Huh. I saw the comment in the Wiscon newsletter, but didn't know what it was about. I also saw the flyer, but just glanced over it vaguely, and was more irritated by the implied Euro-ness of its pagan-ness. I'm not pagan, I should note -- agnostic but supportive -- but the pagans I've met worship the Egyptian pantheon, east African loa and ancestor spirits, and/or a whole slew of deities and entities other than Diana or any single goddess. Then again, the pagans I hang around tend to be women of color.
Plus the flyer talked about chakras and all sorts of other stuff that just smacked all over of cultural appropriation. So it doesn't surprise me to hear the flyer was exclusionary on other levels too; the whole thing kind of radiated liberal white clueless insensitivity.
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Date: 2007-05-30 05:13 am (UTC)Plus the flyer talked about chakras and all sorts of other stuff that just smacked all over of cultural appropriation. So it doesn't surprise me to hear the flyer was exclusionary on other levels too; the whole thing kind of radiated liberal white clueless insensitivity.