Queering the Runes with Siri Plouff

The Elder Futhark create a beautiful system of divination, though finding good information about them can be difficult - especially for queer, progressive, modern heathens and witches. Norse mythology includes an incredible diversity of gender and sexual expression, but this has been largely excluded from books published on contemporary heathenry or runic divination. Even worse, the runes have been wrongfully co-opted by white supremacists and heathens have to actively fight against this stereotype of the rune reader.  In recent years, rune readers have been reclaiming the feminine side of the runes, bringing nuance to a divination style that is largely perceived as “masculine" - however, the runes themselves are not inherently gendered. If we're going to challenge toxic masculinity in 20th century rune work, why not blow open all concepts of "traditional" gender roles? Why not create out of the runes a kaleidoscope of animist relation to the world -…