Bonfire Night by Debi Crow

Bonfire Night
Paper flies to the fire.
Hair stings. Fingers gather up
a posy, a coin, a string.
The star burns down
to unreadable ashes.
The harvest swings at my hip.
The estuary wind sucks my skirt.
Water meets earth
with a whooshing hymn.
They splinter my door,
brutal and wary,
clattering into my room.
I have no cunning.
I am barely wise,
and definitely not a devil.
Yet here I [...]

In the Tradition of the Wickedary, Part Two by Dissenter

I have been studying fanfiction and slash fanfiction from a radical feminist perspective for several years now, and these definitions are the culmination of much reading, writing and thinking on the subject. I believe understanding the phenomenon of fanfiction and slash fanfiction within a radical feminist framework is extremely important, due to the sheer numbers [...]

In the Tradition of the Wickedary by Dissenter

In the tradition of Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language by Mary Daly and Jane Caputi, some wild and dangerous words.
Male Artist Syndrome – a mental disorder commonly found in men who call themselves creative artists (artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers etc.) whereby the man in question is only capable of thinking and [...]