Month: May 2012

But–to bring this essay full-circle–Loki is a pretty queer god, and this goes hand-in-hand with his shunning by more conservative Asatru elements (and Christian missionaries). He’s a shapeshifter and a cross-dresser, who is heavily implied to engage in all sorts of kink, and at one point gives birth to Odin’s horse Sleipnir. (For what it’s worth, I’ve had some non-heathen pagan friends, highly immersed in kink at present, suggest to me that Loki’s painful, humiliating binding, detailed in Voluspa, influences my own sexual proclivities. Seeing how all the personal gnosis I can muster implies that he hates and is ashamed of the binding, and it’s torn his family apart (he is bound with his son’s own intestines), I was outstandingly pissed off at the suggestion. So I guess there are limits to what I’ll claim, when it comes to this.)

I don’t think it’s coincidence that he seized me when I was young. And I’m coming to see drag and queer activism, generally (as much as I’m involved in it, which isn’t as much as I’d like) as a devotional act. For whatever reason–quite possibly, at least in part, my queerness–he’s a god who adores me and cares for me, and I figure that no matter what anybody else thinks it’s the least I can do to give him some attention and love back, through queer, genderfucking acts.

Hail Loki. And in the words of the modern skalds, fuck the haters.

Every criminologist knows that corporate crime — white-collar crime — is enormous in scale, and well beyond street crime in scale and effects.

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature.

The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

I am the mother to Odin’s stallion, Sleipnir. I am the father of Fenrir sun-eater and of Hel half-rotted and of Jormungund the world-serpent. I am Loki Scar-Lip, Loki Skywalker, Loki Giant’s Child, Loki Lie-Smith. I am Loki, who is fire and wit and hate. I am Loki. And I will be under an obligation to no one.