Category: Radical Faerie
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Faeries Dress Up
An often heard first impression of the Radical Faeries is that “they are all about drag”. Of course, anyone who spends time with us soon realizes that drag is only part of what we do and the dressing up is not all drag. Costume is a very old art, perhaps as old as our species…
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Describing a Radical Faerie: An Odyssey into the Indefinite
Most Radical Faeries enjoy masturbation; and more than a few of us take pleasure in both the physical and mental forms of self-stimulation. Indeed, much of the mental masturbation of faes begins with the first three words of my first sentence, “Most Radical Faeries…” “Most Radical Faeries!?!?” will be the aghast riposte of…well…most Radical Faeries.…
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Le Jet d’Eau
In an earlier incarnation, I was an avid bicycle tourist. I completed my longest tour by far in the early 90s, passing through 24 countries in Europe and Asia. At one point, I was riding north up the Rhone Valley in France and I detoured east to visit Geneva at the westernmost point of Switzerland.…
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Going Deeper: Moving Beyond Hetero-Imitation to Authenticity
Radical Faeries seek to uncover an authentic way of being queer – transcending destructive social norms that have led to us objectifying our bodies and one another; filling our spiritual yearning with consumerism, addiction, and abuse. Objectification places one in a power relationship to the other; repressing and eliminating all subjective passion and compassion. In…
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Radical? Faeries?
We are a queer tribal nation sharing affinity in the spiritual underpinnings of non-mainstream sexuality and heart-centered relationship. Meeting at the nexus of spirit and flesh, the Radical Faeries embody and encompass many different – and sometimes opposing – ideas of what it means to be Faerie. Our own Vancouver circle is composed of self-identified…