Sign up for Alex’s class on queer occultism here: https://www.laetitiacartomancy.com/classes-1/p/queerness-the-occult

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her cited essay is "Austin Osman Spare’s Psychopathia Sexualis" for the Brooklyn Rail

What associations does the hermaphrodite have with divinity and power?; How is the queer body a kind of mutant?; How have the suppression of queerness and magic been linked in the western enlightenment project?; Where can we excavate queer embodiment in esoteric traditions?; What is the significance of the Androgyne or Hermaphrodite in hermetic philosophy, and how does it relate to contemporary queer theory?; How is the monster/mutant innately about the transgression of categories, and has this always been the case or is this a postmodern construction of monstrosity?; Why is the nonbinary supernatural, whether in the form of the transcendent androgyne or the monster/mutant?; Laetitia’s cartomancy as seed for Alex’s queer occultism studies; queerness, subversion, and the sublimation of desire; pathology as container; alchemy’s symbolism’s layered meanings; the cloud of unknowing and alchemical instruction; psychopathia sexualis and Austin Osman Spare’s transgressive art; King James’ demonologies as tempting experimentation; the sacred androgyne and intersex people; Jack Halberstam’s Skin Shows and queer monsters as post-gothic technologies; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as progenitor of sci fi and horror; queerness in early christian mysticism; haraway’s cyborgs and chthonic entities as monsters; serpents as keepers of secret knowledge; magic and lusting for results

music: Boody, Khalifa; Prettybwoy; Ana Roxanne