Seawitch #5 features the World, and unlike other issues of seawitch, #5 has a colour cover. In seawitch #2 I called upon the magic of the Three of Cups to come out of myself and be with others. As a trauma survivor and recovering alcoholic, isolation and loneliness have been major themes in my life. It’s a card that demonstrates the joy made possible by the vulnerability of sharing our hearts. I chose this cards because it represents community, celebration, and coming together.
#Clementine morrigan series#
I used tarot cards for the covers of several of the seawitch zine series seawitch #2 features the Three of Cups. The magic of water, sea, shapeshifting, sirensong, liminality, and the saltwater of my ancestors, created a powerful elixir, summed up in a word. I chose seawitch as the name of my perzine series because it called to me. Like the Sheela Na Gig, the siren and seawitch are powerful forces of liminality, spaces in-between. The imagery of the twin-tailed siren is part of a lineage that traces back to the Sheela Na Gig, stone carvings of smiling old women holding open their vulvas. My ancestors, in Ireland, lived near the sea. I have always been drawn to large bodies of water, though the bodies of water I am close to are lakes and rivers. I love the magic of seawitches and sirens. I’m curious how you relate to the archetype of the sea witch and why you chose the tarot cards you did, as covers for the zine? You’ve written a series of zines under the title seawitch.
An interview series with Clementine could span many posts, but I’ve decided to focus on the ways they use tarot in their zine making, as that topic seems most relevant to you, LRT readers. Clementine’s multi-media approach touches on a wide range of topics from critically engaged feminism, to witchcraft & spirituality, sobriety, trauma recovery, complex relationship & family dynamics, critical perspectives on academia and much much more. Since then I’ve followed Clementine’s work online and I must say: the scope of their wisdom is broad. Dark parts of my heart, that previously had been nearly tucked away, came bobbing to the surface, gasping for air – grateful for a chance to breathe. I’ve been polyamorous for most of my adult life, and never have I seen someone so clearly and cogently define the ways that trauma and femme identity impact power dynamics within poly relationships. I first discovered Clementine Morrigan’s work by reading their blogs about polyamory. Sunday Spread: Simple Tips for Not-So-Simple Lives.Not symptoms - resistance." - Nancy Davis Halifax, author of Hook. The reader finds possibility when trauma is conceptualized as "a natural and ingenious response to circumstances which terrify and overwhelm." Tactics of dissociation, hypervigilance and avoidance are re-perceived through an imaginative feminist lens and at a distance from normative conceptions. While recognizing the violent and painful effects of trauma Morrigan simultaneously shares the beyond of trauma. Trauma Magic carries the generative tension of expansive desire and unbearable pain, taking the reader on a downward journey to the underworld of addiction and psychiatric incarceration, only to return to the surface in an explosive reclaiming of agency and power."Clementine Morrigan's work joins a chorus of other disabled writers who are calling us to consider what non-normative bodies and minds have to celebrate - Morrigan asks us in "Trauma as Possibility" to pick apart violence and its effects: to value the traumatized experience while we continue to resist and oppose the violence which originates it." - Tara McGowan-Ross, author of Scorpion Season and Girth."Trauma Magic is a crip & queer text enfolding compassion, justice, and vulnerability.
It traces the call of magic through the queer desires of the Holy Virgin Mary, the movements of animals in the forest at night, and the practice of witchcraft in everyday life. It begins with the enchanted landscape of Southern Ontario, the wild dancing of fairies teaching us boundaries and ecological ethics. It is a hero's journey disguised as a collection of essays. Trauma Magic is a love letter to our bodies and minds.
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