Wendy Boynton

October 21, 2017

Protest as Ritual

On a warm and windy Beltane (May Day) of this year, under heavy clouds pregnant with storms, I found myself sitting in front of city hall in downtown Richmond, Virginia, holding a flag, surrounded by comrades making demands. The powers that be had locked the doors as several hundred of us arrived – drums and

• Paganism
• Protest
• Ritual