Welcome to Well Beings

witchy wellness for the end of the world

We're (still) at the pandemic. We're (already) at the climate catastrophe. We're (yet again) at the multiple ongoing genocides. We're still already yet again at the combination pandemic climate catastrophe multiple ongoing genocides.

It's the End of the World (As We Know It)

Do you feel fine?

I do not feel fine.

What does it mean to engage with subjects like "health" and "wellness" or "magic" and "creativity" in the midst of so many human-made global disasters? To "let the soft animal of your body love what it loves" as other species go extinct, as entire peoples and histories are destroyed?

Well Beings isn't a wellness space where we prioritize personal wellness above environmental and cultural wellness, nor a place where we will center personal creativity above organizational and social creativity. The magic here is queer in the most political way possible.

Queering Health, Enchanting Wellness

For now, Well Beings is a newsletter. I envision this space growing to include courses, classes, and community spaces for dreaming into being new, collaborative ways of being well together, through creativity and magic.

Be well. / Be the well.

The well where we fill our individual cups but also the well where we gather water for shared meals, to clean ourselves and our spaces, to scry by moonlight, to wet the dried ink in our pens.

I have been working on this project for a few years now, first simply holding the seed of it inside me, keeping it safe during a long creative winter. Then nurturing the seed as it slowly began to sprout, sending out that first root into the earth, its first leaf pair cracking through shell in search of the sun.

Here are a few of the pieces of writing currently waiting to burst into leafy green glory:

1. a love letter to the neuroqueer tribute to Buffy the Vampire Slayer that was I Saw the TV Glow, now on HBOMax just in time for spooky season
2. a treatise on magic as a practice rather than a belief system, with a particular focus on approaching astrology as a calendar
3. a reported essay about the connections and disconnections between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia in a fatphobic world
4. an essay exploring the issues of energetic boundaries and protection beyond the limits of the personal body, in a world where people use "feeling safe" to commit extreme acts of violence

Currently 100% of all new memberships will be going to the Nkä'äymyujkëmë Community Kitchen in Oaxaca, Mexico, at least until we cover their monthly rent.

Help me turn this seed into the thriving nourishment I know it can be.