Bending the Binary, Deborah Lipp
Bending the Binary, Deborah Lipp
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Bending the Binary
Polarity Magic in a Non-Binary World

Author: Deborah Lipp

Narrator: Tegan Ashton Cohan

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/28/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A Groundbreaking New Perspective on Polarity Magic

Break polarity free from outmoded ideas of gender and heteronormativity while still celebrating its energy. This pioneering book explores polarity from many angles, examining its evolution throughout history, why it's important in the occult, and how it relates to identity and sexual orientation. Deborah Lipp shows you what it means to both include polarity magic and be inclusive.

Bending the Binary adds depth and nuance to polar concepts in magic, such as day and night, male and female, self and other. Deborah offers a third perspective on these opposites, inviting you to explore the space between them through rituals, journal prompts, and detailed research. She also teaches how to incorporate binary-bending practices into your personal magical system. This book encourages everyone to expand their perceptions and strengthen their magic.

About Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp has been teaching Wicca, magic, and the occult for over thirty years. She became a Witch and High Priestess in the 1980s as an initiate of the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca. She's been published in many Pagan publications, including newWitch, Llewellyn's Magical Almanac, PanGaia, and Green Egg, and she has lectured on Pagan and occult topics on three continents.

As an active member of the Pagan community, Deborah has appeared in various media discussing Wicca, including Coast to Coast AM radio, an A&E documentary (Ancient Mysteries: Witchcraft in America), television talk shows, and the New York Times.

Deborah is also a technology system professional. She lives with her spouse, Melissa, and an assortment of cats in Jersey City, New Jersey. Deborah reads and teaches Tarot, solves and designs puzzles, watches old movies, hand-paints furniture, and dabbles in numerous handcrafts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ru-Lee on February 17, 2023

It makes me really happy to see more and more nonbinary, queer witchy books out there. This one was particularly interesting to me since the author came up in a very gendered, heteronormative Wiccan tradition. She is herself a queer woman, and the book is the result of her unlearning a lot of the ge......more

Goodreads review by Annarella on March 07, 2023

Deborah Lipp is one of my favorite pagan author and always found her books thought provoking and useful. This one was very interesting and I learned a lot and found a lot of food for thought. Well written and useful. Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on December 06, 2022

tl;dr This book makes you think about polarity and how to fit it into your practice with the general framework most people share today. It would be good if it became a shared classic drawing down the Goddess a new baseline for future work. Well done Deborah! Things I struggled with while reading: * Th......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on October 21, 2023

First and foremost the reader needs to know before going in that this is a book discussing the way that the standard binary polarity as heavily used in paths like those in Gardenarian Wicca can be modified to better suit one's identity and become more open for members of your group who may not be co......more

Goodreads review by Nixxel on August 27, 2024

Gods damn this was so so very dry. It was a genuine struggle bus trying to get through pages 60 onward. A few issues I had, Suggest rituals but basically says you need others to do them, yes in a book about rejecting the historical idea of polarity. Doesn't actually touch on how to grow in the craft sp......more

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