family. I've been Heathen since 2008, and have had a particularly close connection with Freyja for most of that time. What this blog will be: a journal of many things. Heathen epistemology, musings on the lore and myths, theoretical and practical discussions of Heathen worship and magic, personal anecdotes, personal gnosis, crises of faith, book reviews. I sometimes do amateur translations of various texts from a religious context - expect to see some of that here as well. @@ -16,3 +18,4 @@ What this blog will be: a journal of many things. Heathen epistemology, musings What this blog will NOT be: a haven for bigotry. Politically speaking, this is an explicitly leftist space. So-called "folkish" Heathenry has no place here. I stand behind [Declaration 127](http://declaration127.com/). Bigotry, in this context, extends (but is not limited) to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. Comments will be moderated with a heavy hand toward these issues. I welcome diverse viewpoints and ideas, even strong disagreement, but I do not welcome hate. Vituð ér enn, eða hvat? + diff --git a/content/posts/2019-09-20-a-heathen-epistemology.md b/content/posts/2019-09-20-a-heathen-epistemology.md index 7a90088..9812a32 100644 --- a/content/posts/2019-09-20-a-heathen-epistemology.md +++ b/content/posts/2019-09-20-a-heathen-epistemology.md @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ I am Heathen. By this, I mean that my religion is a (fairly loose) reconstructio Of course, I also believe the things that science says. I believe that the universe is 14 billion years old, that natural universal processes formed the stars and planets, that biodiversity is the result of evolution. And as I tend to hang out in communities with strong atheist and anti-theist sentiments, a question I've been asked more than a few times is: how do I reconcile religious faith with scientific skepticism? + + Ultimately, the answer is "by holding multiple worldviews, and context switching between them." But it's easy to interpret that as "you don't really _believe_ in your religion, then. You believe in science, so the religion must therefore be pretend." As that is not how I actually experience things, I'd like to try and unpack what I mean. I was raised in a Protestant Christian tradition. As I grew up, I noticed something strange to me: people had a few very distinct modes of talking about religious beliefs. Christianity was talked about as if it were Serious and True, but other religions were "mythology"; things people used to believe, before they came to their collective senses. Even before I learned about the historical spread of Christianity, this struck me as odd; how did we know these things were true but those things were false? They were all equally impossible-sounding, after all. All we had to go on was a book full of stories, and well, other religions had stories, too. The answer I was given, when I inevitably asked, was "that's what faith is about." But that never set well with me. After all, these other peoples at other places and times had just as much (and varying levels of!) faith in their gods as the people around me did in Jesus. It seemed like there had to be something driving that faith, at least for some portion of the population. diff --git a/content/posts/2019-11-13-doing-better-about-nazis/index.md b/content/posts/2019-11-13-doing-better-about-nazis/index.md index 74d6c4e..cf11912 100644 --- a/content/posts/2019-11-13-doing-better-about-nazis/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2019-11-13-doing-better-about-nazis/index.md @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Those who have followed the news recently may have seen a few stories about an a > > The Troth also strongly opposes the statement made in the FBI affidavit stating Mr. Holzer had received “various white supremacy paraphernalia as gifts for the UCs, including a flag, several patches, a metal Thor’s hammer and a mask.” The Thor’s Hammer, also known as a Mjolnir, is a sacred symbol in our religion, and worn by Heathens across the world. It is not a symbol of hate, but symbol of those of us who are of the Heathen faith. + + While this is certainly well-intentioned, it’s also deeply unimpressive. From the treatment of antisemitic violence as being primarily about religion as opposed to about race to its stunningly tone deaf decision to take the occasion of a narrowly averted act of racist terrorism to complain about the FBI’s description of a Thor’s hammer pendant—one that appears to have been part and parcel of Holzer’s membership in a neo-nazi organization in upstate New York—as white supremacist paraphenalia, and, for that matter, the implication that their condemnation of this is coequal with their condemnation of violent terrorism, the statement displays an appalling sense of mismatched priorities that seems more concerned with managing heathenry’s public image than it does with an attempt at mass violence. Unfortunately, it’s grimly typical of our faith’s attempts to engage with its persistent nazi problem—efforts that, as someone who is steeped in anti-nazi activism and who has written a book about contemporary far-right movements, are consistently misguided. Let’s talk, then, about how we might do better. diff --git a/content/posts/2022-09-13-the-enemy-of-the-good.md b/content/posts/2022-09-13-the-enemy-of-the-good.md index 83eb3ce..ceb485e 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022-09-13-the-enemy-of-the-good.md +++ b/content/posts/2022-09-13-the-enemy-of-the-good.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ date: "2022-09-13" I have a self-sabotaging tendency toward perfectionism. After founding this blog, I had ideas for a half dozen posts, wrote a few words of each of them, and then became paralyzed with indecision - is this an interesting enough topic to write about? Am I the right person to write it? A lot of unnecessary agonizing over something that barely anyone is going to read anyway. And so this blog became defunct quite quickly, _ensuring_ that no one would read it. + + I do the same thing with rituals. I'm the one most drawn to formal ritual structure in my household, so we only tend to blót if I run the blót. But I'll often wind up feeling like a blót "isn't good enough", get discouraged, and never hold it at all. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly, and I have recently had something of a shock to the system that has catalyzed me into spiritual introspection. So here we go. I'm bringing into the world: diff --git a/content/posts/2022-09-16-i-can-feel-it-in-my-bones/index.md b/content/posts/2022-09-16-i-can-feel-it-in-my-bones/index.md index 5a6028f..84ba7d7 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022-09-16-i-can-feel-it-in-my-bones/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2022-09-16-i-can-feel-it-in-my-bones/index.md @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ I almost didn't attend the [Northeast Thing](https://northeastthing.com/)[^1] th So between all of that, the fact that the rest of my family declined to attend, and worries about COVID, I was going to let the event pass by. But a couple of friends were attending, they required proof of vaccination, it was largely outdoors... and perhaps most importantly, after 2019 I had intended to return with a very specific offering to Sigyn. So, I went. + + In my first post on this site I described ECT 2019 as "transformative". But after this event, I feel like I have new context on what that word means. I am _transformed_. I do not feel like the same person. The days during and immediately following the Thing were the most intense, but the feeling of being changed lingers. It is exciting and unsettling in equal measure. The Thing itself was a constant torrent of [halljoy](https://www.hallowedrenewal.com/post/halljoy-aspiration-and-calling), the gods undeniably present and immediate, the land singing its welcome, all undercut with an intense feeling of community and belonging. It was more than I imagined it could be. diff --git a/content/posts/2022-09-23-spotting-the-nazis/index.md b/content/posts/2022-09-23-spotting-the-nazis/index.md index a8f6481..d050d43 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022-09-23-spotting-the-nazis/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2022-09-23-spotting-the-nazis/index.md @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Heathenry, Ásatrú, Forn Siðr. Whatever you want to call it, our faith has a p As a result, a newcomer to heathenry runs the risk of ending up quite steeped in bigoted ideology, either becoming indoctrinated themselves or (quite understandably, at that point) abandoning the religion entirely. + + This, then, is an informal guide to spotting warning signs that an individual or group might be racist, fascist, and otherwise odious. With a few exceptions (mostly listed toward the top) these symbols and terms are not conclusive by themselves; look for them as part of a pattern of behavior and symbolism. ## The Swastika diff --git a/hugo.toml b/hugo.toml index 6b005d2..7237d19 100644 --- a/hugo.toml +++ b/hugo.toml @@ -9,10 +9,20 @@ copyright = "Anna Rose Wiggins" dateformat = '2006-01-02' post_meta = ["date", "author"] customCSS = ["css/custom.css"] +readmore = true [Params.sidebar] home = "right" +list = "right" +single = "right" widgets = ["search", "taglist"] [Params.style.vars] fontFamilyPrimary = "'Georgia'" + +[Author] +name = "Anna" + +[Params.logo] +title = "Freyja's Kiss" +subtitle = "Thoughts from the Leftist Edge of Heathenry" diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/imgproc.html b/layouts/shortcodes/imgproc.html index be51c67..56da79c 100644 --- a/layouts/shortcodes/imgproc.html +++ b/layouts/shortcodes/imgproc.html @@ -1,32 +1,26 @@ -{{ $original := .Page.Resources.GetMatch (printf "*%s*" (.Get 0)) }} -{{ $image := $original }} -{{ $align := "none" }} - -{{/* Set the height, width, and alignment properties */}} - -{{ with (.Get 1) }} - {{ if not (eq . 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- - + {{- end -}} + {{- end -}} +{{- end -}} +{{- with (.Get 2) -}} + {{- $align = . -}} +{{- end -}} +{{- if (gt $image.Width 1500) -}} + {{- $image = ($image.Resize "1500x") -}} +{{- else if (gt $image.Height 1500) -}} + {{- $image = ($image.Resize "x1500") -}} +{{- end -}} +
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