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		<title>Queer of Swords: The Gentrification of Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is now possible to earn very good money indeed in the tech sector whilst feeling good about living a lifestyle that really is just gentrified poverty – two missed pay checks from living in a car, a subjectively high wage that objectively isn't enough to save for our own retirement, let alone put a child through school. As Pagans, we have a bit of a bad habit of identifying as poorer than we really are. We forget that we can actually make a difference.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: Whereof One Cannot Speak &#8212; #BlackLivesMatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[#BlackLivesMatter isn't just a statement of fact -- it should be a mantra that we all recite, loudly and often, and mean it.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: Blue Yule</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/12/queer-of-swords-blue-yule/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those of us without supportive family, the holiday season can be the coldest time of the year, when Christmas-as-stereotype most starkly contrasts with reality, reminding us just how Other we really are.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: Cultural Inappropriation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fighting cultural appropriation is a significant part of the struggle for civil rights in modern times. Nevertheless, all religions, including modern neopagan paths, are steeped in cultural appropriation. Clearly significant harm can be caused, but is it always wrong? Where are the boundaries? How can we strive to deal with this issue ethically?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: Not God but god?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/11/queer-of-swords-not-god-but-god/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gnosis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unverifiable Personal Gnosis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not an atheist, but don't believe in the literal reality of God(s)? Sarah Thompson discusses her route from Christianity to Paganism via many years of hard atheism.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: The Black Heart of Indifference</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/11/queer-of-swords-the-black-heart-of-indifference/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many murders of transgendered people go unreported. Still more go uninvestigated. Then there are the many, many cases where the would-be murderer was unsuccessful, with their victim, like me, surviving to live on with PTSD. This Samhain season, please join me in remembering our transgendered dead.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: Halloween – The Secular Festival of Becoming</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/10/queer-of-swords-halloween-the-secular-festival-of-becoming/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looking beyond the Undead Tomato costumes and the candy corn, is there really something basic and important underlying Halloween that is largely unrecognized?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: True Names, True Identities</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/10/queer-of-swords-true-names-true-identities/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[True Names have power. This is an idea that has been debated by philosophers for millennia, but what does this mean for the Internet age? What are the deeper consequences of the Facebook real names fight?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: A Prayer for Compassion Toward Z Budapest</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/09/queer-of-swords-a-prayer-for-compassion-toward-z-budapest/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dianic Witchcraft]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In light of Z Budapest's recent outburst against the kink community in which she suggests the bombing of Pantheacon, Sarah Thompson calls for compassion rather than a new fight.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Queer of Swords: The Beast Strikes Back &#8211; How to Be an Ally</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/08/queer-of-swords-the-beast-strikes-back-how-to-be-an-ally/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following from my previous column in which I somehow managed to come out to the entire world as asexual, here are six simple rules for anyone who wants to be a better ally to people like me.]]></description>
		
		
		
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