First Protocols of Queer Goetia, by Anonymous (magic anarchist poetry, 2018)

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" Practice automatic writing, possessory trance, and other methods of channeling.
Journey to the underworld and find your way out."

Blurb: "A small, powerful set of mythopoetic instructions for working with the queer dead, composed after the overlapping underground worlds of the Bay Area lost thirty-six of their people in the Ghost Ship Fire."

Why is it worth your time?: This is an expression of ecstatic queer grief in the wake of preventable loss. It's short, free, and beautiful in its passion.

Plural Tags: abuse not mentioned, otherworld, the dead, community, spiritual, possession

Content Warnings: Death and religion.

Access Notes: The nice thing about anarchists is you can get their work all over the place. Read online or download for free in various accessible formats, or you might be able to find one of Contagion Press's paper copies around for $2. Back-up link here.

Misc Notes: Although the author is listed as "anonymous," there's enough overlap in writing style and content that I suspect the writer was also involved in the Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime--which was also first printed by Contagion Press in 2018, also concerned with queer magical anarchism, and also concerned with the loss of friends (specifically, Feral Pines) in the Ghost Ship Fire.

Divination, Art Creation, and Schizophrenia, by Xuan Nguyen (personal experience essay, 2021)

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"What happens when you do not live in the same reality that nearly everyone else has all somehow secretly agreed to live in while you were busy trying to keep your feet from being tangled by the threads of heaven’s net? (And No, Christians, I do not speak of Christ when I speak of heaven. I am not your brethren.) What happens is that you must construct an internal world to survive and thrive because otherwise you will die."

Blurb: A personal essay on divination, being a poet-prose writer, and consensus reality with schizophrenia, DID, and physical disability caused by medication.

Why is it worth your time?: It's short, free, and a crystalline study of what it means to live in a reality that isn't built for you.

Plural Tags: abuse not mentioned, medical

Content Warnings: passing discussion of medical ableism

Access Notes: Free to read online, screenreadable. (Back-up link in case monstering mag goes down.)

Misc Notes: See also:

• Their poem Where My Limbs Hung Far and Fair.
• Their old bandcamp for music
• Their new bandcamp for music
• Their old website on the Wayback Machine
• Their current website
• Their webcomic (not screenreadable, I don't think, sorry)
• Interactive fiction under the FeyXuan name
• Interactive fiction and poetry under the Pancreas name