{"id":11115,"date":"2020-01-01T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T19:20:12","slug":"goodbye-to-witches-voice-pagan-space-tries-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11115","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to Witches’ Voice \u2014 Pagan Space Tries Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Witchvox is now officially over, and Thorn Mooney has written a reminiscence\/tribute about how it affected her earlier life<\/a><\/p>\n

WitchVox helped me start countless book clubs, three college Pagan groups, launch two websites, and form my own coven, once I was ready. It made me feel less alone, and came with the added benefit of my parents, bosses, and school bullies not knowing it existed, which meant that it felt private and safe in a way that Facebook never will. It was an archive\u2014a testament to the weird, wonderfulness of the community I was just getting to know, and would come to devote my life to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I admit that I made only modest use of The Witches’ Voice<\/em>, answering occasional emails from people trying to make connections in Colorado.<\/p>\n

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The new Pagan Space logo.<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0Pagan Space\u00a0<\/a> is back, with a slogan “Be You, Be Pagan!” and this pitch: “Would you consider inviting your Facebook friends to a community just for Pagans that does not censor your speech or sell your private data?” They have chat rooms, a marketplace, pages (in the Facebook sense), and so on. Not all the links are working, and some just lead to placeholder text (“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet”), but some people seem to be using it.<\/p>\n

Everyone bitches about Facebook, but can anything else do the same job?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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