When I spoke with Talia in the previous blog it was made apparent that her upbringing in Argentina was apparently a fairly "normal" one. Happy family, a lot of childhood friends and highly active life. When she was younger she saw a lot of people as she said, "were fake, and could not trust them", in regards to religious view points and when she got into middle school her grandmother began to show her more spiritual paths such as witch craft.
While her parents didn't seem to like that she continued to practice in secret. With this she began making different friends that sort of lead her into a party life style, despite maintaining a strong academic life. She began to pursue drama in her highschool ages, and felt like progress was starting to happen. However she was still warry on being public about her sexuality and political view points as much in Argentina is still conservative.
Such as viewpoints on other spiritual paths other than Catholicism or abortion or LGBT. While recently there was a lot of progress to allow LGBT more rights, she felt that her identity would still compromise her life. Despite being highly sexually active with multiple of the sexes, she did all of such in private. Keeping that part of her life away from most of her peers and family. Though many did know she enjoyed the partying and concert going scene. She continued to practice her witchcraft and sexuality and she was content with that.
The recent president put strain on her values as well when activists began to go missing that were pro indigenous peoples, or pro LGBT. That the country started to become more tight police wise. So she thought it was wise not to come out to others. Despite this fear, she loved talking about her crushes and her wanting to be with a girl who she met in her drama class. However she felt it might not be morally correct, as at this point she was helping teach the class. While in America that is a big taboo, teacher and student, she says there are few laws of professors or teachers in Argentina from being able to fraternize with students.
But still was conflicted.
She also asked if I drank Yerba Mate. I said I did, and she was extremely excited by that fact. She said she never met an American that drank Yerba Mate. Which is a tea made from the Yerba tree, that is high in caffeine as well other nutrients that make it supposedly healthier than coffee.
This point is important because she uses Yerba Mate in her magickal practice, because everyone shares Yerba Mate, and it becomes easy to implement a spell or herbal interactions with others. Through this she can practice coercion or manipulation of another through herbal concoctions she creates with her yerba mate.
While she has a high ethical value from an Americans perspective, she does believe that future is hers for the taking especially when she was given the tools to do so. So as of now she has strong feelings in magickal practice, but still holds enough sense to be quiet.
While her parents didn't seem to like that she continued to practice in secret. With this she began making different friends that sort of lead her into a party life style, despite maintaining a strong academic life. She began to pursue drama in her highschool ages, and felt like progress was starting to happen. However she was still warry on being public about her sexuality and political view points as much in Argentina is still conservative.
Such as viewpoints on other spiritual paths other than Catholicism or abortion or LGBT. While recently there was a lot of progress to allow LGBT more rights, she felt that her identity would still compromise her life. Despite being highly sexually active with multiple of the sexes, she did all of such in private. Keeping that part of her life away from most of her peers and family. Though many did know she enjoyed the partying and concert going scene. She continued to practice her witchcraft and sexuality and she was content with that.
The recent president put strain on her values as well when activists began to go missing that were pro indigenous peoples, or pro LGBT. That the country started to become more tight police wise. So she thought it was wise not to come out to others. Despite this fear, she loved talking about her crushes and her wanting to be with a girl who she met in her drama class. However she felt it might not be morally correct, as at this point she was helping teach the class. While in America that is a big taboo, teacher and student, she says there are few laws of professors or teachers in Argentina from being able to fraternize with students.
But still was conflicted.
She also asked if I drank Yerba Mate. I said I did, and she was extremely excited by that fact. She said she never met an American that drank Yerba Mate. Which is a tea made from the Yerba tree, that is high in caffeine as well other nutrients that make it supposedly healthier than coffee.
This point is important because she uses Yerba Mate in her magickal practice, because everyone shares Yerba Mate, and it becomes easy to implement a spell or herbal interactions with others. Through this she can practice coercion or manipulation of another through herbal concoctions she creates with her yerba mate.
While she has a high ethical value from an Americans perspective, she does believe that future is hers for the taking especially when she was given the tools to do so. So as of now she has strong feelings in magickal practice, but still holds enough sense to be quiet.
Interesting post! I wonder what would cause her to feel safe enough to be open about her lifestyle. I also wonder if maybe her close friends and family know about it, similar to our culture where often times someone comes out and everyone around them has the "Yeah, of course, I've known for years" type of response.
ReplyDelete-Nate Brown
I can understand why she doesn't want to come out, witch craft has a bad stigma, you don't often see witches doing good. The fact that she also has different sexual preferences then some people think she should would leave her open to attacks from multiple angles. Better to wait till this president is out of office, hopefully the hate will die down then.
ReplyDelete-Natalie Sypeck