The cultivated and uncultivated
Welcome to Raw Material: the cultivated and uncultivated. As those of you that read Urban Magick already know, I see everything from the mass-produced to the untouched wilderness as a product of nature. So as I write about my interests, goings-on, travels, and life on this blog, they will touch on two categories:
the Cultivated
and
the Uncultivated.
Many times it’s quite likely that what I write touches on both categories. City magick is, after all, particularly liminal.
While witchcraft and the occult are absolutely my passions and career, I often want to share my other passions, hobbies, interests, and a bit of my personal history. Those interests are hard to condense to a single list, and what follows is by no means the scope of them.
These include:
Snippets of witchcraft and deeper conversations about corners are perhaps overlooked in all the modern conversations about magickal practices.
Plus-size fashion and fat positivity. Moving through the world as a fat woman that loves clothing is a complicated and oft-times difficult thing. I once ran a blog titled Fat Chic, and while I ran into frequent burnout cycles on it, I do also miss it - especially that comprehensive catalog project I used to run.
Subversive activism; I support the people that march, that strike, that call-out on any platform they can. I write letters, make phone calls, post public phone numbers (I absolutely do NOT doxx under any circumstances.) I also may lead in a bit of urban magick - or show you how to work a bit of yours!
Photography and collage art. I am a hobby photographer - I bought my very first DSLR in April of 2020 and I am looking for more ways to engage in and share my hobby.
Herbs, herbalism, cooking, and in-depth understanding of plants, their history, and how the same plant finds different uses across different cultures.
Ghost stories, ghost hunting, the paranormal, and that for at least a half the year now I appear to have Bigfoot among my neighbors. Michigan and San Francisco are both very haunted places, and it gives me so much to write about!
Animism, and how it exists as a practice that lives in an odd space that allows for friendliness with atheism and theism.
I am the sort that takes interest in a lot of different things, and I am overjoyed to share that with you all.