Reclaiming Faerie Dynamics

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A Snowy Season Still Alive in Spirit

As much of the country is under the spell of winter’s mix of snow and ice, RFD has taken on moving ahead with its relocation as well as asking our readers to respond to a survey which was both online and an insert to subscribers. Overall, we had a great return rate on the survey and we appreciate everyone’s input. We’ll be detailing some of the survey results in our summer issue but we wanted to say we heard loud and clear that folks want RFD in print.

But as many of you know from the downturn in the print industry, costs have risen and we may have to look at RFD’s model to continue forward. Please bear with us and send us hugs and encouragement as well as your subscription renewal. If you can, please consider increasing your subscription rate as every bit helps.

This issue of RFD focuses on the links between the Radical Faeries and the Reclaiming Community within Wicca. We thought it was a timely issue to cover as we enter the thirtieth anniversary of the Arizona gathering that brought us the “radical faeries”. Many of the antecedents of the radical faerie movement included gay people exploring a different spiritual path both in a religious as well as a cultural sense. We hope you enjoy the issue.

Kudos for this issue go out to all of the readers who responded to RFD’s call to make RFD an actual “reader written journal”. Special thanks to Endora, Jason and Waterfall for their help in collecting, editing and proofing the articles and Matt for his help with laying out the issue. As ever thanks to the Collective members who have stepped forward to help get this magazine into your hands.

We think you will find the upcoming issues of RFD equally inspiring as we have features on the San Francisco faerie community coming this summer and a feature on the thirtieth anniversary of the Benson, Arizona radical faerie gathering in the fall. If you have memories, photos or memorabilia from that early seminal gathering please be in touch via mail or our email: submissions@rfdmag.org with “radfae30” in the subject line. We’d also love to hear other reminiscences of early gatherings and the people that shaped our current circle of sanctuaries, circles and networks.

We encourage anyone who has an interest in RFD to consider being in touch about writing, artwork or submitting photos for its pages, as you all know RFD is a reader written labor of love.

Hugs –The RFD Collective