Dark Habits

Megan and Gudrun get together with Kiki to learn more about the biggest celebration of the year in her home country: Chinese New Year! Happy Year of the Wood Dragon! Spellbound Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Megan talks about the fire festival: Imbolc, as well as grief, loss, community and lack thereof. This episode is dedicated to Andy Morton (December 27, 1970 - January 18, 2024) Obituary: https://warrenmcelwain.com/obituary/andrew-david-morton/ Spellbound Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Megan and Ryen meet up for the 10th episode of Dark Habits and the FIRST episode of 2024 to talk about Capricorn Season, Stonewall veteran, butch drag king and social justice activist Notable Queer Capricorn - Stormé DeLarverie! Sources: https://www.nps.gov/people/storme-delarverie.htm Carter, David (2004). Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution , St. Martin's Press. Yardley, Wil...

Megan talks about the meaning of Winter Solstice as well as walks us through a simple Winter Solstice ritual. Spellbound Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, Megan shares the stories of winter monsters from places around the world. In this episode, she'll discuss a problematic ogre family from Iceland, a judgy Japanese winter ghost with lethally bad breath, well-mannered yeti intellectuals and many more! Andof course...she talks about everyone's favorite: Krampus. Sources: 8 Legendary Monsters of Christmas – Mental Floss, Miss...

Megan and Ryen kick off Sagittarius Season with a deep dive into the life of queer Russian French illustrator, fashion designer, all around prolific artist not to mention the Father of Art Deco: Erté Sources: Erte – A Deep Dive Exploration ofErte’s Art and Design, Art inContext by Nicolene Burger Gay Pride and Designer Erte | Artof Fine Gifts Flame TreePublishing by Matt Knight The Forgotten Art D...

Megan and Gudrun are here to celebrate Scorpio season and our notable queer Scorpio of the season: Swedish artist and mystic, Hilma af Klint! Sources: Hilma af Klint by Julia Voss About the Artist: Hilma af Klint - Moderna Museet Hilma af Klint: a painter possessed by Kate Kellaway, The Guardian Hilma af Klint's Queer Clairvoyance by Natalie Adler, Paper Magazine Spellbound Kevin MacLeod (inco...

Megan and Ryen sit down to continue their discussion on our Notable Queer Libra, Oscar Wilde. This episode contains mention of sexual exploitation of minors and suicide. Please take care while listening. Sources: Douglas, Lord Alfred. 1970. My Friendship with Oscar Wilde: The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas . Sharpe Books. Ellmann, Richard. 1988. Oscar Wilde . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group...

Megan meets up with best friend/unofficial official sibling (and queer Libra) Ryen, to talk about our queer ancestor Oscar Wilde! Content Warning: Ryen uses the term "f****t" as a self-identifier. This term is used in this episode. This is used proudly as part of his/their identity. This is NOT used as a slur. Please take care while listening. Sources: Douglas, Lord Alfred. 1970. My Frie...

On our latest episode Gudrun talks about the cultural practice and history surrounding tsantsas or "shrunken heads" from a deconstructivist and and decolonial lens. Together Gudrun and Megan talk about how to treat human remains in museums and the question of repatriation. Sources: ‘Severed’ - Frances Larson ‘Should We Be Displaying the Dead Bodies of Preserved Ancestors?’ - Hyperallergi...

Megan talks about Virgo season and our notable queer sun sign of the season, Marsha P. Johnson. Spellbound Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Megan and Gudrun get together for their first episode of Dark Habits to discuss how they got into witchcraft, the occult and other "dark habits". Links: The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches The Worst Witch Poppy Z. Brite / Billy Martin / Billy Martin's Vintage Seller Page / Billy Martin's Etsy Scott Cunningham Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida In Defense of Witches -...