00:05:22.840Oh, like, and in that moment, you have the power to be able to be like, well, actually, you can either say, well, actually, in case you didn't know, I'm also trans.
00:15:13.640supports the binary composition of male and female.
00:15:17.240My voice is going up as a form of a question.
00:15:19.860um i think i think in a lot of ways um yes and also some no yeah i mean yeah yes yes and no
00:15:28.460yeah um it can it's completely subjective on the context so i mean like you were talking about
00:15:33.400people who say you have to shave your legs yeah in order to be a proper trans woman exactly again
00:15:38.360air quotes air quotes air quotes they're everywhere today proper yeah um so uh yeah there's there's
00:15:45.780so many little ambiguous areas where i think i think in all honesty people just need to get used
00:15:53.440to the the notion of asking someone what their pronouns are like when i'm it's it still like
00:16:00.380catches me off guard when i'm in a meeting with a large group of people and we go like the moderator
00:16:07.820of the research circle will be like okay so everyone go around say their name their favorite
00:16:16.040food their pronoun and where they're from and normal icebreaker exactly it's yeah and and to
00:16:22.980just normalize it in a way where it's it's not like oh but i i could see i could see in 98 of
00:16:30.660all these people there they were just like up like i'd say 60 of them forgot about the pronoun
00:16:37.860aspect of the questionnaire exactly and for a lot of people they don't even they've never even been
00:16:44.620given the opportunity to question it so why would they think about it so i think if if it's if it's
00:16:50.480more normalized then we're able to start to get it into people's heads this that it is it's
00:16:56.140perfectly rational to think about this so i'm not going to use any of the names that are out there
00:17:01.300people who are against pronoun choice because yeah their names are spoken enough but to me it's like
00:17:08.260someone tells you their pronoun that's them saying here's how not to hurt me and if you're like well
00:17:15.200screw that then you're saying i want to hurt you or i don't care about hurting you exactly if you're
00:17:21.620confused about pronouns just stick to the person's name y'all yeah like you can say i went to jackie's0.98
00:17:26.420house and jackie and i went to the store and then jackie and i did this and jackie and i did that
00:17:30.280and jackie and i we if we and i almost think that if we did do that if we got rid of pronouns
00:17:35.700entirely then we're connecting with people on their humanity exactly this person is jackie
00:17:40.820this isn't a he or a she or an it or a they or whatever horribleness you all want to come up
00:17:45.980with for your own selves yeah um this is jackie exactly yes yeah exactly so if you're confused
00:17:56.680use the person's first name exactly if you're confused and you're looking at somebody0.98
00:18:00.880just don't fucking worry about it yeah their genitals are none of your business anyway there's0.98
00:18:08.140no other situation in the world exactly where somebody's genitals are gonna inform your0.99
00:18:12.640conversation with them i'm sorry like just use their fucking name if you're confused precisely0.98
00:18:17.740this is me throwing my hands up couldn't agree more that's a mic drop perfect um okay so we are0.97
00:18:26.280here in part because i have a problem all righty and you know this problem i'm not springing anything
00:18:33.740on jackie you listeners who think that i'm springing this i'm not we've talked about it
00:18:38.100Um, we're juxtaposing this, uh, episode against with, not in a debate sense because we're
00:18:45.600not fighting, we're learning, um, with the, uh, Zhijana Budapest episode who, her version
00:18:52.940of Dianic Wicca only includes the womb, and it's very womb-centric.
00:19:00.860Um, so I wanted Jackie to talk about turfdom.
00:19:04.440And for those of you who didn't listen to the episode or don't know what a TERF is, it's an acronym that stands for Trans Excluding or Exclusive Radical Feminist.
00:19:15.900Part of me, I don't get it because exclusivity is not my tea at all.
00:19:25.540This is how we make good humanity.0.99
00:19:27.860yeah um but because of patriarchy and because the woman was smashed and smashed and smashed1.00
00:19:34.500like that's sort of where jenna was coming from where she wanted to create a safe space for women1.00
00:19:38.940but then she became the powerful one and excluded i don't even know what to make of it because i
00:19:48.640understand the need for safe spaces i and i said this exactly in the episode so i'm going to have
00:19:53.820jackie respond exactly to what i said in the episode which was this i get why jujana felt
00:19:59.300that she needed to create safe space for women i do not get why she thinks she gets to decide
00:20:07.800what a woman is so can we talk about that from like a pagan perspective yes please yes i would
00:20:15.140love to thank you i think um if you go back historically the notion of the the mother and
00:20:23.780the father are so deeply ingrained into the practice that it's to a lot of people it's like
00:20:30.560well if we're following it by the book technically it says there's a mother and a father and the0.99
00:20:37.440mother as a female and has a vagina that gives birth um and my vagina is incapable of giving1.00
00:20:45.560birth by the way many many of them i don't even know if she sure would let me into her little0.91
00:20:50.820coffin exactly yeah yeah it's there's there's so and that's uh it's like there's so many different
00:20:58.000ways to again what we were talking about in the first episode i was on like the the idea of to
00:21:05.960be a woman is to have a womb or to be a woman is to bleed cuts not just it doesn't just cut out0.97
00:21:13.100many trans women because there are lots of trans women with perfectly functioning vaginas0.99
00:21:19.180and there are also lots of trans men with perfectly functioning vaginas exactly exactly and but it0.89
00:21:28.360also cuts out all these women that are were again lots of air quotations born a woman and um just
00:21:39.040have infertility discriminate discriminate uh yeah let's go with discrimination like it's yeah
00:21:47.400it's definitely i mean i won't get too much into my personal business but um i've told people like
00:21:56.280i can't have children and then the next time i see them they're like when are you gonna have kids
00:22:00.120and i'm like my body isn't going to do that it's not gonna happen like it's like i'm in a wheelchair
00:22:08.340and you're like why don't you just go for a run when are you gonna start running and i'm like0.89
00:22:12.340because i fucking can't like but because i'm a married heterosexual woman this is the next step0.76
00:22:19.480anyway sorry yeah too much about me no it's okay it's okay um no i love to hear it um so0.95
00:22:26.180So I think if you go all the way back, yes, there is that notion of it, but also at the same time, there's so many things that need to be updated nowadays.
00:22:36.320There's so many archaic ideas that, yeah, sure, they were based in a very good place, but now they need to adapt to a new era.
00:22:46.560We're in a completely different epoch.
00:22:48.280I mean, if we go way, way, way, way, way, way, way back, um, I mean, if, if many people don't know, the world used to run on a matrilineal cycle, uh, with matrilineal governance, um, and that's where the divine feminine idea was really born, really.0.74
00:23:06.820So in those societies, femininity was cherished and held to the highest prowess.0.88
00:23:15.560And nowadays, it's just kicked and smashed down underneath patriarchy.
00:23:20.880So, but, I mean, deeper within Dianic or Turfdom, there...
00:23:32.820Sorry, we're just going to have to, like, cut here.
00:24:30.480But, and you can understand where I think that it's a little unfair to, you know, have these physical bodies competing against each other in only this physical realm.
00:24:51.740Like, and again, like, there's no winner or loser.1.00
00:24:58.000Again, if it's a running race, maybe a trans woman has a biological advantage because of her skeletal structure or her muscular structure or whatever.1.00
00:25:08.660But again, in a coven, there should be no competition.1.00
00:25:15.020Exactly. And I think what's really, really interesting about excluding a trans woman from a Dianic coven, or any coven for that matter, is the point at where someone realizes their transgenderness, specifically a trans woman in this instance, they are recognizing and truly embodying what the feminine spirit is.0.58
00:25:44.180like that is like the rawest feeling of being in touch with femininity you can possibly have0.65
00:25:50.560is the moment of like, holy fuck, I'm in the wrong body because I'm, I can feel this within me0.89
00:25:58.440so deeply and so strongly that I need to change my body and adapt my body so that this energy0.95
00:26:07.440within me can manifest itself properly um and i mean to me to me it's just like i think that
00:26:15.120getting in touch with that i i i i i don't really know how anyone can get in touch with that
00:26:22.160spirit and that feeling and be so sure of these feelings of like well this is what a woman is
00:26:30.240this is what a woman is not it's like to the the whole idea of like femininity is so ambiguous and
00:26:39.540to every woman is completely different and every definition of femininity is different
00:26:44.680certainly there's no singular female experience exactly it there's there's billions of these
00:26:52.860feminine experiences exactly yeah something like that roughly yeah right now yeah oh my god yeah
00:26:59.840oh my gosh yeah so and it's just like we we need to we need to sort of dismantle this idea that
00:27:10.440we are bound by what body we are born into um because that really has like i mean take it from
00:27:22.780me that has next to nothing to do with pretty much anything um it it can all change so incredibly
00:27:30.340quickly just by a chemical in your body but i mean if if you if you if you're denying someone
00:27:39.560who is that in tune with a feminine spirit to have the opportunity to share that love and to
00:27:45.480share that power with people then what you're not trying to share or embrace that love at all
00:27:51.600You're trying to get rid of it and tame it down and keep it, well, keep it under a rock, essentially.
00:28:00.920And essentially is the word that is essentialism, which is, I think, the enemy of the trap.
00:28:13.480And I mean, like, again, like if you go into like pretty much almost almost the majority of religious beliefs throughout the world or spiritual practices throughout the world, there are these transgender or genderless or non-binary figures that ring all the way through history.
00:28:40.020in all cultures yes the idea of a non-binary or a or um a i mean like if if we're thinking about
00:28:51.060like the indigenous people in north america you look at like two-spirit people um they're
00:28:58.840they're held to like an extremely wise position within their clans um because of the the amount
00:29:06.620of knowledge that they possess in terms of being able to for some they see from both perspectives
00:29:11.980they they've seen what it is to have the masculine spirit and now they see from a feminine spirit
00:29:18.340some people can see both at once it's like we are cape as trans or non-binary people we see
00:29:25.140the in-between um we see where um a point of view fails um or a point of view is not entirely
00:29:33.560crystal clear because they're they're looking from one point of view and if you're gonna just
00:29:39.120stick in one point of view then you need to realize that there's stuff that you're missing
00:29:42.340and yeah if you're only looking forward then you're not seeing what's behind you and you're0.52
00:29:48.340not seeing what's on either side of you so being non-binary you get to see a peripheral of
00:29:55.020everything um and i think that that's so important to realize because in in our current like
00:30:02.500political climate it's like you need to listen to the voices of people who are marginalized because
00:30:09.120they have seen they've seen they've they've seen where the system has failed them and in order to
00:30:16.400improve that system and to see where the system is failing you wouldn't know the system is failing
00:30:20.640unless you have seen it from that perspective right if you're living in your little jolly
00:30:24.680picket fence echo chamber you're like the world is great capitalism works yeah exactly exactly
00:30:29.800exactly because you haven't seen where capitalism fails so um to to to be to be non-binary and to be
00:30:39.120transgender you um you see from both perspectives and i think that i mean i can't imagine why you
00:30:47.300wouldn't want to have someone like that who sees what you don't see it's like from a very practical
00:30:53.060perspective i read an essay by a trans man um yeah he transitioned from female to male i'm just
00:31:02.320trying to remember the article and i'll put it in the show notes i will find it for you guys
00:31:06.220because y'all need to read it um who was a business person and experienced the world of
00:31:12.360business through the eyes of a woman and then through the eyes of a man and had a lot to say
00:31:17.700A lot to say about the difference in treatment, in values, in everything.
00:31:23.680So this is a person who is uniquely capable of assessing what's right and what's wrong in any given environment.
00:31:34.220We're capable of seeing where the fail is.
00:31:39.400and and and i think in this case it only took a few trans people to be like uh by the way like
00:31:47.980i'm a woman and i should be allowed in this coven because i am a woman and this is an all-women's
00:31:52.760coven correct and this was a public event too i mean this was not like come to jujana's home
00:31:58.560okay yeah like you know make your own rules in your heads but don't try to take them at it on
00:32:29.040shut out everyone until you're alone1.00
00:32:30.860I mean those of you who listened to the Zhijana
00:32:33.280episode um which just preceded this episode know that i'm just confused yeah it's very confusing
00:32:40.860patriarchy divides witchcraft unites yes that's what i thought yeah so it seems to me that jujana
00:32:46.680is like acting out the patriarchy more than she's trying to smash it which is like a feminist
00:32:51.660again baffling i'm back exactly yeah no and and i mean like if if you look at like just
00:32:59.560like stepping outside of um stepping outside of witchcraft you get turfs um and like like to just0.68
00:33:08.460to bind somebody by what you've been bound by your entire life it's like well what's the point in0.99
00:33:14.280that if you've been dealing with this your whole life then what's the point in binding someone else
00:33:19.040by it exactly like if we find this place where like well i have no power but now i'm gonna get
00:33:24.200power and then i'm going to use it to smash the other like what what's the point in that yeah
00:33:29.780like what the wait what like you did this to me and it was horrible so i'm just waiting until i
00:33:35.760can be in that position to do it to somebody else there's this old thing that's like when people are
00:33:41.100hurt they go one of two ways they either think i don't want this to ever happen to anyone again
00:33:46.120or they think well it happened to me so i may as well make it happen to you
00:33:50.480mm-hmm yeah exactly and I don't get how a witch would choose Colin exactly yeah
00:33:57.300exactly it's like I I mean the right yeah it's where we always come to it's0.91
00:34:06.620like this just baffled like I'm baffled I can't figure out Juju like what are you
00:34:12.840doing I'm worried for I hope you're listening to this Juju because I am
00:34:17.480worried for your legacy your legacy is going to be a hating like a heat-filled turf which is baloney
00:34:25.980because you did some amazing stuff leading up to this point so what do we do with that what do we
00:34:31.740do with exactly i mean yeah i mean if if we i mean i'm gonna step into transhumanism for a second
00:34:39.140um and like look at biohacking um i mean we have if you look at transhumanist philosophy we have
00:34:48.880reached our maximum evolutionary potential as humans um and in order to to survive in our
00:34:57.700upcoming changing environment which i'm i'm hoping most people know about um you mean like
00:35:03.420climate change oh yeah that little yeah little tidbit so in order to adapt to a changing
00:35:13.980environment we need to make efforts to change ourselves in order to adapt to that changing
00:35:20.440world and i think that this philosophy can not only be put on an evolutionary scale with biohacking
00:35:27.860um it can also be just like taken into account for gender politics if we don't adapt and change
00:35:37.620ourselves for the better in order to adapt to our changing environment then we're just0.99
00:35:43.460well fucked you're just fucked so i i mean i urge anyone who has strong beliefs against1.00
00:35:52.660trans people being included into a cisgendered woman-based coven. I think that in order to1.00
00:36:01.220be able to truly make an impact and grow and nurture that love and care within your coven
00:36:07.120and within the world and manifest that outside of yourselves, I think you have to adapt to these
00:36:14.240changing conditions. Dianic witchcraft definitely was probably based in an act of essentialism
00:36:22.000at that point but like from a place of healing yes exactly from a place of healing and exactly
00:36:28.700but i mean but if if you if you look at the environment now and you look at all the trauma
00:36:34.460that is being caused now yes it's happening to cisgender women but there are there's literally
00:36:40.800hundreds of trans women that are killed every year for the sole fact of them just being trans0.96
00:36:47.820or just being feminine um so i mean i i would strongly urge you to try to begin to dismantle
00:36:57.080these ideas and move in a way that is more productive and proactive for the betterment of
00:37:03.680not only just the coven but really humanity in general especially under that umbrella of
00:37:10.140witchcraft which as we talked about as far as i thought was about the oneness not the things that
00:37:17.540separate us but the things that give us a common and again we're not talking about shared experience
00:37:23.920i have a vagina and so do you so whatever but like sharing this earth like yeah space and time0.75
00:37:32.040and air and heartbeats yes you know love the idea of love the concept of like intelligence0.99
00:37:38.140and consciousness exactly yeah these are much more interesting to me than yeah you know oh0.99
00:37:44.240you also have a vagina great yeah no i've met enough vaginas that i had nothing to ever think0.98
00:37:52.780that that's how i want to yeah you know exactly humanity exactly i mean yeah exactly there's no0.99
00:37:59.820point in dividing ourselves because we're already divided so much that i think like what's the point
00:38:05.840in dividing when we can unify ourselves you know capitalism succeeds when we hate ourselves
00:38:11.680because we're going to go out and buy whatever we can to make ourselves stop beating ourselves
00:38:16.400capitalism fails when we love ourselves as we are exactly exactly i think so tell me i mean
00:38:23.840we've already gone way over time but i don't care we're going to keep talking if that's okay with
00:38:28.180you because i want you to talk about biohacking i'm gonna assume again that there are some
00:38:33.740listeners out there who have no idea what that means and hit us with the fascinating world of
00:38:38.000biohacking. So again, transhumanism, maximum evolutionary potential. Biohacking is the act
00:38:46.660of making both genetic and cybernetic enhancements to the human body and the human genome to adapt
00:38:57.980ourselves for another evolutionary potential. So for many biohackers, this works on a genomic
00:39:07.260level where they're um they're curing their lactose intolerance or they're um cutting out
00:39:14.980their a gene in their family that causes diabetes or things like that where they are making a
00:39:21.720betterment for their future family um some are making some people with money are using crisper
00:39:28.280to make their kids smarter um which is so weird the scary world yeah that's the scary world of it
00:39:36.880Yes, definitely. And that's where I mean, that's where privilege comes in, where it's like if you're able to pay for this kind of thing, then you can get it done.
00:39:45.300But I mean, there is a beautiful world of DIY biohacking. And that's where I definitely lie.
00:39:54.240Uh, but I think, I mean, for me, I use biohacking, um, and I, I do, I practice biohacking in a way where I can better my body to listen to the earth.
00:40:07.100So, I mean, I have several different biohack implants that I'm getting ready to put in myself that will basically, like, enhance my ability to connect with the Earth on an electromagnetic scale or connecting myself to humidity levels.
00:40:26.000There's an amazing biohacker, which I believe, named Moon Rebus.0.66
00:40:33.240Somebody named Moon is probably going to be a witch
00:41:44.080The, the, these sort of implants are done subdermally.
00:41:47.160Um, some of them are done neurologically.
00:41:52.020um through the brain which is a whole area that i'm wanting to dive into more so later on in my
00:41:58.660life but um there there are people out there that have done uh implants that are like embedded into
00:42:05.980their brains um can you give an example of that uh yes like not a specific name or anything but
00:42:11.860like definitely what um well uh wait what specific name like neil harbison uh huge biohacker um he
00:42:21.040has an antenna that comes out of the back of his head around to the front and he's colorblind so
00:42:28.200he's trained his antenna to read colors and it plays a song or like a key in his head and so he
00:42:37.340can hear color so like when he's dressing himself in the morning he can compose his outfit colors
00:42:44.900based on their sonic um like compatibility what's the word for this where the sense
00:42:54.140the related sense isn't the one there's a word for it and i think one of the witches that we
00:43:00.820profiled in season one even had this where you like you smell colors yes oh um
00:43:07.860synesthesia synesthesia yeah there you go there you go you got it
00:43:13.760yeah biohacking synesthesia basically yeah yeah so i i mean there's many different variations of
00:43:21.140it but like with moon if you see her performing these dances um where her movements are a language
00:43:28.040of the seismic movement of the earth so she can translate this in a bodily movement in real time
00:43:34.360In real time, and I believe she's working on one where she's getting it done in her foot so that she can feel the moon, so that basically her body is down on Earth, but her feet are on the moon.
00:43:49.660Feel the moon. How does one feel the moon?
00:50:25.980And I mean, there's lots of biohackers that think that a meat-only diet is the only way to go.
00:50:31.460And I'm like, not exactly, but that's my own, um, from, I mean, I, I don't have the option of ethically hunting. Um, I, most people don't know how to ethically hunt and to think that in a, in a future society, we will all be perfectly like educated on ethical hunting.
00:50:56.240that's kind of naive so um i don't i mean to be a vegan and to say that ethical hunting is
00:51:06.880perfectly fine is uh another hot topic that i'm probably going to get in hot water about
00:51:12.000but um i know email missingwitches at gmail.com and if i decide to forward your email on to jackie
00:51:18.760I will. Perfect. Thank you. Um, so yeah, it's, um, I, for me, I see it as like, again, with
00:51:29.220the changing planet, the planet doesn't have enough to be able to keep supplying us with
00:51:35.900that. Um, the planet, yes, exactly. The resources are finite and we're going to reach a point
00:51:42.120where we're going to exhaust it all. And they brought in, they, some people on the group
00:51:47.240chat we're talking about like the the the negative environmental effects of biohacking and rare earth
00:51:55.660mineral mining is extremely damaging on the environment so the components that are required
00:52:02.920exactly yeah so um they're they're like oh well well the earth isn't going to be good anyway at
00:52:11.420that point and it's just like okay well yes but you're thinking about it in a very specific way
00:52:16.540where that will we're gonna be just running down this rampant road of like ripping things from here
00:52:25.320and ripping things from there and just like not caring about the environment but if we're able
00:52:30.380to biohack in a way and we're able to move forward in a way where we can ethically start to provide
00:52:36.220ourselves with these resources and start to think more holistically about how us as a whole
00:52:42.980in like uh work with the planet then we can actually make a positive change for ourselves but
00:52:49.200yeah i it's um yeah that's a hot topic they're all hot they're all hot topics yes
00:53:04.260yeah um completely and and it becomes difficult because we know what we think is right yeah and
00:53:14.240so we want everyone to do what we think is right because it's right um but we have to keep our ears
00:53:20.640open and not and not be so um talky as to think that we don't have something to learn from even
00:53:28.360from a meat eater exactly sometimes you gotta keep your eyes open yeah and and you know see
00:53:35.620their point of view yeah and if um you know cognitive dissonance like really helps us to
00:53:41.800get through this oh yeah i'm not like a big like hey everybody get your cognitive dissonance on but
00:53:47.880like sometimes if you just need to not think about it to get through your day which is yeah just get
00:53:53.200through y'all's day oh yeah get through your day existentialism is very real oh yeah so um
00:54:01.480again we're not making any judgment calls you're bad if you're this you're good if you're that
00:54:05.420other than like to try and um not to try yeah period yeah exactly I don't know why I tried to
00:54:13.060just just educate yourself as best you possibly can about this kind of thing and I think then
00:54:20.220try and make a choice that you feel is correct and be be like if someone has an opposing
00:54:26.560point of view on it then be able to state why you feel that way um and clarify to them like i
00:54:35.520i don't agree with that and here's why yeah because that's going to be much more but i
00:54:41.860personally feel like you should want your belief system to be challenged by as many people as
00:54:45.700possible. Oh, definitely. Because if it doesn't stand up to that challenge, they've done you a favor. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. And if you, every time I've had to defend my thoughts, it's only made me more grounded and more focused because I've had to defend it. So I've had to think about it even more. Exactly. Oh, I hadn't thought of that. Let me answer your question in my mind and then be even more resolved when we leave this. Exactly. And again, if somebody can knock your whole belief system out with four questions or three statements, then you really needed that to happen. Oh, definitely.
00:55:15.700Yeah. I mean, this is another whole rabbit hole, but like there's a documentary on flat earthers on Netflix. I mean, this is a, this is a big thing. And what, what I just found so, it was absolutely hilarious because we were able to watch it from not a perspective of these documentarians trying to disprove them.
00:55:42.460they were just observing as good documentators do they just observe um and
00:55:50.380these people they were doing these experiments to try and prove themselves
00:55:57.260and they got results that proved the opposite like the earth is round the earth is round
01:00:09.620yeah yeah i'm i'm i'm so it doesn't have to be like jean paul sart you know a dissertation on
01:00:17.040thank you i i think honestly the the the best thing we can do is to just listen we just need
01:00:26.520to listen and to be more active about listening um because when we listen we can fully comprehend
01:00:34.260And again, not just the voices of the people around us and from all of their different perspectives, but also if we are more actively listening, we're we're seeing things deeper than what they are on the surface.